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Key Concept Archive

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Greetings from the Arbortext Monster Garage whirlwind

If I'm quiet, I'm working. I know a lot of people have been eagerly waiting for Arbortext 103 and 201, but what's on my desk has priority. All year customer needs have been on the top of the pile. I've…

Top Authors and Books from My 2018 Reading Challenge

In 2017, I read nearly a book per day. While it was binge reading at its finest, it was too many. By the end of the year there were several books that I didn't even remember reading, even when I…

Top Books for Children and New Parents

My niece is having a baby and as I realized that I have a list of carefully curated books that I give to new parents. The last couple of years I've written about my reading lists, and I write a…

Top Authors and Books from My 2017 Reading Challenge

After all the books I read in 2016, I'd planned on reading more non-fiction in 2017. As it turned out, we had a busy year here at Single-Sourcing Solutions and escapist reading was the order of the day. 2017 was…

Techcomm magnets, buttons, and bookmarks

What's your favorite giveaway? Mine is a backpack that I got at the very last Arbortext User Conference in 2005. This backpack had perfect balance and is great for bicyclists as well as pedestrians. Even though it's 13 years old,…

Problems upgrading your Arbortext Styler stylesheets from 6.1 to 7.0?

Quite by accident, we noticed that some stylesheets can have issues when upgrading to 7.0 from 6.1. A day or so ago, Liz was working with some stylesheets that hadn't been touched since mid 2016 when she published her books….

DITA was developed on Arbortext

Greetings from the Arbortext Monster Garage whirlwind When it comes to DITA, PTC has a history of being first: PTC was the first to deliver a complete DITA solution. As the first vendor to support DITA at IBM, the first…

Will I see you this month? It’s Conference Season 2017!

Conference season 2017 started last month and we're on the road! In fact, I'm two conferences down with two more to go.  I love to meet people in person and hear their stories. The last couple of years I've started to prefer…