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…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

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….

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

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….

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

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…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

How to Document your Stylesheets

by Karie You're working on a big project or a book using DITA, but your boss asks you to change the style of the font at the last minute. This was something you had set months prior and you don't…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, stylesheets
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Bringing Reusability to Your XML Stylesheets: Property Sets

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 9 Recorded: November 2014 We go to XML publishing for a lot of reasons. One of which is to achieve reusability of our information: Write it Once, Use it Anywhere. Often,…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

Localizing your stylesheets – XLIFF in Arbortext Styler

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 8 Recorded: May 2014 One of the last things that gets localized is your stylesheet. Stylesheets have generated text and that generated text needs to be translated too. (After all it…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

Advanced Modules – Managing DocBook and DITA

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 7 Video Recorded: May 2014 Do you have content in both DocBook and DITA? Are you worried that it has to be one or the other? Two doctypes means two stylesheets,…

• Key Concepts: best practices, page layout and print publishing, stylesheets, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process
• Filed under: Presentations
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo