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 [...]
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’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 [...]