Writing 5

Character Style

A description of how a piece of text is presented. For example a piece of text marked with an emphasis tag could be displayed as bold or italics, or using a different font, or different size of font.

CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK

A subtractive colour model used for printing on paper. All colour images in a document need to be converted to CMYK before being delivered to a print shop.

ColdFusion

A programming language used for interfacing a web server to a database. The ColdFusion tags are embedded in the HTML page. The web server must be ColdFusion aware.

Colophon

A note added at the end of a book.

Conditional Text

A FrameMaker term for a labeled section of text that can be hidden from view.

CR

Carriage Return

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet.

A HTML style sheet standard supported to various degrees by version 4+ browsers.

Database Publishing

Creating documents on the fly by using SQL queries to extract text from a database. If you are serious about setting up a web site with more than 10 pages, then database publishing is the only way to go.

DCD - Document Content Description

An XML file containing a set of properties used to constrain: (1) The types of elements and names of attributes that may appear in an XML document; (2) The contents of the elements; (3) The values of the attributes.