Authors Manual

Authors create and maintain documents (e.g. articles, specifications, curated texts and other documentation). Their primary task/responsibility with a community is to provide actual content for these documents, without having to bother about the 'details' like layout, how it is all rendered (processed to produce human readable artifacts such as static websites, PDFs, whitepapers etc. Authors are provided the means to mark-up terms in their texts with a easy to type reference to its meaning/definition, the effect of which becomes apparent in the rendered artifacts created from that text. These effects, such as popups (in a static website) that show the definition of the term used, or an automatically generated glossary that can be used as an appendix in a paper, makes it easier for readers to understand what the author means to convey with the texts (s)he has written.Authors may also identify any specific needs or mechanisms that help them do the aforementioned tasks, and communicate these needs to their curators, or otherwise contribute to the further development of TEv2 so that such needs and mechanisms may be supported.

One purpose of the Terminology Engine (v2) is to provide terminological support for people that author documentation, specifications, whitepapers, articles and the like. This document provides guidance for authors to make use of that support.