Technical Writers who want to create documents in MS Word and also use Quark will be pleased to read this press release. Quark XML Author 3.0 for Microsoft Word allows users to create XML content easily within Microsoft Word, This XML authoring tool allows non-technical business workers to use Microsoft Word to create intelligent content with little or no training.
“Quark XML Author enhances the user-defined XML support within Microsoft Word and allows users to create XML content easily, which eliminates many of the barriers associated with the adoption of XML,” said Ayca Yuksel, Senior Product Manager from Microsoft. “Through our partnership with Quark, we’ve enabled many Microsoft Word users to author structured XML content that can be managed in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.”
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QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to FaceMelissa Webster, Program Vice President for Content and Digital Media Technologies at IDC said, “Business users use Microsoft Word for authoring and they’ve been very reluctant to adopt the specialized XML authoring tools that were designed for technical communicators. At the same time, XML is key to realizing the full power of dynamic publishing. What’s needed is a solution that turns Microsoft Word into an XML authoring tool, and that’s what Quark XML Author provides.”
Quark XML Author 3.0
Quark XML Author 3.0 supports Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Vista from a single XML Author code base, which offers stability and uninterrupted productivity to users who have or are in the process of upgrading to the most current versions of Microsoft Office. The new version of Quark XML Author also offers native user interface support for French, German, and Japanese languages, which increases user productivity and collaboration among global teams.
In addition, Quark XML Author 3.0 offers new style and formatting functionality that gives users more control over their content, including:
- New integration with Design Science’s MathType Editor for equations
- Improved tool bar for use with the Microsoft Office 2007 native ribbon interface
- Improved feature that allows for bulk changes throughout a document
- Advanced indenting and style capabilities for list items and paragraphs
Users of Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word are able to upgrade to version 3.0 automatically. The new version is backward compatible with Microsoft Office 2000-2007 and is bi-directionally compatible with Quark XML Author 2.x files. It will be available on April 30, 2009.
To learn more about Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word, visit: http://dynamicpublishing.quark.com/xml_author.
How it Works
This shows what happens after the user has chosen to create a new XML document. It’s easy to see where to start.
In this illustration, Quark XML Author uses the Word Style dropdown list to show all of the valid types of content that the author can insert at the current cursor location.
Working hand-in-glove with Microsoft® Word, Quark® XML Author lets users create content in a familiar, simple, and full-featured user interface. Allowing users to continue using Word vastly eases the transition from the hand-crafted publishing process of the past to the dynamic publishing process of the future.
Quark XML Author remains invisible until the Word user tries to edit an existing XML document or create a new one. At that point, Quark XML Author slips in and modifies the operation of the user interface to correspond with XML requirements.
While many functions continue to operate normally, others change in subtle ways to give users appropriate choices to ensure they are creating correct XML.
Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word
In its 2008 acquisition of In.vision Research, Quark gained XML Author for Microsoft Word, formerly known as In.vision Xpress Author. Quark XML Author enhances Microsoft Word’s native XML support by allowing users to create narrative XML documents directly — without seeing tags, being constrained to boxes, or being aware of the technical complexities associated with XML. Equally important, XML Author ensures that the content an author creates is constantly validated against the XML standard — eliminating the need to rework content at a later time.
Why Quark XML Author?
- Quark® XML Author meets the needs of IT staff for XML document quality while impressing end users with its simplicity for creating intelligent XML documents.
- In contrast to niche applications, Quark XML Author provides an enterprise option that allows users to create XML documents that conform to any schema or DTD.
- Quark supports industry–specific schemas for life sciences, the intelligence community, manufacturing, and technical documentation that can be deployed out–of–the box for a quick start.
- Quark XML Author delivers hundreds of features that can be combined in thousands of ways to meet a broad range of enterprise needs–easily outweighing custom–built, Word–based solutions that achieve limited success and drive up costs.
- Quark is a Microsoft® Certified Gold Partner and member of the Office 14 Developer Advisory Council.
- Michael Boses, Quark’s director of XML products, provides leadership in the DITA community as Co–chair for the OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee.
"Quark XML Author provides knowledge workers with an easy XML authoring and content contribution tool to improve productivity and reduce cycle time. The fact that this tool is for the mainstream – and not just for someone who knows XML – makes it that much more powerful and positions Quark for increased success as a leader in the dynamic publishing market."
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