FrameMaker 12 is the first product release in this family for many years to have a major structure and look n’ feel “make-over” for its built-in templates. Although we have blogged about this earlier, we felt it would be useful to have the template designer, Bernard Aschwanden on Publishing Smarter, to do a guest slot in a live webinar to show you how to make maximum use of these new templates.
Consistent tag names and methodology across projects
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The twelve new templates encompass 3 types of projects you can create:
- a Reference Card
- a Parts Catalog
- a User Guide
Bernard used very consistent paragraph and character tag names, which start with a 2-3 character mneumonic for swift entry when using keyboard shortcuts for “smart catalogs.”
This makes it possible to cut and paste chunks of content from one project into another, and them simply import the formats from the current document to achieve consistent formatting. (This was not the case with the older templates.)
