Using XMetaL Author 10 Enterprise To Streamline Your Topic-Based Authoring
Using XMetaL Author 10 Enterprise To Streamline Your Topic-Based Authoring
A Visual GuideTo Learning XMetaL Author 10 In Three Hours Or Less
About the Book
About the Authors
Table of Contents
Introduction to XMetaL Author 10 Enterprise. 1
In a Nutshell: What’s in this Tutorial 1
The Three Ways to Use this Tutorial 3
This is a Standalone Tutorial: 80:20.. 3
Just What is XMetaL Author Anyway?. 4
What’s Topic-based Authoring?. 4
The XMetaL Author Interface. 6
How XMetaL Author is different than Microsoft Word.. 7
XMetaL Authoring Process in a Nutshell. 8
How to read and do the procedures. 11
Chapter 1: Creating a Bike Document. 13
Where We Are Headed: Generating PDF Output. 13
Initial Setup: Creating Six Folders That Will Hold Your Files. 14
Procedure: Using Windows, create your six folders. 14
Procedure: Creating your first Map.. 14
Procedure: Adding topic headings. 19
Procedure: Adding Concepts. 21
Placing the Concepts Into Your Headings. 31
Procedure: Inserting the Concepts into your Headings. 31
Procedure: Generating an output PDF.. 39
Procedure: Adding References. 42
Procedure: Generate output. 50
Opening, Closing and Navigating Through Your Topics. 53
Procedure: Navigating through your Topics. 53
Shortcut Method for Creating Concepts and Tasks. 56
Troubleshooting Your Output. 61
Overview of Document Creation.. 63
Detailed Document Creation.. 64
Chapter 2: Editing and Adding New Content. 67
Procedure: Find Change bike tire in Google Images. 67
Procedure: Adding Images to Tasks. 67
Procedure: Generate output. 71
Procedure: Finding a People Image using Google. 74
Procedure: Adding Images to Concepts. 75
Procedure: Adding Cross-References. 80
Adding Metadata to your Topics. 85
Procedure: Adding Metadata to a topic. 86
Document Creating Process—an Overview.. 91
Documentation Creation Process--Specific Steps. 92
Chapter 3: Creating a Book with Bookmap.. 95
The Use Case: Creating the Mindfulness Book. 95
Procedure: Viewing the Generic Bookmap.. 98
Procedure: Generating a PDF.. 101
Procedure: Creating the Organizational Folders. 103
Procedure: Creating the map for the Mindfulness Book.. 104
Procedure: Adding the Acknowledgement page. 106
Repositioning Your Topics. 111
Procedure: Repositioning the Acknowledgement Topic. 111
Procedure: Adding the Preface. 112
Error Messages and Troubleshooting. 119
Procedure: Adding the Introduction.. 121
Procedure: Adding Chapters. 125
Procedure: Adding the Loving Kindness Meditation under The Core Meditation Techniques 134
Procedure: Generate output. 140
Procedure: Generating Output to see the Chapters. 142
Procedure: Adding Two Parts. 145
Procedure: Adding Two Appendixes. 155
Procedure: Generate Output to show Appendixes. 162
Procedure: Adding a Glossary with two words. 165
Adding Additional Words to the Glossary. 170
Procedure: Adding another word to the glossary.. 171
Procedure: Generate Output to see the Glossary.. 171
Procedure: Adding an Index and selecting two words. 174
Procedure: Generate Output to see the Index. 176
Chapter 4: Reusing Content. 181
Reusing Content in a Single topic. 182
Procedure: Create Acknowledgements folder. 182
Procedure: Reusing Content in a Single Topic. 183
Procedure: Inserting the paragraph into the Acknowledgements page. 184
Procedure: Verify the insertion of the topic in your output. 190
Procedure: Seeing Reusability in action.. 194
Reusing Content in Multiple Topics. 197
Procedure: Create Biographies folder and White Papers folders in the All About Bikes folder 198
Procedure: Creating and placing our three Biographies into one Concept. 198
Creating the White Paper Future Trends. 203
Procedure: Creating a white paper Future Trends. 204
Inserting a Biography into the White Paper Future Trends. 206
Procedure: Inserting a Biography into the white paper. 206
Procedure: Inserting Future Trends into the All About Bikes map.. 209
Chapter 5: Creating a New Book from Your Two Other Books. 216
Procedure: Create Initialization folder. 216
Procedure: Creating the Mindfulness and Bicycling book.. 217
Procedure: Adding Two Chapters. 220
Procedure: Adding two topics from All About Bikes folder. 224
Procedure: Generating PDF output for our new book. 229
Illustrating the Updating of Linked Files. 230
Procedure: Illustrating Updating. 231
Chapter 6: Creating Conditional Documents. 235
Procedure: Create the category labels for your two books. 237
Procedure: Adding content to our book.. 242
Procedure: Labeling topics for inclusion/exclusion.. 246
Procedure: Publishing the Realists book.. 248
Procedure: Publishing the Optimists book.. 251
Chapter 7: Obtaining the Output You Want. 256
Procedure: Selecting and Outputting a Document Type. 256
Procedure: Configuring Your Generate Output. 260
Appendix A: Topic-based Authoring. 265
Best Topic-based Authoring References. 266
Appendix B: XMetaL Author Document Views. 267
Procedure 1: Selecting the Views Via the Icons. 267
Procedure 2: Selecting the Views from the Menu.. 267
Appendix C: A Short Story: HTML, CSS, XML, DITA, XMetaL Author. 272
HTML—Hypertext Markup Language. 272
CSS—Cascading Style Sheets. 273
XML—eXtensible Markup Language. 273
DITA—Darwin Information Typing Architecture. 276
XMetaL Author 10 Enterprise. 277
Appendix D: Making Life Easier: Using the most Popular Shortcut Keys. 280
Appendix E: Macros: Making Your Life Even Easier. 282
Example 1: Record a typing macro.. 282
Procedure: Record a typing macro.. 282
Procedure: Run your macro from the Macros dialog. 286
Procedure: Run your macro with the shortcut key.. 287
Example 2. Add a script macro to XMetaL. 288
Procedure: Write a script macro.. 288
Procedure: Test your new macro.. 291
Example 3: Macro to insert a step into a task.. 292
Procedure: Write a macro to insert a new <step>.. 292
Procedure: Make incremental changes to a macro.. 296
Appendix F: XMetaL 10 Author Cheat Sheet. 303
XMetaL Author Procedure Detailed Process Diagram... 305
Appendix G: Answers to Review Questions. 317
Chapter 1: Creating a Bike Document. 317
Chapter 2: Editing and Adding New Content. 317
Chapter 3: Creating a Book with Bookmap.. 317
Chapter 4: Reusing Content. 318
Chapter 5: Creating a New Book from two other books. 318
Chapter 6: Creating Conditional Documents. 318
Chapter 7: Obtaining the Output You Want. 318
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $14 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
