Understanding the Publish options in Frame 12

What you’re seeing is a version of the RH Conversion Settings screen – this is where you tell the “engine” how to take that FM content & bust it up (Pagination), whether to bring it over to your output or not (Exclude), how lists are to be treated (Autonumber options), what the resulting styles will look like in the output (the Output Style field). You can let it take its best guess at mapping all your FM paragraph and character tags into (internal RH) styles by using the Automap setting (that was new in RH10’s guts), but you probably won’t be happy with how it comes out. The same is true of the Source option – it just takes its best guess at each mapping. What the field doesn’t tell you is that you can type overtop of it and use your “familiar” FM building blocks – I often use “<$paratext>” to map the paragraph tag text across (especially for xrefs that are like “see xx on page yy” which make no sense in WebHelp output). There are also other ways of running your FM content through to achieve what you want – check out Matt Sullivan’s blog for FM to RH integrations.

I’d recommend Willam van Weelden’s site for help with ePUB outputs (wvanweelden.eu) and Peter Grainge’s super site – grainge.org.