MadCap Analyzer is great for long documents because it takes away a bit of the guess work and editorial work required to index and author long documents more consistently. The Index Keyword Suggestions that it lists is based on keywords you’ve chosen to index. So if there are other occurrences of a word, it’ll be… [Read more…]
June 17, 2009
This works on notebooks and desktops, and will prepare your system for authoring in MadCap Flare/Blaze on a leaner, faster system. We will assume you will not be making any disk or RAM upgrades. If you have a build machine dedicated to building documentation, pay attention to tips 2 and 3. Turn off GDI+ Mode… [Read more…]
June 15, 2009
Here are some indexing ideas that I have been using for awhile for my print/online outputs. These are the very bare essential things you should at least attempt to index, before you release your MadCap Flare/Blaze projects. You can take advantage of the ‘see’ and ‘see also’ index references in MadCap Flare v4/Blaze v1 and… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
New versions of MadCap Flare 5.0 and MadCap Blaze 2.0 were released today. Among the most important new feature is the completion of the first milestone towards greater DITA support. In this phase, Flare/Blaze can now import and export DITA files for the first time from the MadCap XML authoring environment. Future versions will allow… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
Download SHJS. Read the usage documentation. Extract the contents of to a folder, and copy the requisite script, language and stylesheet into your MasterPages as shown. We’ll simply embed the necessary scripting calls into the footer of an existing MasterPage so that it into every single topic. Let’s walk you through the process. Modify MasterPage.… [Read more…]
June 5, 2009
Note: See update to this post for MadCap Flare 6 by Eilan Jung. This works in all online outputs, CHM and WebHelp. Its a full JavaScript syntax highlighter with a nifty Copy to clipboard function. Download and prepare. Download SyntaxHighlighter. Read the Usage instructions in the Wiki, and language aliases. Note the attributes the <pre>… [Read more…]
June 4, 2009
This post has been edited. Much of the original text of this post is no longer valid. From the comments and a post on the forums, it looks like this is no longer applicable. I ran a test this morning after seeing a comment by Eddie, a well skilled Certified MadCap Flare trainer, and the… [Read more…]
June 2, 2009
Syntax highlighting in code snippets, shows your reader, special keywords, variables, values and attributes in a portion of code all for easier code comprehension and readability. It works particularly well with longer blocks of code. You’ve probably found it fairly common in programming and computer books. The usage instructions that come with these plugins don’t… [Read more…]
June 25, 2009
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