I’ve figured out a way to automate DITA builds where you just drop a zip file of your DITA source files into a “watched folder” and PDF and CHM files are automatically built This post describes creating a watched folder that runs DITA transforms on content that is copied into the folder on a shared […]
Getting Started with DITA
A brief overview for a couple of fellow Austin writers who have asked me recently how and where to get started with DITA I have gotten two similar questions about getting started with DITA in the time span of about two weeks, so I thought I’d borrow from some of my answers as a write-up […]
How to substitute your custom CSS when using DITA Open Toolkit transforms
When you want to use the DITA Open Toolkit transforms but you want to use your own CSS, here’s how to substitute your CSS for HTML Help (CHM) Here’s how I was able to substitute my own CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file when using the DITA transforms to make compiled help files (CHM). I did […]