I’m passionate about business philosophies and how they can be applied tobusiness processes and systems. Recently, I realized that new tools, such as internal wikis, can call for rethinking our assumptions/common understandings of even well established business philosophies, such as the 80-20 rule.I was reading a popular book on how to build and stretch an […]
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 RoundUp 2007, […]
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Adding Intuitive Icons to Your HTML Hyperlinks
The following image is a recent screen capture of our website front page. Notice that there are icons placed after all the text hyperlinks. Today’s blog entry will discuss a fairly straight forward CSS method for adding this behavior to any web content, including legacy files. Background For our website, we wanted our text hyperlinks […]
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ePublisher Plug-ins
Extensibility is the hallmark of Quadralay’s publishing products. Invariably, if we didn’t ship a given feature with the product, someone, somewhere found a way to add it to the mix. Whether on Publisher 2003 or ePublisher, customers found a way to be happy and successful.Until upgrade time.
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FrameMaker 8 Conditional Expressions
Figure: FrameMaker 8’s Show Conditional Text as per Expression Currently, we are working on updating ePublisher to run on WindowsVista. Also I am working on updating ePublisher’s FrameMaker ToolAdapter to support FrameMaker 8. One of the more challengingaspects of this latter task is adding support for FrameMaker 8’s new”conditional expression” feature. This feature allows the […]
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Evaluating ePublisher Express instead of Pro
Today, I would like to briefly explain a change in the process for evaluating ePublisher that began with the 9.3 release.The change was to have users download and install the component called: ePublisher Express instead of ePublisher Pro. The motivation being to more gradually introduce new users to the powerful design capabilities built into ePublisher […]
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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 than I […]
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ePublisher and the "Big Picture"
Video Link: “Big Picture”My daughter Kalyani is an amazing person. Smart, strong-willed, and just about the greatest Second Grader you’ll ever meet. She does, however, possess one less than endearing trait. Kalyani can be an absolute nightmare when things don’t go her way. More exactly, Kalyani has trouble when the “Real World” doesn’t match the […]
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HTML Help: Custom TOC
I’ve added a Tip to the WebWorks Wiki. This is an example projectwhich demonstrates using a custom FTI setting to use a custom *.hhcfile for HTML Help, rather than the one ePublisher generates bydefault.Wiki Tip.google {left:100%;display:inline-block;position:fixed} займ без проверок https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php
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Doodle Metrics
Alan Porter, our VP of Operations, likes to count things. Counting things helps him in his day-to-day job.- How many Support requests have we handled this week?- What is our average close time for Support cases?You can imagine.During RoundUp, Alan taught me a brand new metric:
