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Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation

by Kurt Ament

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This guide is organized into five chapters. It contains a glossary and index.

Foreword
 
Preface
 
Chapter 1. About single sourcing
What is single sourcing?
Reasons for single sourcing
How single sourcing works
Types of single sourcing
Successful single sourcing
 
Chapter 2. Building documents
Step 1. Identifying modules
Step 2. Labeling modules
Step 3. Organizing modules
Step 4. Building modules
Step 5. Editing modules
Step 6. Organizing documents
Step 8. Converting documents
Step 9. Testing documents
Step 10. Developing guidelines
 
Chapter 3. Structuring content
Captions
Cross-references
Definition lists
Examples
Figures
Front matter
Glossaries
Headings
Indexes
Itemized lists
Notes
Organization
Procedures
Processes
Section contents
Tables
Tables of contents
Topics
Troubleshooting scenarios
 
Chapter 4. Configuring language
Abbreviations
Capitalization
Parallel construction
Person
Punctuation
Sentence construction
Tense
Voice
 
Chapter 5. Leveraging technology
Conditional text
Conventions
Development tools
Filenames
Localization
Search engines
Variables
 
Glossary
 
Index
 
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