Publishing DITA files in Frontmatter and Backmatter
Hello, I am using FM11 and DITA 1.2.I have a bookmap that consists of <frontmatter>, 3 <chapter>, 3 <appendix>, and <backmatter>.In <frontmatter>, I have two...
View ArticleFont style issues in DITA
Hello, I am working on DITA topics, I have defined bodytext paragraph tag font as regular in the template. But i need some words/sentence as bold and italics. If i change a word/sentence as bold, when...
View ArticleFramemaker v11 Books unable to clear all change bars from documents
I have converted all Framemaker v10 documents to v11 by opening and saving. However when opening the Book v11 for these documents and applying the 'clear all change bars' option a book error log...
View Articleinline character formatting
Battling on happily after that Aha!-moment before Christmas, and testing myself by retrofitting structure to existing documents – still having far more fun than I feel I should do at the office :-}...
View Article"Unwrap" CDATA with XSLT
Hi,I know this isn't necessarily a FrameMaker question, but it is a place where I know people. So forgive me for asking it here.I have some CDATA sections in an XML file that contain markup that I want...
View ArticleATA iSpec 2200 CMM book validation
Hi all, I am a technical writer and I am new to structured authoring. I have a structured CMM for a component with ATA number 11-22-33 (example). Taking Source files of this CMM, i have to create a new...
View ArticleConvert cross-ref to text on export to XML
According to the documentation, this read/write rule should convert a cross-ref to text on export to XML .. fm element "xref" unwrap; .. but this doesn't seem to work for me. Does this still work?...
View ArticleXRef idref attribute not recognized upon opening of XML file
***I suspect this might be an XSL-related solution*** I've inherited a client's xml structapp that goes out to XML quite nicely, but doesn't read in the requisite idref upon opening in FM11. The...
View ArticleXML export of marker-based xrefs?
Colleagues, I'm pulling my hair out a bit over issues with external cross-references in an unstructured>structured conversion. (FrameMaker 11, custom DTD). First, I've not found a way to...
View ArticleAutomating the book building process in FM11 - best tool?
Hi - we're gearing up to create an automated book-building process using FM11. Before we start, a quick straw-poll: What do you folks recommend / suggest as the best automation tool? We want to trigger...
View ArticleCreating Unique IDs for elements (non-DITA)...
Hi,I know there's a solution to this somehow via scripting - problem is, I have no clue so far about FM scripting We're using the standard XML API for our structure and everything works out fine,...
View ArticleXML beginner questions
Hello, First post on the forums in a long time, and first here altogether. I hope it's okay to jump in. I have a bit of unstructured FM experience from several years ago and have been using Ventura...
View ArticleConfiguration settings for FM10 & DITA questions
We are currently using FrameMaker 10 and trying to tweak some configuration settings. 1. Is there any way to change the default location of the user version of maker.ini? On Windows 7 it defaults to...
View ArticleHow to not include dita files/dita maps in TOC
Hello, In a DITA map I have added Concepts .ditamap and Topics .ditamap (which contains multiple .dita files) and saving ditamap as "Book 11 with fm components". I don’t want to include concepts...
View ArticleWhere is the table width stored?
I am stranded, can you give me a short hint? The DITA 1.1 code of a table that contains a note looks like this:<table frame = "none" colsep = "0" rowsep = "0"><tgroup cols = "2" colsep = "0"...
View ArticleFont substitution When converting FM11 file to PDF
I am working in a FM11 – Win 7 environment. We upgraded 2 font families recently: Imago Book upgraded to Imago BQ Bembo upgraded to Bembo Std I am attempting to save a FrameMaker 11 file as a pdf. When...
View ArticleStructured FrameMaker conditional text
Hello, I have a problem with Conditional text in Structured FrameMaker. I have to use conditional text for different customers. I have to use the same content and should get displayed for the...
View ArticleFont management issue
My office recently upgraded to FrameMaker 11 in a Windows 7 environment. We previously used FrameMaker 8 | Windows XP.We are in the process of replacing the following fonts:CourierZapf Dingbats With...
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Display a line (via image frame) below suffix
Hi all,currently I am trying to format the DITA <lq> element (long quote) to display a line above and below its content. For the line below I have tried to use a suffix rule in the EDD. I can...
View ArticleCreating new task in DITA, how do I choose Strict or General?
I'm using DITA 1.2 with FrameMaker 12. I've seen how I can create a new task with DITA > New DTIA File > New task... But the 1.2 DITA standard is supposed to support two types of task, strict or...
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