Andrew (and all DITA folks interested in PowerPoint), we have this functionality on the roadmap for DITA Exchange. We see it as a simple "publishing-option"...
... I would tend to disagree with you there, Eliot. In fact, I would move towards removal of topichead just to remove some bloat from the language. My thought...
... Hi Eric, In cases where you have a topic that is used across multiple platforms and each platform has some unique text, you would need to specify exclude...
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 7 pm At the May meeting, Brad Bjorndahl and Tim Grantham from Thermo Fisher Scientific will present on using DITA and Task...
Ben, what you've laid out seems like a good approach to me, but I do want to comment on using tools like XMLSpy. Although you can author DITA topics and maps...
Err, nope. Sorry. My email client included the period in the URL Carol posted. The right URL, as she wrote, is http://dita.xml.org/deployments Steve ... -- ...
I'm trying to reference an image for a PDF front cover using the Idiom FO plug-in 1.2.1 and DITA-OT 1.3.1. I have put the image in Customization/common/artwork...
... I thank you for the response, but no, I'm afraid that the semantics do not make any sense to me -- especially when processing a map. If I have a topicref...
There are changes coming in 1.1 to make it more flexible and let you change the default for a particular ditaval file. That said, here's some of the reasoning...
Looks like you're doing all the right things in the Idiom plugin configuration. Are you using the right Java level (1.4.x)? See Eliot Kimber's append to...
Hi, All, Another possibility is to use Flash instead of PowerPoint. You can create nice graphical presentation "templates", including animations and other ...
Hi, All, Another possibility is to use Flash instead of PowerPoint. You can create nice graphical presentation "templates", including animations and other ...
Louise, I'd start with verifying that it is indeed the / vs. \ issue. The reason I suggest that is that I'm pretty sure I've used URLs with mixed file...
I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference between links and xrefs, other than the fact that links can go into lists and groups. Why are there two types, and how...
Hi, Eric: Eliot Kimber, Michael Priestley, and others have made these points, but to summarize in another voice, the best practice in order of preference: Use...
I've had this problem before, but was using DITA OT 1.2.2 and saw that there was a bug that was fixed with DITA OT 1.3. So I downloaded 1.3.1 and installed. ...
Hi all, On *Monday May 14 at 6:30 *pm, John Hunt of IBM will talk about Training and eLearning with DITA The meeting starts with light snacks and networking at...
Hi Sara - the type attribute is defined such that it declares the type of topic or element you are referencing. So, when you have type="fm:XrefStyleName", the...
... Wow, this sounds like a *great* subject for a tutorial (akin to Eliot Kimber's excellent specialization tutorial). Anyone out there have the expertise to...
Thanks Kevin, What you did is what I ended up doing. Thanks for validating. ... to ... am ... but ... in ... custom.xsl. ... can ... the ... in ... topic ... ...
Hi All, Let me see if I can explain this. I have two similar documents with more or less the same topics. Each document has it's own directory. Some topics I...
Paul, I'm still using dita1.2.2 and FrameMaker(in the middle of a project) so I don't know if this applies. I have found that you can have no spaces in the...
Well, I tried that, because I also thought that that was what was causing the error -- but it did not remove the problem. The ID/IDREF is fine, there is a...
... That will be helpful. So I could set the default to exclude, for example, and choose what to include? I will be very grateful for that capability. ... 1 of...
Let's say I process a map and some shared topics with platform=Linux, where the map is in the src/ dir, the topics are in src/files. I specify the name of the...
Re: Ole Rom Andersen's description of the DITA to PPT conversion functionality being planned for DITA Exchange. Several times over the course of the past year...
