Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- The ‘right to disconnect’ from work. The French can now disconnect from work emails out of hours: recommending guidelines for managing your emails. Christopher Wright
- What size are my shoes? Offering tips to improve confidence as a technical communicator. Tony Graver
- The death of sub-editing. Recalling sub-editing before computers and describing the impact that technology has had on today’s newspapers. Margaret Ashworth
- Becoming a document engineer. Learning what software engineers can teach us about constructing documentation. Marjorie Jones
- Solving the content paradox. Writing fewer words by analysing problems and crafting solutions. Bernard Aschwanden and Jacquie Samuels
- Branching out into content strategy. Imparting experience of implementing a content strategy in a non-native English company. Cristina Belli
- Welcome to MadCap Central. Introducing the new software from MadCap which helps you with project management and source control. Neil Perlin
- MadCap Flare to Zendesk. Sharing experience of using Flare content in Zendesk customer support centre software. Craig Wright
- Optimsing your VBA code. Explaining how to improve your code to make it run faster. Mike Mee
- The growth of DITA in the UK. Exploring why DITA usage has taken hold in the UK. Keith Schengili-Roberts
- ST4 compelling alternative to DITA. Providing a software overview of SCHEMA ST4. Phil Lane
- Count on it. Delivering code-breaking sessions with enthusiasm by promoting maths. Tom Briggs
- Flow-motion: OBASHI and digital flow. Describing how to use OBASHI to chart dataflow and understanding how an organisation works. Fergus Cloughley, Paul Wallis and John Burns
Regular columns
- From the editor
- Business affiliates
- President’s view
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- Adobe tips – Jake Cahill
- Book review – The Language of Technical Communication by Ray Gallon. Reviewed by Helen Harbord.
- Editing – Jean Rollinson