*** Forwarding an announcement from Syntext *** Serna is a very capable wysiwyg XML editor with good support for DITA. If you need a bunch of cheap (free) DITA...
*** Forwarding an announcement from Syntext *** Serna is a very capable wysiwyg XML editor with good support for DITA. If you need a bunch of cheap (free) DITA...
We are investigating the use of DITA in a remake of our training organization. The way the language revolves around topics maps very well to how training...
... The Learning and Training single- and multi-select assessments do exactly this: the list of items is specialized from ul specifically because the order of...
... randomzier for <ul> processing. Can you provide an example of a processing system (using any technology) which does not respect the author's list order? I...
... Of course, I wasn't seriously proposing that the DITA OT adopt a randomzier for <ul> processing. But I disagree that a bulleted list where the author's...
Kevin; Thanks for the clarification ... after the last couple of days of digging and your excellent explanation, I now know much more about fonts than I ever...
... Hello Sammy, The file you want to edit is called custom.xsl It is in the DITA_OT\demo\xmfo\Customization\fo\xsl\ location. For XMetaL 5.5 the full path is...
Hi, I know that in DITA-OT1.4.3 the layout-masters.xml file is no longer used: you seem to have to copy the createDefaultLayoutMasters template from...
Hi Sammy, ... As far as I know you are editing the right file. The layout_masters.xml file is definitely the one that we edited to adjust margins. Since...
HI, Sammy, You will want to customize the attributes sets in: DITA_OT\demo\xmfo\cfg\fo\attrs\static-content-attr.xsl The margins in layout-masters.xml refer to...
... The essential practical difference is that the <ol> is meant to provide an enumerated reference which may be nested. In this respect (as you pointed out...
... "Base-14" fonts in Type 1 format. In other words, NOT in unicode format. This statement is unclear or misleading. In reality, the PDF Specification ...
Hi Bob, While the error is reported, it never caused problems in the past and, once I found the workaround, does not cause a problem now. I'm still puzzled as...
... doesn't. "Conveys meaning" to what audience: the processor or the human reader? Perhaps the items are actually independent, but it is helpful to expose the...
The element that has the conref attribute must also be valid and plentry requires two child elements: pt and pd. According to the language spec, the child...
All, Conrefs are not working as I had expected. I tried to use it in a <parml> where I wanted to have a conref to a commonly defined parameter: <plentry...
Hi Bob, That line is not really "troublesome". One can still transform successfully with the DITA OT without having a full Java SDK. Ant "complains" about not...
Hi Julio, I am glad that you have solved your problem. However, the following line in your build messages is troublesome: Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected...
I spent some significant time on discussion forums and poking through various config guides to find what amounted to a fairly simple fix. I guess this is a...
Hi I have to create three output from the same topics. I created three DITA maps, A, B, and C. A has all the seven topics, B has only two out of the seven...
The July meeting of the Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group (SVDIG) is scheduled for Wednesday, July 8 at 7:00pm at NetApp in Sunnyvale, CA. Topic: Making a...
... I was six messages in before I finally figured out what a PI was. :) ... I don't see a lot of overlap between the discussion and a settings file, other...
Does anyone know of an environmental cause (access to Java objects, etc.) that one user can run a build and the args.css parameter gets set in the xhtml...
... <snip> ... <snip> We're basically discussing "conditional text", which for many tech writers is anything but simple. :). Cannot one create the library of...
... <snip> ... </snip> IMHO, the semantic difference between ordered lists (<ol>) and unordered lists (<ul>) is not that they are rendered with this and that...
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