I have been way too busy these last couple of weeks, so I have not been able to add more tips and the likes to the site. But, I have a three day weekend and would like to add some new articles and from my reading from my RSS feeds, I came across a listing [...]
Here is a simple use of ACL (Arbortext Command Language) to remove all the comments in your file. Placing this function in a file, for example, removeComment.acl and store it in <arbortext installation>/custom/scripts/. You can call out the script either by using the command line or place it in a menu. function removeComments() { [...]
This is a cool function that I use often. When you select content and invoke the function, it either creates a comment from the selection, or if your selection is a comment, the second function will uncomment the content. Why this is cool is becuase, you may have some content that you want removed. But [...]
Arbortext has a really great help system. A writer or developer should be using it often. For me, I have placed a shortcut on my desktop. The help file is in the format of Microsoft compiled help (extension .chm). It is located in <arbortext-installation>/help folder and is called help.chm. Double-click to launch the file. If you [...]
View and Collapse Elements In Arbortext Editor, you can view or collapse (or hide) elements and their content to make it easier to navigate through your document. Each parent element will display a graphic: a minus graphic when the content is expanded. a plus graphic when the content is collapsed. Notice: next to sect1 element [...]
It is helpful to search for text inside an element instead of searching through the entire manual. For example, to find a literal hyphen (used for Not Illustrated in MIL-STD-38807, Ideally, it should be added to the attribute “notshown”) in the element <ipbfigindex>, do the following: Find > Find/Replace and in the Find What: text [...]
Running a Perl script from inside PTC’s Arbortext IsoDraw in a Window’s CMD shell. The example below is very simple but demonstrates what can be done with Perl. First you will need a Perl program. I will use Hello World printed to screen as an example. Place the following code inside a file called “hello.pl” [...]
Setup The sweep arrow tail has been created as a brush. I have a file already created in the file called, “Adobe Illustrator Startup RGB.ai”, which contains the brush. Download it and open the folder “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Illustrator 10\Plug-ins” (or where the application was installed). Rename the existing file “Adobe Illustrator Startup_RGB.ai” to anything you like [...]
Change Case You can change the case of selected text from upper to lowercase and back. You can also change the case to Sentence Case ( first word at the beginning of a sentence to uppercase case), and/or to Title Case (first letter of each selected word to uppercase). To change text, highlight a selection. [...]
Inserting a Quickmark A quickmark is just an unnamed bookmark that can be inserted in your opened document. Its purpose is to provide a quick access to a location in your document. Only one quickmark can exist at a time. To insert a quickmark into your open document, do the following: Place the cursor at [...]
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