Visual styles design in Elkera XML Print

 

A unique feature of Elkera XML Print is its optional use of Microsoft Word to design page layouts and style properties for published documents. Once foundation style rules (called context rules in Elkera XML Print) are developed for a particular schema or DTD, a large part of the document layout can be defined in a Word document. Named styles in the Word document are mapped to style names in the Elkera XML Print style rules.

A Word document can be used to define:

Complete visual page layout capabilities for complex documents will be included in a new release in the first quarter 2007.

Foundation style rules and Word documents with layout and rule templates are provided for Elkera BNML and DITA.

After creating or revising layout and styles in a Word document, the layout and style properties (such as page margins, headers and footers, indents, automatic numbering, fonts etc.) are imported into style rules using the Elkera Style Rules Manager shown below.