Hi Wim Thanks very much! I’m impressed.
I’ll have to think about the restriction of each step having exactly one cmd and one info element. That could be good for us – forcing us to keep our procedures simple. Cheers Rebecca From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:w...@idtp.eu] Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2014 9:40 a.m. To: Rebecca Officer Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables Hi Rebecca, interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the steps element into a FrameMaker table, for presentation, just like we do with the properties element. It would put some heavy constraints on your content however, as each step must have exactly one cmd and one info element. You’ll need to adapt the read/write rules and the EDD. I just did a test and it seems to work. Look at the constructs for the property element in the reference rules and EDD to see how you can set it up. This what I’ve got in the rules file: /* steps */ element "steps" { is fm table element; fm property columns value is "2"; attribute "props" is fm property column widths; } fm element "fm-stepsbody" unwrap; element "step" { is fm table row element; fm property row type value is "Body"; } element "cmd" is fm table cell element; element "info" is fm table cell element; (note: I used default FM DITA, not DITA-fmx yet)(note: I left out the table heading ….) To make it work in the EDD I made <steps> to be Element (Table), where general rule is fm-stepsbody. Then <fm-stepsbody> has step+ and <step> (Table Row) has cmd, info. cmd and info are both Table Cell. Actually, in a task topic this works like a charm and is a perfect template to make 'clean' tasks. Using (cmd, info) as the general rule for step makes inserting and adding steps very easy. In the WYSIWYG view I can see a table, while in the XML view I can see the correct steps xml code. Thanks for the suggestion …. Then Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014<http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/> Closing the loop with FontoXML<http://www.fontoxml.com> DITA content management with DITAToo<http://www.ditatoo.com> tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu<mailto:i...@idtp.eu> www.idtp.eu<http://www.idtp.eu>
_______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
