![]() If that’s not you, I would back away slowly and never come here again.įor the handful of brave individuals who are left: below is my brief wishlist of things I’d like to see improved in Arbortext (I’m using release 7.0), with the goal of providing some insight into how the tool works and potentially informing your decision on whether or not to adopt it. ![]() The tool is mainly for technical writers. Theoretically, by adhering to these rules, you and colleagues are more likely to produce content with a consistent pattern and level of detail.ĭoes that sound boring and confusing to you? I get it. Another rule might be that all steps in a procedure must be numbered, and that bullets cannot be used for steps. For example, a rule might be that all of your procedural content must conform to a particular sequence: title, short description, index terms, introduction, steps, links to related topics, and so on. ![]() Wild stuff, you guys.įor those of you who don’t know, Arbortext Editor is a software program that lets you do “ structured writing“-a special kind of writing in which every piece of content you compose follows one or more specific rules, or what tech comm guru Mark Baker calls “predefined and explicitly recorded constraints”. For the first time in my technical writing career, I have been getting hands-on experience with PTC Arbortext Editor and the Darwin Information Type Architecture (DITA) standard. ![]()
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