Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-08 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Sharan, Though reassured about DITA, I'm in the same mood for now... We have already stuff ready and Tom Burns's work with Webhelp was looking good, surely far better than what we render at the moment... Jacques Le 08/06/2015 09:06, Sharan Foga a écrit : Hi All I've been looking at the

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-08 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi All I've been looking at the references and yes it does seem quite a powerful tool but I think it might be a bit too much for what we want to achieve for the online help. One of the references did highlight that if the objective is context sensitive help then DITA may not be the most

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
I agree that a lot of the official DITA stuff is pretty intimidating since the early adopters where heavy duty tech writers from IBM who had pretty serious expert teams involved. It is actually a lot simpler. If you look at my demo and notes, you can see that it is pretty simple to use if you

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-06 Thread Jacques Le Roux
OK DITA seems powerful but not an easy tool to work with (not only because of XML verbosity but also tags and concepts to learn) Sincerely the examples in http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture frightens me a bit (and remembers me how verbose is XML) We would need

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-06 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 06/06/2015 23:33, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : OK DITA seems powerful but not an easy tool to work with (not only because of XML verbosity but also tags and concepts to learn) Sincerely the examples in http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture frightens me a bit (and

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
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

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
I use - Eclipse/STS for authoring http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=206 - Maven with DITA-OT for publishing in Eclipse - Subversion for SCM - Bugzilla for issue tracking This is all integrated into Eclipse. Ron On 05/06/2015 9:15 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote: Hi Ron, DITA-OT ! :)

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
Have you done a lot of branding and customizing the output from DITA-OT? I have not done anything yet but I will need to do this to make a nice looking manual. I want to do a bit of branding and I need to change the fonts in my code examples since most don't fit the width of the blocks and the

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
What tools are you using? Ron On 05/06/2015 4:38 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote: 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

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Ron, DITA-OT ! :) Taher Alkhateeb - Original Message - From: Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Friday, 5 June, 2015 4:13:39 PM Subject: Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help What tools are you using? Ron On 05/06/2015

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
I have found another great reference for planning a DITA project in order to maximize the possibilities for reuse. http://www.stilo.com/article-dita-reuse-conversion-together/ It is useful reading if you want reverse engineer some ideas about where the big benefits will come from DITA. For

Re: References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-05 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Ron, You are way ahead of me. I'm still taking baby steps. It's a good solution though. On Jun 5, 2015 4:34 PM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: Have you done a lot of branding and customizing the output from DITA-OT? I have not done anything yet but I will need to do

References for DITA as a tool for on-line help

2015-06-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
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 -