I discussed how to research how your predecessors used DoX CMS if they left no internal documentation behind in an earlier piece. As I stated there, internal documentation on the conventions at play is essential. This … Read More
One publishing format that DoX CMS supports is WebHelp. They are HTML publications which are set inside a template that shows the table of contents together with one topic at a time. The template was originally … Read More
These pieces occasionally allude to the option to use the style sheet to specify rules for elements with specific tags. We generally do not recommend that you use such rules. However, this piece will discuss some … Read More
Since I last published an article here, I have encountered several situations where the styling options afforded by CSS have proven insufficient to meet the demand. Such situations can often be resolved with the help of … Read More
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
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
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
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 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
Help requests from users commonly relate to page layout. Because the documents written in DoX CMS are compiled from the selected contents rather than made with a specified page layout, the results can at times feel … Read More