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Recent items from Half Notes, AHA! Software’s blog.

One memorable quatrain

The American Naturalist poet Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959) wrote and published verse throughout her life, and is remembered for just four lines. That’s the way to do it.

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Press Release Writer

It was just another old piece of Javascript code lying around in the lab. Then Dr. Read put it up on the bench, applied the electrodes, irrigated the carcase with PHP, and threw the switch...

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Writing lessons from Saltbush Bill

As an example of how elegantly a good writer can handle dry material while still relaying its meaning in detail, here are the opening lines of Banjo Paterson’s ballad, “Saltbush Bill”.

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Welcome to AhaText.com!

Thanks for visiting our site. The spectrum of text-related services that we offer includes technical and expository writing, proof-reading and editing, localization and document processing. With over twenty years’ experience in writing and editing books, magazines, websites and software documentation, we stand ready to provide expert, competitively-priced assistance whatever your text needs may be.

Please contact us to discuss your requirements for tasks like these:

  • Proof-reading your website, documentation, term-paper or business report.
  • You may only have one chance to make your case to colleagues, superiors, or the public at large. Don’t waste it. Our expert and timely review will point up any issues in your text so that you can correct them before it’s too late.

  • Editing your documents for spelling, grammar and clarity of expression.
  • Spelling mistakes and grammatical slips are needless blemishes. Though small individually, their cumulative impact can be severe. Even worse are obscure or ambiguous passages that can easily slip unnoticed into your documents, yet may undermine both the import of your message and your reputation as a communicator. Light editing (short of rewriting) can remedy these problems without distorting the style and tone of your text.

  • Rewriting your original document draft.
  • Even when the necessary skills are available, time or other pressures may not allow you to give your documents the kind of polish you would like your reading audience to associate with your name. Cutting corners at the writing stage is not likely to result in a favorable impression when your work is read. By leaving the task of final composition to us, you can be confident that it will be carried out professionally and with dispatch.

  • Writing to your specification or outline.
  • As noted above, we have extensive experience in key areas such as software documentation and website authoring. Working in consultation with your technical and marketing staff, we can produce crisp, readable, well-structured documents detailing your product or service. Your users need the full story, written to a high standard of clarity and without wasted words. We’ll help you provide that.

  • Localization and processing of software documentation and like material.
  • These days, adapting your products to international markets is increasingly critical to success, but localizing your documentation can be a difficult challenge — particularly when it comes to updating and maintenance over multiple release cycles. Our proprietary Mayday software is designed to simplify these tasks in a number of ways, and features a built-in patching mechanism that maintains the integrity of your localized documents while eliminating the needless effort and expense of redundant translation.