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 WebWorks wiki defines WIF as WebWorks Intermediate Format – basically their Document Type […]
Author-it webinar on version 5.0
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 big of dorks. But we had a good time with it. By my calculations, it […]
Simplest of style guides
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 numerals for all numbers. Make cross-references target-neutral. Insert AIT […]