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A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical writers and manufacturers of goods, and much more.
This book is aimed at academics and practitioners of technical writing, and anyone whose employment...
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The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for the search box and expecting every search to work like Google. There is no first, last, previous, next, up, or back anymore. Every Page is Page One.
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The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all aspects of the discipline of technical communication, not just technical writing, and select terms that will be relevant into the foreseeable future. The...
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MadCap Flare for Programmers shows how Flare manages and parses content and how you can interact with Flare outside the user interface. It introduces the structure of Flare content files and Flare output files, such as HTML5 help, and shows how you can manipulate those files.
With more than 50 examples in languages such as JavaScript, C#, Java, XSLT, and Visual Basic, this book covers most of the ways you can programmatically interact with MadCap...
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Do you wish to create and publish an e-book? Do you use a Linux desktop? Are you willing to learn basic reStructuredText? If you answered yes to all those questions, then this book is for you! In 5 steps, I will walk you through the process of creating and building an EPUB 3 format e-book, which you can publish on 15+ digital book stores, including Leanpub, Draft2Digital (Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and more), and Amazon KDP. To save you time,...
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"Cómo Escribir un Libro Electrónico en un Mes: Pasos y Puntos a Considerar, Motivaciones y Creatividad," es una obra que consigue con asombrosa diafanidad potenciar en las personas interesadas en realizar una obra literaria, las habilidades necesarias con sencillas herramientas que permiten explotar el talento que subyace de forma anonima en las personas.
7) Blogging for Profit: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Learn Step-by-Step How to Make Money Bloggin
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If you want to discover how to monetize and profit from writing a blog and earn sustainable income to help you reach your financial freedom goals, keep reading...
Have you asked yourself the following:
- can Blogging be profitable and earn me money?
- what can Blogging do for me?
- will Blogging work long term?
…but finding it difficult to get the information you seek in order to understand blogging better and how it actually makes a profit?
Have...
8) The Complete Web Assistant: Provide in-application help and training using the SAP Enable Now EPSS
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The Complete Web Assistant provides a complete guide to the creation and delivery of in-application help and training content using the Web Assistant component of SAP Enable Now. The book covers everything from initial implementation, through configuration and customization, to the development and delivery of help content and courseware. It includes numerous real-life examples, along with hints and tips for making the most of Web Assistant's extensive...
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Improved quality, risk reduction and better life, now is the time to change. Large enterprises are, challenged continually to meet the demands of today's ever changing market needs while still increasing quality. The impact to business reputation through failures in IT has never been so high. Challenges such as the pandemic hit, highlighting the need to change the way we worked, where we worked and with no notice to prepare for it at all. Given all...
10) DITA for Print
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As DITA has become more and more popular, demand has increased for tools that can provide high quality PDFs from DITA content. The DITA Open Toolkit provides a basic PDF capability, but nearly any real-world application will require customization. Leigh White's book, DITA for Print has become the go-to reference for building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit. This second edition covers Open Toolkit, version 2, including customizing...
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A Practical Guide to XLIFF 2.0 introduces the OASIS XLIFF standard. Companies use XLIFF to standardize the exchange of source and localized content with localization and translation vendors.
You will learn how to get the most from the XLIFF standard, use best practices in your translation workflow, extend XLIFF, and use the XLIFF modules.
This book is for localization coordinators, technical writers, content management system vendors, localization...
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"Eyes on the Future" is a beacon of light guiding you through the maze of technological marvels and scientific wonders that define our era. It empowers you to navigate the complexities of our rapidly changing world, equipping you with the knowledge and perspective needed to make informed decisions in an age of transformation. Through its pages, you'll uncover the threads that weave humanity's dreams into reality, one breakthrough at a time.
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According to Infosys, 86% of consumers surveyed indicated that personalized content has some impact on what they purchase and 25% said that personalization plays a large role in their purchases.
And yet, looking at the data, two things stand out:
• Most companies say that personalizing the customer experience is a critical "must have," and they have the statistics to back it up.
• Very few companies believe they are delivering enough personalized...
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Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill. Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and teachers of a popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating...
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Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext,...
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The first edition of Krista Van Laan's popular The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing has guided a generation of technical writers who are either starting out or seeking to take their skills to the next level. This classic has now been updated for the technical writer of today. Today's tech writers truly are technical communicators, as they build information to be distributed in many forms.
Technical communication requires multiple skills, including...
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In a time where most of our writing is done through computer font, artistic letter design allows us to be unique and express our own personal preferences & creativity. In this book, the author reveals the art of letter design and how you can master this to express yourself.
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-Materials Needed Such as Pens, Nibs, Ink, Paper, & More!
-Preparation
-Curves and Strokes
-Different Styles
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This book will help you learn the basic reStructuredText (reST) syntax used in writing documentation using Sphinx. What you will learnCreate a new Sphinx projectLearn to write sections, links, images, footnotes, abbreviations, code samples, and more using the reST syntaxLive preview your writing (HTML)Which will help youWrite documentation for your projectsContribute to projects using SphinxPublish a book or a manualCreate a static website using Pelican...
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Que vous soyez novice dans le développement web ou que vous cherchiez à élever vos compétences au niveau supérieur, ce livre est votre allié incontournable. Plongez dans l'univers captivant du frontend avec un guide complet qui explore chaque recoin, des fondamentaux de HTML et CSS aux prouesses avancées de React, Angular, et Vue.js.Découvrez des chapitres qui vous guideront à travers la construction de pages web attrayantes, l'optimisation...
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The Language of Localization defines 52 terms that every business professional should know, even professionals who do not specialize in localization. In a global market, every businessperson needs to understand the importance of localization and be able to speak intelligently with localization professionals. Each term was authored by an expert practitioner who provided a short definition, a statement of why that term is important, and an essay that...
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