Can I Create a New Structured App that's a Copy of a Current One?

here's situation:  new using dita in framemaker, have become competent authoring process. not understand development end of things well, however. want have second dita structured application identical first in every way except in topic.template.fm, page size set 11x17, not 8.5x11.  , want able apply structured application of dita documents, not of them.

 

i tried create such situation, first copying , renaming dita folder (i called new 1 dita-big) in adobe framemaker 8\structure\xml\ and, within dita-big, making small change topic.template.fm.

 

i added renamed structured app structuredapps.fm (again, did copy , paste of dita-topic-fm element there), changing name of element dita-topicbig-fm , urls point in dita-big directory.

 

the new structured application appears in framemaker when select structuretools --> set structured application, , can select/apply 1 of documents. however, document's page size doesn't change. tried saving document, closing , reopening document, closing , reopening framemaker. new, larger page size set in topic.template.fm in dita-big structured app. ignored.

 

if change page size in original topic.template.fm file, document supposedly using new structured app changes size correspond template in old structured app.  need original template stay @ original 8.5x11 page size.

 

i new working such files don't know if missed or if attempting cannot done.

 

any advice?

hi nina...

 

here's topic explains how clone structured application. written dita-fmx, same concepts apply, filenames different.

 

     http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/?ditafmx_cloningtapps.html

 

cheers,

 

...scott

 

scott prentice

leximation, inc.

www.leximation.com

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