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

[Johan Anglemark]

I have to say I'm surprised, too. This is Conversion to Structured 
FrameMaker 101.

-j

On 2014-05-23 13:18, Rick Quatro wrote:
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:*Theresa de Valence <TdeV at bstw.com <mailto:TdeV at bstw.com>>
> *To:* Chris Despopoulos <despopoulos_chriss at yahoo.com
>
> 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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Johan Anglemark

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