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 [...]
ACL is Arbortext’s Command Language. It is similar to Perl, which I really like. See Part 1 and Part 2. Variables A variable is a keyword or phrase that is linked to a “value” stored in memory or an expression that can be evaluated. For instance, a variable might be called “total_count” and contains a [...]
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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