A risk that the use of systems for structured authoring involves is that the targets for internal links are not included in all publications which include those links. You can avoid this if you condition these … Read More
This is a semi-philosophical speculative piece on the role that tools have in workers’ relationships to their work, its results, and themselves as those doing it. Because our company delivers writing tools such as the DoX … Read More
The earlier update to the DocRaptor pipeline used by DoX CMS allows you to use CSS variables and calculations with it when you compile PDF publications. The other publication formats which are compatible with these functions … Read More
You can use any identifiers for selectors in style sheets. Usually, this involves ID values or classes such as .dita-title.However, you can also use other attributes similarly. Because tags and element classes in DoX CMS are … Read More
I remember when a Russian lecturer for a university course on international communication joked that ‘Everything in Finland works but nothing can be done about anything, whereas in Russia, nothing works but you can make anything … Read More
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
The collaboration between DoX Systems and those who teach technical communication in Finland continues. I have written about our collaboration with the University of Vaasa before. This Fall, such collaboration extended to the Master’s programme in … Read More
It is too often that I come across situations where the only technical writer in a company has changed and the new user was provided with zero internal documentation on how to use their copy of … Read More
Structured authoring alongside the systems that support it constitute a process with multiple steps. Despite how the details of this process can differ based on the needs of each enterprise, systems have their built-in default workflows. … Read More
This series that I have decided to dub ‘Academusings’ provides a more theoretical take on subjects related to technical writing and structured authoring than my usual advice. I figured that it would be interesting to apply … Read More