Key Concept Archive
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Same mess, different tools – Liz Fraley on the Content Content Podcast
b Post Summary In her interview, Liz Fraley talks in detail about the history of structured authoring and how her opinions have changed over 17 years in the technical writing industry. Last month I had the opportunity to talk with Ed Marsh of the Content Content podcast. I’ve known Ed…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog, Liz Asks
Arbortext Editor for Authoring: So Easy A Child Can Do It
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Special S1 One of the hardest things for technical communicators moving into an XML authoring environment is that you’re learning two things at once: A new UI and a new technology. In this session, we’re going to take a step back and…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog, Liz Asks ,
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 benefits to this “old school” method. If you…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, dita, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
How do authors find content for reuse?
Your customers can find content, but can your content creation team? DITA content explodes. How do you manage it? A lot of customers have been asking us recently about how they’re going to manage content that explodes into lots and lots of little topics and content fragments. Authors wonder if…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog, Liz Asks
Podcast Posted: Interview with Barry Schaeffer
This month’s interview is with a legend in the industry: Barry Schaeffer. Anyone who’s been in the SGML/XML industry for any length of time knows Barry Schaeffer. Barry is a frequent speaker and contributor on subjects related to information and content management. His work with structured information began in 1979…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
What characteristics do you need in an XML publishing system?
I took a trip through the wayback machine and found an old article that had been published on Arbortext.com. Reading through it, I found a lot of key points that are still very relevant today. No single product is for every situation, but these guidelines are generally good advice. We…
- Key Concepts: best practices, single-sourcing, techcomm tools, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
Common Questions: Change Markup
This week’s topic: Change Tracking & Change Markup Change markup has historically been something that you had to implement yourself in XML publishing. Arbortext supports typical change markup behavior in the standard document types, and with a small amount of configuration for custom doctypes. All of the standard change markup…
- Key Concepts: basics, usability and user experience, workflow and process, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
Common Questions: Bursting
This week’s topic: Bursting We start talking about something we call “bursting” when we get questions like the following: Can a writer or translator work just on paragraph chunks while an editor can see entire sections? This question is nearly always followed by this question: Can this level of granularity be…
- Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, configuration and implementation, content management, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog, Common Questions