Great resources Ron. Thank you for sharing. FYI I find DITA-OT to be nice and powerful. I'm beginning to do some of our own documentation on it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Wheeler" <rwhee...@artifact-software.com> To: "dev" <dev@ofbiz.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, 4 June, 2015 6:14:56 PM Subject: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help http://www.slideshare.net/abelsp/using-dita-for-online-help Slideshare has a lot of other presentations on DITA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture Short with Hello World example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_help Alternatives for producing on-line help - DocBooks and DITA considered together since they are closely related http://www.ditawriter.com/sample-dita-produced-output/ Has links to actual documents produced from DITA sources. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/30122/DHSC_BestPractices_November20_rdr.pdf exhaustive article on ways to deliver help authored by DITA tools. It shows that an investment in DITA content will always be protected even if the OFBiz UI and help delivery technology changes. Table of Contents *Introduction to the DITA Help Best Practices Guide* *Developing DITA-based Help for Existing Help Environments* -Arbortext Digital Media Publisher -Eclipse Help -CSHelp Plug-in -Eclipse_CSH Plug-in for Dynamic Context-Sensitive Help -Eclipse Help -Leximation AIR Help Plug-in -Microsoft HTMLHelp -Context-Sensitive Help using the Enhanced HTML (htmlhelp2) Plug-In -The DITA Open Toolkit HTMLHelp Transform *Developing Custom DITA-based Help Systems** *-DHTML Effects in HTML Generated from DITA -DITA-OT Plug-ins -HTMLSearch Plug-in -TOCJS and TOCJSBIS Plug-ins -Dynamic Rendering of DITA into XHTML -JavaScript-Based Context Sensitive Help -WinANT Options Supporting HTML-Based Output -WinANT Options Supporting Microsoft® HTML Help *Developing DITA-based Help for Existing Help Authoring Tools** *-Converting DITA Content to WebHelp using RoboHelp® There are a lot more articles on using DITA content in On-line help. The same content is available for other uses. Ron -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102
