Posts Tagged ‘author-it’

Author-it migration to version 5

{ Posted on Apr 09 2009 by annegentle }
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Here's a report from the acceptance testing we've done to go from Author-it 4.5 to 5.x. I don't know if anyone else had difficulty understanding the best migration strategy, but I thought I'd talk about my misunderstanding in case it helps ...Read More »

Author-it and MadCap Flare comparison

{ Posted on Feb 10 2009 by annegentle }
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I've had more than a few questions asking for a review of Author-it or MadCap Flare or a comparison of both. So I decided to do some homework. Initially, I wasn't sure why they are categorized together. Is it due ...Read More »

Author-it Table Of Contents expansion

{ Posted on Jan 15 2009 by annegentle }
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My co-worker Melissa Burpo (yep, I interviewed her before she was my co-worker) has solved a nagging problem with the HTML output from Author-it. The Table of Contents would always lose your place when you expanded one of the TOC ...Read More »

Corporate blogs learning from reviewers

{ Posted on Dec 03 2008 by annegentle }
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Diane Wieland has a great post at the Duo Consulting blog called Free Expert Blogging Advice that points to the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki. In the blog entry she encourages bloggers to learn from the reviews of blogs using ...Read More »

Understanding the database implementation of Author-it

{ Posted on Jul 21 2008 by annegentle }
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Author-it uses a SQL Server database to house all of the source material that make up your deliverables. You can export that database content to XML and publish to Word or HTML and other outputs, but the source is stored ...Read More »

Publish a Word outline using Author-it

{ Posted on Jul 17 2008 by annegentle }
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At ASI, we're working on book skeletons while we do task analysis for new documentation or feature updates that may change the way users do their work with iMIS. So, to get early feedback, we wanted a way to publish ...Read More »

Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?

{ Posted on Feb 13 2008 by annegentle }
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DITA for writers (content creators) I just did a search on amazon.com for books for beginning technical writers and also to investigate what books are being written for our profession and for others wanting to start in our profession. I came ...Read More »

Adding Google Analytics to your Author-it generated HTML pages

{ Posted on Jan 24 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm learning about Author-it's HTML templates today, and how to insert Google Analytics code (or any other code, really, such as adding an automatically updating variable for "Last modified by" with user or date information.) But my task today was to ...Read More »

Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

{ Posted on Dec 04 2007 by annegentle }
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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 ...Read More »

Q and A about Author-it and DITA – guest post from Mike Stockman

{ Posted on Nov 29 2007 by annegentle }
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I read this recent conversation on the author-it-users Yahoo Group with interest. I haven't had a need to author DITA topics with Author-it, so I have to rely on others for information on how it works. With Mike Stockman's and ...Read More »
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