Re: [dita] Chair's quote--pls review

["Don Day (LbW)" <donday@learningbywrote.com>]

Thanks for your artful rephrasing, Jang--I will use it for the final 
version!
--
Don Day

On 12/2/2010 1:17 PM, Jang F.M. Graat wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am not too happy about the last section "and the new Hazard 
> specialization supports labeling for product safety applications." 
> This is way too weak to do justice to the importance of the 
> machinery-related additions, which also includes the machinery task. 
> As the co-chair of the Machinery Industry SC, I think the impact of 
> our work in the past years should be shown for what it is worth.
>
> So I would like to see that last part rephrased as: "and with the 
> hazard statement and machinery task specializations DITA has become 
> applicable for machinery documentation."
>
> Kind regards from Amsterdam
>
> Jang
>
>
> On 2 dec 2010, at 16:45, Don Day (LbW) wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the discussion thus far. Unless anyone sees crucial issues 
>> with Bruce's rewrite, it comes closest to the spirit of what the TC 
>> commissioned on Tuesday for my message, and seems to account for the 
>> wording concerns pointed out by Thilo and others. Keeping Bruce's 
>> sense, I've updated slightly for my voice and a bit more parallel 
>> wording. Seeing the rewrites reminds me to ask whether we are 
>> confident about  "impliable warrantees" in how the benefits are 
>> stated. If I hear no violent outcry, I'll submit this as is to Carol 
>> in the morning.
>> -- 
>> Don
>>
>> Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
>> summarized the Committee's goals for DITA 1.2:
>> "This new version incorporates community
>> suggestions that will help content owners to create
>> and deliver more kinds of information in more ways
>> than ever with DITA. The constraints mechanism can be
>> used to remove unneeded tags from the authoring
>> environment, depending on the type of document.
>> Managing and reusing content is more efficient with
>> indirect "keyref" addressing using user-defined keys,
>> and with extensions to conref, such as pushing updates
>> into already published content. Moreover, the new
>> Learning and Training specialization provides support
>> for educational applications, and the new Hazard
>> specialization supports labeling for product safety
>> applications.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/2/2010 8:58 AM, Bruce Nevin (bnevin) wrote:
>>> Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
>>> commented on new features in DITA 1.2, which "greatly
>>> expand opportunities for using DITA as a content
>>> standard. This new version incorporates community
>>> suggestions that will help content owners to create
>>> and deliver more kinds of information in more ways
>>> than ever with DITA. The constraints mechanism can be
>>> used to remove unneeded tags from the authoring
>>> environment, depending on the type of document.
>>> Managing and reusing content is more efficient with
>>> indirect "keyref" addressing using user-defined keys,
>>> and with extensions to conref, such as pushing updates
>>> into already published content. DITA 1.2 provides
>>> support for educational applications through the new
>>> Learning and Training specialization, and the new Hazard
>>> specialization supports labeling for product safety
>>> applications.
>>
>>
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