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 ----- Original Message ----- > From: Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca> > To: Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com>; "framers at > lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:04:29 PM > Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10 > > > >> 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 >
