You don't need to use structured FM for that. My paragraph tags map to different formats / tags depending on whether the output is PDF, Web help, Confluence XHTML, or 7-bit ASCII with layout.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Fred Wersan <fwersan at mak.com> wrote: > A previous respondent said: " > > The idea with structure is (as has already been said) to separate structure > from display.?" > > > I am not sure that I entirely agree with that. The idea of structure, > particularly in FrameMaker, is that the computer enforces the formatting > based on the element structure rather than writers needing to apply > formatting via paragraph tags as they go along. If you are in a non-WYSIWYG > environment, then you don't get the display. In FrameMaker you get the > display too, but you don't have to be responsible for it, just for applying > the correct element tags. Whether the computer enforces the formatting based > entirely on what is in the EDD or on a mix of EDD coding and para formats is > an implementation detail. Either way the application of formatting is done > by the computer, not by the user.
