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Introduction to DITA

Presentation given by Kristen James Eberlein at DITA TECHCOMM 2008.

"New to DITA? This session will include a technical overview of DITA, as well as information about its history and why it is the XML authoring and content-management standard of choice for so many companies. Expect to leave the session with an understanding of both the key concepts of DITA and what it promises in regard to increased productivity and cost savings."

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FrameMaker 8 and DITA expert needed to tutor UCSC student

A DITA expert who uses FrameMaker 8 is needed to tutor a technical writer who is new to DITA and who is enrolled in an online DITA authoring course at the UCSC Extension.

The tutor must know how to get FM to work with the DITA OTK 1.4.2.1 and JRE 6. Must also be able to troubleshoot.

The tutor is needed for three upcoming Saturdays: Nov. 8, 15, and 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tutoring will be done in a home office in the Blossom Valley neighborhood of San Jose.

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Stilo to Preview Stilo Migrate at tcworld Conference and Trade Fair 2008

If you are planning to attend the tcworld Conference and Trade Fair in Wiesbaden, Germany, next week - we invite you to visit out stand - No 154 - where we will be previewing Stilo Migrate, the world’s first on-demand content migration service.  For organisations that need to convert Word and FrameMaker documents to XML DITA, Stilo Migrate provides a low-cost, pay-as-you-use service, available online 24/7.

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Quadralay Introduces Publish To Wiki Function

Reported by FierceContentManagement

Quadralay has just released ePublisher Pro 2008.3. What makes this release interesting is the new ability to publish your source directly to a Wiki. 

If your company has been producing source in Frame, Word or DITA XML, you can use ePublisher Pro 2008 to publish directly to a Wiki, as well as a variety of other web and standard online help formats. 

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MadCap Does DITA

In a 2007 EContent column, I compared MadCap Flare to Adobe RoboHelp and suggested they were moving toward XML and perhaps even DITA.

Now MadCap Software has announced a beta program and road map that will integrate DITA XML into several MadCap products, including Flare, Blaze, Analyzer, Lingo, X-Edit, and the forthcoming Team Server.. The suite of tools will allow creating, managing, translating, and publishing DITA content without third-party tools like the DITA Open Toolkit.

See MadCap's DITA page for more details.

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