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RE: Programming / scripting languages in tech-writing
Subject:RE: Programming / scripting languages in tech-writing From:"Dave Murray" <davemurray -at- attbi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 May 2002 13:05:53 -0400
>Does anybody else on the list use a programming or scripting language in
>their work? If so, which one? And what sort of tasks do you use them for?
I once had a collection of HTML files which were generated by different
tools. Some were from FrameMaker files, and the others were from Doxygen
and Java doc. I made a common CSS file so all of them would have a similar
appearance, but I was looking for a quick way to insert the reference to the
CSS in each file automatically.
I tried a few different things including UNIX commands and batch files. I
knew I was on the right track but I didn't have enough scripting knowledge
to make it work. Later that day I described my problem to a release
engineer who offered to write a Perl script for me.
It worked perfectly. Perl is something I would like to learn more about
myself.
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