OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

Meeting Minutes -- 26 July 2011

  • 1.  Meeting Minutes -- 26 July 2011

    Posted 07-26-2011 18:46
    JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD President Comtech Services Inc. 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400 Denver, CO 80215 joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com skype joannhackos       MEETING MINUTES: DITA TC 07/26/2011

    ACTION ITEM SUMMARY
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    0. Minutes: TC Meeting 07/05/2011
    - Moved: Don Day
    - Seconded: JoAnn Hackos
    - Approved: Acclamation

    Subcommittee report:
    Stan Doherty reporting on the Help SC
    SC is working on proposals for DITA 1.3. Concerned with support of DITA 1.2
    among Help system vendors. Will continue to work with vendors to help
    understand what conformance to the spec implies.

    Next reports scheduled:
    Michael Boses -- BizDocs SC (August 2)
    JoAnn Hackos -- Tech Comm SC (August 9)


    001. ITEM: Triage of DITA complexity list and potential solutions
    no discussion, move to next meeting

    002. ITEM: Review of 1.3 proposals

    13002 -- Waiting for information from Keith Schengili-Roberts and Bob Beims
    13020 and 13059 -- conditional processing attributes. Will combine these proposals
    13021 -- Su-Laine Yeo, default processing role to "resource-only" for Rel Tables. Robert Anderson
    will treat this as a fix to the spec; remove as 1.3 proposal
    13030 -- Eliot Kimber proposal to include image in the table (tgroup) element to allow tables
    that have been captured as images to be included in the table numbering and listing.
    Resolved that should be handled as a one-column, one-row table to include a figure. No
    further action on this proposal.

    Suggestion to the Adoption TC -- develop a feature article on proper use of tables (best
    practices). One of the most frequent complexity complaints is about too many tables.

    13031 -- Eliot Kimber to include strike-through and other formatting elements; mentioned that
    13034 on the highlight domain is similar. Also consider a proposal coming from the
    Tech Comm SC on change-tracking. Resolve at next meeting

    Adjournment: 12:02PM/EST