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Configuration-Based Documentation Authoring

Configuration-Based Documentation Authoring. Step Up From the Topic-Oriented Approach. The Topic-Oriented Approach. Let’s talk about it. Benefits. Tools. Troubles. Set Of Docs. Structure. Everything about. Consistency!. Text. Case 1: Multiple Models, Multiple Docs. MS Word.

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Configuration-Based Documentation Authoring

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  1. Configuration-Based Documentation Authoring Step Up From the Topic-Oriented Approach

  2. The Topic-Oriented Approach Let’s talk about it. Benefits Tools Troubles

  3. Set Of Docs Structure Everything about Consistency! Text

  4. Case 1: Multiple Models, Multiple Docs MS Word DITA, AuthorIT, etc. User Manual User Manual Quick Start Map 1 Script 1 Topics Map 2 Script 2 Main script

  5. Model N Model 2 Copy!Paste! The Copy/Paste MonsterStrikes Back Model 1 2 • N document maps2 • N document-related scripts2 • N command lines in the main script

  6. CMDB Model Doc Type Format Model 1 User Manual PDF Model 1 Quick Start PDF Model 1 Reference HTML Model 2 User Manual PDF … … … UserManual Converters QuickStart PDF Reference HTML Use CMDB to GenerateMaps and Scripts Unified Templates

  7. PDF Go into Details Map: Model 1, User Manual CMDB Model_1-Intro .XML .XML .XML .XML UserManual .XML .XSL Model-?-Intro The CMDB script performs the transformation for every registered document. Model-?-Install

  8. Copy!Paste! Wrangle! Admire!

  9. Case 2: Let the Bear Work! Generate automatically: • Obvious linking text • Descriptions of structures • Lists • Diagrams

  10. Slice the Process CMDB 1. …2. …3. … 1. …2. …3. …

  11. JobInstructions Slicing Script Slicing Script CMDB ProcessDescription

  12. Kaboom!

  13. You are welcome! misha@philosoft.bizMikhail Ostrogorskij

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