Project basics

In Publisher, a project consists of all the pieces needed to produce an online help system:

Most of the contents of your project are shown in the file view located of the main Publisher window (for details, see Publisher project window).

Setting up and processing a project involves the following general steps:

  1. Creating the project.
  2. Publisher's New Project wizard walks you through the steps of selecting a template, specifying the FrameMaker book or source documents your project will use, and setting up preliminary paragraph and character mappings.

    See Creating a new project for details.

  3. Mapping styles.
  4. You map FrameMaker components (such as paragraph, character, and table tags) to corresponding styles in Publisher. Although Publisher automatically maps many styles, you will probably need to change several of these mappings.

    See Mapping FrameMaker Styles to WebWorks Publisher StylesMapping FrameMaker Styles to WebWorks Publisher Styles for details.

  5. Redefining other components (such as cross-references) for use in an online format.
  6. See Mapping FrameMaker Styles to WebWorks Publisher Styles for details.

  7. Regenerating the project. If you are creating HTML Help or WinHelp, you'll also need to compile the project.
  8. See Generating files or projects and Viewing files for details.

  9. Viewing the output to see what settings you need to change.
  10. See Viewing files for details.


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