1. The Composing Suite ............................................................................................................................9
1.1 What this book is about..............................................................................................................................9
1.1.1Why not one program? ...................................................................................................................10
1.1.2 Databasing Text Chunks.................................................................................................................11
1.2 The Activity of Composing ........................................................................................................................12
1.3 Introducing the Program Suite ..................................................................................................................12
1.3.1 PersonalBrain 2.1...........................................................................................................................13
1.3.2 MS Word 2002...............................................................................................................................14
1.3.3 Fine Print pdfFactory v1.6 ..............................................................................................................15
1.3.4 Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 ......................................................................................................................15
2. Information handling processes .........................................................................................................16
2.1 Purpose Influences Protocols ....................................................................................................................16
2.1.1 Reasons for Composing a System ...................................................................................................16
2.1.2 Protocols and Consistencies............................................................................................................17
2.1.3 Protocols and Consistencies for Reusable Text Chunking..................................................................17
2.2 Brain Development...................................................................................................................................18
2.2.1 Development Map of Brain .............................................................................................................18
2.2.2 Brainstorming................................................................................................................................20
2.2.3 Logical Ordering ............................................................................................................................23
2.2.4 Chapter Development ....................................................................................................................23
2.2.5 Book Composing............................................................................................................................24
2.3 Document Parts .......................................................................................................................................24
2.3.1 Front Pages...................................................................................................................................24
2.3.2 Index ............................................................................................................................................25
2.3.3. Glossary.......................................................................................................................................26
2.3.4 References ....................................................................................................................................27
3. Building Continuity and Reader Tools.................................................................................................28
3.1 Writing the Foreword................................................................................................................................28
3.2 Introducing each chapter..........................................................................................................................28
3.3 Rounding out each chapter .......................................................................................................................29
3.4 Selecting Reader Tools .............................................................................................................................29
3.4.1 Including a Table of Contents.........................................................................................................29
3.4.2 Reasons for including an Index.......................................................................................................30
3.4.3 Why include a Glossary?.................................................................................................................31
3.4.4 Deciding to include a Reference Page..............................................................................................31
3.4.5 Do you need to add Acknowledgements? ........................................................................................32
3.4.6 What about Library References? .....................................................................................................32
4. Composing the product.......................................................................................................................33
4.1 Assembling the book ................................................................................................................................33
4.1.1 Book Assembly Process ..................................................................................................................33
4.1.2 Using IncludeText Fields ................................................................................................................34
4.1.3 The Insert Files with Links Method..................................................................................................34
4.2 Building the Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................35
4.3 Inserting the Index ..................................................................................................................................36
4.4 Assembling the Glossary...........................................................................................................................36
5. Updating Text and Versioning.............................................................................................................37
5.1 Version Control ........................................................................................................................................37
5.2 Spellings, Wordings and Grammar Changes ...............................................................................................37
5.3 Revisions .................................................................................................................................................37
5.4 New Versions...........................................................................................................................................38
6. Building Multiple Products ..................................................................................................................39
6.1 Acrobat Reader Documents.......................................................................................................................39
6.1.1 Document Setup ............................................................................................................................39
6.1.2 Fine Print Options ..........................................................................................................................40
6.1.3 Securing your eBook ......................................................................................................................40
6.1.4 Storing your eBook ........................................................................................................................40
6.2 Website ...................................................................................................................................................41
6.3 Brain .......................................................................................................................................................41
6.4 PowerPoint Presentations .........................................................................................................................41
6.5 Text Chunk Library...................................................................................................................................42