Posts Tagged ‘Word’

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 »

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 »

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 »

Happy turkey day – but let’s talk wiki, not turkey

{ Posted on Nov 23 2007 by annegentle }
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Happy thanksgiving everyone! I have much to be grateful for. Here's me with my son, both of us stuffed full of turkey. Deadline extended... multiple meaning I just learned that the Give 1 Get 1 program to purchase two XO laptops has ...Read More »

7 things you must know about ePublisher Platform

{ Posted on Nov 13 2007 by annegentle }
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Content is king. Your source content can be Word, Frame, or DITA. You can even import convert other formats such as RoboHelp to Word or Frame and go from there. Formats are separate from content and can be customized. Combining content is ...Read More »

Publish to wikitext with WebWorks – from Word or Frame

{ Posted on Nov 06 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, tools, wiki
I'm attending as many sessions as I can at the Quadralay WebWorks User Conference - called the WebWorks RoundUp. Right now I'm listening to a great demo using WebWorks to publish Word or Frame source files to wikitext. Start with WIF The ...Read More »

Author-it webinar on version 5.0

{ Posted on Oct 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that ...Read More »

Simplest of style guides

{ Posted on Aug 16 2007 by annegentle }
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Ah, simplicity. Elegant. Succinct. Basic. Good. Welcome to ASI, new writer. Here are the basics: Write well, quickly, in the active voice and the present tense. Put punctuation outside the quoted material. Maintain gender neutrality. ("He" and "she": bad. "They": good.) Replace semicolons with periods. Use ...Read More »