How To Create Complex Technical Books in Adobe FrameMaker - Part I: Book Organization and Workflow
In Part I of this series, I explain how to create complex technical books with Adobe FrameMaker. I present three types of content organization: Conceptual, Logical, and Physical. I offer a practical book project folder structure to make book content easy to locate, followed by how to get started on a book from scratch by creating a sample chapter with a handful of paragraph styles you can use to generate a Table of Contents (TOC), List of Figures (LOF), and List of Tables (LOT).
You can find Part II here: • How To Create Complex Technical Books with...
The video is organized into three primary segments:
Segment 1: Discussion on Content Organization and Book Structure
Segment 2: Book Creation Demonstration
Segment 3: Book Project Workflow Considerations:
-- Configuration Management with Git
-- Book Project Task Management with JIRA
Video Index:
0:00 Intro
0:19 About Me
0:33 What Is FrameMaker
1:34 Why FrameMaker
2:05 FrameMaker vs. Microsoft Word
2:49 Book Organization
3:00 What Is A Book In FrameMaker?
3:52 Three Types Of Content Organization: Conceptual, Logical, Physical
4:33 Conceptual Organization
5:27 Logical Organization
7:02 Physical Organization
8:38 Book Root Folder Structure
10:19 Chapter_n Folder Structure
11:28 Create Book File
11:41 Create Chapter_n File
12:24 Work Layout And Formatting
14:54 Generate Table Of Contents (TOC)
17:58 Generate Index (IX)
18:57 Book Creation Demo
55:56 Workflow
56:06 Git Configuration Management
1:00:08 JIRA Issue And Project Tracking