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Subject:TECHWR-L Premium Jobs, Events, and Announcements From:TECHWR-L Listowner <admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com> To:archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:05:05 -0600 (MDT)
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WEBINAR: Localization Process, Tech Writing & Translation
ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Flare version 3
ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Feedback Service
ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing
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ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Flare version 3
We are pleased to announce that MadCap Software has just
released its newest Version of MadCap Flare- Version 3 and
the MadCap Feedback Service.
Highlights of whats new in Flare V3 include:
* Source Control Direct Integration
(Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Team Foundation
Server, and others with API calls)
* Automatic Server-Side Project Merging
* Faster Server-Side Search, Including Search for Non-XHTML
Files (e.g., PDF, Office Files)
* Enhanced CHM output (Web Toolbar)
* Enhanced Editors and Explorers
* More Single-Sourcing Features (Snippet Conditions, Table
Print Styles)
* Integrated Instant Messaging System
* Import Styles
* Enhanced FrameMaker Import Features
* And more
To download the Flare v3 trial, please visit: http://www.madcapsoftw
are.com/downloads/flaretrial.aspx
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ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Feedback Service
With the Feedback Service, you will have the ability to run
end-user feedback reports and see how your readers are using
your Web-based Help, and for the first time, desktop Help such
as HTML Help and DotNet Help. Now you can get feedback on how
your audience uses your Help content, maximizing the
effectiveness of your documentation. In addition, the Service
bring cutting edge Web 2.0 community capabilities to your documentati
on, allowing readers to add their own comments
to existing documentation. Gain all of these new feedback
benefits without any additional servers, hardware, or
maintenance by having MadCap Software do the hosting for you.
The Feedback Service is offered as a hosted service in
increments of 3, 6 and 12 months.
Features include:
* Track user searches so you know what customers are finding
(or what they are looking for and not finding)
* Collect feedback from online or desktop Help using DotNet
Help, HTML Help (.CHM), WebHelp, or WebHelp Plus
* Web 2.0 community capabilities, allowing readers to add their
own comments and provide feedback on your documentation
* The ability to allow readers to rank the quality of the
topics and content using a simple star system
* Track topics visited
* Synonyms on-the-fly (update search parameters using synonyms
without having to republish any content)
* Produce and print configurable and multi-color charts on
feedback statistics
* Export feedback statistics so you can view and edit them in
other programs, such as Microsoft Excel
* Publish output anywhere to a website, on your intranet, even
attached to an application (MadCap hosts only feedback data,
not your output files)
* And more
Doug Pearson, an ENLASO Localization Engineer, will deliver a
one-hour presentation that includes an overview of the
localization process from the perspective of technical writers
who initially author documents for localization and translation.
A primary focus of this presentation will be to guide technical
writers to understand the tasks of the other people who
work on the localization process (project managers, engineers,
linguists, etc.) in order to make their own work more effective,
thus saving both time and money in the localization and
translation process.
Topics include:
- Overview of the localization process and other job functions
in the process
- Best practices for authoring documents with localization and
translation in mind
- Use of Controlled English in authoring documents for
localization and translation
- Overview and examples of Translation Memory (TM) usage for
localization and translation
This Webinar is of particular interest to technical writers,
publications managers, documentation specialists and anyone
involved in the documentation localization and translation
process.
About the presenter:
Doug Pearson has worked as a Localization Engineer for ENLASO
for nearly a decade. He is experienced in desktop publishing
(especially FrameMaker), programming (especially C++), XML (and
other forms of structured/hierarchical document design),
single-source document design for multiple-format output, and
in anticipating the needs of production staff throughout every
stage of the publishing and localization process. These are all
requirements for developing holistic, all-encompassing,
custom solutions for a diverse collection of clients. Doug has
developed dozens of plug-ins to assist both document authoring
and localization for structured and non-structured versions of
FrameMaker. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the Johns Hopkins University.
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ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing
Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style
guides and books on editing. Here, Matthew Stevens, an Australian
scientific editor, distils over two decades of experience,
explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make
and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable.
Topics include:
* Achieving an editorial Gestalt
* Common errors-danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers,
shortcuts
* Errors of reasoning-begging the question, teleology, size
comparisons
* Expression-first-person science, order of events, parallel
narratives
* Tricky terms-applied, based on, due to, respectively
Contents
What is science?
Substantive editing
Common errors
Errors of substance or sequence
Errors of reasoning
Improving expression
Improving visual presentation
Tricky or misused terms
Errors in classical languages
Appendix 1-Editing techniques
Appendix 2-Wordy phrases
Appendix 3-British or US spelling?
Appendix 4-Unicode values and non-displaying characters
Appendix 5-Character charts in logical groupings
Bibliography
You can download a copy from http://www.zeta.org.au/~mls/subtleties.h
tml
(US$6, A$7 shareware). Hard copies will be available soon for
order (112 pp B5, ~200 g, US$12, A$15 + postage).
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