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The STC-Boston Technical Editing special interest group (TE SIG) brings together and supports individuals around Boston who provide technical editing services to clients on a contract basis or to employers. All who edit technical (including computer-related, engineering, scientific, medical, legal, and financial) material full-time or as part of other work responsibilities, or who are interested in doing so, are encouraged to come learn and share knowledge and experiences with other editors. The STC-Boston TE SIG is a chapter version of the Society-level Technical Editing SIG, which maintains a Web site offering additional information and resources.
Date
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Program
Content Parsers and Their Role in Structured Authoring
Description
Consistent structure is obviously a major aspect of structured authoring, but what about the content within that structure? The more consistent and controlled the content, the easier and more cost-effective it is to write, read, process, and translate. This is self-evident, but it's hard to do well and consistently.
Content parsers can help. Content parsers have been around for years - like Word's readibility tool. But newer parsers go far beyond generating simple readibility statistics to look for examples of inconsistent writing ("press Enter" vs. "press the Enter key") and suggest corrections, check for stylistic consistency, and so on. The newest tools go still further, examining content for instances of repeated text that might be replaced with variables, unused snippets, and other programmatic elements of controlled content. It's a topic that straddles the line between writing and programming in structured authoring, and this presentation is a preview of the presentation at the annual conference in June. The presentation first presents working definitions of structured authoring and controlled content. It then discusses content parsers in general, categorizing them as tool-specific and 3rd party and showing or discussing examples like MadCap Analyzer, acrolinx, and TedoPres HyperSTE. About the Presenter
Neil Perlin, owner and principal consultant of Hyper/Word Services, entered technical writing in 1979, began creating online documentation in 1985, and is now an internationally recognized expert in Windows Help and online documentation design and development.
Time
Location
Openwave (note
that Openwave is at a new location)
One Wall Street, Burlington, MA 01803 Map and Directions Cost
Please register online for this meeting by by April 23. For More Information
If you have questions, please contact
Technical Editing SIG coordinator, Kevin
McCauley.
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