• ACL, Arbortext Editor, Structured Authoring

    Posted on November 4th, 2009

    Written by douglaspaulwade

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    Starting with Arbortext’s ACL Language – Part 4

    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, Structured Authoring

    Posted on October 29th, 2009

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    Starting with Arbortext’s ACL Language – Part 3

    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 [...]