Illuminations

Volume 1, Issue 2
September 1998

Greetings. In this issue of Illuminations, the newsletter of Scriptorium Publishing, we update you about our email announcement list, new employees, and the latest white papers we've written.

We welcome your suggestions for newsletter topics. Drop us a line at comments@scriptorium.com.

Email announcement list

To help us keep in touch with our community of clients and colleagues, we have set up an email announcement list. Subscribers receive periodic email updates about what's going on here at Scriptorium Publishing and our summary of each new issue of Illuminations.

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Information about subscribing and unsubscribing will be included as part of each message from the announcement list.

Adding to our ranks

We are pleased to welcome another full-time employee, Sheila Loring, to Scriptorium Publishing. Sheila's experience includes extensive production work and technical illustration.

Why hire Scriptorium Publishing to write your technical documentation?

So, why should software company managers hire Scriptorium Publishing to write technical documentation? What's wrong with using programmers as writers? Our new white paper has the scoop. (PDF, 140K)

Upcoming FrameMaker training

The next FrameMaker class is scheduled for October 22 and 23 in Research Triangle Park. If you already have some exposure to FrameMaker or other desktop publishing tools, this is the class for you. We skip all the boring stuff (such as saving, printing, and spell-checking) and jump directly into FrameMaker's unique and powerful features. After two information-packed days, you leave class with a solid understanding of FrameMaker's conceptual structure and how to make it work for you. Curriculum details

Remember, each student has an individual workstation, and class enrollment is limited to 10 students.

To register, send email to training@scriptorium.com.

Article to be published in STC's Intercom

An article written by our very own Alan Pringle and Sarah O'Keefe has been accepted for publication by Intercom, the magazine of the Society for Technical Communication. The article focuses on how to create good online help from hardcopy documents. For those who can't wait for Intercom to publish the article, we have a PDF version available. (PDF, 130K)

Comments? Questions?

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