I’m at the Open Help Conference in Cincinnati this weekend. Yesterday Florian Nadge from RedHat gave a lovely talk about Writing for Translation. Next up was Warren Block, longtime FreeBSD contributor, Automating Documentation Proofreading What tests of your doc can be automated? Many. He culled common misspellings from bug reports and his own knowledge. He […]
What’s New in Conversation and Community?
Love this new cover, both photos are Creative Commons licensed once again. Let’s look between the covers though! While thinking about the second edition and how three years had passed, I was pleasantly surprised that we could get to the three year mark with the book’s content remaining relevant and accurate. Seems nearly impossible on […]
From Cement to Spandex – Making PDF and ePub
Which statement is true: “PDFs are like cement.” or “Gentlemen prefer PDF.” Turns out both are true! See my recent OpenStack blog entry, Hacking on Ebooks, for more context and attributions for those statements. We recently held a hackathon which I blogged about earlier to discuss the prep work for creating epub from DocBook XML […]