Re: DITA for training materials?

2007-05-11 Thread Art Campbell
I think the key question is whether they're going to resuse it in the future, even if they don't now. If they're not planning on changes though, I agree with you; it'd be more overhead with no payback. Art On 5/11/07, Pat Christenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client who wants to move

Re: DITA for training materials?

2007-05-11 Thread Scott Prentice
Structured FM (regardless of the data model) can offer benefits with regard to consistency and control. There have recently been a number of threads on this subject. Whether DITA offers any specific advantages over another data model is yet to be seen. Even though your client may not seem to

DITA for training materials?

2007-05-11 Thread Pat Christenson
I have a client who wants to move from Word to FrameMaker for their training materials. Someone else told them they should go to Structured FrameMaker/DITA. The training group has only one output for their materials - print. They don't reuse the materials except to revise them with

DITA for training materials?

2007-05-11 Thread Art Campbell
I think the key question is whether they're going to resuse it in the future, even if they don't now. If they're not planning on changes though, I agree with you; it'd be more overhead with no payback. Art On 5/11/07, Pat Christenson wrote: > I have a client who wants to move from Word to

DITA for training materials?

2007-05-11 Thread Scott Prentice
Structured FM (regardless of the data model) can offer benefits with regard to consistency and control. There have recently been a number of threads on this subject. Whether DITA offers any specific advantages over another data model is yet to be seen. Even though your client may not seem to