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 §15.4.3Mapping paragraph formats to . 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.

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