Adobe has released beta packs for DITA that extend the XML capabilities of FrameMaker 7.2 by adding support for core features of DITA. It consists of a set of plug-ins combined with a set of structure applications, which together provide core tools for DITA authoring and publishing.

Justin Darley is speaking at “Online Help Conference – Europe 2006”, which is being be held this week in Manchester. Ellis Pratt will be attending the STC’s Region 2 conference “Making Cents of Making Sense: Technical Communications and Business”. It is being held 13-14 October, in London. Ellis will be speaking at the ISTC conference… Read more »

News on RoboHelp for Technical Authors. Last month, we mentioned Adobe’s updated FAQs in our newsletter, but forgot to say there was a FAQ on RoboHelp. Apparently, the next major RoboHelp release is now planned for the first half of 2007, and you can submit new feature requests through the link on the FAQ page…. Read more »

We’ve produced another set of tips. This time it’s 10 tips on implementing a single sourcing solution. I’m still a little nervous that the automatic response system isn’t working perfectly, so if anyone requests the article and doesn’t receive an email within 24 hours please email me and let me know. Ginny is back from… Read more »

There seems to be an intermittent problem with the automated response system that handles the requests for our “12 tips to hiring a technical author”. So we’re going to see if we can fix it this afternoon.