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Preface
- Organization
- Notational conventions
- Associated documents
- Peter Cash publications
- Newsgroups
- World Wide Web (WWW) pages
- Online man pages
Preface
This guide provides an introduction to structuring Frame
documents for publication in both traditional hard copy and in a
format viewable by PinPoint.
Processes that can be performed on either files or books include
exporting, running mifmucker, running mkbook, validating, and
viewing online.
All actions are performed on individual files--not book files--unless otherwise noted.
The main parts of this guide are:
- "Process," which provides an overview of the document
conversion process. The fundamental rules that must be
followed, step-by-step procedures for converting, and so
forth are also covered in this chapter.
- "Tools," which contains instructions for preparing to use
pinpoint, mifmucker, and other tools. Also, instructions
for using the tools (how to do basic customizing and so forth)
are given.
- "Tips and other flashes of inspiration," which provides
information that eases the conversion process and that results
in better online documents.
The following conventions are used (in addition to the regular
notational conventions) throughout this document:
- Angled brackets (< >) designate the names of FrameBuilder
elements.
- Arrows (->) represent the following of menu items through
pull-down menus.
- Double-shaft arrows (=>) indicate a sequence of elements or
text in a wrapping scheme, with the right-most item being at
the center of the scheme.
This section lists additional information resources recommended
to writers who are structuring.
The materials that Peter Cash used in a course on structuring with
Builder are available in the directory
icarus:/home/cash/work/training.
These Frame files contain information on SGML, exporting,
structuring, and style sheets.
Local newsgroups can be read using tin, trn, or any other
newsreader.
The following Convex newsgroups may be helpful:
- convex.editors.frame
- convex.editors.frame.problems
- convex.doc.talk
- convex.doc.weekly
The Convex Press home page offers a wealth of information on
using mifmucker and related items.
The URL is currently http://hawkwind/index.html; however,
the URL will soon change to http://icarus/index.html.
The Mosaic web browser can be used on either hawkwind or
icarus by typing
% Mosaic
In addition to the references listed, the online man pages provide
useful information. The man program formats and displays the
information contained in the man pages.
You can access the online man pages by entering
% man entryname
where
- entryname
- is the name of the man page to be displayed.
For instance, entering man mifmucker on icarus brings up the
man page for mifmucker.
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