DITA for training materials?

[Art Campbell]

I think the key question is whether they're going to resuse it in the
future, even if they don't now.

If they're not planning on changes though, I agree with you; it'd be
more overhead with no payback.

Art

On 5/11/07, Pat Christenson <pxenson at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a client who wants to move from Word to FrameMaker for their
> training materials. Someone else told them they should go to
> Structured FrameMaker/DITA. The training  group has only one output
> for their materials - print. They don't reuse the materials except to
> revise them with software updates.
>
> Does Structured FM/DITA offer any benefit to such a group? I know
> it's a lot more overhead getting it set up and with just one output
> and no multipurposing, I don't see the usefulness.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat

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