Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 15 Converting to DITA XML > 15.4 Configuring DITA elements > 15.4.9 Providing a <shortdesc> element for a DITA topic
If you use a dedicated paragraph format for topic
abstracts in your FrameMaker document, you can simply map that format
to shortdesc
; see §15.4.3 Mapping paragraph formats to DITA block elements.
The content of any paragraph in that format becomes the <shortdesc>
element for the enclosing topic.
To add a <shortdesc>
element to a topic without using a paragraph format, place a DITAShortDesc
marker in the topic. The content of the DITAShortDesc
marker is the text of the abstract.
Whichever way you provide the content, the resulting
<shortdesc>
element appears in the map,
in the <topicmeta>
of the <topicref>
for the topic.