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Illuminations
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Volume
8, Issue 1
February/March 2005
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In this issue:
Survey Says...
Spring Training Dates
Beyond Conditional Text
Places to Go, and People to See: 2005 Conferences
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Survey
Says...
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We'd like to thank all the Illuminations subscribers who participated
in our online survey in January. We were delighted by the quality
(and volume) of your responses.
The survey showed growing interest in XML and XSL, so it confirmed
our plans for an XSL in Publishing class. In the second half of
2005, we will teach the course as a public class and as a customized
private class. Subscribe to Illuminations,
and we'll let you know when we schedule the course; you can also
contact training@scriptorium.com
for more information.
If you're one of the many respondents who is considering an XML-based
workflow, we recommend our XML
and Structured Authoring class. In addition to covering basic
XML tagging, the class helps you evaluate whether XML makes sense
for your environment. We look at what problems you can (and can't!)
solve with XML. This class is especially appropriate for managers
and team leads.
The survey responses showed continued interest in both the unstructured
and structured versions of FrameMaker 7. We offer classes,
workbooks, and consulting
on both. (See the next story for more information
about our upcoming FrameMaker courses.)
And the Winner Is
Survey participants were eligible to win a random drawing for a
$200 gift certificate from our online
store. Congratulations to the winner, Robert Rodriguez.
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Spring
Training Dates
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Our public classes for this spring are as follows:
The unstructured FrameMaker classes in February and March are almost
full. There is one seat left in the Accelerated Introduction class,
and two in the Template Design class. Register
soon!
To see all of our public training dates for 2005, check out our
schedule. Scriptorium Publishing
is an Adobe Authorized Training Center. Our instructors are Adobe
Certified Experts (ACEs) in FrameMaker 7 and have additional teaching
credentials, such as Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+). For more
information about our training, contact training@scriptorium.com.
If you register and pay three or more weeks in advance of a class,
you're eligible for discounts.
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Beyond
Conditional Text
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To include or exclude information from a particular version of
a document, many of you already use conditional text in FrameMaker,
build tags in RoboHelp, or similar methods. If you're working with
XML-based content, you can also use XML attributes to manage multiple
versions of information in one set of source files. Unlike most
other versioning methods, however, attributes can handle complex
situations such as multiple conditions applied to one chunk of information.
To explain how versioning with XML attributes works, Sarah O'Keefe
just posted an article on the WritersUA site: XML
Architecture for Customized User Assistance. The article includes
two demos that show attribute-based versioning in action.
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Places to Go, and People to See: 2005 Conferences
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Scriptorium Publishing will participate in several conferences
this spring. In addition to giving presentations, we'll be offering
DocFrame solution demos, chocolates,
and giveaways at our booth at the WritersUA and the Tri-Doc conferences.
Be sure to drop by and meet our new mascot!
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WritersUA
(March 20–23 in Las Vegas)
Sarah O'Keefe is offering two sessions:
- Supplemental conference seminar:
Implementing Structured Authoring (March 20 at 1 p.m.).
This seminar will show you how to plan and put together
a structured authoring implementation.
- Presentation: Thinking
About Linking (March 21 at 3:30 p.m.). Learn about how
to classify different link types (hypertext, cross-references,
and so on) in XML content and how to design structures to
support them.
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STC
Carolina Tri-Doc (April 8–9 in Raleigh, NC)
Sarah O'Keefe is offering four presentations:
Scriptorium Publishing is proud to be a platinum-level sponsor
of the Tri-Doc conference.
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STC
Conference (May 8–11 in Seattle)
Sarah O'Keefe is offering two presentations:
- A Gentle Introduction to XSL (May 10 at 2 p.m.)
- Managing Implementation of Structured Authoring (May 11
at 8:30 a.m.)
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