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 this [...]
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] = [...]
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 number. [...]
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.
Using XSLT, I want to display some examples, however, not show you the original text. My sample file is a real-world example, but the content is a distraction. This simple transformation will convert all of the text nodes (document text) to x’s. During the transformation, the XSLT stylesheet will convert, all the capital, lowercase letters [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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