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Q&A Topic-based authoring vs. Modular authoring

What is the difference between "topic-based authoring" and "modular authoring"? As I know, there are two well-known authoring approaches: Narrative authoring; Topic-based authoring (see link abo...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by john c. j.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Can I use LaTeX in a fictional code-weaving?

I'm working on a magic system that works with weaving types of power. The most commonly used power source is a magical code. I'm trying to base this code off of latex. LaTeX is a math code that is ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by FoxElemental‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Technical review process when using FrameMaker

I'm an engineer. At my company, engineers seem to spend a lot of time reviewing technical documentation written by people who work in different offices and time zones. Part of the reason we spend...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Eric Hirst‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What's the best way to write (or rewrite) a math book?

I've been writing a book that has a fair share of geometric diagrams and equations. However, I am unable to make use of a computer for this and have been maintaining a journal where I manually draw...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by PhD‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Structure for software documentation: long vs short pages

For online, developer-centered documentation for a complex software product, which structure is going to be more usable: a smaller number of long, comprehensive pages, or a larger number of more gr...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Are there tools/software for planning your story using nested mindmaps and references to characters?

I've been looking for a certain piece of software for a long time, but I never quite found something that matches what I need. I'm a very visually oriented guy, the best way for me to keep track of...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by noClue‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Limitations of automatic documentation

As technology advances and workflows are streamlined, some have turned to automated tools such as Doxygen, Sphinx, Swagger, etc. in order to generate technical documentation automatically. What ar...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Timtech‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Alternatives better to the binary "0b..." format?

In our documentation, we write binary numbers like this: 1010 But we write hexadecimal numbers like this: 0xABAB Now, according to the GCC compiler conventions: Numbers are normally written in...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Yoel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Terminology question - "if-else" or "if/else"?

Are they "if-else statements" or are they "if/else statements"? I'm partial to the latter, but I can see the logic of the former - both "if" and "else" are acting as a unit modifier for the noun "s...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Yoel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Bridging the gap between colloquial usage and technical meaning of terms

Frequently, at least in the software world, it seems that terms get assigned a meaning over time that is more general than the original definition. REST is a good example of this. While REST refe...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by thesquaregroot‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Are there valid reasons to write Java Annotation (or .NET XML Documentation) for private methods?

At this point, many languages have some "standard" format for writing documentation for individual methods. This includes, for example, Java Annotation and Microsoft's XML Documentation for .NET La...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by EJoshuaS - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Our team needs to automate many routine tasks. Can we use a single tool or do we need to use multiple ones?

Our tech comm team has a wide variety of time-consuming, repetitive tasks they we need to automate. We are mainly using Sphinx, reStructuredText, Adobe Illustrator, and Visio. Specific things we n...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by David Vogel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it better to repeat steps listed elsewhere in a manual, or to refer the reader to where the steps are listed elsewhere in the manual?

We have a tool that we cannot replace that does not support single sourcing. As a result, with instructions that involve the same node, we either repeat the same dozen steps over and over, or refer...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Lefty G Balogh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What strategies are there to document data lineage and keep it updated with a minimum amount of maintenance?

Quickly communicating data lineage to other stakeholders in our organization has become increasingly difficult as we scale. What are effective strategies to address this and keep it maintained? A...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by David Vogel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should the documentation of a known issue change dependent on the stability of a product release?

I am writing the release documentation for a software product and a design flaw has been discovered after the code has been frozen. Does the documentation describing this issue change if the produc...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Jason Fox‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How should I document a product release with an inherently flawed design?

The deadline is looming and someone realizes the product can't be shipped without documentation. Once the product leaves the remit of the software engineers (who obviously only ever write wonderful...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Jason Fox‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do I remove Nikkud (vowel marks) from a Word 2016 document?

I am working on a commentary on Ethics of the Fathers and I want readers to be able to read sources I'm quoting in their original Hebrew. I am getting most of my sources from sefaria.org and unfort...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to create a useful diff of a markdown writing project iteration

I wrote a play that I performed this summer, and have done significant re-writes for an upcoming second performance run. In order to help me relearn my lines, I think it would be useful to see whic...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Damon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it better to save each chapter in a separate word document or all in one document?

I'm new here. In the past, I've written countless articles for newspapers, and I almost never needed to edit more than a page or two. However, I have agreed to edit an entire (existing) novel for ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by kRazzy R‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to turn off justification when outputting a PDF in Scrivener?

There's no justification set in my document, and in Edit Compile Format I've turned off justification in body text and all other styles. Yet the PDF continues to output with justification. How ca...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Luke Williams‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Open source writing software with version control

I was wondering if there were any open source (free also works) writing software that includes version control (e.g. git). I'm thinking of writing my own but I don't want to create something that a...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by A. Lau‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Tool for making guitar chord diagrams

I have seen these diagrams in books. They display the strings of the guitar and the locations of the notes I want to present, as well as the name of the chord/scale/etc. You can see what I mean in ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Daniel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Does anyone have experience with using dictation software for creative writing?

How does it change the writing process? Any suggestions on the various dictation software available?

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Miss Fluffytail‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Documenting the no-args call of a command line program

I am writing the built-in help for a command line program. The exact name is irrelevant, so let's use foo as a placeholder. This utility can be called with some arguments (like foo -v) or without ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Nick Volynkin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Software for writing theater-like scenes

I do my writing in MS Word. I must incorporate some theater-like scenes into a book. In the theater-like scenes, there will be three to five characters speaking lines. Very, very occasionally a ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by aparente001‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What's the best way to describe what an option does in a program?

I'm working on some guidelines for localization of a computer program. We recently added descriptions to most of the settings, and most of the labels are user contributed and in many cases awful. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Radius‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can I set top and bottom margins to ZERO in Scrivenings mode between documents?

Is it possible to set top and bottom margins to ZERO in Scrivenings mode so that I do not have big spaces between documents? Thanks!

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by pencilCake‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Format for electronic download sales: letter sized pdf okay?

I would like to self-publish a book and sell it through Amazon, and also make it available in a variety of electronic formats. I recently bought a book for $35 as an electronic download from the a...

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by aparente001‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Way to create an interactive dictionary for Google Docs?

I'm using Google Docs to both write a story and to create a dictionary of sorts for ease of writing. I'm trying to figure out a way that I can either have a word suggestion box pop up on Google Doc...

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Marcus Mravik‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Labyrinth: old freeware to organise characters and plot

I found this freeware app, labytrinth, years ago. It allowed to create elements (characters, places, objects, etc) and detail information about them. Then you could drag these elements into a wide ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SC for reinstatement of Monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Multiple continues references in Microsoft office word 2013

I'm writing a paper for IEEE using Microsoft office Word 2013. I want to use dynamic reference which is available in this version of Word. In a place of my article the references are similar to: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Babak.Abad‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A if I write a book about an open source software, should I take permission from the software's creator?

I am planning to write a book about an open source software product. Should I contact the creator of that software and get their explicit permission for writing the book? Or can I continue without ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by srini‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to get 2 different page numberings in the same document in MS Word?

Let's say I have a 6 page document. (MS Word) I want the first 3 pages to be numbered i, ii, iii and the remaining 3 pages to be numbered 1, 2, 3 How can I achieve this? I tried the automatic n...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Mohdak‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is yWriter for Mac reputable? Is this a safe download?

I was wondering if anyone has used yWriter for Mac and has downloaded it from Softonic. I feel a little iffy about this site(pic attached). I suppose a better question would be: Is it safe to downl...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Vikkie‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Web-based WYSIWYG Markdown editor with commenting?

My question is similar to this one, but with (hopefully) a clearly defined use case: sharing and reviewing basic tech docs with a minimal, intuitive GUI. I'm producing technical documents using MS...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What corpus-based writing tools do you use?

I'm searching for a tool that would make real-time suggestions based on "real world" text. The only corpus-based tool I know of is Writefull - does anybody know of any others?

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Smokey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Tools to help me write SOPs for graduate school

I am in the process of applying to several graduate school, so I need to write several Statements of Purpose (SOP). English is not my first language and my writing skills are average at best. Are t...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by harinsa‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Would Office Open XML or OpenDocument Format be better for my needs?

A Quick Note I asked if this was an okay topic over on Meta, and they said it should be okay, as long as I "describe the writing-related context -- what you're writing, who (if anybody) you're col...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SarahofGaia‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is there a free online alternative to Scrivener?

I currently use Google Drive/Docs to pen all of my novels and short stories, but really feel that I could do with a management suite of sorts, such as Scrivener. However, as Scrivener costs actual...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by M.Y. David‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What software is good for writing a technical book? [closed]

I must write a book for the university and I am looking for software. The style that I want is like the books of O'Reilly, Apress or Packt. I need: Insert a table of contents (automatic). Divide...

0 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by cespon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Free or cheap way to lay out a concert program booklet?

I just volunteered to produce the concert program booklets for a recital series starting in October and I'm wondering what is the best way to go about creating a multi-page booklet that would inclu...

0 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user55515‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to capitalize the first line of a paragraph using styles in OpenOffice?

I am formatting a document as a novel using OpenOffice Writer. I have a paragraph style for the main body, and another style derived from it that is the first paragraph in a chapter. I've set up t...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Veggie‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Outliner (software) with annotations for OS X or browser based (but offline!)

Okay, there are like a billion outliners out there but I'm not sure if there is one that does what I want. Maybe you can help. I want to write chunks of text without headline, numbering, bullets....

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A External folders in scrivener?

I have a couple of folders with artwork, maps etc. I would like to include this folders to my scrivener project but I don't know how. The furthest I've got is to drag files from folder to Scrivene...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Invader Zim‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Software to organise world building?

There were a couple of other questions about this, but they were asked many years ago, so I thought I'd start a new one. For a long time, I used Wiki on a Stick to organise my worlds and allow for...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A An (Collaborative) Online Outline

I'm writing a book – more as a hobby than anything else. As an amateur I often get lost regarding the extent I should include in the chapters. But the greatest problem for me is that I did not de...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by ClayKaboom‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Composing a single narrative by writing small chunks

Qualifier/Disclaimer This may be a very atypical question for this site (of all those I've seen, this question on superuser seems most closely related to mine, but the question was closed as off-t...

0 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by TeXnewbie‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to convert handwriting into text

Recently, I found a short story that I had written many years ago when computers were not that common. It is 25 pages of handwriting. Obviously, I don't want to spend hours typing it. My typing spe...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Javeer Baker‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Very simple markup language for writing fiction

I'm using a plain text editor (Vim) to write a fiction piece (chapter book), and I'm wondering what markup languages others use for such a task? I'm looking for something exceedingly simple, it doe...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by brianmearns‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Incorporating diagrams and equations into text when writing

I am looking to write a book on Physics/Mathematics. Of course this book will need to include mathematical equations and diagrams. Are there any writing softwares that have devices such as TeX and...

0 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by ODP‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭