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DITA-FMx

Who should attend?

The DITA-FMx training course is intended for people who wish to use the DITA-FMx set of plug-ins for Adobe FrameMaker to create DITA-structured content.

What is DITA-FMx?

Jointly produced by Leximation and Silicon Publishing, DITA-FMx is a set of plugins and structure applications that let you create and edit DITA XML files in FrameMaker. DITA-FMx significantly expands the DITA features of Adobe FrameMaker and thus enables you to author DITA-structured content in production environments.

Visit www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/ for a detailed feature list of DITA -FMx and a FrameMaker DITA feature comparison.

Prerequisites

You need to:

  • Be familiar with (structured) FrameMaker
  • Have a good understanding of DITA and topic-oriented authoring

Training objectives

A DITA-FMx training course aims to get you up and running with DITA-FMx quickly. We use representative samples of your content and remodel this content into well-structured and valid DITA topics and a ditamap.

Duration

1 day.

Topics

An DITA-FMx training course covers the following topics:

  • Installing DITA-FMx (and the structured application)
  • Setting the DITA options
  • Creating new DITA topics of several different infotypes
  • Creating new topics from a template
  • Creating a ditamap from scratch
  • Creating a ditamap from an outline
  • Inserting graphics in topics
  • Inserting tables in topics
  • Using cross-references and recommend using reltables
  • Working with conrefs
  • Working with ditaval (conditional publishing)
  • Using "where used" and "search in files"
  • Generating output: workbook from map, book from map, using the DITA-OT...
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