Hi, I am looking for a way to make multimedia content more reusable. Any time ago I found this forgotten/out-of-favor(?) smil (synchronized multimedia...
Hi-- The DITA Translation Subcommittee is working on a best practice document for multi-language documents. We would like to gather more business cases in...
Hi DITAdepts in the unstructured world, it's quite common (and easy) to convert to paragraphs to a table: you create a (tab-separated) list, change your mind, ...
Hi Tony, I totally grabbed the wrong end of the stick :) I was trying to add it to the file referenced by the args.hdf property in my build file, rather than ...
Thanks Deborah, I am using bookmap and not the regular ditamap, so I am not as concerned about the @title, but rather I would like to get the <booktitle>,...
Hi, Every time I run a DITA build (DITAOT-1.3.1), build.xml and catalog- dita.xml are overwritten. Is this supposed to happen? And if so, why? Thanks, ...
Hi Jennifer, Yes, this normal :) You certainly are calling the integrator just before processing your maps. The role of the integrator is to assemble the...
Hello All, I want to thank all who responded. Excuses for the late follow up on this (see message #9853) thread. The responses gave me new insights and raised...
During the rendering process with the DITA-OT 1.2.1 and the FO Plugin, I have noticed that images with no placement attribute are getting changed to...
HP does a great job with multi-lingual guides. They are available for download from their website's support center. Or, contact me offline and I can give some...
In stage1.xml, each topicref has an xtrf attribute that points to the source map where it originally resided. For topicrefs brought in through nested maps,...
Hi, Deborah ... Please excuse me butting in on this! ;-) Whilst I wouldn't want to question your advice, what you appear to be suggesting is a Specialisation...
Hi One of my DITA-related pet peeves is the conditional processing of graphics: EPS line-art graphics or 144-dpi screen shots need to appear in the PDF; 72-dpi...
Thanks Deborah That was exacly the hint I needed. Isn't it funny that we sometimes search on the weird places first and forget the obvious parts. the default...
Greetings, I used a completely different approach for the 700 odd slides that I authored with my team: - Each slide presentation is a topic - Slides are...
Hi, I'm wondering what reuse strategies people out there are using. DITA is a good enough tool to work with, but there are so many ways to use it, and easy to...
I'm a russian localisation engineer. Of course our documentation is in russian language also. When I tried to make an output from my dita files, I received...
Hi all, Just to add my two-cents worth (which is admittedly getting to be worth less in today's economy), I think this still leaves the problem of having to go...
Hello Yves, I use the otherprops attr to do the same thing. Not sure what you’ve done so far, but in my experience: First you have to edit XMetaL’s...
Hi Yves, I think you want to use the "otherprops" attribute as a generic container for metadata-based filtering. Your ditaval file should work appropriately...
Hi... I know there are lots of examples of documentation created from DITA, but if you have written (or know of) any really good examples of topic-based...
When you find them let the group know. I and others have asked both this and the STC single sourcing list and have received zero-zip-nada. Eventually I created...
Hi Scott, I used the DITA 1.1 architectural and language specifications source [1] [2]as examples of "free" DITA . The DITA OT user guide is freely available...
Hi Eric... I'm actually looking for publicly available (web) examples of the resulting HTML, PDF, or other documentation that was sourced with DITA. ...
Hi, So far my reference has always been the IBM Websphere infocenter: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp Cheers, Claude ... source...
Hi Scott, The content in our DB2 9.5 Information Center [1] and our PDFs [2] are built entirely from DITA source. Most of the Websphere content (IC) is DITA...
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