Flare vs DITA

[Gillian Flato]

Thanks everyone.

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’ve used DITA for about two years authoring with Oxygen and EasyDITA. I outsourced my script writing to a third party. That’s the problem with DITA. To get the docs and help to look professional, you have to outsource script writing and that’s expensive. 

I was looking for cheaper alternatives. I have used DITA-FMx and I may go that route.

I just wanted to know of Flare was a better alternative to structured Frame with DITA-FMx

Thanks
Gillian


> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
> 
> You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to,
> since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading
> level).
> 
> Flare templates are extremely customizable.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gillian Flato <gill6034 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> How does Flare compare to DITA? It seems like you get all of the advantages of topic-baesd authoring, without having to have someone write scripts for you. Has anyone tried modifying their templates? How easy or difficult is that. How is their help file making product?