Books
Our staff have written and co-written a variety of books.
FrameMaker: A Hands-On Guide to
Creating DITA Compliant Documents
Learn to use Adobe FrameMaker 8.x to create DITA-compliant content in an easy to use, hands-on fashion with guided tutorials developed by Adobe Certified Experts!
This innovative book provides a combination of technical information related to using FrameMaker to build DITA-compliant content with detailed, step-by-step tutorials. The interactive tutorials guide even the most novice user through the steps required to learn how to create content including tasks, concepts, references and even maps.
Every aspect of creating content from the basics of the software application and use of the structured interface through to the development and publishing of maps to online help, HTML and even PDF formats is addressed. This is the same materials used by Certified Technical Trainers and Adobe Certified Experts to deliver technical training courses across North America and around the world.
Chapter topics include:
- Application overview
- File edits
- Structuring basics
- Developing topics
- Developing concepts
- Prolog elements
- Publishing
- Paragraphs and notes
- Lists
- Working with domains
- Footnotes
- Indexes
- Attributes
- Tables
- Images and multimedia
- Developing references
- Sections and examples
- Developing tasks
- Track changes
- Validation
- Linking in topics
- Reusing content
- Maps
- Relationship tables
This book also includes:
The DITA Primer and associated tutorials for each chapter.
XMetaL: A Hands-On Guide to
Creating DITA Compliant Documents
Learn to use JustSystems XMetaL Author to create DITA–compliant content in an easy to use, hands–on fashion with guided tutorials from Certified Technical Trainers!
This innovative book provides a combination of technical information related to using XMetaL Author to build DITA–compliant content with detailed, step–by–step tutorials. The interactive tutorials guide even the most novice user through the steps required to learn how to create content including tasks, concepts, references and even maps.
Every aspect of creating content from the basics of the software application and use of the structured interface through to the development and publishing of maps to online help, HTML and even PDF formats is addressed. This is the same materials used by Certified Technical Trainers to deliver technical training courses across North America and around the world.
Chapter topics include:
- Application overview
- File edits
- Structuring basics
- Developing topics
- Developing concepts
- Prolog elements
- Publishing
- Paragraphs and notes
- Lists
- Working with domains
- Footnotes
- Indexes
- Attributes
- Tables
- Images and multimedia
- Developing references
- Sections and examples
- Developing tasks
- Track changes
- Validation
- Linking in topics
- Reusing content
- Maps
- Relationship tables
This book also includes:
The DITA Primer and associated tutorials for each chapter.
Advanced FrameMaker
This book covers complex features of FrameMaker at an advanced level. It is designed to help FrameMaker users become FrameMaker gurus. Sections are marked by the FrameMaker version, with all topics applicable to FrameMaker 7.1 and many applicable also to FrameMaker 6.0 or even 5.x. This book includes over 500 pages of tutorials, techniques, tips, and tricks.
Chapter topics include:
- XML round trip
- structure basics
- Running H/F variables
- autonumbering
- generated lists and indexes
- designing efficient EDDs
- producing quality PDF from FrameMaker
- working with WebWorks Publisher
(professional and standard editions)