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.
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.
DITA-OT 1.4.2.1 was released May 6, 2008. It is a patched version of DITA-OT 1.4.2 which fixes a problem with XHTML generated from the command line for the Eclipse Help System. Users that do not build output for Eclipse will see no difference between this version and the 1.4.2 version; users that build their output from within an Eclipse environment are also unaffected.
Release 1.4.2.1 comes in three versions:
