Basic Tutorial

This tutorial offers a more realistic example of how to set up a simple project from scratch than the Getting Started page. For this tutorial, we will create a somewhat contrived, but fairly polished document describing a made-up series of candle flame height measurements.

Project Setup

The files for this tutorial are available in the CandleFlame example. You may chose to download and extract the provided archive, or start with an empty folder named CandleFlame and populate it as the tutorial progresses.

For this tutorial, we will emphasize the differences between the Configuration Layer and the Templates Layer. Our templates (both XML Template and DOCX Stub), are placed in a separate folder named CandleFlame/templates. Normally, this folder would be outside the document configuration entirely, so that it can be shared by multiple documents. The IIF Files will be placed here as well, to emphasize their shared role.

Using Plugins

Creating a Data Configuration

Adding a Picture

Adding a Simple Table

Adding a Text File

Adding Custom Styles

Creating a Stub Document

Customizing the XML Template

Computing Keywords

Adding a TOC

Inserting Equations

Using Keywords

Adding Include Files

Enabling the Log