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

[Rick Quatro]

You guys like to do things the hard way! Conversion Tables are so easy to
set and simple to use, especially for a simple structure like you have. I am
sorry, but Smart Paste is not the best way to do this. Theresa, I offered to
help you, but haven't heard from you. Oh well, have fun with Smart Paste.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-366-4017

rick at frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Chris Despopoulos
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 4:51 AM
To: Theresa de Valence; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

 

 

Open the HTML in a browser.  The idea of Smart Paste is that it knows how to
take different formats of data on the clipboard and convert it to the given
Maker Structure App on the fly.  Under the covers it uses an XSLT -- But It
think the DITA Topic struct app comes with Smart Paste already set up.
DocBook may also be set up.

 

Anyway, if you opened the chapter in Maker, then it should be a ton of body
paragraphs, with maybe a title, right?  In that case, saving as HTML will
create a ton of <p> elems.  Copy those from the browser, and Smart Paste
will turn them into a bunch of DITA <p> elems.  I guess this is kind of
round-about.  But it looks like it would be very easy, and let the computer
do most of the work.  

 

*  Open your chapter in Maker

*  Save as HTML

*  Open HTML in browser

*  Open a new DITA topic in Maker

*  Select the chapter and copy from the browser

*  Put the insertion point in the DITA topic/body and choose Smart Paste

 

Now you have the chapter in Maker, with structure.  

 

Smart Paste will go further than that...  It can do lists and tables, for
example.  And nesting (I believe).  It's just my latest favorite feature, so
I figure you should use it for everything, including databases and cleaning
your closet.  :)

 

cud

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From: Theresa de Valence <TdeV at bstw.com>
To: Chris Despopoulos <despopoulos_chriss at yahoo.com>;
"framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?


On 5/22/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
> I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first.  Save your
> unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a
> new DITA topic.

I saved the file as .htm and the name of the file in Frame was still 
.fm, but I can see that the .htm exists. What do I open the .htm with? 
If I choose Frame, a dialogue box pops up wanting to know what kind of 
document it is, e.g. RTF Japanese, SGML, Text, XML



Thanks.



 

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