In an earlier post, Douglas Wade reviewed the basics of collapsing and expanding in Arbortext Editor. I would like to add a few thoughts about this feature as it relates to tables.
I recently started working on some SGML files that have large tables. I’m talking really large. I found that the performance of Arbortext [...]
In Arbortext Editor, a text entity is a named piece of content. For example, you could create a text entity called Product Name with the content Widget Analyzer 2010. Text entities help you to achieve consistency both within and across documents. Simple enough, right?
Let’s assume that you have an SGML file open and you know [...]
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, [...]
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 integers subscripts.
$array[1] = [...]
Using Arbortext Editor, selecting a column can take some time. This tip is a quick and easy way to select the entire column. As well as, performance will be better when the table is collapsed or in view markup mode.
A tip showing how to paste a single object like a cross reference from one cell into multiple cells of a table in Arbortext Editor.
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 are [...]
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 in the [...]
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 [...]
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.
If no selection [...]
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