atw: Re: Replacing Word (Long...)
- From: "Anthony Self" <ASelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:28:02 +1000
Hi everyone
Interesting conversation.
Just to clarify, though, Author-it supports some DITA-like features, but
is not a DITA authoring tool. It uses a proprietary format that only
allows "lossless" interchange with other Author-it repositories. It has
a very limited DITA export function, and it allows you to build
structured content models similar to those of DITA. Apart from that, it
has no DITA functionality.
There are many really good DITA authoring tools, but Author-it is not
one of them. That's not to say that Author-it is not a good authoring
tool. It is. But it is not a DITA tool, and users cannot therefore take
advantage of many of the benefits that DITA offers to technical
communicators.
Tony Self
>>> Rhonda Bracey 28/04/11 11:00 AM >>>
Answer: Author-it
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rosemary
O'Donoghue
Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2011 8:40 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Replacing Word (Long...)
Thanks, Ken. What I*m wondering is if someone has made DITA (or another
tool that achieves the same thing) user-friendly, such that you don*t
need to be too IT-literate to use it. In a lot of the places where I*ve
worked, some text (such as a safety warning) is re-used in several
documents. When changes are made to the wording (as invariably happens),
it becomes a labour-intensive nightmare to update the myriad of
documents containing that text. Or, for example, if the company is taken
over by another, and logo changes are required on all documents, can
document management systems automate that change? I*m wondering if there
is a product out there that does these sorts of things, or whether
someone needs to create one.
Because so many people are relatively comfortable with MS Word, it seems
to me that the system should at least *appear* to work like Word, but
with added features.
Rosemary O*Donoghue
TechWriting
Clarity out of Complexity
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