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Self on Help
Context Sensitivity
I have been giving some thought to the ways in which Help may be invoked by a software application. The ways I could think of were:
The DITA Caper
Converting FrameMaker content to DITA (brief)
FrameMaker 8 includes DITA support, and works well for creating new content. Converting existing FrameMaker content poses a few challenges. One of these challenges, converting FrameMaker cross references to Structured FrameMaker cross reference elements, is addressed herein.
Bob Doyle
DITA Newsletter 1.6
drmacro
Using DITA For Narrative Documents
I have posted some thoughts on using DITA for narrative documents on the Really Strategies blog: http://blog.reallysi.com/2008/01/dita-applicatio.html
The executive summary is:
By ignoring the existence of the <section> element you quickly realize that nested topics can be used just fine to represent narrative documents with arbitrarily deep nesting of divisions. This potentially opens up a whole class of documents of particular interest to Publishers that might otherwise not seem to be good candidates for ditification.
Keeping DITA simple
DITA OpenToolkit Web GUI
When thinking in terms of technical writing, one might at times confuse the people involved with documenting the software with those actually writing it.
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