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Related Links (DITA)
I just put up a wiki page with an example of adding titles to related-links > linkpools (that’s mouthful, and a strange one at that:)) in DITA. This solution exposes the little known, and perhaps less used, markopen attribute in default.wwconfig.
WebWorks FTP Deployment (Experimental)
We just posted an application and wiki entry for a new experimental FTP deployment client for ePublisher. Anyone interested in using FTP(S) for deployment, please give it a go and give us feedback. Please comment either on the wiki page or this blog post.
Study Hall Makeup
Today I completely spaced on a Study Hall session that was to occur at 3:00pm CDT. To make amends, I have scheduled a make-up session for Thursday, May 13 at 1:00PM.
Building New Stuff
One of the things that is challenging for me as a developer is staying on target with regard to ePublisher development when there are so many glittery web-technologies to play with.
ru2k9
I had meant to blog about coming to RoundUp last week…and then I didn’t. So, for those of us who are here anyway, wow! What a good conference. In the interests of disclosure I will good ahead and let you know that I’m going to gush a little. Yesterday gets my vote for the all-time [...]
ePublisher Feed Reader
Shortly after the release of 2009.2, and after some cooperative discussion here on ways that we might improve ePublisher moving forward, I started work on a Feed Reader for the ePublisher Start Page. This isn’t that ground-breaking as a Feed Reader seems to be fairly commonplace on a start or splash page. The first iteration [...]
Page Template Preview Utility
As promised at RoundUp, I have posted a wiki article on the Page Template Preview utility. It lacks a number of things, such as good design, a clearly defined objective, among others. However, it was fun to write and I hope that it might be useful to anyone who may be trying to [...]
Publishing Content From the WebWorks Wiki
One of the more interesting aspects of the ePublisher 9.3 Release is the introduction of the Xml Adapter. By default, this Adapter allows users to generate output from DITA source documents. However, perhaps more significantly, it carries with it the ability to configure ePublisher to accept ANY input source.
To demonstrate this functionality, during [...]
FrameMaker 8 Conditional Expressions
Figure: FrameMaker 8’s Show Conditional Text as per Expression
Currently, we are working on updating ePublisher to run on Windows
Vista. Also I am working on updating ePublisher’s FrameMaker Tool
Adapter to support FrameMaker 8. One of the more challenging
aspects of this latter task is adding support for FrameMaker 8’s new
“conditional expression” feature. This [...]
process soup
Ingredients
I have a tendency to want to write a program first and design it later. Given that my academic background is not computer science, I often feel that I'm missing something about spec writing, design, etc. And I am. I believe that the penultimate of hubris, a path I traverse more often [...]