Standalone, DITA Editor with Single Source Publishing
Archive - May 6, 2008
Inmedius® Introduces DITA Storm™ Desktop
Inmedius DITA Storm™ Desktop
Standalone, DITA Editor with Single Source Publishing Users benefit from WYSIWYG editing capabilities while creating DITA documents in a self-contained environment on a single workstation. With an intuitive authoring environment and on-demand validation, authors with little or no XML or DITA knowledge can easily author DITA-compliant documentation. Installed locally on the end user’s computer, files are opened, edited, saved and published from a local or network drive, regardless of Internet connectivity. Inmedius® DITA Storm™
Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution
Quark announced that they are "Revolutionizing Publishing. Again" with the introduction of their Dynamic Publishing Solution.
The DPS is an integration of authoring, managing, and publishing tools that will likely cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and put Quark in competition with companies that offer automated publishing solutions. Their focus will not be tech docs, but high fidelity design/layout where dynamic content is required.
DITA Newsletter 1.10
task headings
When naming tasks, a technique I used and liked for a product I worked on was to name the heading “<noun>, <verb phrase>”.
My rationale is that users always know what object they are trying to work with, but they don’t always think with the same verbs in mind as the author. By putting the noun first, the tasks are automatically organized in the TOC by object and not by verb. The reader can then scan the TOC rather than having to read each task heading.