Hi Erik, Thanks for your help. After a first discussion, we decide to use our own specialization. Because we are still in the process of migration, and because...
Hi everyone, I read the chapter "Topcimerge improvement" in the DITA-OT user guide and I look at the topic merge output, but I don't really get the feature of...
... the topic merge output, but I don't really get the feature of this new topicmerge functionality. ... That's part of it: the XSL topicmerge tended to run...
The standard Vista user does not have rights to create files in Program Files. Maybe you are in this case. One workaround would be to run the scripts in some...
Hi. We are currently seeking a technical author for a contract in Rome. The requirement is for someone to produce documentation using DITA, designing maps and...
Hi, Nadege: Did you consider basing your specialization on API Reference rather than Reference? That should make processing (potentially including Doxygen) ...
You can Add multiple targets to your Ant build file to produce multiple formats at one time. I attached a sample Ant Build file where this is done for the...
I attended JoAnn Hackos' DITA Bootstrap seminar. It was an excellent source of information for writers--especially the material on writing "minimalist"...
Hi Eric, I don't exactly have a class in mind, but you might help me with building the DITA Users website and find that many of the community problems and ...
Hi all, We are hoping to launch a new website sometime in the next few weeks to help beginners take their first couple of steps in topic-based authoring. ...
Hi all, I found that you cannot apply uicontrol or userinput elements on content references within topic files, while bold (b), italic (i), and underlining (u)...
It's pretty important to get the metadata right, when creating a topic. I'd like to let the writer choose the value, instead of typing it. But at the very...
Hi, Our context: We have several manuals in FrameMaker 6.2 format. We have different kinds of document such as User Manual, Reference Manual and Tutorial. The...
Hi, Michel, Sounds like you put a lot of effort into your workflow. If you want to seriously decrease your migration time, I recommend looking into 2 tools by...
Hi, Is there a way to make an xref within a topic link to a topichead that exists in a map. I have tried adding a id/href but the topichead id seems to be...
On *Monday March 12 at 6:30 *pm, Bob Doyle (with David Pearson) will demonstrate the draft version of the new DITA Users website ("DITA from A to B"). See...
Hi Dee, I'm not 100% sure I understand your question, but here's my response. :D uicontrol and userinput elements are meant to be self-defining. There can only...
... Actually, now that I think about it it was actually pretty hard because we had to implement our own attribute editor dialog to replace the base Arbortext...
Hello, We have about 1 million words of content to convert from RoboHelp 5 HTML files to DITA. We're thinking of using Arbortext Editor 5,3 to convert the...
Hi Kevin, I retained the artwork variable and copied my image file to <ditaot-directory>\demo\fo\Customization\common\artwork. That worked for me. The...
We have converted a batch of HTML topics. We loaded it into the XStreamDb database and used XQuery and the h2d transformation from the toolkit to get our dita...
Hi Mary, I know that some user groups have successfully migrated RoboHelp HTML to DITA using the h2d tool, which is available in the demo directory of the Open...
I much appreciate the offer, Bob. As it happens, this isn't a Citizens Advisory project (thanks for bringing that up!) I'm doing a DITA pilot at Sun, with the...
Thank you so much, Cosmin, it was indeed a permissions problem. A warning to everyone... Upgrading to Vista screws around with the permissions on NTFS ...
Hi Eric, Have you checked out the two-day workshop I gave a couple of years back? The recordings of it are available here: day 1: intro, authoring, information...
Thanks, it is interesting. And yes, it would be really useful to make Nancy's work public, even incomplete. Using the API Reference is not excluded. Far away...
