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Miscellaneous

What I Would Do if I Have a Magic Wand

What would I do with technical documentation if I had a magic wand? Actually, I would do 2 things, one for myself and one for clients: 1. I would make documentation easy to write (for myself) 2. I would make it easy to read (for clients) But nobody made me such a gift and I have only the words from Everly Brothers’ Dream song ringing in my ears: Only trouble is, gee whiz I’m dreaming my life away…

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December 23, 2009
DITA

What Decision Makers Will Like about DITA: Preparing Deliverables Takes Considerably Less Time

In the global economy, to reach and penetrate more markets, companies sell products not only directly to their customers, but also to OEM partners that rebrand and resell these products to their own clients. Sometimes the company’s product is integrated into the client’s application to provide added value. Other times, the entire product is simply re-built to have a different look and feel, a different name for a product that does the same thing as the original. And,…

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December 23, 2009
Technical Writing

Applying a Wrong Style? No Way

What I personally like about DITA is the inability to format something with a wrong style. Put simply – you just can’t mess up the styles! In fact, when you add a new element (such as the “to do” statement or a new step in a procedure), the right style is applied automatically. Taking it one step further, even you if applied the wrong style manually, it will exist only until you close the file. nimbus cloud .…

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December 22, 2009
Uncategorized

What Decision Makers Will Like about DITA: DITA reduces the costs of creating and maintaining documentation

Most technical writing projects involve either an update to an existing manual, or a modification of some existing documentation to make it cover a new product. This is obvious to most of us. A company typically has a certain technology upon which it bases its products. Each time they have a new release, they release new documents to cover the new features. But just as the engineers started with the base version and added onto it, so too…

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December 21, 2009