Category: Tech Writer

Open Source Documentation

This is very hum­bling to me. Last week, at the Doc­Train West con­fer­ence, 25 writ­ers pro­duced a man­u­al for Fire­Fox in just two days as part of the FLOSS Man­u­als project. The man­u­al is freely avail­able online and is dis­trib­uted in a Cre­ative Com­mons CC-BY-SA license. You can pur­chase a print-on-demand copy of the man­u­al… Con­tin­ue read­ing Open Source Documentation

Using Variables with Find/Replace in Flare

This one is a pret­ty sim­ple trick and, to be hon­est, one that a lot of folks prob­a­bly fig­ured out soon­er than I did. With just a lit­tle bit of work, you can eas­i­ly replace oft-used words or phras­es in your Flare project with a vari­able. This is espe­cial­ly use­ful if you find your­self writ­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Using Vari­ables with Find/Replace in Flare