Adding the Content

After you have created the structure of your document, go back and add the content. The main reason for creating empty topics first is so that you can create links and cross-references to them while writing other topics. While you're writing, you will always find a few topics that you haven't anticipated, and it's simple to add these. In general, we found that creating the structure at the same time as the content distracts you from completing either task well.

As you are writing and assembling your content, you'll create a File object for each graphic, and put it in the topic.

There will probably be several rounds of changes during the rest of the authoring process - not only to the text but also to the graphics. You may need different formats of your graphics for each output. If you are handling graphic format conversion yourself, you'll only want to do it once, after things are finalized.

We recommend publishing the document to your chosen output formats at least once, so you can see how your document's structure and format is working.