Scriptorium Press offers a series of workbooks on the unstructured and structured interfaces of FrameMaker. Each workbook offers step-by-step instructions, videos explaining FrameMaker’s interface, and sample files to complete the exercises.

All workbooks are compatible with versions 7 and 8 of FrameMaker.

Unstructured FrameMaker: Accelerated Introduction

This workbook teaches you about the basics of unstructured FrameMaker and then shows you how to use the advanced capabilities of this very powerful tool. You’ll learn about FrameMaker’s time-saving features such as cross-references, variables, and conditional text. You’ll generate a table of contents and an index, and work with tables, paragraph tags, and character tags.

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Advanced Unstructured FrameMaker: Template Design

Using the workbook, you will build a FrameMaker template by adding master pages, paragraph and character tags, table tags, and other formats to a default FrameMaker document. You wíll add and implement color, and incorporate time-saving features (such as automatic running headers and footers) to boost the productivity of the writers using your template. You wíll also create companion templates for tables of contents and indexes.

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206 pages

Structured FrameMaker: Introduction to Authoring

This workbook introduces you to FrameMaker’s structured interface and shows you how to create documents with elements. Learn about elements, their relationships to each other, and how to manipulate them in the structure view. You’ll create content by inserting elements for text, cross-references, variables, and other components. By working with the elements in a sample structured template, you’ll see how templates provide you with a structure for your document and offer time-saving features such as automatic insertion of elements. contents and indexes.

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90 pages

Advanced Structured FrameMaker: Building EDDs

The workbook shows you how to plan and design a structured template, or element definition document (EDD). You will create an EDD and add new elements to it. You’ll define container elements, and you will add elements for document components such as footnotes, cross-references, and graphics. You will also implement general rules, set up inclusions/exclusions and automatic insertion of children, add formatting to the EDD, and add prefixes and suffixes to elements.

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112 pages

Advanced Structured FrameMaker: Structured Applications

This workbook walks you through creating a structured application that converts structured FrameMaker files to XML–and back to FrameMaker. After you set up the application’s files, you will modify the DTD and add read/write rules to handle the conversion of graphics, tables, and book files. The workbook explains the latest features in structured applications created in versions 7.1 and 7.2.

The Structured Applications Workbook also contains brief reference information about writing read/write rules and adding attributes to DTDs.

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94 pages