Recommended Additions to Stylesheets
I started the year by writing a stylesheet to a new customer of ours. Since I have spent a little over a year studying what CSS lets you do, I had a chance to make some … Read More
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How to Add Footnotes and Endnotes
The proper means to do footnotes has proven rather more complex than I expected – and there are surprisingly few resources to help with the issue. As such, I figured that I should write about the … Read More
DoX CMS and the Secrets of Controlling Views
The more I use DoX CMS, the more convinced I grow of the notion that the implemenation for controlling different views is a major strength of the system. This implementation does benefit from practice and anticipatory … Read More
DoX CMS and the Secrets of Controlling Translations
Of late, I have been contacted several times about the details of how translations operate in DoX CMS. ‘Tis the season, I suppose. It is also understandable that how this part of the system operates would … Read More
Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS
Last month, we had a chance to get co-operation between DoX Systems and the staff teaching communication studies for the marketing and communication unit for the University of Vaasa started. For now, such co-operation has involved … Read More
The Baseline for a Stylesheet
We provide new customers with a stylesheet that is written to match their needs when they implement DoX CMS. This piece will discuss the details that must be accounted for in the related instructions. These observations … Read More
The Basics of Deploying Structured Authoring Volume 5: Stylesheets
This is the final installment for the foreseeable future in this series on the differences between direct text editing and structured authoring. There have been multiple references to stylesheets in prior installments. They are central to … Read More
The Basics of Deploying Structured Authoring Volume 4: Assembling Publications
The defining feature of structured documentation is content being divided between independently controlled modules. Such division entails that the contents must be assembled into a whole when they are being published. This article will discuss the … Read More
The Basics of Deploying Structured Authoring Volume 3: Revisions and Workflow
The effects of structured authoring covers systems other than actual content editing where it at least supports them better than direct text editing does. For example, revisioning, which involves dividing content to separately controlled revisions, is … Read More
How to Integrate DoX CMS WebDav and FrameMaker
Previously, I discussed how the features of DoX CMS could be utilized with the oXygen XML editor when you edit content through the WebDav-based network drive for a copy of Dox CMS. This time, I will … Read More