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...
Hi Michael and Su-Laine, Thanks for your information and suggestions. ... always disabled in the Map Editor. The Map Editor supports viewing but not editing...
Hi Mark, Hmmm, if you don't mind sending me your map file and all the topics, I can take a quick look to see what might be the problem. It's best to zip them...
OK, after looking at additional files from Mark, I see at least part of what's happening. Some background: When you open a DITA map in XMetaL, it automatically...
Hi Su-Laine, Thanks for your analysis, and for submitting the enhancement request. I'm really impressed with the topic-editing features in XMetal. Among the ...
Hi all, I was looking at the new features for XMetaL Author 5.1 and noticed these two: - Automatic generalization of content references - Validation of content...
When you insert an image into a new topic that has not yet been saved, XMetal references the image using an absolute path. After you save the new topic, the...
If the topic has not yet been saved, there is no way for XMetaL to know how to construct a relative path for an image; there's nothing for it to be relative...
I'll have to correct my own statement. We actually used to have something better working in XMetaL, but it got broken. What used to happen is that when you...
Hello, I'd like to be able to use the XMetaL Track Changes feature and generate a PDF that shows the tracked changes, but so far I haven't been able to figure...
When we insert images into topics, when we right-click the image and select Properties, in the Image or Figure Properties dialog box, for Text wrapping, the...
I wouldn't say that the bookmap-editing features are "fairly preliminary" - Xmetal has actually put quite a lot of thought into maps and bookmaps. There is...
Hi, anyone has managed in XMAX 5.1 to insert and display SVG images? If I try to insert an SVG image, it gets inserted but is not displayed at all. Bye MC...
Hello: Bright Path Solutions will be offering the subject XMetaL/DITA class May 5-8, 2008 modified for presentation as an online class. Attend right from your...
I am starting to think that this is not an XMetaL issue becuase the documents fail validation when I try to enter a dll attribute in plain text view. Still, I...
Hi Group, Does anyone know about images randomly showing up and not showing up in documents generated as RTFs? Missing pictures are replaced with links that...
XMetaL 5.0 allows me to conref the document titles in my ditamaps (= map.dtd) using a number of <keyword> elements in a single titles file (= topic.dtd)....
Hi, For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to make new topics start on a new page in a generated PDF. I have a command line reference for which each...
Page breaks for topic levels are controlled by "keeps" in the Idiom Plugin, which XMetaL uses for PDF processing. Look for the keeps in attribute sets in...
... more ... This may be related to a problem I'm having with conrefs in 5.1. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xmetal-dita/message/246 for details....
Hi Phil, That's a good question. The XMetaL 5.1 UI does not support inserting an element in a map that conrefs an element in a topic. When the system checks...
I have been trying to generate index in XMetal but has not been able toidentify any option in it. Although XMetal does provide a UI forinserting indexterm and...
I guess you could say the relevant command is "File > Generate Output for DITA Map...". The index is generated only when you generate output; it is not...
(Buyer beware, I am VERY new at specializations, so I may be giving out misleading or just plain stupid advice). I assume you have made an attribute list...
Hi Richa, Can you clarify how exactly you generated the HTML output? Indexes do not usually appear in HTML output at all. Su-Laine Su-Laine Yeo Interaction...
Hi again Phil, My team looked into this and our interpretation of the DITA Architectural Specification is that it does not consider conrefs from a map to a...
