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ebenton1-Visitor
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January 26, 2011
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FOSI editing

  • January 26, 2011
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Never mind. I found it in preferences. There is an option to "Remove Arbortext PIs on save".

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    SindyYoung1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 26, 2011
    Thanks Ed. Saved me some money you did.
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    ptc-30501501-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 26, 2011
    Would you recommend a simple DTD or schema for a simple book like the operators manual in your car? Probably a good Arbortext one out there I just need to stumble across. Trying a commercial book and am trying to get away from the overly-complex Army-type.

    Eventually it would be imported into an S1000D system but there is neither the time nor the budget to worry about that now.

    Thanks,

    John T. Jarrett CDT
    Senior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support,Land & Armaments/Global Tactical Systems

    T832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376| x1147 | -
    BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
    www.baesystems.com
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    bibach1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 26, 2011
    When I need a document to "play" with in Editor, I usually go with the
    Arbortext-supplied version of Docbook. However, for a project with a
    little more scope, particularly one intended for the sort of modular
    maintenance approach espoused by S1000D, I think it would be only
    moderately more work, initially, to start a DITA bookmap and create
    concept, reference and task topics as needed. These topics should
    readily map to S1000D data modules, while the bookmap would be
    translated to whatever form your S1000D system uses to organize
    modules into a print publication.

    -Brandon Smiley Happy


    On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Jarrett, John T (US SSA)
    <-> wrote:
    > Would you recommend a simple DTD or schema for a simple book like the operators manual in your car? Probably a good Arbortext one out there I just need to stumble across. Trying a commercial book and am trying to get away from the overly-complex Army-type.
    >
    > Eventually it would be imported into an S1000D system but there is neither the time nor the budget to worry about that now.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > John T. Jarrett CDT
    > Senior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support,Land & Armaments/Global Tactical Systems
    >
    > T832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376| x1147 | -
    > BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
    > www.baesystems.com
    >
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    lfraley1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 26, 2011
    If you have 5.4, you might try the SMA (DITA specialization). It's got
    samples that might be reasonable starting points.

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    ptc-9533431-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 26, 2011
    I agree. Going along with DITA is closer to the S1000D design. It has some
    quirks of its own and features you would probably want to stay away from
    if you intend to go to S1000D. The good thing about it is the DITA Open
    Toolkit. With that you can complie your output to PDF or HTML help without
    having to buy anything.

    Not sure what tools you have from PTC, but if you have PE or digital media
    publisher you could get similar outputs from that as well. OT will have
    xsl/xslt stylesheets that you can tweak directly, the PTC products I
    belive use Styler stylesheets.

    ..dan

    > When I need a document to "play" with in Editor, I usually go with the
    > Arbortext-supplied version of Docbook. However, for a project with a
    > little more scope, particularly one intended for the sort of modular
    > maintenance approach espoused by S1000D, I think it would be only
    > moderately more work, initially, to start a DITA bookmap and create
    > concept, reference and task topics as needed. These topics should
    > readily map to S1000D data modules, while the bookmap would be
    > translated to whatever form your S1000D system uses to organize
    > modules into a print publication.
    >
    > -Brandon Smiley Happy
    >
    >
    > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Jarrett, John T (US SSA)
    > <-> wrote:
    >> Would you recommend a simple DTD or schema for a simple book like the
    >> operators manual in your car? Probably a good Arbortext one out there I
    >> just need to stumble across. Trying a commercial book and am trying to
    >> get away from the overly-complex Army-type.
    >>
    >> Eventually it would be imported into an S1000D system but there is
    >> neither the time nor the budget to worry about that now.
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> John T. Jarrett CDT
    >> Senior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support,Land &
    >> Armaments/Global Tactical Systems
    >>
    >> T832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376| x1147 |
    >> -
    >> BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
    >> www.baesystems.com
    >>
    >
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 27, 2011
    For the record, these PIs are used by the style panels interface. They are
    inserted when the FOSI is opened in the FOSI style panels interface and then
    saved in either interface. PIs are inserted by the FOSI tagged
    interface.

    Suzanne Napoleon
    "WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"
    www.FOSIexpert.com


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    ptc-30501501-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 27, 2011
    Is the automotive DTD from SAE apparently formerly called J2008 and/or T2008 dead? References in Google show it right up until 2004, then nothing. Not found under that name on their website, either.

    John T. Jarrett CDT
    Senior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical Systems

    T 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->
    BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
    www.baesystems.com
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    lfraley1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 27, 2011
    Hi John,

    I think I have a copy. I'll dig it out and send it to you when I find it.

    Liz

    On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Jarrett, John T (US SSA)
    <-> wrote:
    > Is the automotive DTD from SAE apparently formerly called J2008 and/or T2008
    > dead? References in Google show it right up until 2004, then nothing. Not
    > found under that name on their website, either.
    >
    >
    >
    > John T. Jarrett CDT
    >
    > Senior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global
    > Tactical Systems
    >
    >
    >
    > T 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 |
    > -
    >
    > BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
    >
    > www.baesystems.com
    >
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