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

[Gust, Dieter]

Hi Winfried,

additional answers:

5.) "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."

I just tested FM 2019 15.0.3.603
If you use exclamation marks round about the numeric sequence search works the way you asked for.

6.) In my tests in update 15.03.603 search term highlighting works!

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Hi Winfried,
you recognized the different layout/formatting concept between Desktop FrameMaker with Paper/PDF Editing view and the different HTML layout and box model.
1.) "I do not know which font will be used. "
Font substitution you may define in the resulting CSS. Once defined you can use the CSS as part of the general conversion settings
2.) a) "Graphics conversion with SVG is best"
Sure it remains SVG
2.b) "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."
This is the standard approach as the layer concept (as defined in FM) is not supported by the HTML conversion process The quality has been dramatically improved upon the several updates
3.) "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 
4:) "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."
  Well that's clear, as the table anchor defines the position of the content of the table within the text flow. This table anchor is a DTP relict. 
  Therefore in my templates tables must be anchored in an separate paragraphs called table anchor.
In addition topic title" is a very difficult term which is often misunderstood: For a customer a topic title always is the first paragraph in a HTML Topic and therefore it shall start with a heading. 
If the topic content does not start with a heading the technical writer created a structural mistake.
In technical aspects the topic title might be interpreted as the HTML title tag. Therefore the conversion or topic creation process clearly must take into account that the first paragraph (heading) and the topic title will get the identical content.
A third aspect might be seen in the filename of the HTML topic: This can be but only "by accident" identical with the topic title but never should be taken as the standard topic title!
5.) "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."

6.) In my tests (FM 2019) using "wx.yz" seems to work, but highlighting didn't work - I'll ask the FM development team regarding this issue Regards Dieter Gust Aufsichtsrat, Leitung Forschung & Entwicklung itl AG, München