Ed. Marian Newell, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Disclaimers in technical documents. Exploring the use and limitations of disclaimers, exclusion clauses and warning notices. Warren Singer
- Integrating single sourcing into Word. How a product called SmartDocs integrates many single-sourcing capabilities into Microsoft Word. Alex Masycheff
- Creating graphics with localisation in mind. DTP specialists at Lloyd International Translations, discuss some practices for localising graphics. Sue Rigby and Elaine Abbott
- Enjoying your work right into retirement. Technical illustrator, Douglas Newton, has kept his skills sharp by producing a cutaway illustration of his own 1950 Bentley Mk VI. Douglas Newton
- MadCap Flare goes mobile. Exploring the key new functionality offered by version 6 of this authoring tool. Neil Perlin
- Migrating to MadCap Flare. Describes how his company left the familiar waters of Adobe products for the open seas of Flare. Adrian Morse
- Laying the foundations for success. Discusses best practices that can help to save time and generate higher quality outputs when single sourcing. Nicky Bleiel
- Structure with FM conversion tables. While FrameMaker’s conversion table functionality is not perfect, it can help add structure to unstructured documents. Andy Lewis
Regular Columns
- Editorial
- Letters
- Presidential Address
- ISTC News
- Editing – Using the active and passive voices
- Book review – Five Steps to MadCap Flare by Lorraine Kupka and Joy Underhill
- Ethical Dilemmas
- International Standards – A standard for simplifed natural language
- A Day In The Life – Colum McAndrew