This is a short reminder that it’s not too late to sign up for our webinar on converting documents from Microsoft Word to DITA. This webinar is the second in our series of webinars co-presented with JustSystems on “Things to Consider When Moving to DITA.” … Read More
New Webinar Series: Things to consider when moving to DITA
Scriptorium and JustSystems are announcing a three-webinar series on preparing to use DITA. The first two webinars in the series describe the age-old problem of converting legacy content into DITA. Because a great deal of unstructured content is in either Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word, … Read More
Don’t type, drag to the cmd window
I spend a good deal of time with a Windows cmd.exe window open on my desktop. If I’m not running the DITA OT, I’m testing some Perl script, or Ant, or Python, or who knows. A few years ago (in the Windows 98 days), I … Read More
Looking Fear Straight in the Eye
Have you ever been really scared? I don’t mean just the Halloween kinda scared, but really scared. That’s how I felt at the Burlington Marriott when the hotel employee delivered the box containing the workbooks for my Introduction to XMetaL and DITA workshop. He stood … Read More
An incomplete puzzle: DITA OT stylesheets
A recent post on the dita-users Yahoo group asked how to customize the DITA OT stylesheets in view of the fact that there isn’t much documentation available. From my work customizing and otherwise perverting the DITA OT, I can sympathize with these frustrations. When I … Read More