RE: Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation by Kurt Ament

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>]

Now, I've done linear to modular more or less by guess and by golly, and THAT doesn't seem to pose anywhere near as much of a problem as trying to turn modular help text into a manual.

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From: France Baril [mailto:France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:33 AM
Subject: Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation by Kurt Ament


When I got to my new job, all documentation was linear. I am reorganizing it in modules with the intent to go XML (with DITA) and then single-source. I'm more than half way through...

I was thinking of buying Ament's book to see if my process is going "by the book"... Any comment on the book? Is going "by the book" going by Ament's book?

Thanks for your input.

France Baril
Rédactrice Technique / Technical Writer 
IXIASOFT 
(514) 279-4942 
france -dot- baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com 

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