As far as I can tell, FrameMaker assigns the text and formatting for note types from the EDD, i.e., when you set the type attribute of a note to "danger", you get DANGER: as the prefix. To translate the prefixes to a different language, do I need to edit the EDD?
Pardon my ignorance, but where are the text strings that I would need to translate, i.e., danger, caution, notice, etc?
Actually, this is a little more complicated than I thought. I just checked the EDD and this is what it uses for most of the Prefix rules:
This is "clever" because it simply means that if you choose type="danger", you will get the prefix "DANGER". (The note.type Character Format uses Uppercase.). The problem is that you don't want to translate all of the type choice values, because anywhere a <note> is used in a localized document, you will have to change it's attribute value. *** You definitely don't want to do this. ***
The best approach is to edit the EDD so that it doesn't use <$attribute[type]>; instead, you will need a series of ElseIf elements: (pseudo-code) if [type="danger"] then prefix = (translated string danger).
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