http://blog.infotexture.net Technical Communication & Information Design Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:37:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en William Van Hecke, Omni Group's User Experience Lead has released Helpify, a Python script that turns specially-formatted OmniOutliner files into Apple Help books. Helpify provides a very simple means of generating HTML that is properly formatted for use as Apple Help, including navigation links, abstracts and the HTML comments used as ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/10/09/building-apple-help-with-omnioutliner/ VMware recently released Fusion 2.0, its Mac virtualization product with an extremely annoying incompatibility--it won't work properly with Windows guest systems running CVSNT, the CVS client installed with TortoiseCVS. As the release notes say: CVSNT and VMware Tools are incompatible. There is a known incompatibility between CVSNT (...) and ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/09/18/vmware-fusion-20-and-cvsnt/ Once of the main complaints about the CVS version control system is that it's difficult to move or rename files as your project structure changes. While you can easily remove files and re-add them under a new name or location, this method loses the precious nuggets of wisdom contained in the ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/09/05/moving-renaming-files-in-cvs/ Keeping up the franctic pace of nearly weekly releases, Robin Lu has once again updated iChm to include another user-requested feature. Version 1.3 now allows you to search the index -- this great little app just keeps getting better! http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/09/04/ichm-adds-index-search/ Shortly after the well-received release of iChm 1.1.1, Robin Lu has responded to popular demand and updated his CHM Reader for Mac OS X with support for indexes. The sidebar now includes a small popup menu (shown at left) which toggles the sidebar to display either the table of contents or ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/08/27/ichm-adds-index-support/ Robin Lu has released iChm, a Cocoa-based CHM Reader for Mac OS X with Webkit rendering, a slick tabbed interface and a bookmark system that not only allows you to store links to favorite topics in the current file, but also keeps track of your bookmarks across multiple files like ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/08/21/ichm-cocoa-chm-reader-for-mac-os-x/ Recently, a client asked for assistance in setting up the RenderX XEP processor for use with the oXygen XML editor on Mac OS X. XEP is an XSL FO processor that can be integrated with oXygen to transform DITA maps to PDF via the PDF2 transformation scenario. The steps below describe ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/08/07/renderx-xep-setup-in-oxygen/ David over at Geeks are Sexy has a nice tutorial on keeping WordPress installations current by using Subversion to check out the latest code directly from the Automattic repository. David's instructions are much more detailed than the brief steps provided on the WordPress site, and also describe how to check out ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/08/06/upgrading-wordpress-via-subversion/ Zürich-based indy developer Zennaware has released Cornerstone, the latest attempt to make the Subversion experience more Mac-like. As Zennaware says, We wanted to make an application which would make version control usable and, most-of-all, approachable to Mac users. As John Gruber pointed out, they were brave enough to commercially release ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/07/01/cornerstone-new-mac-subversion-client/ Nearly a year after the initial hype, Mac Subversion client Versions has finally seen the light of day with the release of a beta that at first glance offers little that other clients don't. The opening line of the beta announcement sheepishly concedes the app's impending vaporware contender status: Versions ... http://blog.infotexture.net/2008/06/05/versions-emerges-from-the-vapors/