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The importance of structured content in an AI-driven world

4 minutes of reading / April 25, 2023 / By Maarten van Vulpen

Discover the power of structured content in the realm of generative pre-trained transformers (GPT), the groundbreaking technology revolutionizing language models. In this article, we’ll focus on how structured content enhances the training process, leading to easier data processing, improved accuracy, and enriched contextual understanding. While unstructured content has its merits, we’ll explore why a balanced …

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Why is my configuration cyclic!?

3 minutes of reading / June 16, 2022 / By Martin Middel

In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer gets an error caused by a cyclic dependency in their configuration! A developer just updated something in a random file, after which …

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How do I do async things in a template!?

4 minutes of reading / June 9, 2022 / By Martin Middel

In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is wondering how to do something asynchronous in a template! A support issue came in that went a little like this: Hey …

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My selector does not match?!

3 minutes of reading / May 19, 2022 / By Martin Middel

A question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner got into a fight with XPath when trying to target a specific element! A support issue came in with the following description: Hello, I am trying to select …

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Fonto 8.0: Upgrading to TypeScript

6 minutes of reading / April 28, 2022 / By Martin Middel

Fonto 8.0 is introducing TypeScript! To fully benefit of TypeScript you need to convert your editor. In this blog post I want to show how easy it is to convert your editor to TypeScript. I will exhibit how we upgraded our DITA example configuration from JavaScript to TypeScript. This effort took around a day and …

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Fonto Why & How: My hooks are too spammy?!

4 minutes of reading / April 21, 2022 / By Martin Middel

In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is confused because the callback for their MutationHook is called a lot! This one came in from the support board. Summarized, a …

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Release 7.13: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

5 minutes of reading / December 17, 2020 / By Irma Persoon

It’s finally here! After tirelessly working on our new documentation portal, we’re very excited to announce that its website has launched. The new website contains all the articles from before, except it’s much faster, more structured, easier to search and quicker to navigate. Click here to visit. We’ve also showered our Outline with love this …

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Release 7.12: Drinking our own champagne

5 minutes of reading / September 24, 2020 / By Irma Persoon

This release we’ve been tackling some big projects that are going to greatly benefit both our internal workflow as well as our clients’. For starters, we’ve been working on our very own diff engine, which will replace the current engine in Fonto Document History. This new and improved diff engine makes comparing revisions a lot …

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Release 7.11: (Drag &) Drop it like it’s hot

5 minutes of reading / June 26, 2020 / By Irma Persoon

You could just use copy and paste, but wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier to drag content from one place to another? That’s exactly what we thought, so we made it happen. On top of that, we’re introducing many new awesome features, such as a notification center, a button for applying change proposals, and …

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Release 7.10

5 minutes of reading / March 26, 2020 / By Fonto

Normally you are used to a lighthearted introduction from us. This time we would like to express our hope that everyone is and will stay safe. Despite everything, we still wanted to inform you that this latest release is thoroughly tested and approved… by a team working from home. Fonto Editor New quick navigation This …

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