Skip to main content
S
sanam.deh
Inspiring
June 17, 2020
Question

Adobe FrameMaker 2019 S1000D Turkish Publish

  • June 17, 2020
  • 2 replies
  • 960 views

Hi,

Our company provides technical writing services. For this, we used Adobe FrameMaker 9, and recently we upgraded to Adobe FrameMaker 2019. As a requirement of one of our projects, we have to use S1000D. For this, we plan to use the S1000D feature provided in FrameMaker 2019. However, we are not sure that Adobe FrameMaker 2019 support Turkish characters for S1000D tags' values and attribute values (both for authoring and publishing). Unfortunately, there is not any research regarding this issue on the internet.
If I am not mistaken, Adobe FrameMaker supports Turkish characters. However, I am not sure about S1000D attribute values.

I appreciate your help.

This topic has been closed for replies.

2 replies

S
Susanne berg
Participant
June 30, 2020

 

If you want the values for the S1000D standard attributes ( e.g. skill level code, etc) to be in Turkish, Mekon have an option in the configuration file to select language. This  allows you to specify whatever term you want for that code. At the moment we support German, Portuguese, Dutch and English but Turkish can be added at a cost.
The Standard itself is written and maintained in English which means descriptions and information about the elements and attributes are all in English. It is possible to translate these to Turkish but there are risks in maintaining the updates and ensuring one still meets the specification standard. This could be done using FrameMaker Read/write rules but is not something we would recommend.
 
Ian Proudfoot
Ian Proudfoot
Legend
June 17, 2020

Yes you can use the Turkish alphabet with FrameMaker's S1000D applications. The S1000D XML is encoded in UTF-8 which provides full support for Turkish characters in element content and attribute values of the relevant types. 

I did try this just to be certain and it worked perfectly.

Ian
 

    S
    sanam.dehAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 18, 2020

    First of all, I want to thank you, Ian, for your quick response. It is good to hear that we can change the values to Turkish. Otherwise, we had to look for another S1000D supported solution.
    We also tried to check to see if we can change some of the values of attributes in "procedural_401.edd.fm" file available in Adobe FrameMaker 2019 directory (....\S1000D\procedural\procedural_401.edd.fm). However, when we opened a new procedural file from the S1000D menu in FrameMaker, we can't see the changes we made before. So, it would save us a lot of work and time if you guide us where and how we should change the values of any attribute in any Data Module type (for instance, procedural DM) provided by FrameMaker.
    Thank you in advance for your help.

    Sanam

    Ian Proudfoot
    Ian Proudfoot
    Legend
    June 18, 2020

    I wonder if we are talking about different things here? There should be no reason to edit the EDD unless your original question was to change the names of XML elements and attributes. I read your question to mean that the text content of elements and some attribute values would be in Turkish.

    If you do need to edit the EDD in any way you do need to import your changes into the related FM structured template file. The EDD does not play an active role in the XML read and write process.

     

    Ian

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices