Technical writing resources
These technical writing resources are for professional technical writers.
Website indexing: extending the functionality of HTML Indexer
Creating coloured hyperlinks in an index in a PDF file
LaTeX: an introduction
latex-introduction.pdf, 199 KB
An overview of the LaTeX typesetting system. First published in Communicator, Spring 2006.
How to remove moiré from screen shots
AECMA Simplified English
aecma-simplified-english.pdf, 150 KB
Presents an overview of AECMA Simplified English (now known as ASD Simplified Technical English, Specification ASD-STE100). First published in Communicator, Winter 2004.
Automating your Word indexes
WordIndexing.pdf, 475 KB
How to create and edit an index in Word using fields. First published in Communicator, Autumn 2003.
Insert information from the Address Book into Word. This macro lets you specify the items that are inserted from the Address Book into Microsoft Word.