You will learn:

Everything you need to be able to create and edit content in a structured FrameMaker environment. You'll learn to create books, tables of contents, indexes. You'll validate content, work with tables, cross-references, and all kinds of paragraph and list structures.

Scroll down to the next section for a more thorough list of topics in the course.

What to expect

This is a four-week online course. Each week you'll participate in course material and assignments via the Tech Comm Tools learning management system. You can expect 2-3 hours outside of class sessions to work through material and exercises.

Course Content

SETTING THE GROUND RULES

Take a tour of Moodle, of structured FrameMaker, resources in the course, and general FrameMaker text editing capabilities.

CREATING LISTS AND OTHER COMMON CONTENT

Learn all about the Structure View, Element Catalog, and Attribute dialog.

In this session you'll learn how to operate inside a structured environment.

CROSS-REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES

Electronic referencing is at the heart of structured documentation. See how to insert and manage cross-references and footnotes.

GRAPHICS AND DOCUMENT VALIDATION

Learn what to do (and what not to do) with graphics in a structured environment.

You'll also learn how to validate your content against the structure model. Validation is a core skill when working in a structured environment.

MORE VALIDATION AND TABLES

After validation review, we'll work on table content

BOOKS, TOC, INDEXES

We wrap up class with a great section showing you how to easy manage long docs with book structures that save you time and headache.

After this lesson, you'll have a complete understanding of working within a content model, and the skills to use it. If for some reason you had to skip material during our time together, you'll have access to the course recordings for a few weeks to catch up.