We’re working hard to make structured authoring super intuitive for SMEs. We love doing it and we like to think we’re good at it. We love it when a plan comes together! Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t ‘fit’ all that well like in the days of the A-Team and MacGyver. Developing an intuitive web-based XML editor […]
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At FontoXML we are totally devoted to make XML editing super intuitive for subject matter experts. That means that we spend a lot of time in our usability lab, testing FontoXML with teachers, lawyers, engineers, marketers, etc. At Tekom 2014 we want to test the latest version of FontoXML with you! So join us on
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For quite some time we’ve been wondering how we can make it clear for (content) marketers that an investment in structurally rich and semantically categorized content pays off. Yesterday I read a blog with this catching quote which must sound good to most marketers: Content is an investment in customer experience with measurable return. Catching
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“As a writer I can easily structure my content” is the 9th of 27 requirements that we studied as part of our benchmark study on XML editors. The ease of structuring a document is perhaps the most obvious prerequisite for an efficient structured authoring tool, but also the most ambiguous. This differs for each user
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In a series of blog posts DITA-expert Wim Hooghwinkel describes some everyday DITA usability issues and lets us explain how we think to have solved these issues. Wim: Let’s face it: XML editing has it’s challenges. Especially for an average author who is not into tagging. It’s been worse though. The days that we needed to
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“As a user my spelling is automatically checked” is the 8th of 27 requirements that we studied as part of our benchmark on XML editors. This is an important requirement for any tool producing content that is to be distributed to others. Not surprisingly, an automatic spell checker was ranked as the second most important
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In 2014 Bärenreiter and J. B. Metzler, the publishers of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), entered a long-term partnership with RILM. Musicology’s foremost reference work MGG Online will include the content of the 1994–2008 print edition of MGG as well as future updates, revisions, and additions which will be made using the TEI-edition
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“As a user I can easily see the structure of a document” is the 7th of 27 requirements that we studied as part of our benchmark on XML editors. This is an important requirement because having the document structure in mind is a prerequisite for composing a coherent document. The structure of a document is
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As a user I can easily manage metadata is the 6th of 27 requirements that we studied as part of our benchmark on XML editors.This is an important requirement for many reasons. One of which; when content needs to be personalized, metadata need to be in order. Managing metadata The average rating on ‘managing metadata’
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“As a user I can never cause file corruption” is the fifth of 27 requirements that we studied as part of our benchmark on XML editors. Valid XML This is an important user need in order to have a stable, effective working environment that authors can trust. After hours of labor, a corrupted and thus
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