Hi, my name is @gjtorikian: http://miadzin.org/
How many of you work with DITA/XML? (wait for people to raise their hands)
Ok, and how many of you use a lightweight markup language like Markdown, ReStructuredText, wikis, etc. (wait for more people to raise hands.)
Keep your hands raised. I want people from the first group to go and talk to people from the second group. Share ideas. Exchange words.
I speak to you as someone who's been a writer that transitioned into a doc build person for a large DITA enterprise. I speak to you as someone who has written not one, not two, but three documentation build systems. I've written ant tasks and XSLTs and DTDs for DITA. I've built a tool to validate documentation links and images, and an implementation of conrefs that is very fast. And I've als