<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span>No doubt you're right, Rick. I'm in the "If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" mode. I think Smart Paste is a great feature. Also, I think you can use it with zero thought in this case... All the gestures are menu commands already in the products. Worse, DITA is probably overkill -- OTOH, DITA might be a good format. Look at the Project Gutenberg DITA versions of classic texts. Here is a very quick way to convert a book to DITA without thinking about it much at all. For a one-off, this might be easy enough to do.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family:
verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I'm also thinking Smart Paste is a good way to get Word => HTML => Structured Maker. I think there's more promise in that use case.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Quatro <rick@rickquatro.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Chris Despopoulos' <despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com>; 'Theresa de Valence' <TdeV@bstw.com>; framers@lists.frameusers.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 23, 2014 7:18 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: Is there a fast
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#yiv4973721512 </style><div><div class="yiv4973721512WordSection1"><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Rick</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Rick Quatro</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Carmen Publishing Inc.</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;">585-366-4017</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">rick@frameexpert.com</span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4973721512yqt1043900067" id="yiv4973721512yqt68316"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Despopoulos<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 23, 2014 4:51 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Theresa de Valence; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br
clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">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.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">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. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Open your chapter in Maker</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Save as HTML</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Open HTML in browser</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Open a new DITA topic in Maker</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Select the chapter and copy from the browser</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">* Put the insertion point in the DITA topic/body and choose Smart Paste</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">Now you have the chapter in Maker, with structure. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">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. :)</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">cud</span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style=""></span><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Theresa de Valence <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:TdeV@bstw.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:TdeV@bstw.com">TdeV@bstw.com</a>><br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Chris Despopoulos <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com" target="_blank"
href="mailto:despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com">despopoulos_chriss@yahoo.com</a>>; "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:52 PM<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?</span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""><br clear="none">On 5/22/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:<br clear="none">> I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first. Save your<br clear="none">> unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a<br
clear="none">> new DITA topic.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I saved the file as .htm and the name of the file in Frame was still <br clear="none">.fm, but I can see that the .htm exists. What do I open the .htm with? <br clear="none">If I choose Frame, a dialogue box pops up wanting to know what kind of <br clear="none">document it is, e.g. RTF Japanese, SGML, Text, XML</span></div><div id="yiv4973721512yqtfd32110"><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thanks.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div class="yiv4973721512MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>