Note:
A postscript version of this guide is available in bipod:/home/scox/Public/sdf/sdf.book.ps.

Structuring Documents with FrameBuilder -- Table of Contents

Preface

• Organization
• Notational conventions
• Associated documents
  • Peter Cash publications
  • Newsgroups
  • World Wide Web (WWW) pages
  • Online man pages
• Technical assistance
• Terms used
• Suggestions/comments and updates

Process

• Structuring overview
  • A graphical overview
  • A narrative overview
• Preparing to structure
  • Do I need to use mifmucker?
  • Getting started
• Generating structure
• Validating
  • The Structure View and the element catalog
  • Editing in the Structure View
  • Procedure for validating
  • Examples of validly structured documents
  • Validating a book
• Converting figures
• Exporting
  • Setting up to export
  • Performing the export
  • Exporting a book file
  • Solutions to exporting errors
• Viewing your file online
  • Setting up PinPoint
  • Compiling your file for PinPoint
  • Using PinPoint
• Proofreading your online file

Tools

• Available utilities
• File restoration
• mifmucker
  • Filters
  • mifmucker tutorial
• PinPoint
  • PinPoint customization
• The structure rule table (SRT)

Tips and other flashes of inspiration

• Auto-numbered paragraphs
• Code examples
  • Frame's (code example) paragraph tags and elements
  • Returns and the <ExampleBlockVerbatim> element
  • Tabs in code examples
• Cross-references
  • Cross-references to chapter numbers
  • Cross-references to page numbers
  • Hyperlinks
  • Question marks for cross-references
• Deletions
• Figures
  • Elements in figures
  • Fast display
• Formats and elements
• Hard returns
• Hardspaces
• Keyboard macros
  • Macro triggers
  • The macro file
  • Macro limitations
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Ldefs
• Markers
• Monospace text online
• Repeated structure generation
• Searching
• Special characters and HPTAG
• StepNum lists
• Structure rule table
• Style sheets
• Subscripts and Superscripts
• Tables
  • Bold headings
  • Footnotes
  • Hidden and visible tables
  • Line breaks in table cells
  • Multiple paragraphs in a single cell
  • Straddling
  • The table continuation variable
• Tabs in Builder
• Templates