Free Webinar: Controlling help-specific features in WebWorks ePublisher Pro

aporter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:15:22 +0000

Do you work with Frame and use the EDDs? Want to learn how to configure one for use with ePublisher as a way to control help specific features?

Then we recommend that you sign up for Martin Smith’s upcoming webinar and find out how he did it.

Here’s Martin’s description of his webinar.

I will be hosting a free Webinar on January 31st that describes how to control help-specific features in WebWorks ePublisher Pro using a

structured FrameMaker document based on a minimalist EDD.

This Webinar is based in part on a successful presentation that I gave at the WebWorks RoundUp 2007 conference in Austin.

As anyone who has used ePublisher knows, WebWorks is a great single-source authoring tool. However, implementing help-specific features (such as pop-ups, drop-downs, and custom pages) and controlling topic / mid-topic breaks requires a tremendous number of styles, or

time spent post-processing the help system.

What is needed is a way to select help-specific features within the FrameMaker source files independent of the formatting applied to the

text. I specialize in developing minimalist EDDs for FrameMaker that format the text using context-based style rules. The EDD independently

assigns paragraph and character style names to the text, solely for the benefit of WebWorks. The author can turn any section into a topic,

mid-topic, drop-down, or pop-up simply by selecting an attribute value. The EDD automatically assigns the paragraph styles to the section

heading and all of its descendents necessary to implement the desired help feature in the corresponding WebWorks ePublisher project.

Mark your calendar for 11:00 am EST; 8:00 am PST (10:00am CT, 11:00am ET) on January 31st if you would like to see a live demonstration of this help authoring technique in action.

To register, click here to access the enrollment page and click “Enroll” to the right of the event.

WebWorks CEO and Founder, Tony McDow, described Martin’s EDD as one of the cleanest and most
“ePublisher comprehensive” EDDs he has seen and believes it worth
examining if you are considering EDD work for your own documentation.

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Free Webinar: Controlling help-specific features in WebWorks ePublisher Pro