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Text Format Rules for Containers,
Tables, and Footnotes
You can define text formatting properties for containers, tables, table parts, and footnotes
in FrameMaker. When an end user inserts one of these elements in a document, text in the
element or in a descendant is formatted automatically according to the format rules in the
EDD.
Text formatting in FrameMaker is hierarchical—an element can inherit its properties from
ancestors and pass on its properties to descendants.
XML uses CSS and XSL to express formatting of a document apart from the markup data.
When reading XML, FrameMaker does not use the CSS data or any of the formatting
expressed in XSL. Instead, FrameMaker uses the template associated with the XML
structure application to format the data. When writing XML, FrameMaker can generate a
CSS file based on the formatting in the document template. You can also use the File >
Structure Tools > Generate CSS2 command to generate a CSS.
The formatting information in the template includes format definitions as well as format rules
specified in the EDD. You specify whether or not to generate the CSS in the
structapps.fm file. For more information, see "Managing CSS generation" on page 62
and Chapter 15, "Saving EDD Formatting Information as a CSS Stylesheet."
Markup does not provide a mechanism for formatting text, so the text format rules you write
in FrameMaker do not have counterparts in markup. If you import a DTD, you can add
format rules to the resulting EDD for use in FrameMaker. If you import a markup document,
the text in the document is formatted for elements that have format rules in the EDD you
use. If you export a document or EDD to markup, the text formatting information is not
preserved.
In this chapter
This chapter explains how to write text format rules for containers, tables and their parts,
and footnotes in FrameMaker. In the outline below, click a topic to go to its page.
Background on text format rules and inheritance:
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Syntax of text format rules:
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Structure Application Developer's Guide
"Overview of text format rules" on page 126
"How elements inherit formatting information" on page 127
"Specifying an element paragraph format" on page 132
"Writing context-dependent format rules" on page 132
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