In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaves like that in the first place. This week, a support question came in inquiring how they could have more control in ID generation! As usual, support question! This one read like this: We […]
Fonto: Why & How: How do I generate IDs in a more predictable way?! Read More »
In pharma—and many other industries, too—Microsoft Word is the tool to create content. It’s the natural environment for many subject-matter experts to write, edit and review content. Every author is familiar with the Word interface. But it’s not structured content that’s created … “We cannot change the authoring experience” Forcing subject-matter experts, for example medical
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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 found their editor to slow down while typing! A support request came in: When we load a huge document, we notice a significant slowdown in just about everything.
Fonto Why & How: Why is typing so slow?! Read More »
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
Why is my configuration cyclic!? Read More »
For the upcoming 8.1 release, we’ve made organizational changes to align our teams with our roadmap as shared last week. We are taking our time to make these changes meaning, 8.1 is mostly a polishing release to make smaller improvements across a lot of areas. However, we also managed to squeeze in a few new
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Now that the thunder of the Fonto 8.0 release is starting to fade, it is time to turn our minds toward the future. As Forrester’s “The Future of Documents” report illustrates, the momentum for structured content is growing. While industries like aerospace and manufacturing are ahead of the curve, we see widespread adoption of structured
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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
My selector does not match?! Read More »
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 use XPath in markup labels! A support ticket came in with the following question: Hey, We’d like to
How do I make dynamic markup labels!? Read More »
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 uses an uncommon way to defined sublists: with different element names! A support question came in that went a little like this:
Fonto Why & How: My sublists are not nested!? Read More »
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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