Wow, looks like I'll need to read emails over the weekend if I want to keep up with this list! Thanks to one and all for your detailed and helpful replies -...
Hi Dan, Among implementations of the DITA specification, DITA-OT does still have a slightly privileged status because of its origins within IBM. These days...
Sorry if this topic has been covered before. Is anyone trying DITA with Prince XML? It's a tool to generate PDFs from XML using CSS, and it's getting rave...
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Nancy, I think in many cases a SCM can meet the needs for a tech docs team using DITA. I encourage you, though, to create a needs list before you get results...
A few people have suggested using CSS for PDF generation to me. When I looked into it, it seemed to me that CSS wasn't rich enough to adequately describe book...
Hello all, I've been lurking about for the past few months as I learn DITA. Now I have a question about some of the things I've read. The consensus for PDF...
Hi Travis, ... The latest versions of the PDF2 plugin remove the XEP extensions. In theory, the code can be used with any XSL-FO engine, although it does not ...
This is likely an obvious one. At least I hope so. What do I need to do to make DITA-OT output tables? I have: <table> <title>Some Table</title> <tgroup...
... FOP 0.20.x apparently was missing some nice to have features (I wouldn't know the details though), and had stagnated for years. But development work on FOP...
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Hi Mark - I talked to the developer, and he said that the only two places we generate that exception are: 1) In the pre-process code, when we are scanning...
... does not ... scripts a bit ... and he ... Thanks, that's good to know. I don't have any ax to grind with RenderX, I'm sure their product is fine. I just...
... That matches well with my observations. I certainly appreciate the contributions to the project. I'm still a bit new to both DITA and the Open Toolkit,...
Maybe I am missing something, but why would you want to take a publishing system like the Open Toolkit with the pdf2 plugin, which is open, customizable,...
Hi Travis - ... I think the main reason for that is that we haven't taken the time to test with the new version to ensure the build still works. I do not know...
Hi, Shawn I should probably leave Eliot and others to answer for themselves, but here are some thoughts: DITA is about re-use. Why should content not be...
... Regardless of how good any FO-based process is, it is fundamentally limited by the inherent limitations of XSL-FO and the current FO implementations, which...
Hi all, I was hoping someone could help me out with a part of the pre-processing in the latest OT. I see that my glossary terms are being transferred to the...
Steve and others: At Tuesday, 4/12/2007, 04:11 AM;, you wrote: Prince has always seemed like an easy way to generate PDFs from XHTML, but going further than...
DITA 1.0, DITA-OT 1.3.1, XMeTaL 5.0 SP1, Eclipse Help When I received our translated legacy files and started generating our Eclipse Help, I noticed that...
That's a good idea, Steve, and it's very encouraging to hear you say we might be able to use our existing SCM. Although my company is a huge multinational...
... [...] ... Though I don't use Eclipse Help yet, the same code in DITA-OT creates the HTML Help index, and I remember that a two-letter- language bug was...
Hmm...it looks like the code did not make it into 1.4.1 release. It was closed by an SF-robot. The defect number is 1639672. There is a patch for the fix in...
... Semantically, it seems like you would want to have language attributes in there anyway, for ease of identification by both manual and automatic processes....
I am using the DITA 1.1 specification to create glossary topics. The structure is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glossentry PUBLIC...
After a two month break we restart our regular monthly DITA Users Meetings in SecondLife. Join us at our meeting this week on Friday 7th of December at * check...
Hi Jen, if the <glossdef> content is not showing up in the merged file, then that would pretty clearly be a bug. Could you open up a bug report for it on...
