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DITA is becoming very serious business. There’s now a DITA Help subcommittee at OASIS. The purpose of the group is four-fold, but their most important goal in my opinion is to: remove the obstacles to effective use of DITA for Help systems through the creation of best practice guidelines, cookbooks

This is a guest post by Daniel Ng, a technical writer in Malaysia. Daniel mentioned an interesting article he’d read on the possible return of Corel Ventura, and I asked him to expand his thoughts in a guest post. A few months ago, a particular reply in a long-running Techwhirler mailing list discussion on minimalism and Information Mapping in documentation caught my attention.

Jerome Hatt was a very modern man for the 17th century. When he earned his diploma in brewing and coopery he wasted no time opening a small brewery in the Brasserie du Canon, just a few steps from the cathedral in Strasbourg. It was a superior position in what was, at that time, one of the more elegant towns in France.

Madcap Software issued a press release today, and all I have to say is wow! As Sharon Burton of Madcap mentioned in her blog: We also have some product announcements. I’m not saying anything but this is going to really upset the competitors in the industry.