[Framers] [FrameMaker 2019] Customizing responsive HTML5 output: best practices and good documentation?

Caroline Tabach caroline.tabach at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 04:58:32 PDT 2019


I have been doing responsive HTML 5 output.

Regarding the settings file, sometimes it suddenly becomes corrupted, so
make a copy of the file you are using

Caroline Tabach

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, 13:00 Reng Winfried, <w.reng at carecom-solutions.com>
wrote:

> Hi Yves,
>
> I also started to convert my unstructured documentation to HTML5.
> And I do not have any tutorials or best practices. I am still
> experimenting.
> I will look for more information in the online help and in the various
> forums
> and blogs.
> My first impressions and questions:
>
> o Default settings are good.
>
> o I do not know which font will be used. Probably my font will be replaced
>   by something else. However, I do not know, which fonts are on Android
>   or iOS. Is there are default replacement?
>
> o Graphics conversion with SVG is best. However, if you have
>   some other objects in the same anchored frame, then you should
>   convert to raster images. I find the results much better than I expected.
>
> o When you have tables with table titles with several paragraphs, then
>   you have to use a work-around. HTML allows only a single paragraph.
>   See here: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10987920#10987920
>
> o I do not know how I can define which text goes into a topic title.
>   E.g. when my paragraph to start a new topic has a table anchor, then
>   the whole anchor paragraph and the whole table text will be in the topic
>   title.
>
> o Most of our products have order codes like 123.4567. When I want
>   to search for such order codes, the . is interpreted as separator between
>   two words. As if I want to search for 123 and 4567. I do not know a
> solution.
>
> o Of course I had written documents with a certain layout. I have to find
>   solutions for some of my paragraph layouts (e.g. right-aligned tab
> stops).
>
> o I adapt a copy of the regular settings file on our network. I do not
> know,
>   if there is a standard solution, where this settings file should reside.
>
> Best regards
>
> Winfried
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+w.reng=
> carecom-solutions.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Yves Barbion
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:58 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: [Framers] [FrameMaker 2019] Customizing responsive HTML5 output:
> best practices and good documentation?
>
> Hi group
>
> I'm looking for best practices and good documentation (or user groups) on
> how to use and customize FrameMaker 2019 responsive HTML5 output, generated
> from unstructured Fm files and from ditamaps. The FrameMaker "Help" does
> not help me very much:
>
> https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2019/using/framemaker_help.pdf
>
> Thanks
>
> Yves
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