I have two questions related to table of contents (tocs). Apologies in advance -- I'm not a dita output person, so feel free to direct me to a specific place...
For DITA-specific questions, you may also try the DITA users group on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/ (in case there is no one already here that...
When I click on a particular inline element that has a class attribute set and look at the Attribute Inspector, I see all the potential attributes for that...
Hi Bob, You're right that you should not use the class attribute in your files. All DITA based processors are expected to work based off of the class attribute...
Thanks Robert! Bob ________________________________ From: xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com [mailto:xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert D Anderson Sent:...
I confirm both Bobs' conclusions re: XMetaL's behaviour, and add a nugget: If it is nevertheless necessary for you to view/edit your DITA class attributes in...
How are you all handling relationship tables? This is one of the things that has us tied up in knots. We create the relationship tables, and as the document...
I'm concerned that Reltables will be too difficult to maintain, at least for now. So we'll try to get more control over the situation by wrapping topics in our...
We too use topicgroups with collectiontype, to control links in PDFs, as Liz points out. As for reltables, we use the following practices: - Use reltables in...
Julia, these tips are unbelievably helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to write them up. -- liz ... From: "julia_malkin" <jmalkin@...> We too...
Julia! You're my favourite person today. Wow! Great insight into reltables and great ideas for building and managing them as data blocks rather than mysteries...
I am glad I could help and thank you for the kind words. I just want my bookmap now to work the way we build it. ... managing them ... intermediaries. I'm ... ...
Julia, Kudos for your contribution, I never thought of spliting reltable but the DTD allows it. Is there any particular reason for you not to maintain...
XMetal 5.1 uses the following: ** If used with OT 1.4 - OT 1.4 includes PDF2 v.1.4.0 - Book via RenderX = PDF2 transform (Idiom FO Plugin) v. 1.4.0 + RenderX...
When I create a new reference topic with XMetal, I'm happy to see a default "Reference Title" appear, but when I type something in to replace it and press...
I created a CLI reference document that's a bookmap with one file per command. Since there are only two levels of permissions, I created reusable content and...
Try using the TROFF deliverable type that XMetaL Author Enterprise Edition lists as "The Text Processor for Typesetters (troff)". This deliverable type is...
... conref="../ReUse/permissionsRootOnly.xml#ditacomponent_969928F5A/section_275D"><title><?xm-replace_text ... You may already have what you want in the...
Many thanks to you both. The world is cheerful again. :-) Ultimately it looks like my engineer will use the TROFF output for the man pages and pull specific...
I've managed to make the DITA specializations created on one computer work on another one by unzipping the right files into the right places, but the right...
Julia, Answers... 2. I believe the earliest you will see an update to 1.4.2 (or later) is with the next release of the product. 3. Yes. It is based on the 1.4...
Hi Bob, Good question. There doesn't seem to be an alternative way to deploy specializations at this time and yes, you do need to reinstall after an upgrade. ...
It is sad that no one in this group was able to give a hint or advice on this issue up to now. The only advice I can give: Do *not* press [ENTER] key after ...
Hi Yas, Thanks for the feedback. Currently my collegues and I are still in learning phase how to deploy our specialization on multiple PCs. Could you post the...
Did anyone out there add a specialization with CSS formatting or adapt the default CSS files to the companies styleguide? Adapting the DITA CSS files to...
... For a task, I'd like to see it go right to the prereq element of the taskbody. I suppose I could take shortdesc and abstract out of the specialization's...
I've created some specialized DTDs, and when I use XMetal 5.1 to edit documents that reference them using PUBLIC declarations, everything's fine, the Reuse...
Hi Everyone, I'm evaluating XMetal Author Enterprise Edition 5.1 for my team. We're especially interested in the ability in XMetal to open and edit topic files...
Hey, Mark The map looks just like you say it does. Things to look for: 1. Have you created the 3 topic files that you want to reference from the map? 2....
Hi Mark, It looks like there are a few things going on here: 1) For Bookmap files, the the Insert > Topic Reference menu item is always disabled in the Map...
