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Professionally translating hundreds of legacy French Markdown files would have cost a fortune. Instead, a DeepL-then-GPT-4o pipeline with Git diffs as a safety net: keep the good translations file by file, discard the rest, rebuild.
You don’t need the complexity of DITA XML to benefit from its discipline. With Markdown and modern docs-as-code workflows, technical writers can apply strong information typing-tasks, concepts, and references-using lightweight, open tools.
How we transformed unstructured Word 97/2000 files into a decade-long web publication of conferences-using Markdown, Python, and GPT-powered automation for just $30.
DITA brought structure through XML, but its complexity often felt heavy. Markdown offers a lightweight alternative where technical writers can still apply DITA’s information typing principles — using open, freely available tools and without the XML overhead.
Tracing over two decades of web publishing, from raw HTML and Dreamweaver to CMSes, structured content, static site generators, and modern Git-based Markdown workflows. Lessons for solo and team content developers on maintainability, collaboration, and performance.
