From Author-it: “This update resolves a number of known issues and has several new features including: Object Variants: A flexible way of creating and maintaining different variations of a single object. Similar to versions, variants remain linked to their primary (or parent) object, however unlike versions you can have multiple variants active at any one… Read more »
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Microsoft Style Guide for Windows 2007?
We received this email yesterday: Microsoft Style Guide for Windows 2007Do you know whether such a thing exists or whether you know of anything else that might help? I am updating the help for our new product and it uses a Windows 2007 ribbon style GUI but I don’t know what all the elements are… Read more »
How do Technical Authoring teams work?
This looks like an interesting event: “The next Cambridge ISTC group meeting will be a discussion about how technical authoring teams work: * how are teams structured (and do all the technical authors in thebusiness work as a team)?* how is work divided between authors?* how do authors work with other people in the business?*… Read more »
How many technical authors know about Mooer’s Law?
In 1959, Calvin Mooers, a researcher into the science of Information Retrieval, developed Mooer’s Law: “An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it.” Its original meaning meant: people will avoid an information system… Read more »
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