Monday, July 13, 2009

Questions from the July 7-10 Remote Flare 5.2 Course

Re looking for the definition of "inline marker" as an impromptu test of the help's usability... I found it in under a minute by opening the help Search pane, searching for "inline", clicking "inline markers" in the auto-complete panel, opening the first topic - "Frame Contents Window Pane," and scrolling down until I found the two words highlighted. Here's the definition, from the v. 5.2 help...

"...markers for all inline elements in the active topic. You might find this feature useful if you have imported DITA file content. The reason for this is that DITA inline tags are often for semantic purposes, rather than for changing the look of content. By enabling the inline markers feature, it is easy to tell when particular content is using a tag."

The problem here is the need to scroll almost halfway down the topic to find the definition. However, the highlighting helps. So I'd call this pretty usable...

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