My friend Liz Fraley of Single-Sourcing Solutions asked to interview me in a podcast. We have chatted over the last few months on how we wanted to do this. I knew I want to, I needed to learn that medium. So, we played with some technology, and using Skype, and recorders on both ends and [...]
One thing that I think about all the time is how to improve documentation. One thing I would like to have is documentation that is context sensitive in Arbortext and collaborative. At work we have a style guide which determines “what” we are to do but rather than “how” to do it. Many years ago, [...]
In SGML files graphics are declared. Once they are declared they can be referenced in elements such as <graphic> or whatever your DTD declares. Often during the development of the files, some graphic declarations are created but never used. It is a good practice to remove graphic declarations that are not required. I came across [...]
ACL, Arbortext’s Command Language, it is similar to Perl which is the programming language I prefer. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Arrays Arrays are special variables with multiple “compartments”. Each compartment holds a value. Arrays consist of names and indexes. ACL has two types of one-dimensional arrays: Normal arrays are indexed by [...]