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Formatting and Templates for Unstructured FrameMaker Content
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ASSIGNMENT: Fill out the Template Evaluation tool
Link to FindChangeFormatsBatch
Buying into a template-based workflow
SUGGESTED READING Chapter 5, Templates
ASSIGNMENT: Collect formatting samples
Be faster in FrameMaker: Setting up a template-based workflow (11:55)
Setting up a FrameMaker workgroup (3:09)
Establishing naming conventions (15:51)
Run FrameMaker as Administrator (5:29)
Paragraph and Character Tags
SUGGESTED READING Formatting text with paragraph tags
SUGGESTED READING Chapter 7, Formatting text with character tags
CORE Paragraph Designer Basic Properties (19:59)
OPTIONAL Strategy for maintaining multiple templates (3:21)
ON YOUR OWN: Create rough draft of tags in template
Renaming Paragraph Tags (1:47)
Find and change paragraph tags (7:56)
Defining Chapter Title and ordered list paragraphs (62:29)
Unordered lists and Body indent paras (21:22)
Figure and Table Titles (13:10)
Defining Heading1 and Heading2 tags (9:01)
CORE Warnings Notes Cautions, Frame Above/Below options (21:19)
Using Global Update (4:20)
TARGETED FontAwesome Warnings, Notes, Cautions (14:54)
ON YOUR OWN: Refine list of tags in template
Body Pages, Variables and Master Pages
SUGGESTED READING Chapters related to book creation
Custom master pages (20:48)
Using a Master Page Assignment table (20:01)
Running H/F variables (15:44)
New docs, master page text frames, and sidehead options (6:32)
Format TOC (8:36)
Product Variables as MIF (10:07)
OPTIONAL: Formatting TOC character tags passed through from chapter (4:03)
Tables, Colors, Cross-References
SUGGESTED READING
Table Formats (35:05)
ASSIGNMENT Table formats
Colors (18:52)
ASSIGNMENT Color catalog
Cross Reference Formats (16:22)
Conditional Text, Object Styles, Managing Templates
SUGGESTED READING
Template management (11:30)
Creating Conditional Tags (6:34)
Object Styles (8:47)
TARGETED: Live session with student for TOC and IX details (34:23)
Setting up and managing multiple versions of your template (6:15)
Creating "jump back" links in PDF documents (6:31)
Wrap-up, review, maker.ini, digital publishing
SUGGESTED READING
HTML5 and FrameMaker (2:46)
Formatting HTML5 output from FrameMaker (3:04)
Fm 2020: Numbered and Bulleted Lists in HTML5 (16:54)
Improve HTML5 Branding in FrameMaker (2:48)
Resources
Chapter template swipe files
Misc file downloads
OPTIONAL: Formatting TOC character tags passed through from chapter
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