Hello, I am using XMetaL 5.1 to generate PDF output (deliverable type = "Book via RenderX") for user documentation. I have a topic that includes a table that...
Scott, I for myself know how to write an XSLT to transform the track changes of XMetaL to Framemaker's conditional text (Both are done with processing...
Check out the following in C:\Program Files\XMetaL 5\Author\readme.html: To configure XMetaL to use DITA 1.1 Close XMetaL Author. Copy all of the files in...
Hi, I'm new to DITA and XMetal, I am trying to install specialization into XMetal but I don't find the help manual very clear. So far I have added a .mod file...
Thanks, Paul. It actually turned out to be a problem in my environment. I got that corrected and then I bypassed XMetal and called the build file directly...
Hi I strongly suggest to upgrade to XMetaL Author DITA or Enterprise Edition 5.1 !! We had trouble to solve this step with 5.0 SP1. In 5.1 there is a menu item...
Thanks for that help - I have put my dtds in the folder under XMetal Shared, and seem to have resolved previous issues with my specialization not working with...
Hi all I have just upgraded to XMetal Enterprise Edition 5.1.1. I keep getting an intermittent problem, when I try to generate output the build fails and the...
Eleanor: Have you by chance installed the DITA Learning Specialization OTK plugin? Try removing it (just the folder from ?:\Program Files\Common Files\XMetaL...
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Hi Jeff, You're right - I am trying to use the Learning and Training Specialization. I tried firstly to remove the learningsc folder from XMetal's integrated...
Hi all, I recently wrote the cover story for a special DITA Issue of STC Intercom Magazine, DITA Tools from A to Z. For those of you who may have missed it,...
My converted topics have one style of quotation marks (curly aka smart) and my updated content uses another style of quotation marks (straight, so I suppose...
A new beta release that integrates the DITA Open Toolkit release 1.4.2 with XMetaL Author Enterprise 5.1 is available. Please ignore the instructions in the...
Hi all, sorry for the length of this post. I'm posting this here because I'm hoping that some XMetal gurus might know the answer. I'm in the process of...
Messages like "Topic reference (href : #unique_11) not found !" are from the Idiom plugin. They occur when you have a cross reference to some content, but you...
Thanks, Paul. As always, your help is greatly appreciated. -j ... From: Paul Masalsky <paulmasalsky@...> To: xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
It turned out to be more obscure than that. All my references were fine and the PDF generated from XMetal had noproblems. When I ran it from a command line, it...
Oh yes, bummer, sorry my initial suggestion was not quite right. With the Idiom plugin, need to stay away from the generic <dita> topic type. It doesn't like...
Hello to all, As I am new to this group I first want to introduce myself: My name is Robert and I work as a technical writer for a European ISP. We are ...