How to Insert Text and Images to a FrameMaker Side Bar
Imagine you are using Adobe FrameMaker and you’d like to insert a Note, Warning, or Caution text or icon into your Side Head (or Side Bar). It’s easy when you know how to do it, as explained in this video. Just make sure to create the necessary paragraph styles (or tags) for this task. MORE…
Read MoreWhat’s a Font, Font Family, Typeface, Font-Face?
Sound knowledge of fonts is a must for any self-publishing writer. In about fifteen or twenty years that may not be as crucial as it is today if and when the communication field makes a wholesale shift to “structured authoring” in which the writers may lose control over how their “content” will be formatted and…
Read MoreEliminate “Necessary” and “Unnecessary” for Better Communication in Writing
Get rid of these two major sources of uncertainty and ambiguity for better communication and to become a better writer… I forgot the number of times in private and corporate communications that I came across expressions, directions, or statements that went something like this: “All unnecessary travel requests should be postponed until further notice.” Even…
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