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Subject: RE: [dita] Thoughts On Sections
Would it not be preferable to advise users to consider developing these
subconcept statements as individual topics that may then be more easily
reused in other contexts? In most cases, the nesting into two or more
levels of information is a formalism preferred by the writer rather than
a useful construct for the reader. In most instances, when I review
these structures, they are poorly structured. I know that we can't
enforce good writing practices, but it's interesting to think we might
try.
If the authors were asked to write smaller conceptual topics, with
better structuring of information to make the information more flat (and
therefore perhaps more understandable), we could stay with the original
design. If the nesting is really that important to understanding in the
output context, the nesting could occur in the ditamap rather than in
the topic itself. The smaller conceptual topics would also be more
readily available for reuse in contexts where they should be standalone.
Just some thoughts
JoAnn
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services, Inc.
710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
Denver CO 80215
303-232-7586
joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com