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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick Quatro<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carmen Publishing Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>585-366-4017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>rick@frameexpert.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Despopoulos<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 23, 2014 4:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Theresa de Valence; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Open your chapter in Maker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Save as HTML<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Open HTML in browser<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Open a new DITA topic in Maker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Select the chapter and copy from the browser<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>* Put the insertion point in the DITA topic/body and choose Smart Paste<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Now you have the chapter in Maker, with structure. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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. :)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>cud<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Theresa de Valence <<a href="mailto:TdeV@bstw.com">TdeV@bstw.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Chris Despopoulos <<a href="mailto:despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com">despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com</a>>; "<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:52 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>On 5/22/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:<br>> I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first. Save your<br>> unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a<br>> new DITA topic.<br><br>I saved the file as .htm and the name of the file in Frame was still <br>.fm, but I can see that the .htm exists. What do I open the .htm with? <br>If I choose Frame, a dialogue box pops up wanting to know what kind of <br>document it is, e.g. RTF Japanese, SGML, Text, XML<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=yqtfd32110><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br>Thanks.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>