FrameMaker+SGML

Adobe FrameMaker+SGML adds document structure and SGML compatibility to Adobe FrameMaker to create an advanced, open publishing solution. FrameMaker+SGML seamlessly integrates context-sensitive editing, interactive structure view, powerful word processing features, graphics support, WYSIWYG formatting, and automated page composition. Experienced FrameMaker+SGML trainers using official Adobe course materials will increase your productivity by teaching the software fundamentals and special features necessary to satisfy your production requirements.

DMSi offers the following Adobe FrameMaker+SGML training courses:

 Authoring Courses

Authoring Structured Documents (2 days)

This courses teaches how to author structured documents using FrameMaker+SGML. The course teaches you how to work with a structured template to edit existing FrameMaker+SGML documents or create new documents from the beginning.

Formatting Structured Documents (3 days)

This course covers the basics of formatting FrameMaker+SGML structured documents for users with no previous FrameMaker experience. It explains the concept of a template and how to create and use templates. The course teaches you how to use paragraph and character formats and catalogues as well as master and reference pages both in setting up automatic formatting and in overriding format rules.

 Developer Courses

Defining Structure: EDDs and Conversion Tables (2 days)

This course covers how to build a structured template to use with FrameMaker+SGML. The primary emphasis is on design and implementation of FrameMaker+SGML element definition documents (EDDs). Also covered is how to use conversion tables to add structure when importing existing unstructured FrameMaker documents and documents from common word processors.

Importing/Exporting SGML (2 days)

This course covers the relationship of FrameMaker+SGML to SGML and how to manage the translation of documents between the two forms. This course teaches you how to set up FrameMaker+SGML applications to open SGML documents in FrameMaker+SGML and then save them as SGML documents. You'll learn automatic conversion of FrameMaker+SGML EDDs and SGML DTDs, conversion of document instances, the default translation that FrameMaker+SGML employs in the absence of any customization, and read/write rules that can be used to modify the translation.