Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

[Rick Quatro]

Theresa,

This is not the most effective way of structuring unstructured content. Like
I said in my previous email, you need to use a "Conversion Table" which is
outlined in Chapter 4 of the manual I referred you to. Contact me offlist
and I will try to walk you through it. Thanks.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick at frameexpert.com



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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Theresa de
Valence
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:42 PM
To: Chris Despopoulos; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

On 5/21/2014 1:26 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
>
> Save the chapter as HTML, copy it, then use Smart Paste to paste it 
> into a DITA topic.  Every P should translate into the correct DITA 
> paragraph element (also a <p>)

If I save the chapter as XML, Frame pops up a window asking for which
Structured Application to use. If I pick none, an error pops up with "Unable
to validate because no DTD or Schema was specified in the XML file" but
continue? I say yes.

When I open the file, I get this Structure View: (I did this once with the
paratag as Body and once as Para)

-Root
|--Title
|--Body (Para)
    | A-
    | ID = pgfId-998413
|--Body (Para)
    | A-
    | ID = pgfId-998414
|--Body (Para)
    | A-
    | ID = pgfId-998415

I'm presuming this is correct?


Cntrl-A to copy the entire file

Open > New > Dita file > New topic

The first time (paratag Body), I found the Element marked <p> and clicked
Paste Special. I chose Rich Text Format, but all of the text appears in the
structured view under one single <p> element.

The second time (paratag Para) I clicked Smart Paste and got this error
message "Smart paste could not convert clipboard data to structured
content".


What am I doing wrongly?

Thanks.



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