Creating a single HTML page from Frame book

[Art Campbell]

Yes, that would be exactly my point.
They break it up into multiple chapters / pages appropriate to the
content; they don't string it all together. 8 subtopics at the top
level, and diving down, 17 in the Developer's Guide, etc.

Art

On 5/17/07, Neil Tubb <neil.tubb at solacesystems.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the input Art. My books, though, are not large (only about 50
> pages at this point). And also, I don't think this is a real issue
> anymore. For an example of what I'm striving for, check out how Google
> handles their API docs:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/developers_guide_protocol.html
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:05 AM
> To: Neil Tubb
> Cc: framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Creating a single HTML page from Frame book
>
> Well, depending on long your books are, this could be a really poor
> idea if people have enough time to go down to Starbucks and get coffee
> while the "page" loads.
>
> The whole idea of web publishing is usually to have discrete chunks of
> information / pages that are linked, not vice versa, so it sounds as
> if someone's not quite clear on the concept.
>
> That aside, I'm 95% sure that MIF2Go by omsys.com has a one-page
> option for output to HTML. You could grab the eval and check...
>
> Art
>
> On 5/17/07, Neil Tubb <neil.tubb at solacesystems.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >
> >
> > For my company's various SDK programming guides, I've been told to
> stop
> > producing PDF versions, and switch to a single HTML page version for
> > each book. Of course, I would like to continue authoring in Frame, and
> > my quick initial tests using the FM save-as-HTML look not too
> bad...but
> > clearly I'm going to spending a fair amount of time cleaning up the
> look
> > of the document. The FM-produced CSS is not very pretty.
> >
> >
> >
> > I considered using ePublisher, but I believe it always creates a
> minimum
> > of one HTML file per FM chapter. This would not work.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any other ideas? Or does anyone have a similar
> > experience they can share?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
>
>
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Art Campbell                                             art.campbell at gmail.com
  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
               and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
                             No disclaimers apply.
                                     DoD 358