S
Single-Sourcing
"Single-Sourcing" is a fancy term that means something very simple—to produce multiple
outputs from one source.
Snippet
A pre-set chunk of content that you can use in your project over and over. Snippets are sim-
ilar to variables, but snippets are used for longer chunks of content that you can format just as
you would any other content in your topic. In snippets, you can also insert tables, pictures,
and whatever else can be included in a normal topic.
Span
A tag that is used to group inline elements to format them with styles. A span tag doesn't per-
form any specific action; it simply holds the attributes (e.g., font size, color, font family) that
you apply to inline content.
standard deviation
Standard deviation describes how closely a group of datra points are clustered around the
average of those data points. The smaller the standard deviation, the better the quality of the
data collected.
Style
An element that contain pre-set formatting properties. You can apply style classes to your con-
tent to change the way it looks. Using style classes instead of direct (or "inline") formatting
helps you work faster, more efficiently, and with more consistency in your topics. If you need
to make changes to the formatting in the future, you do not need to change the formatting in
each topic (as you would with direct formatting). Instead, you only need to change the format-
ting properties for that style in the appropriate stylesheet.
T
Table
A group of intersecting columns and rows that you can add to a topic for various purposes,
such as comparing one thing with another or giving field descriptions for a software dialog.
Target
One "instance" of an output type. When you build your final output, you are essentially build-
ing one or more of the targets in your project.
Text snippet
A snippet that is created out of a portion of one paragraph.
Thermal growth
Movement of shaft centerlines associated with or due to a change in machinery temperature
between the idle and operating conditions.
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