Key Concept Archive
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5 Tips for keeping your content flexible
Whether you're translating or not, some practices can make it easier for you to future-proof your content. There are five basic tips that localization experts agree on:Tip #1: Use numbers for your call-outs and have a legend table.There are two…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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DITA Workshop for Authoring Teams
Upcoming Dates This class is scheduled on demand but we offer a publicly available, lite version of this class that is focused on Learning DITA. See our Public Calendar for specific delivery dates. In this workshop your team will develop…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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DITA Keys and the Keyref feature in Arbortext
The OASIS DITA standard began with IBM and it began in Arbortext. PTC/Arbortext was the only vendor invited to be a charter member of the Oasis DITA Technical Committee and participates on that committee today. With the 5.4 release in…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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New Features in Arbortext 6.0
Arbortext is more than an Editor. Arbortext is really a full platform from editing to publishing and content management. Arbortext is the only fully-functional, end-to-end, pure XML, enterprise-level DITA solution. In this presentation, Liz Fraley is going to show Arbortext…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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Metadata and Taxonomy Workshop for DITA Authoring Teams
Upcoming Dates This class is scheduled on demand but, if you want to know more, you can view a preview of the material in our public presentation about these concepts. We also offer publicly available, virtual, instructor-led, classes focused on…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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Released: What's New in Arbortext 6.0?
We've already posted the details to the release feed, but I want to talk about the big features coming to Editor and Styler the 6.0 release. I admit this is little bit of a tour with a focus on the improvements…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), dita, release notes, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Release Details
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How DITA Transformed Content at Nikon Precision [Arbortext User Meeting]
Nikon Precision Inc (NPI), located in the United States, serves as the sales and service support arm for the Nikon semiconductor manufacturing tools. All design and manufacturing occurs in Japan; therefore, all technical information originates in Japanese. Since NPI is…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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Common Questions: XML and Standards Support
This week’s topic: XML and Standards support in Arbortext With the most recent release of Arbortext there's a lot to talk about with respect to standards and XML technology support in Arbortext. Arbortext has been part of the W3C since…
- Key Concepts: basics, dita, techcomm tools, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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