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The first time I researched migrating to DocBook or DITA, they seemed
like just formalization of the way I had been writing anyway. After we
decided it would not be cost-effective, I made a few minor changes to
our FrameMaker template to ensure that migration would be as simple as
possible.
Maybe I've just had no exposure to old-school content. When people
talk about topic-based writing as something new and different, I have
trouble imagining out what they'd been doing before.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Janoff, Steven
<Steven -dot- Janoff -at- hologic -dot- com> wrote:
> No matter how you slice it, there are two major tasks in this whole endeavor: converting "old school" content into contemporary, structured content (task/concept/reference topic or similar, with everything that entails), and then tagging a la DITA/XML.
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