Repurposing your DITA content investment has never been simpler! We, at DITALabs, would like to introduce our awesome office integration suite of products. Easily search and reuse your DITA topics and maps from MS Word, Outlook and powerpoint. Our system integrates with existing content management systems, including Alfresco, MS Sharepoint and even your file system!

It enables you to deliver the right information, to the right people, in a fraction of the time. This and more using the products you already know.

Some benefits include:

Highlights:

The new Link tool has been designed to allow quickly
creating navigation links (e.g. DITA xref and link
elements).

While very convenient to use when editing a monolithic
document, the Link tool really shines when it comes to
creating navigation links in the context of a modular
document (modular DocBook book, DITA map or bookmap, etc).

More information:

SiberLogic has released a new white paper describing our DITA Edition of SiberSafe CMS with XMetaL XML integration. This integration extends XMetaL authoring into a complete, cohesive, and cost-effective XML content management environment for technical documents. The SiberSafe/XMetaL integration offers standard SiberSafe functionality directly from XMetaL via menus and context-sensitive commands. SiberSafe is tightly integrated with the latest version, XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0.

Range of standard input formats extended from Word and FrameMaker to include Interleaf, InDesign and Quark.  Output to any XML or markup, including DITA, DocBook, ATA, S1000D and EPUB.

 

When people author content in Word, they often use the infamous (but popular) "Bullets" and "Numbering" buttons to create bulleted and numbered lists, respectively. This will put the style named "List Paragraph" on the text. When you open the Word file in FrameMaker, you will see that the bullets and numbering has been preserved. The FrameMaker paratag is still "List Paragraph", but different autonumbering schemes have been used:

•        \b\t for the bulleted lists