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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Get your Arbortext resources here: http://bit.ly/batDEmArbortext Resources from Single-Sourcing Solutions Arbortext Resources from Single-Sourcing Solutions, qualified value added reseller for PTC dynamic publishing products - Arbortext Mathcad Windchill -
#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: A giant chart of resources available to the arbortext community and this is just a small slice!
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Please don't ever, ever, ever, style concept, task or reference. Rely on fall-back processing!
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Icon indicators, color, weight, hints to give you what you need to develop stylesheets right in the UI
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: RDS is a separate stand-alone file that does not affect your source content
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Use the Resolved Document for Styling to see your content after it's gone through publishing pipeline
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Use a test document that contains many of the different contexts you need to style
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Added APP code by adding a module and changing rendering engine to APP. Voila! Cool.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Source edit support--source edits are mechanism for going above and beyond, like including APP code!
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler is a very powerful tool; people enjoy using it. It does a nice job of simplifying the view
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: easy to see that style applies only to one format or to all. Red to indicate you're changing a subset/one
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler can have multiple output formats from one stylesheet--true multi-channel stylesheeting
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: easy to move rules into/between modules and see precedence of modules
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: lots of customers using pageset modules
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Sort by module--it's a nice way to organize your work, and you can reuse modules in other stylesheets
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: You can sort by module, and work on all TASK-related parts at once, see everything together.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler validates modules on import to make sure you don't have garbage in your stylesheet
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Use a modular architecture to do your work, deploy flattened stylesheet to field--faster in production
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Arbortext provides 31 modules OOB, easy to drop domains you don't use
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Use the flattened base or the modules provided OOB to start your stylesheet work
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler is a tool that just anyone can pick up and use
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler is a tool that can be used by the non-programmer; easy to understand, with info/hints right there
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: OTK--a great tool, but takes programming skills, really need to understand the DTD to dig around in it
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Make sure w/specializations, you're not going to break anything. Just think it through
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: There's a notion of fall-back processing and you want to take advantage of it: no unnecessary styling
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler has all of these little tips that provide you w/what you need to know as a stylesheet developer
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Comment feature added in 5.4, you can see/add comments easily, right in UI
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Can sort by element and can quickly jump to rules, elements, and contexts
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler provides hints--"this elt is a specialization of..."--stylesheet devs need this info at hand
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Lots of elements in OOB stylesheets are "unstyled by design"
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: With DITA, take advantage of fall-back processing. Styler makes this easy to see.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: For folks who used Styler in the past, it looks a lot different; lots of new things to talk about
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler provides a very robust, obvious, powerful way to make modifications to meet org needs
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Can sort on column to see active vs overridden rules.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: bold=active rule; gray/italic=overridden rule. Easy to see.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Icon shows precedence and priority status of rules in stylesheet.
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Knowing specialization history is important for stylesheet writers, pop up hint in Styler is handy view
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Hover over element and you can see where it comes from (file, module) and what it's specialized from
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: by importing a read-only copy, you can leverage future updates provided by Arbortext
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: ATX provides a very extensive stylesheet that supports all of the DITA elements and attributes OOB
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Start with an empty shell (driver) stylesheet and import read-only copy of OOB stylesheet
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: also an RDE - resolved document for editing - to see total -- editiable-- content in one view
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: RDS good for troubleshooting link problems, it's what's gone through the publishing pipeline
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Styler has a "Resolved Document for Styling" (RDS) that contains all the info from map & topics
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Style against a sample document that represents the vast majority of constructs you would see in output
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Stylesheet creates the rules for how elements appear in the various contexts in the output
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: a single Styler stylesheet can create output for multiple output formats
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Best practices for using Styler with the OOB DITA modular stylesheets
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Talking about Styler - a UI to make non-programmers capable of maintaining/creating stylesheets
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: PTC pushing for interoperability, cooperation between applications -- based on customer feedback
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Arbortext is the only OOB end-to-end solution with integrated products that all play nicely w/each other
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Arbortext was Editor IBM was using when they developed DITA; Arbortext part of OASIS DITA TC from start
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar L.Fraley: Arbortext has a long history with SGML, XML, and DITA. Around since 1990
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#Arbortext #DITA Webinar: We'll be live-tweeting the webinar. Fair warning: we're going into high-volume for the next hour.
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