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GETTING TO KNOW FRAMEMAKER 8
FrameMaker 8 software provides the power of many
tools in a single product. Try the features described in
this document to see how FrameMaker software can
help you create, share, customize and publish content
faster and with fewer resources.
Global Language Support
The Unicode Standard is a character coding system
designed to support the worldwide interchange, pro-
cessing, and display of text in any language or charac-
ter set. Unicode encoding allows you to create
documents containing characters from any number of
character sets, and allows sharing of documents
between different geographic or linguistic regions.
FrameMaker 8 supports Unicode text encoding for
creating, editing, saving, and publishing documents in
multiple languages and for creating multilingual doc-
uments. Unicode text is supported in FrameMaker
markers, catalog entries, and dialogs. PDF export sup-
ports Unicode text, bookmarks, tags, and comments.
You can import or copy Unicode content from other
applications.
FrameMaker 8 includes greatly expanded dictionary
and hyphenation support for multi-language author-
ing:
· Full authoring support (including language rules, dictionary, and hyphenation) is
provided for US English, French, German, Swiss German, Canadian French, and
British English.
· Full authoring support (without dictionaries and hyphenation) is provided for
Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
· Dictionary and hyphenation support are provided for Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Finnish, Catalan, Greek, Russian, Czech,
Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian,
Lithuanian, and Romanian.
Structured Authoring and Publishing
FrameMaker 8 software provides a structured authoring environment that eases the pro-
cess of creating and editing valid XML. You can use Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
or XML Schema to define the structure and validity of your content, and format your doc-
uments with the FrameMaker context-sensitive styling language (Element Definition Doc-
ument, or EDD). Read/write rules allow you to map XML elements to document objects
such as tables, graphics, footnotes, cross-references, and index markers. You can work on
your content in full WYSIWYG mode.
Demonstration of the globalization capabilities of FrameMaker software. Four languages
are included within a single document.
