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Rainer Frameuser
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July 28, 2022
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How to creat multi-lingual book?

  • July 28, 2022
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I need to create multilingual instructions. Each language should have a table of contents that links only to the language's chapters. The book should be numbered from 1 to n.
Is there a best practice?

 

Thanks,

Rainer

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    Correct answer Dave Creamer of IDEAS

    Are all the TOCs together in the beginning of the book, or are they at the start of each language's chapter?

    If the former, you will need to have different styles for each language. For example: Title_English, Title_Spanish, etc.

    If the latter, you could use the same styles and create a Mini-TOC for each chapter.

     

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    Rainer FrameuserAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 29, 2022

    Thank you for your replies.

    I created one document for each language, imported (linked) all documents into this document, and created a Mini-TOC for each document. This works for me.

    Regards,

    Rainer

      Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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      Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      July 29, 2022

      Are all the TOCs together in the beginning of the book, or are they at the start of each language's chapter?

      If the former, you will need to have different styles for each language. For example: Title_English, Title_Spanish, etc.

      If the latter, you could use the same styles and create a Mini-TOC for each chapter.

       

      David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
        Barb Binder
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        Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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        July 28, 2022

        So one book with sub-books, each sub-book is in one language and each sub-book needs their own table of contents? Create a hierarchal book, that includes the multiple language books. 

        https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker%2Fuser-guide%2Ffrm_books_bk-books-and-long-documents.html&rhsearch=Set%20up%20hierarchical%20books&rhhlterm=Set%20up%20hierarchical%20books&rhsyns=%20

         

        ~Barb

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