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* WORKSHOP: "FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques"
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* CONFERENCE: Early Discount Deadline Approaching for
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* STORY: Only TWO weeks left - two SnagIt for $60!
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WORKSHOP: "FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques"
taught by Lynne Price
Title: FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques
Date: February 15, 2005
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC area
Fee: $259
Instructor: Lynne A. Price
Maintaining your documents in both FrameMaker and XML lets you make the
most of both FrameMaker, with its intuitive interface for editing
structured documents and its rich capability for formatting long
documents, and XML, with its ever-growing set of tools. Bright Path
Solutions and Text Structure Consulting, Inc. are pleased to bring you a
workshop on strategies for building effective document publishing
environments in structured FrameMaker. Unlike a course that teaches
FrameMaker's native XML capabilities, this workshop focuses on practical
matters such as which features to use in particular situations.
In this workshop, you will learn:
-How to apply software development techniques to build maintainable EDDs
and read/write rules
-What import/export problems can be solved with read/write rules and
when to augment your XML applications with the Frame Developer Kit
(FDK), FrameScript, XSLT or FrameSLT
-How to write structured read/write rules
-When to define different structures in your EDD and DTD
-How to create EDD fragments that can be reused in multiple EDDs
**You are encouraged to bring your own FrameMaker XML applications and
apply the learned techniques during the seminar. You will have the
opportunity to ask questions about your application.**
About the Instructor:
Instructor Lynne A. Price is an independent consultant specializing in
applications of structured FrameMaker. Before founding Text Structure
Consulting, Inc. in 1996, Lynne was a software developer at Frame
Technology Corporation and then Adobe. She was part of the team that
added the structure capability to FrameMaker. Lynne has been active in
the SGML community since 1985 and participates in US and International
SGML standards work. Her interest in structured documentation began in
graduate school. She completed a Ph.D. in computer sciences at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. Her dissertation was titled
"Representing Text Structure for Automatic Processing."
Registration:
SEATING IS LIMITED. You are encouraged to sign up right away to avoid
missing this unique training opportunity. Visit the Bright Path
Solutions website at http://www.travelthepath.com/readwriterulesplus5.html for more
information and to download a registration form. Call Kay Ethier at
1.919.244.8559 if you have any questions or with to sign up a group.
CONFERENCE: Early Discount Deadline Approaching for WritersUA Conference
Save $200 on your registration fee if you book your space by December 31 for
the 13th Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance. The
conference will be held in Las Vegas at the Tropicana Hotel March 20-23,
2005. Early registrants receive a complimentary admission to one of two
great Vegas shows in residence at the Tropicana. The conference focus, as
always, is on user assistance Tools, Technologies, and Content Development.
Over 60 informative sessions will be presented by 45 expert speakers. All
the details about the event are available on the conference web site. http://www.winwriters.com/ohc05/index.html
At a family get together, Dan the technical writer stopped as he walked by
his uncle's computer.
"Um, Uncle Stuart, what are you doing?" he asked nervously.
"Oh, I'm just capturing this online receipt with my screen capture
program," Stuart replied.
"But you're not using SnagIt!" Dan replied. "As a documentation
specialist, I must urge you to try out SnagIt."
"Why?" Stuart asked.
Dan replied, "SnagIt is incredibly easy to use. You can capture a window,
a region, an object, text, video - whatever you want."
Dan continued, "Plus, you can annotate it within the same program. And
you can send the capture wherever you want - including the SnagIt Catalog,
which is a great place to organize your captures, save them for easy
reference, and convert in batches."
"Hmm. Sounds good," Stuart replied. "But how much?"
"If you purchase before Dec 31, you get two SnagIt for $60. It's
regularly $39.95 for one!" Dan exclaimed.
Stuart looked at the screen in disgust. "Too bad you didn't come in here
5 minutes earlier!" he said. "I just bought my admin fast food gift
certificates!"
"You can afford to give both," Dan said. "And... the satisfaction he gets
from SnagIt will last much, much longer."
ANNOUNCE: WebWorks ePublishing Webinars:
The Fast Track to Advanced Skills
WebWorks Services has made accelerating your learning curve easy
and convenient with live 90-minute online training sessions. Here
are our upcoming Webinar topics for November:
* Getting Started with WebWorks Publisher Professional
November 8, 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST)
* Delivering Localized Content with WebWorks Publisher
November 10, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
* Delivering 508-Compliant Content with WebWorks Publisher
November 16, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
* WebWorks Template Design and Maintenance
November 18, 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST)
* WebWorks Publisher Functions: Advancing Beyond the Basics
November 30, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
These interactive classes are conducted via WebEx, so you can get
the most out of your investment in WebWorks Publisher -- without
leaving your desk. To sign up or for more information, visit us
at www.webworks.com/techwr-l/webinars or call WebWorks Services at
512-719-3399 ext.503.
ANNOUNCE: Shorten Your Writing Time by Learning the
Information Mapping Method
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