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How to Create a DITA Concept Object in FrameMaker (Part 2)

By Ugur Akinci | August 23, 2013

Continuing with our tutorial about How to Create a DITA Concept Object in FrameMaker. PREREQUISITE: Make sure your FrameMaker is set for structured authoring. Select File > Preferences > General and select Structure FrameMaker from the Product Interface drop-down list. NOTE: This tutorial is the second part of this tutorial. If you haven’t so far, please read this tutorial post first. Let’s…

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How to Create a DITA Concept Object in FrameMaker

By Ugur Akinci | August 22, 2013

How to create a DITA Concept Object in FrameMaker is not an easy task. PREREQUISITE: Make sure your FrameMaker is set for structured authoring. Select File > Preferences > General and select Structure FrameMaker from the Product Interface drop-down list. (1) Select DITA > New DITA File > New <concept> … from the menu bar.…

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An Excellent and (Free) PDF to MS Word Converter

By Ugur Akinci | August 15, 2013

© Ugur Akinci Here is an excellent PDF to MS Word converter that I’ve tried for two large documents, one 10 Megs and the other 25 Megs in size. Both documents were converted without a hitch. With other documents that had sophisticated visual design and formatting, the utility created some formatting issues (see below) but…

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Some words frequently misspelled by computer scientists

By Ugur Akinci | August 1, 2013

“Some words frequently misspelled by computer scientists: implement not impliment complement not compliment occurrence not occurence dependent not dependant auxiliary not auxillary feasible not feasable preceding not preceeding referring not refering category not catagory consistent not consistant PL/I not PL/1 descendant (noun) not descendent its (belonging to it) not it’s (it is)”   FROM:  …

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