Review of Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Mark Baker has published a new book called Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process. It is probably the most important book on technical communication since Anne Gentle’s Docs Like Code. In this post, we’ll look at what the book covers. We’ll also include quotations from Mark’s book and his website. About the book The book provides an overview… Read more »

New web page on structured authoring

While preparing for the upcoming presentation on structured authoring, we realised we didn’t have anything on that subject on the Cherryleaf website. To fix that, we’ve added a new page to the site, on structured authoring. We plan to add a recording of the presentation, and some examples, after the event.

XML isn’t the only way to semantic content

I’ve been on the road speaking at a conference this week, and I’ve been listening to a lot of presentations on technical communication. Many of these were on the importance of having structured, semantic content when you are dealing with large amounts of content that needs to be translated into different languages and published in many… Read more »