On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> we've already done the work >> of converting much of the OOo help to DITA. > > Is there a software grant coming? >
It is worth considering. But I'm not going to face that corporate red tape merely on speculation that this might be useful. Let's first discuss whether the DITA approach seems reasonable. I think it is important for content authors to be aware that this would be writing documentation with tags, similar to HTML. Good HTML. But this structure would give us loads of flexibility for how we structure the content, combine it is different ways, and publish it. You can get a flavor of DITA here: http://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/DITA/index.html Tags are off-putting to some people who just want to work in a WYSIWYG fashion, so I wanted to check. One possible way of working is to accept raw content in any reasonable format, ODF, DOC, HTML, yellow crayon on a napkin, etc., and then have a manual cut & paste process to get that into DITA initially, and then maintain it that way going forward. > Regards, > Dave >
