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AUTHORING PROFILING PUBLISHING CONVERTING SHARING

What makes generating XML content with TimBox convenient?

and …no XML tag manipulation whatsoever

Content-centred authoring instead of document-

oriented authoring

Choice of the content to be included in

document releases

Defining layout by means of stylesheets and

publishing in any format

Exporting to standardized XML

formats (DITA)

Disseminating documents on DropBox

and Wikimedia

INFORMATION REUSE

MODULARITY

Content-centred authoring

CONTENT STRUCTURING

Creating from scratch / copy-

pasting

Writing whole documents

Structuring documents

Document-centred authoring

MEANING-CENTRED DESIGN

Document-centred design

Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg]AU

THO

RING

Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore,tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents

This is a TimBox Task Hierarchy

MEANING-CENTRED DESIGN

Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg]AU

THO

RING

Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore,tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents

This is a TimBox Task Content

MEANING-CENTRED DESIGN

Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg]AU

THO

RING

Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore,tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents

These are TimBox Task Types

MEANING-CENTRED DESIGN

The quality of a task-structure depends on the distinctions between task types. Being able to identify conditional tasks, optional and mandatory sub-tasks, tasks that have to be performed several times to reach the goal [cyclic tasks], etc. is a requirement for a sound description of how work has to be performed.

TimBox is the only softwareto allow such distinctions.

Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg]AU

THO

RING

Although tasks are the default content of manuals and any type of instructions,descriptions and explanations are also necessary in technical documents

These are TimBox containers for unstructured

information

MEANING-CENTRED DESIGN

Create reusable contentAU

THORING

TimBox stores reusable Tasks here

Reusable tasks can be stored in the task library and are available for any project.

INFORMATION REUSE

Create reusable contentAU

THORING

TimBox stores reusable text here

Reusable text can be stored in the Repository and is available for any project.

INFORMATION REUSE

Create reusable contentAU

THO

RING

TimBox stores reusable information

structures here

Reusable information structures can be stored in the Related Information Library and are available for any project.

They allow to add auxiliary information to task and to task-independent containers

INFORMATION REUSE

Create content as small units [modules], not as whole documentsAU

THORING

MODULARITY

task modules unstructured info modules expressions structures for auxiliary info

Reuse existing contentAU

THORING

MODULARITY

copy and clone tasks in the hierarchy drag and drop library elements onto the task hierarchy and into the task content

expressions structures for auxiliary infotasks and unstructured info modules

Write after models of content, not after models of documentsAU

THORING

Task Task Task

WORK

Task

input outputpre-condition side-effect procedure

• action• action• action

CONTENT STRUCTURING

Define the structure of the content, generate the structure of documentsAU

THORING

CONTENT STRUCTURING

Update units of content instead of updating whole documentsUPDATING

Add, delete, modify, re-order tasks and or sections and re-publish the document

tasks sections

Select created content for delivery instead of creating content for final documentsPROFILING While publishing a document or sharing it, you can choose the desired content by blocks

Apply stylesheets to obtain different layouts for the same document contentPUBLISHING

Enable publishing of documents in different formats [PDF, RTF, XML, HTML, CHM ...]PUBLISHING

Enable XML content transformation into standardized formats [DITA, DOCBOOK ...]CO

NVERTING

Share sources and documents on clouds and wikisSHARING

DEMOデモ

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