Re: Another useful listserv / WWP woes

[Sarah O'Keefe <okeefe -at- SCRIPTORIUM -dot- COM>]

>Has anyone used WebWorks Publisher for converting Framemaker books to HTML
>(2-framed, javascript-enabled)?

Yep.

> I created one project, agonized over every
>little style and now my conversion is 98% automated. I'm rather pleased.
>HOWEVER (here comes the poop) no matter what I try I cannot use that
>project to successfully convert other books into new HTML files. WWP says I
>have to use one project as a template for another (It doesn't use
>templates) but I have to delete certain files from that project. I have
>tried every combination I could think of and I still don't get a
>satisfactory result. The best I get is a conversion where all the styles
>are correct but there is no index.html file defining the framesets. Should
>I be using the index file from the "master" project? Somehow this just
>doesn't seem right to me. Any help is appreciated.

You can either save a new copy of your project, then delete all the files
and put in the new ones, or you can create a new project and use the
existing project as a template, or you can import the styles from your
existing project into the new project.

I suspect that you need a custom setting somewhere to kick off the
generation of index.html. Typically, the index.html file in a frameset is
generated by a macro (building block) that is kicked off by the
DefaultFirstStart page definition. There are other ways of doing it, but
look for a @WRITE statement that specifies index.html. You may need to
customize that macro to make it work properly.

Hope this helps.

Sarah

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Sarah O'Keefe           Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc.
FrameMaker ACE (Adobe Certified Expert)          919-481-2701
WebWorks Publisher certified trainer   okeefe -at- scriptorium -dot- com
http://www.scriptorium.com


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