Arbortext Styler Training

Our training sessions are highly interactive and engaging. All sessions are designed to be hands-on using standard, out-of-the-box Arbortext Editor and Styler. All training is done through hands-on exercises to increase adoption and solidify learning.

Training sessions focus on specific topics such as:

• How to set up page sets, page types, page regions, generated text
• Using property sets
• Creating your first stylesheet
• Working with modules
• Advanced modules (aka creating your second stylesheet and beyond)
• Troubleshooting stylesheets
• Adding support for both print and web output
• Creating covers
• Formatting tables of contents, lists of tables, lists of figures, and indexes
• Working with side-by-side content
• User Formatting Elements (UFEs)
• Working with Styler Generated content
• Working with complex page-based formatting (headers, footers, bleed tabs, fancy table formats etc)
• Adding XLIFF support
• Managing multiple-doctype support 
• Where to go for help
• Other topics…

Individually scheduled sessions identify the topic focus.

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LIZ FRALEY, Single-Sourcing Solutions, is a long-time Arbortext user, customizer, stylesheet developer, and implementer. In addition to being a senior software architect, she is the founder of Single-Sourcing Solutions, a qualified, experienced trainer of Arbortext Products. She has over 25 years experience programming, teaching, and supporting knowledge growth in the communities she serves. She holds degrees in Computer Science and English from the University of Maryland College Park and a Masters in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She's the author of “Arbortext 101: Best Practices for Configuring, Authoring, Styling, and Publishing with Arbortext”  and “Arbortext 102: Best Practices for Creating Arbortext Styler Stylesheets,” both available on Amazon, and has several more planned.

JANICE SUMMERS, Single-Sourcing Solutions, specializes in helping people who’ve only ever used unstructured desktop publishing applications learn structured authoring. She graduated with a degree in I/O Psychology from San Jose State University and finds that her background helps adult learners in mastering new material. In fact, she’s been successfully transitioning Word users to XML authoring since 2005 and hasn’t lost anyone yet! She's the author of “Arbortext for Authoring: An Author's Guide to Getting Started with Arbortext Editor” (available on Amazon).