Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55

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### 25.1.3 Creating custom marker s for WAI attributes

You can create custom FrameMaker markers to insert in (or just before) items that require WAI markup.

Marker name is significant

If you give a custom marker type a name that starts with Table, Cell, Graph, or Link, Mif2Go automatically makes the marker text the value of whatever HTML attribute is named by the rest of the marker-type name, and puts the attribute and its value in the generated <table>, <th>, <td>, <img>, or <a> tag. This method has two advantages:

• Markers do not require entries in the configuration file.

• Markers do not clutter your paragraph catalog.

Series of marker s

The text of a FrameMaker marker is limited to 256 characters. Mif2Go gets around that restriction by concatenating all markers for the same attribute that are inserted before the next item to which they apply. You can just add more markers of the same type, and continue the content. However, if the text of the attribute is long (such as a summary for a large and complex table), you might not want to chop it up into three or four markers; in that case, use one of the other markup methods to apply the attribute, or use macros.