Migrating content from Word into Flare? Find it frustrating working through all that mapping from Word to Flare? Wish there was someone who could tell you there was a way this could be done easily?
In MFUG’s August meeting, Tony Self will go “Under the Bonnet: Migrating Word Glossaries to Flare“.
Under the Bonnet: Migrating Word Glossaries to Flare
In his presentation, Tony Self will explain how Flare stores project settings, configuration and support files in an XML format. This provides the opportunity for some behind-the-scenes “engineering” of Flare projects, such as the migration of content into Flare. He will then demonstrate converting a Word document containing a glossary of terms in a table into a standard Flare Glossary… without actually using Flare. This technique can save enormous amounts of time and frustration.
About Tony Self
Tony Self has worked as a technical communicator for over 30 years, specialising in online help systems, computer-based training, and hypertext documents. In 1993 Tony founded HyperWrite, which offers consultancy services in online and Internet strategy, innovative solutions and specialised training. In addition to his consulting work, Tony is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communication, and holds a PhD in semantic mark-up languages, a Graduate Diploma in Technical Communication, and a Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. He is the author of “The DITA Style Guide”.
Meeting Details
Date: Thursday, 7 August, 2014
Time: 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Where: East Melbourne Library, 122 George St, East Melbourne
Costs: $5 (for meeting room bookings)
Following the presentation, let’s go Around the Table to talk about Flare – anything that all.
A MFUG member emailed me a few weeks back and suggested some possible ideas for future meetings (see details in the flyer). I’d love to hear what others think, so that I can organise accordingly.
Have an interesting Flare project to Show and Tell? Bring your project to the meeting (further to appropriate permissions from employers and sensitive data redactions) and talk about it for 5 mins.
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