Скачать или смотреть From zero to DITA-OT hero – a story of a DITA-OT implementation in a small documentation team

So you just got a new job as a technical writer in a modern, high-tech company. They want to move away from MS Word documentation to a structured documentation but have no idea how to do it and guess what – you are the person who will do it from beginning to the end! The problem is you don’t even know how to start... You have been doing documentation in Adobe InDesign and MS Word so far. You only heard about this DITA thing and heard it’s quite cool but haven’t done any work with it. In addition, your teammate is about to retire and you are soon to learn that the Internet is NOT full of easy-access information about DITA-OT.

Embark with me on this exciting journey of big successes and many challenges in setting up a working environment to write and publish user documentation with DITA and DITA-OT.

A light-hearted view on learning DITA and DITA Open Toolkit from scratch while trying to prove to your new employer that yes, structured documentation is the best solution and it will bring cost savings.