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Thought you might be interested in this article: Transitional Text: Do We Really Need All that Glue? There’s an interesting discussion about the importance of transitional text going on at dita.xml.org, the online home of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). In Do We Really Need All that Glue?, JoAnn Hackos explores the debate over the need for “glue text” in technical manuals. Glue text is defined as “transitional information intended to inform readers of what has come before or comes after a particular procedure, description, or explanation.” “In topic-oriented authoring, which forms the basis for the DITA Model, transitional text has become problematic,” Hackos writes. “If the goal is to write standalone topics that may be used in more than one context, where does one put the transitional text? Does transitional text belong in a topic… Read the rest: http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/article/895/

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