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Key Concept Archive

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Workshop: Yes you can have it all! Technical accuracy and marketing pizzazz

Upcoming Dates We offer publicly available, virtual, instructor-led, classes focused on learning Arbortext Styler basics as well as advanced topics like cover design. See our Public Calendar for specific delivery dates. Learn how a modular approach to content creation, storage,…

Using Style Guides to Achieve Content Collaboration and Consistency

Style Guides: What Goes In Them and What Can They Cover? Style guides serve an important role, establishing guidelines to improve communication, ensure consistency, and enforce best practices in composition, presentation, and language, and representing the specific needs of the…

DITA Output Doesn't Have to be Ugly

Traditionally, stylized DITA output has been clunky and code-editor driven. But it doesn't have to be that way. See how one tool is taking features from other user experiences and bringing them in to a world that has been neglected….

Same mess, different tools – Liz Fraley on the Content Content Podcast

In her interview, Liz Fraley talks in detail about the history of structured authoring and how her opinions have changed over 17 years in the technical writing industry. Last month I had the opportunity to talk with Ed Marsh of…

Advance Your Career Through Self-Publishing

Writing a book gives you an opportunity to provide tangible value. It can establish your brand and increase your professional standing. Information professionals are uniquely positioned to take advantage of self-publishing because we already know how to transform source material…

Publish High-Quality, Print-Ready DITA in less than a day

b Post Summary Everyone says, “Publishing DITA is Hard!” But the truth is you can publish DITA content for ePub and Print output with very little work. The promise that vendors (like us) have been giving for 20 years is…

Fancy Formatting of XML Tables in PDF Output

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 12 Recorded: June 2014 In this session, we’re going to talk about tables. Want to change the table from a simple block of tabulated data into something pretty and easy to…

Fit the most information in the least amount of space

Writing instructions for products you can hold in your hand isn't the same as writing for the software industry. In many cases, you're creating paper documents to fit in small boxes, so page layouts matter. This session addresses the unique…