Hi Martin, What I would suggest here is different ditamaps for each level. Within each map, you may want to set an outputclass attribute on each topicref where...
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Hi... I'd like to confirm the proper element referencing syntax for conrefs and xrefs. When referencing an element within a topic or referencing the root (or...
Hi, Scott: Your understanding is correct. The basic idea is that the topic id must be unique and that element ids must be unique within the topic. That way,...
Thanks Erik .. so to just reference the nested topic itself, you just need .. filename.xml#nestedTopicid There's no need to include the reference to the...
Hi, Scott: Sorry for leaving out the case of greatest interest. Yes, to confirm ... filename.xml#nestedTopicid is correct. Erik Hennum ehennum@... ... ...
Hi Erik... This is the way we've been doing it in DITA-FMx (and the FM App Pack) .. but I had a bug reported that this was wrong. I just checked in XMetaL ...
... If I'm reading the 1.1 language reference spec correctly, in the description of conref usage for elements within topics on page 479, the reference above is...
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Hi Ole, Yes, I'll definitely demonstrate DITA Exchange. I've uploaded some sample content but am experiencing problems with publishing. I'll get back to you...
Hi Jeremy - Yes, your examples below describe what the specification is trying to say. They also accurately describe how the toolkit will interpret references...
Ted, We use this approach for a screen guide page that's linked from the application. First, a bit about our implementation: Each screen of our application has...
Hi all, Does anyone know yet whether dita topics and ant scripts created under the 1.2.2 OT are compatible with release 1.4? Do any of these files need to be...
I am using XMetal SP1 with RenderX. I have screen shots that I have scaled to 480 pixels in width in Photoshop which amounts to about 5" wide. When I generate...
... It's probably the difference between your screen resolution and the image's embedded resolution in EXIF metadata. Images displayed on screen tend to be...
... It will probably work. DITA topics written in OT 1.2.2 would be using the DITA 1.0 DTD/XSDs. DITA topics written in OT 1.4 use DITA 1.1. 1.1 is supposed...
Hi, I am trying to find a technical solution in order to convert .doc documents into DITA files. After a sort search I have been confused about what approach...
I've done this as follows: 1. Open the Word file(s) in Adobe FrameMaker. 2. Clean up the FrameMaker documents. 3. Using mif2go, "map" styles to DITA elements. ...
Hello. I have a small problem building the navigation tree with the tocjs plugin. The transformation (tocjs.xsl) says that the output is text, utf-8. However...
Hi Themistoklis, We maintain a list of all the Word to DITA conversions tools, inclusing Mif2Go, at http://www.ditanews.com/tools/word_to_dita/ If anyone can...
Hi Themistoklis, One more comment. In a very surprising development, Microsoft's attempt to get their competitive version of Office Open XML approved as an ISO...
Yves method sounds good to me, especially if you are already using FrameMaker. Here's how I'm doing it without FrameMaker. 1. Our group dumps out all .doc...
Pam, The OT assumes 72 dpi for image data when producing PDF. Take a look at the placeImage template in commons.xsl: C:/Program Files/Common Files/XMetaL ...
... FrameMaker. ... already ... <ul></ul> ... One of the options for saving HTML from MS Word is the "Web Page filtered" option under Save as web page in the...
Hi Troy, Thanks for the reference to the CambridgeDocs tool. I added it to the list. http://www.ditanews.com/tools/word_to_dita/ CambridgeDocs was already...
Ive been working with Legacy Data Conversion Center to convert some complicated Word docs to DITA. It looks promising for less than $3 a page. Check out their...
Hi Keith, A few years ago at CM Professionals we made a study of converting Word files to HTML. http://www.cmprosold.org/resources/website/editor_training/ We...
