We are disappointed to inform you that the July 18, DITA In A Day Production workshop has been cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
We apologize for the inconvenience and want to let you know that your programming committee is working to reschedule the DITA workshop.
| Date: | Saturday, July 18, 2009 |
| Networking: | 8:30 AM |
| Presentation: | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Topic: | DITA In a Day: Production |
| Speaker: | Leigh White
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| Speaker Bio: | Leigh White is a technical communicator with over 15 years of experience as a content creator, content manager, and production coordinator. One of her primary interests is exploring ways that small technical publications groups can leverage existing tools and improve processes to maximize the reuse of their content, improve their efficiency, increase their offerings and save their sanity. To accomplish these goals, Leigh advocates that effective technical communicators need to be more than writers; they need to be part programmer, part designer and part project manager. She is also a devotee of XML and structured documentation and she believes that DITA might just save the world. Her other professional interests include DTD and XSLT design, FrameMaker template design, and relational database design for small, proprietary content management systems. When she is not parked in front of a computer, Leigh enjoys reading, running, hiking, bouldering, photography, motorcycles and a variety of other rather dangerous activities. |
| Cost: | Members $50, Non-Members $85, Students $25 |
| Location: | CANCELLED
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| Overview: | "So I've got a pile of DITA topics. Now what?" This full-day workshop shows you the different ways you can assemble topics for different audiences and outputs. The focus is on hardcopy/PDF output and HTML output. The day begins with a detailed hands-on look at ditamaps, the building blocks of your publications. You'll learn how to assemble topics and set ditamap-level attributes that enable you to customize the output. In addition, you'll create ditaval files and use them to filter the output to include or exclude certain content based on attribute values. Next, the workshop introduces you to the FO Plug-in (for PDF generation) and covers some of the most common customization issues. You'll then learn about some of the HTML formats, such as XHTML, HTML Help, Web Help, JavaHelp and Eclipse Help. Finally, the workshop takes you through the DITA Open Toolkit (OTK), explaining the major parts and how each works, including stylesheets and build files. Attendees are writers, editors, content managers—anyone who needs to create modular, reusable, structured documentation. Ideally, attendees should have a basic knowledge of the principles of XML and topic-based, structured authoring, though such knowledge is not absolutely necessary. Computers and software are provided. |
