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Jim Owens

Learning DITA while maintaining unstructured documents

We need time and resources to identify new technologies and methods, evaluate them, and adopt the ones that show promise. At the same time, we need to continue developing and delivering information to customers using our traditional tools. Is there a way forward that offers minimal disruption to our current processes?

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DITA Open Toolkit patch release 1.3.1 discussions

This topic is for news and comments related to the first planned patch release for DITA OT 1.3, which will be called 1.3.1.  Bugs that cannot be reproduced or are demoted in priority may not be in the final list.

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Jim Owens

Getting from here to there

This is the story of a typical software documentation shop. We use unstructured Frame and WebWorks.  We deliver PDF and CHM. We deliver in several languages. We deliver customized documents for different markets. We barely have enough time and people as it is -- and there are new products, languages, and markets on the way.

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shudson310

Custom DITA Search

I've created a custom search engine for all things DITA using the Google Co-op search. The search engine homepage is: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015401811188033694464%3Ahu_dvbft4pu

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tmkuster

My other blog

I havent' been doing anything here because I have a blog at www.tedtedted.com/category/geekery where I cogitate about tech-writer stuff. Feel free to join me there.

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