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Just wanted to give another update on the happenings in the end-user doc front from my neck of the woods. (Idioms sprinkled throughout!)
I got an HTML copy to SJ and a second copy with an Index and some customizations on the CSS. I tested it on an XO emulation and the Browse Activity does really [...]

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Getting into the trenches of wiki editing has certainly taught me a lot. My learning has mostly been by trial and error and experimentation. I’m playing around with the best way to use Wikimedia wikitext for step-by-step instructions with graphics for each step. (And wishing that Wikimedia was just HTML based, I know the rules [...]

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I’ve been doing quite a few photo projects lately, but mostly with digital items. I did my family photo card this year with a Photoshop layout similar to the ones on purplestork.com, for example. The digital environment is fun, but I still enjoy the paper arts as well, scrapbooking, stamping, and card making, and I [...]

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I’m thoroughly enjoying the new Rockley Blog at http://rockley.com/blog/. I’m so glad Steve Manning and Ann Rockley are blogging, especially about wikis.
I appreciated Steve’s post “Wikis for Documentation” especially where he says that the delivery side is the weak point still. Agreed, but I have seen pockets of improvement there and need to be blogging [...]

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I’m learning more about ebooks thanks to some recent inquiries related to my work for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) to collaborate on the kid’s user guide. I’ve been so busy with that I’ve barely had time to blog. I’m learning so much it’ll add to the blog entries later.
But I have been noodling on [...]

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It was easily 80 degrees in Austin today, but I so enjoyed a Christmas performance tonight despite the lack of cold or snow. The Yellow Tape Construction Co. is putting on The Ultimate Christmas Musical - The Musical at the Salvage Vanguard Theater off I-35 near the University of Texas in Austin. I laughed and [...]

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In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports.
To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection and choose XML > Save to file.
Turns out, Author-it outputs its XML encoded with UTF-16, [...]

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