Communication

Communication

The activity of conveying information and ideas to others through the exchange of speech, written messages, signals or behaviour such as body language.

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Darwin information typing architecture (DITA)

Communication; Technical writing

DITA is an XML topic-based data architecture for authoring and publishing content. Originally developed by IBM in 1999, many third party tools now support DITA authoring, such as ...

content management system (CMS)

Communication; Technical writing

A content management system (CMS) is a software tool that provides the management and administration of document authoring, collaboration, and production automation. CMS allows a ...

cascading style sheet (CSS)

Communication; Technical writing

A cascading style sheet is a set of rules that specify how a web browser displays text on an HTML page. The advantages of CSS instead of HTML formatting are as follows: * The ...

callout

Communication; Technical writing

A callout is text and a line that points to an area or a feature of an illustration or technical drawing, providing information about that feature, such as its name or geometric ...

embedded help

Communication; Technical writing

Embedded help is documentation that appears in a window, a screen, or a tab within the software. Unlike context-sensitive help, users do not click a button or move the mouse over ...

controlled language

Communication; Technical writing

A subset of a natural language with restrictions on how grammar and vocabulary are used in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. The purpose is to make text as ...