FrameMaker versus Word

FrameMaker versus Word Introduction The most important skills for a technical writer are writing, editing, and design. However, these skills are not enough to make you a successful technical writer. You also need to learn how to use authoring tools. The most widely used publishing tools are: FrameMaker Microsoft Word FrameMaker FrameMaker is a desktop…

Word Search Puzzle Maker

Word Search Puzzle Maker Almost everybody, even children, enjoys solving puzzles, and one popular type of puzzle is word jumble or word search puzzles. These are puzzles where the solver has to search a grid of letters (which at first glance might appear to be completely randomly selected) for words hidden within the grid. The…

Word Search Puzzles

Word Search Puzzles Most people are familiar with word search puzzles. Basically they are a grid of letters containing various words (some of which may overlap) in all sorts of orientations, left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, and various diagonal directions. Of course the words may not fit together…

Yoda and Japanese Word Order

Yoda and Japanese Word Order One thing I’ve rarely ever seen was a simple and straight-forward explanation of Japanese grammar. Call it “zen-attitude” if you like, but I’m all about keeping things simple and minimalistic! Therefore there are a couple of points I want to tackle when speaking about the Japanese language. I’ve discovered that…