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Unveiling the Grid View: The Journey to Organize Space

Yasemin Aydos

What goes into building a modern tool to manage structured content in the web? Besides the benefits of today’s technology, the Tridion Docs Engineering team put a lot of care and attention into every feature, every UI.  Let me share a simple example to…
- 11 months ago
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SDL Tridion Docs User Group: Best Practices

Chip Gettinger

At SDL Connect 2019 in Burlingame, CA, the independent SDL Tridion Docs User Group will lead a discussion on best practices, drawing on experiences from users in the audience. Please join Colin Ferguson, Dell EMC, who will lead the session with a short…
- https://www.sdl.com/event/sdl-connect/san-francisco/tridion-docs-user-group.html
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- over 5 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using inline elements

Frank Closset

XML provides tags around content that can be read by downstream routines to apply formatting. For example, <p> [paragraph] indicates that a new paragraph has started and the publishing routines can create a line break, if desired. In the localization…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using the “xml:lang” attribute

Frank Closset

The “xml:lang” attribute specifies the language of the element content. The “xml:lang” attribute can be specified on every element in the DITA content model. When no value for “xml:lang” is supplied, the default value of English is assumed. Tip: Ensure…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using text in DITA Maps

Frank Closset

DITA Maps are used to assemble topics into a topic hierarchy for print, Web, Help, or any other deliverable. DITA Maps are thus the backbone for content reuse in DITA. By creating two separate DITA Maps that reference the same topic, two different deliverables…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using Terminology and Acronyms

Frank Closset

In DITA, it is sometimes impossible to find and use an appropriate XML element to alert the translator that special treatment of a word is required. Make sure terms like company name or product name are defined in a terminology database that can be accessed…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using Index Terms

Frank Closset

In the past, it has been common practice for writers using desktop publishing tools to insert index tags anywhere in the content, by selecting a word and then applying an index marker on that word. The process for creating index terms in DITA is handled…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind – Tips for using Conrefs and Keyrefs

Frank Closset

Keyrefs and conrefs are one very powerful way how DITA can achieve higher levels of reuse and manage more product variations in an automated way. Essentially, a keyref or conref is a placeholder that is filled dynamically with relevant content at the…
- over 8 years ago
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Best Practices - Writing DITA with Localization in Mind - Tips for using Conditional Text

Frank Closset

In the next series of posts, I will describe a number of best practices to simplify the localization of DITA files. If you ignore these best practices, it can be quite risky and cause significant headaches in the translation process. Tip: Do not apply…
- over 8 years ago
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