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Prepared by © 2010 Lasselle-Ramsay
Presented by
Just Enough XMetaL
David Trousdale,
Senior Content & Learning Consultant
A Day in the Life of a Tech Writer
DRATS! SHIPPING
TOMORROW AND
MARKETING JUST
CHANGED THE PRODUCT
NAME AGAIN?!?!
ARRRRRGHHH!! NOW
THEY WANT ONLINE
HELP? THAT WASN’T
IN THE DOC PLAN!
8 AM
12 Noon
Just Enough XMetaL
• XMetaL + DITA
– Building Content
– Organizing Content
– Managing Content
• Tools and Workflow
• Challenges Revisited
• Conclusion
Tour de XMetaL: Basic Window Panes
Resource
Manager
Document
View
Attribute
Inspector
Element
List
DITA Building Blocks: Topics and Maps
• Topics – Containers for Content; Content Units
– Task
– Concept
– Reference
– Generic Topic
• Maps – Collections of Topics; Content Organizers
– Ditamap (Generic)
– Bookmap
Topics: Units of Content
Content Building Blocks: Task Topic,
Normal View
Content Building Blocks: Task Topic,
Tags-on
Elements
• Task
• Title
• Short
description
• Task body
• Step
• Step result
• Command
Content Building Blocks: Concept Topic,
Tags-on
Elements
• Concept
• Title
• Concept
body
• Paragraph
• Table
• Un-num-
bered list
• Image
Content Building Blocks: Reference
Topic, Tags-on
Elements
• Reference
• Title
• Short
description
• Prologue
• Reference
body
• Simple table
Content Repository
Organizing Content: Maps
Organizing Content: Ditamap
Organizing Content: DITA bookmap
DITA bookmap
in XMetaL’s
Resource
Manager pane
• Front matter
• Chapters
• Sections
• Back matter
• Index
Organizing Content
• Traditional document:
integrated and linear
• DITA map or bookmap:
modular and non-linear
Element List
Element List
Attribute Inspector
Attribute Inspector
Reuse and Referencing Content
Reused
unnumbered
list
• Conref
• Maintained
cross
reference
Editing and Authoring
• Selecting tags &
text
• Finding and
replacing
• Spell check
• Thesaurus
• Tracking changes
• XMetaL Reviewer
• Validation
• Inserting elements
• Inserting
comments
Tools and Workflow
About task
(background)
Before you start
task (preliminaries)
Starting Task
(procedure)
Error with Task
(troubleshooting)
Task Image
(graphic)
Content
Elements
Transformation
Templates
Printed
User’s Guide
PDF
User’s Guide
Quick
Guide
Online
Help
Content
Repository
Structured
Conclusion
 Why am I doing this?
 What do I need to do this?
 How do I do this? WHAT DO I
DO NEXT?
Contact
David Trousdale
Lasselle Ramsay, Inc.
david.trousdale@lr.com
(650) 224-4559
www.LR.com

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