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 [...]
Finding a Comment Find in Arbortext Editor is very strong, but it is hard to find comments, because they are not normal elements. To find comments in a document: Menu > Find > Find Tag/Attribute: From the menu, Find > Find Tag/Attribute…, and enter in the Tag Name(s), box, _comment. That is an underscore followed [...]
Arbortext Editor Tip for Spaces and Tabs It is helpful to have Arbortext Editor display the spaces and tabs when working on SGML/XML files. It is an option that makes missed spaces easier to catch. To display spaces and tabs, Tools > Preferences… and select the View category. Check the check box labeled “Spaces and [...]
Tip when using the Arbortext Editor. Changing curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa inside the Arbortext Editor. To insert a double quote in your document (either “, ”, or “), place your cursor in the text and press the double-quote key on your keyboard once. The default quote is context sensitive. For example, [...]
Twitter? What is Twitter? I was talking with a co-worker, Joe, (another Software Engineer), at work and one of the Technical Writers stopped us and asked, “What is Twitter, and why should I care?” This is an interesting question, and I find it a bit hard to explain. First, it is a social networking tool. [...]
Arbortext’s ACL Language – Part 2 Continuing from where I left off on the last ACL post. Part 1 stopped where the function was returning a value. More often than not, you will want to store the results returning from a function. You can return the results into a variable and later use that value. [...]
Arbortext’s ACL Language – Part 1 ACL language is the command line tool, similar to other tools, like Perl or C used inside the Arbortext Editor tools. It provides a way to control the editor or make changes to a document. It can control dialogs and interface to other software components. In the next couple [...]
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Tools are a personal choice. Authoring using structured data, you can edit SGML/XML in something as simple as using Notepad (not recommended) or inside large and complex Content Management Systems (CMS). The choice is usually cost which is contrasted to quality. Typically, the more expensive a tool the higher the quality of the output or [...]
Welcome: This is a new site is about Structured Authoring. That is a broad subject, but the focus will be on SGML and XML and its implementation. Such as, tools used to author, manage, communicate and deploy data in maintenance community from some small widget to a large weapon system. This site is a learning [...]