... what ... task ... DITA ... pretty OK ... Here's an interesting view of the world, if you're so inclined. I view a tutorial as a map and as such it can...
Hi Eliot, At IBM we have a fully developed DITA Tutorial specialization that a group of us spent several months developing last year. It is now in full...
... Yeah, those entities aren't allowed in XML (which the file needs to be, if you are going to include it through args.hdr). Get it to say   instead of...
Or, perhaps more specifically, if you use those entities, you'll have to declare them. It's easier just to do as Deborah indicated or use the proper Unicode...
Hi all, I went through the DITA Release 1.1 Architectural Specification. It states that reltable elements can be used in a bookmap (p. 31). Has this always...
Thank you all for input. Build is now successful with output method set to xml. So I can re-use my overrides to build output in several languages. ... have to ...
Hi Andy - the official version of bookmap in DITA 1.1 will have reltables. You're right that the older, demo version did not have bookmap support. There are...
Here's a second on the motion to just include Unicode characters directly in any XML content that is pulled into DITA processing. Since the HTML for args.hdr...
Re: Seth Packham's comments about the IBM tutorial specialization, and other comments about doing tutorials using DITA. I've also struggled with how to do a...
I notice that when I process input containing uicontrol elements, the Idiom plugin generates right arrows between the uicontrols in each list. The character...
Hello All First, belated thanks to those who helped me with my character set/numeric entity problem when converting from HTML to XML using the h2d.xsl. I...
Hi all, I need to left-align the first variable and right-align the second variable in the page headers. Both replies in this thread and reference books,...
... Whenever I'm faced with a problem like this, the first thing I do is create a small FO document and use that to work out the precise markup that should...
Hi again all, I have a general question about linking topics. Is there a best practice defined for linking topics for PDF output? I know there are plenty of ...
... Hi Roger. As far as tocjs goes, paths issues are fairly common, but easy to fix. I've attached some more recent (not complete) documentation that will go...
I found the section "Production notes (linking)" in Anna van Raaphorst and Dick Johnson's DITA User Guide. Here's the excerpt: "We have chosen an approach that...
... I'm guessing that turning them on will result in extra links, such as links to the next/previous topics and to parents/children, although I am not sure of...
The reltable option is really a best practice for controlling links in DITA, regardless of output format. It sounds like there is a requirement to provide more...
X-Pubs 2007 is focused on delivering departmental managers and team-leaders educational case studies that illustrate the best strategies to adopt when rolling...
Hi Chris, The createFrontMatter template in the front-matter.xsl file in C:/ditaot/demo/fo/xsl/fo includes the following: </fo:block> <xsl:call-template...
... DITA-OT puts the output in a structure deep enough that the output directory is the highest-referenced directory. You want this to be the 'emu' directory,...
Roger, Please there must be something in the topics which refer to the resouce outside of emu. DITA OT tries to put every local reference resource into the...
Andy, reltable is not forbidden for PDF output. The related links are still generated into intermediate files in the processing. There is a parameter which...
You can see this in build.xml of FO plug-in. <property name="disableRelatedLinks" value="yes"/> It disables generation for related links by default. If this...
I notice that the HTML version of the DITA Open Toolkit Users Guide uses frames for the toc and content--is there a built-in way to generate the HTML to use...
I don't think there is a way to do that. But since the frameset page is generally static, I just copy the file as part of the ant build task. All the frameset...
... Cool--I think I've got it. Thanks, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 8500 N. Mopac, Suite 402 Austin, TX 78759 (214) 954-5198 ...
