HTML Conversion Problems

[Art Campbell]

An option you may want to consider is cocatenating the Frame files
manually or using the Rick Quatro script that cocatenates all files in
a book for you. Then run that output Frame file through MIF2Go. I've
never had the missing link problem you report with MIF2Go, but I
suspect it's a problem that can be identified and remedied.....

I've done several Kindle books this way without a problem.



Art Campbell
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Don Spencer
<beamwardpublications at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi, Everyone:
>
> To begin with, I ask that some of you might respond directly to this e-mail
> address, since I have subscribed with three different e-mail addresses to
> the list (A couple of years ago, I was an active member, receiving digests
> and trading e-mails easily.) and none of the several addresses, all
> earthlink.net by the way, have received any e-mail confirmation or other
> such. Brad has been helpful in subscribing these addresses at his end, but
> still I have an inbox empty of list digests, though any other activity seems
> to work fine.
>
> Be that as it may, I will address the FrameMaker problem at hand. And please
> forgive the ignorance and amateurishness of a retired movie carpenter trying
> his hand at self publication.
>
> Currently, I am attempting to convert a FrameMaker book which I generated
> successfully as a PDF some years ago, into a single HTML file for submission
> to Kindle Reader. Though I had some success with Mif2Go in terms of
> replacing the numbering in the Index and maintaining some of the heading
> numbering within the text, I abandoned that program because Mif2Go generates
> multiple htm files, and Kindle wants a single file. Furthermore, it kept
> dropping cross-reference links, some would work. Some wouldn't.
>
> However, FrameMaker's built-in Save As capability produces just what's
> needed: a single HTML file linked to the numerous graphics, all renamed for
> the new book. And every single cross reference link (except one in the TOC
> to the index which I fixed with MSWord) seems to be working. All well and
> good.
>
> Problem is, I can't get FrameMaker to produce exactly the hyper-text book I
> want. Getting rid of page numbers was easy, remove the pound sign from the
> master pages. For the TOC, I formatted the building block paragraph tag in
> the reference pages to white. For the Index, I changed cross reference tag
> in the references pages to the Symath True Type font, and the results is an
> intriguing jumble of math symbols which link nicely to various places in the
> text.
>
> BUT, despite my efforts to work the HTML Mapping Tables in the reference
> pages, only the TOC entries show the heading auto numbers. Within the text,
> the headings are all numberless. Even though I have identified their numbers
> in the headings table and made entries into the mapping table with the Use
> Autonumbering column entries changed from N to Y.
>
> Also, all the cross references add the word "See" despite the fact that I
> removed the word "See" from the Replace With column in the Cross-Ref Macro
> table.
>
> Sorry for this extensive posting. Had I been in contact with the list, I
> would have shortened it into several such.
> And thanks to all who take the time to read through this, even if you can't
> find the time to respond.
>
> Last of all, Happy Holidays to each and every one.
>
> ~ Don Spencer
>
> beamwardpublications at earthlink.net
> donandjudy1 at earthlink.net
> setdoordonny at earthink.net
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