Fabian Klopfer is a technical communicator for IT and software documentation and has been with parson AG since 2018. His focus is on DITA XML, standardization documentation, and e-learning content.
Do you write and publish technical documentation in DITA-XML? It sounds easy: At the click of a button, an XML authoring tool or a web application magically creates a PDF, HTML documentation or WebHelp. But is it really that simple? What happens under the hood? And what if you want to customize the output formats? The answer is the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT). more...
iiRDS is becoming increasingly popular in the industry and is being continuously developed by the iiRDS working group Development. On November 10, 2023, the new version 1.2 of iiRDS was released. We summarize the most important new features for you. more...
Imagine you can write and update technical documentation with the same tools as the software developers use for their source code: with the same text editor and in the same IDE (integrated development environment), as plain text and versioned in your favorite version control system. Sounds impossible? It is not: It is docs-as-code. more...
"Technical communicator? So you write for a science magazine?", is what I often hear when explaining my work. Fabian Klopfer has a history degree and decided to become a technical communicator. more...
