User Guide

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In the following pages, you'll find information that complements the tutorials along with descriptions of most features found in Tópico and a few tips and tricks that might prove useful in your web publishing projects.

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%product_name% user interface is intuitive enough for casual users and flexible enough to significantly maximize the productivity of professional users.

In %product_name%, topic files are organized into collections that you edit through the tree view control. The publishing process uses the collection information and the publishing package to create many published items.

Along with scripts, which are not covered in this document, stylesheets and templates and the main components of all publishing packages.

Formatting and styling your pages into a web site is done through a publishing package. Some basic packages were installed with %product_name%.

Now the real fun begins when you know just enough XHTML, CSS, XSLT and scripting to customize %product_name% for your specific needs. The next few topics show different ways you can customize %product_name% to better optimize your personal xml publishing workflow.

%product_name% is based on a simple file system which structure is explained in the next few pages. While this arrangment will prove usefull in the long run, developping a strategy for naming your files is crutial to your publication's success.

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