Dita editor?

[Anton Hughes]

Hello

I am new to DITA, so forgive me if this is an overly newbie question.

I am tyring to find an open source or free DITA editor, for content creation. 

If I understand correctly, DITA-OT is only useful if you already have dita content, and then want to output this to a specific format, eg, pdf.

How do you create the dita input? Are there any good tools for doing this?

Thanks

[Stefan Eike]

Hi Anton,

it does not exist. The most used editor is <oXygen/> XML. There is a plugin for Sublime Text, called Exalt, written by Eero Helenius, who is one of the major DITA developers, but it has only a very basic DITA support. There is a DITA extension for the Komodo IDE, but it is abandoned and has a very basic DITA support, too.

So, if you are willing to use DITA, you have to use <oXygen/> XML or another commercial editor like XMetaL or FrameMaker.

Greetings,
Stefan

[Krasimir Cholakov]

Hello, 

here is one way to create DITA content and it's free - www.jauthor.com

Greetings

 

[Ron Wheeler]

I have written several articles about things that I have learned about DITA while creating the software manual(s) for an internal product.

This one http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=206 is about using Eclipse as a free DITA authoring tool.

Powerful on its own and if your software development team is using Eclipse, this will fit very well.

Ron

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[Gregg Reynolds]

Emacs works for me. ;)

Thanks

[Gregg Reynolds]

Not to mention http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/

[mrob]

Hi Ron,

That looks pretty cool!

Would you consider writing up a blog post for Eclipse noobs that explains how to set up the basics for DITA editing? Running DITA-OT and the repository stuff could be separate.

As for the question at hand, you guys may laugh but I moved from FrameMaker to NotePad++. Too much time was spent wrestling with FM, while NotePad is fast, free, simple, and just lets me do anything. There are some plugins for checking XML syntax, formatting, etc.

[Ron Wheeler]

http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?tag=dita is a link to all of my DITA musings.

It may include some of what you are looking for.

If you need more perhaps I can update an existing note or make a new one.

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[Stefan Eike]

Hello Anton,

please have a look at our huge list and feel welcome to contribute more tools: DOCTALES - DITA Tools

The whole DOCTALES page might be a good starting point for your DITA carreer.

Greetings,
Stefan

Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 10:02:21 UTC+2 schrieb Anton Hughes: