<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>This is what I've tried with our unstructured documents and had good success with EPub output. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>We are so busy, I've only dabbled. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color:
transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>So, I'd say this is very good advice from Alan.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Bruce</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div
style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:37 PM, Alan Houser <arh@groupwellesley.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">This is one of the more common and frustrating mis-conceptions I see in <br clear="none">the FrameMaker community .... that publishing to ePub and other newer <br clear="none">output formats requires structured FrameMaker. In fact, even when <br clear="none">working with structured source files, FrameMaker's style mappings are <br clear="none">based on paragraph and character formats, not elements.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you are comfortable with unstructured FrameMaker, and have <br clear="none">unstructured source files, I would start by experimenting with <br clear="none">FrameMaker's eBook capabilities there. File > Publish. Choose
your <br clear="none">target format, and click the "Edit Settings" button. Play with the <br clear="none">"Style Mapping" tab and see how that affects your results.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Configuring structured FrameMaker presents a daunting learning curve, <br clear="none">that I would not recommend climbing unless you have clear requirements <br clear="none">to do so. And FrameMaker's DocBook implementation is..., well..., <br clear="none">anybody who tries to use it for real work is in for a world of hurt.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Alan<br clear="none">---<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Alan Houser<br clear="none">Group Wellesley, Inc.<br clear="none">Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing<br clear="none">arh on Twitter<br clear="none">412-450-0532<br clear="none"><div class="yqt3112891582" id="yqtfd13484"><br clear="none">On 8/12/14, 12:08 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote:<br clear="none">> I started my Frame 12 experience
with a new convert to ebook/pdf <br clear="none">> project. I created an unstructured book because I <br clear="none">> quasi-know-what-I’m-doing in the unstructured world. However, I think <br clear="none">> to publish this book as an ebook, it has to be structured. I have had <br clear="none">> a long running affair with trying to understand structured Frame and I <br clear="none">> have to say that the various pieces of documentation on adobe.com are <br clear="none">> next to useless and, unfortunately, much of the documentation by <br clear="none">> others (and Adobe) starts with Frame 6 or segues into Robohelp. While <br clear="none">> I understand theoretically what’s going on with structured Frame, <br clear="none">> getting from here to there is no picnic.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Anyway, I’m starting again with the "new" structured templates which <br clear="none">> came with Frame 12. I can
see that I’ll have to create or modify an EDD.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Frame 12 installed 13 versions of structapps.fm on my system, either <br clear="none">> dated 12/5/2013 or the date I installed the program. There are 6 files <br clear="none">> which are 282KB. How do I choose which file to open?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The structapps.fm file which I did open has 3 varieties of DocBook in <br clear="none">> it (SGML DocBook, XML DocBook, DocBook2.2.1). How do I choose which <br clear="none">> DocBook file to start with?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Also, my project involves converting two novellas into one ebook. I <br clear="none">> believe I’m going to require one fm book with two nested books within. <br clear="none">> How do I add that structure to the DocBook file?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I now have ~50 files which are components of my unstructured book <br
clear="none">> file. How would you recommend that I take the contents of those 50 <br clear="none">> files and move them into the structured book?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks for your help. I’m sure there will be more questions.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Cheers,<br clear="none">> Theresa<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">You are currently subscribed to framers as <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:brucerwolf@yahoo.com." href="mailto:brucerwolf@yahoo.com.">brucerwolf@yahoo.com.</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Send list messages to <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com." href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com.">framers@lists.frameusers.com.</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">To unsubscribe send
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