Balisage Paper: The Ugly Duckling No More

Using Page Layout Software to Format DITA Outputs

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016
August 2 - 5, 2016

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Slides and Materials

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Coravu, Radu. DITA Usage Survey. <oXygen/> XML Blog, 2016, April 5.

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Gold, Peter. Which is better: FrameMaker or InDesign? InDesignSecrets, 2013, September 12.

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Goodson, Scott. Why Brand Building Is Important. Forbes, 2012, May 7.

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Harold, Elliotte Rusty, & Means, W. Scott. 13.5 Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO. XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. Sebastopol: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2002.

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Novin, Guity. Chapter 58: History of Layout Design and Modern Newspaper & Magazines. A History of Graphic Design. 2010.

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Samuels 2014 Samuels, Jacquie. Everybody into the Pool: Yes, Non-Technical Writers Can Use DITA. TechWhir-l, 2014, December 2.

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Schengili-Roberts, Keith. Who is Using DITA? DITA Usage by Industry Sector. Information Management News, 2012, March.

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White, David. “Smart Content for High-Value Communications.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015, Washington, DC, August 11 - 14, 2015. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 15 (2015). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol15.White01.

Author's keywords for this paper:
Page Layout Design; DITA; PDF; XSL-FO; CSS; Content Automation; Multi-channel Publishing