Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 2 Planning a conversion project > 2.4 Importing formats from a conversion template
For conversion purposes, Mif2Go can use FrameMaker Import Formats to temporarily apply a different FrameMaker template to your document. Applying formats from a template that more closely approximates what you want to see in a given type of output is the best and easiest first step to achieve successful single-sourcing from FrameMaker. Import is automatic, and affects only the MIF conversion files, not your original document files. If you have chapter files open when Mif2Go imports formats, those files remain open, and they are not affected by the formats Mif2Go imports. You get true single-sourcing, and you have to specify changes only once, in FrameMaker.
To create a conversion template, prepare a new FrameMaker template that uses the same features and names as the original template for your document, but provides different definitions for the following:
You can start just by saving a copy of your main FrameMaker template file under a different name, then change the definitions of only those formats that should look different in the output.
Note: If you are converting a FrameMaker book, and some chapter files in the book use a different template, you must create a separate configuration file for each of those chapter files, and an alternate conversion template; then you can direct Mif2Go to apply the alternate conversion template to those files. See §33.1 Using a different configuration for selected files.
If you plan to convert FrameMaker-generated files, such as contents, index, list of tables, and list of figures, do either of the following:
Some of the changes you might want to make with a conversion template are as follows:
Mif2Go applies the conversion template as part of the conversion process, without altering your FrameMaker document. However, if you are using Mif2Go to produce an HTML output type and you specify CSS, your CSS settings override display properties both from the original FrameMaker file and from any imported template.
§3.4.1 Importing formats from a FrameMaker template
§34.1.4 Importing formats and conditional text settings