Structured FM and DITA

[Writer]

You'll probably get a tonne of advice, so I'll keep mine brief.

I found this book really useful when I was getting started: Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (http://www.comtech-serv.com/dita2.shtml#book).

FrameMaker 9 handles DITA better than FrameMaker 8 (I think I saw you ask a question before about FM 8). I don't know if FM 10 has any advantages over FM 9 for DITA authoring.

Finally, consider what your output needs are and what tool best suits your needs and budget. I've been using WebWorks ePublisher to create CHM help, Web help, and now PDFs from DITA. It handles DITA nicely. There are other tools, too, like Dita2Go and DITA Open Toolkit, but I don't know a lot about them.

Nadine

--- On Wed, 1/26/11, VLM TechSubs <TechSubs at VibrantLivingMinistries.org> wrote:

> From: VLM TechSubs <TechSubs at VibrantLivingMinistries.org>
> Subject: Structured FM and DITA
> To: "Framers" <Framers at Lists.FrameUsers.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 4:36 PM
> Hi everyone,
>  
> Thinking here about moving from unstructured FM to
> structured, and I realize
> that I don't know what DITA even is, how it is related to
> structured FM,
> etc. I would be grateful for pointers in the direction of
> good, introductory
> reading in these topics, particularly DITA. Does not have
> to be
> Frame-specific, I'm interested in understanding a bit about
> the whole
> concept and mechanism.
>  
> Thank you kindly,
> Elchanan
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