TechAuthor

TechAuthor is an aerospace-specific application built on PTC’s Arbortext Editor. It provides a single user-friendly interface for technical writers in airlines to perform the full life cycle of tasks – from authoring to management and publishing – without switching  between multiple software applications.

TechAuthor supports the following major functionality:

Structured Authoring

  • Native SGML/XML/HTML Editor
  • SGML DTD, XML DTD/Schema, SGML/XML/HTML Editing, Templates
  • DTD/Schema-Validated, Well-Formed
  • Menu-Driven, User-Friendly Interface, Multiple Panes/Windows
  • Structured View, Full Tags/Partial Tags/No Tags Views
  • Attributes
  • Typical Editing Operations: Insert, Delete, Find, Replace, etc.
  • Spell Checker
  • Validation
  • Unicode (including CJK, HAT)

Advanced Authoring

  • DTD/Schema-Specific Guidance
  • Semantic Tables for Horizontal Alignment (Equals, Limitations, etc.)
  • Graphics Integration (Images, Illustrations, etc.)
  • Multimedia Integration (audio, video, animation, etc.)
  • XUI for Form-Based Editing (MEL, IPC, etc.)
  • Hyperlinking, Cross Referencing (Internal, External)
  • Profiling (Effectivity for Fleet-Specific and Tail-Specific)
  • Data Merging (Automated Insertion from Database, e.g., Route Information)
  • Namespace
  • Preview

Document Updating

  • Change Tracking
  • OEM and Airline-Specific
  • Change Descriptions, Comments
  • Integration with Content Repository via Arbortext Repository Adapter (for ACM – Arbortext Content Manager,
  • Documentum CMS, IBM DB2, FileNet, Oracle CM SDK, etc.)
  • Check-in/Check-out with Content Repository
  • Browse and Search in Content Repository
  • Edit in Context
  • Workflow Execution

Revision Control

  • New Revision
  • Compare and Resolve
  • Automated Baseline Pagination
  • User-Friendly Interface for XML Page Authoring
  • Revision History

Publishing

  • Single Source Publishing: XML, HTML, PDF, EFB, PDA, etc.
  • Integration with Arbortext PE (Publishing Engine)
  • Fully-Automated LoES (List of Effective Sections)
  • Semi-automated LEP (List of Effective Pages)
  • FI (Filing Instructions), RR (Revision Record), RH (Revision Highlights)
  • Revision Package

Compliance

  • ATOS, IOSA
  • User-Friendly Interface for Compliance Tagging
  • Hyperlinking to XML Fragments
  • Compliance Reporting

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