WebMaker User Guide

Contents

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Introduction

1.1 - FrameMaker documents

1.2 - WWW documents

1.3 - WebMaker rules

2 - Quick Start

2.1 - Write the FrameMaker file to MIF format

2.2 - Start WebMaker

2.2.1 - WebMaker windows

2.3 - Include the appropriate libraries in the WML file

2.4 - Add the FrameMaker tags

2.5 - Map the paragraph tags to WML rules

2.6 - Map the character tags to HTML highlights

2.7 - Generate the web document

2.8 - Browse the web document

2.9 - Save the WML file

2.10 - Quick start to your own document

3 - FrameMaker Style Recommendations

3.1 - Use the paragraph and character catalogues

3.2 - Put graphics in anchored frames

3.3 - Use cross references

3.4 - Use autonumbering

3.5 - Use heading levels consistently

3.6 - Check information within master and reference pages

3.7 - Check the order of text flows

3.8 - Consider imported graphics resolution

3.9 - Attach anchored frames to their own paragraphs

4 - Overview of WML Files

4.1 - Two kinds of WebMaker users

4.2 - Key for appearance of WML elements

4.3 - Overview of include files

4.4 - Overview of paragraph rules

4.4.1 - Categories of paragraph rules: primary and uses

4.4.2 - Recommended technique for paragraph rules

4.4.3 - Sorting order of paragraph rules in WebMaker

4.4.4 - Paragraph rules with the same name as paragraph tags

4.5 - Overview of character rules

4.6 - Rules defined more than once

4.7 - Undefined elements

4.8 - Overview of untagged character rules

4.9 - Overview of variables

4.10 - Overview of node rules

5 - Mapping Recommendations

5.1 - Structuring converted webs

5.2 - Paragraph format mappings

5.3 - Character format mappings

6 - Complete Process for Converting Documents

6.1 - Complete steps for converting documents

6.1.1 - Steps for converting a document from scratch

6.1.2 - Steps for converting a document again

6.1.3 - Steps for converting other documents with an existing WML file

6.2 - Writing FrameMaker files to MIF format

6.3 - Creating, opening, and saving WML files

6.4 - How to use include files

6.4.1 - Relative or absolute pathnames of include files

6.4.2 - Adding an include file to a WML file

6.4.3 - Choosing which WML files to include

6.4.4 - Organizing WML files

6.4.5 - Editing rules that are defined in an include file

6.5 - Table of contents

6.6 - Index

6.7 - Including external links

6.8 - Add FrameMaker tags

6.9 - Paragraph rules

6.10 - Character rules

6.11 - Graphics

6.11.1 - Converted graphics

6.11.2 - Embedded graphics

6.12 - Equations

6.13 - Tables

6.14 - Complete options for making a web

6.15 - Solving problems

6.15.1 - Debugging Markers

6.15.2 - Problems in WebMaker

7 - Exploring a Longer Example

8 - Making a Web in Batch Mode

9 - WML Library Rules Reference

9.1 - Overview of library of WML files

9.2 - Headings

ExtTOCHeading-TocNode

IndexHeading-IndexNode

IndexHeadingL-IndexNodeL

IndexHeadingN-IndexNodeN

IndexHeadingS-IndexNodeS

L1H1HR-NodeTop

L1H1-NodeTop

L2H1HR-NodeLower

L2H1-NodeLower

L2H2-NodeLower

L3H1HR-NodeLower

L3H1-NodeLower

L3H2-NodeLower

L3H3-NodeLower

L4H1HR-NodeLower

L4H1-NodeLower

L4H2-NodeLower

L4H3-NodeLower

L4H4-NodeLower

L1H1

L1H1HR

L2H1

L2H1HR

L2H2

L2H2HR

L3H1

L3H1HR

L3H2

L3H2HR

L3H3

L3H3HR

L4H1

L4H1HR

L4H2

L4H2HR

L4H3

L4H3HR

L4H4

L4H4HR

9.3 - Node libraries

9.3.1 - The nodes.wml file

9.3.2 - The nodesB.wml file

9.3.3 - The nodesTI.wml file

9.3.4 - The nodesBTI.wml file

9.4 - Normals

Default

FixedWidthText

FMDocumentTitle

Ignore

InListNumbered

InListSimple

NumberedBody

PreformattedText

QuotedText

SimpleBody

9.5 - Lists

L1BulletItem

L2BulletItem

L3BulletItem

L1GlossaryItem-1

L1GlossaryItem-2

L1GlossaryItem-3

L1GlossaryItem-4

L1GlossaryItem-5

L1NumberItem

L2NumberItem

L3NumberItem

L1PlainItem

L2PlainItem

L3PlainItem

10 - WebMaker Language (WML)

10.1 - Basic information about WML programs

10.1.1 - The structure of a WML program

10.1.2 - Case sensitivity in WML

10.1.3 - Order of elements in WML file

10.1.4 - WML execution model

10.1.5 - WML comments

10.2 - WML include files

10.3 - WML user-defined variables

10.4 - WML node rules

10.4.1 - Specification of attributes of a node rule

10.4.2 - The header and footer of a node rule

10.4.3 - Nodes triggered by a heading paragraph

10.4.4 - The first page of the generated web

10.5 - WML primary paragraph rules

10.5.1 - Declaration of paragraph type

10.5.2 - Specification of attributes of a paragraph rule

10.5.3 - Conversion actions of a paragraph rule

10.5.4 - Defaults for the paragraph rule elements

10.6 - WML uses paragraph rules

10.7 - WML character rules

10.7.1 - Character rule syntax

10.7.2 - Syntax of untagged character rules

10.8 - WML external table of contents

10.9 - WML index

10.9.1 - Example of creating an index

10.10 - WML predefined functions

10.10.1 - General I/O functions

closefile(LUV)

openfile(LUV, filename, mode)

write(filestream, string1, string2, ..., stringn)

10.10.2 - String manipulation functions

concatenate(string1,string2, ..., stringn)

date()

lowercase(string)

number(currprev)

text(currprev, index1, index2)

time()

uppercase(string)

10.10.3 - HTML node functions

filename(node)

headingnumber(node)

headingtext(node)

index(markertype, indexoption)

maintitle()

toc(depth, scope)

10.10.4 - HTML markup functions

address(string)

break()

button(string1, url, string2)

comment(string)

glossterm(string)

glossdescription(string)

heading(level, string)

hrule()

image(url,alignment)

link(string,url)

listitem(string)

paragraph(string)

10.10.5 - HTML character markup functions

bold(string)

cite(string)

code(string)

definition(string)

emphasise(string)

italic(string)

keyoard(string)

sample(string)

strong(string)

teletype(string)

underline(string)

variable(string)

Index

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