Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Writer]

I should also mention that when I was getting started with DITA, I took a course about DITA in FM at Front Runner in Toronto (http://www.front-runner.com/) that was taught by Bernard Aschwanden. Since then, he's written a book about learning DITA (with tutorials): http://www.publishingsmarter.com/resources/books-and-articles/framemaker

Bernard did a good job with the course; I'm sure the book would be very handy for someone learning DITA.

Nadine



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> To: Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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> Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
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>> The problem is that "creating a DITA project" in FrameMaker is
>       really no different than doing that in any other XML authoring
>       tool. You do need to understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but
>       DITA is DITA regardless of the tool.
> 
> 
> Agreed. What might be particular to FM is how to create output such as PDFs, the 
> topic templates, and the EDD (and perhaps some of its quirks with how it handles 
> attribute filtering).
> 
> 
> I recommend this book for becoming familiar with DITA: 
> http://comtech-serv.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_3&products_id=10
> 
> Nadine
>