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Configurable converter of FrameMaker documents to the World-Wide Web

The combination of WebMaker and FrameMaker enables you to publish simultaneously both the printed and the WWW versions of a document. WebMaker converts FrameMaker documents and books to a hypertext network of HTML files that may be viewed by World-Wide Web browsers such as Mosaic.

WWW is a global hypertext information network conceived at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

WebMaker translates FrameMaker entities such as imported and native graphics, mathematics, tables, figures, anchored frames, cross-references, character highlights, indices and footnotes. It generates tables of contents automatically, and transforms into graphical images elements that are unknown to HTML. The user has control over a number of conversion aspects:

• the rules for the breakup of the Frame document into the component HTML files;
• a panel of hypertext links to facilitate navigation within the WWW documents web;
• the rules for the mapping of paragraph and character formats to HTML constructs;
• the specification of material for selective inclusion in the FrameMaker or WWW document.