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...
It was a month ago when I asked some questions regarding CSS editing - maybe this time someone can add some feedback or inspiration? -ghk ... default). ... and...
Hi Bob, My first attempt to specialize lead to the same problem, the problem was that my DTD was missing a space that corrupted it. Both the source and the...
Hi Trevor, If you look for the tracked changes in "Plain text View" (or notepad) you see processing instructions (PI): - xm-deletion_mark - xm-insertion_mark ...
Hmm .. I guess I missed this when it came out earlier. I've got a FrameMaker plugin that lets you open XMetaL "track changed" files in Frame and it converts...
This has nothing to do with DITA, but I couldn't find any XMetal list besides this one, so if someone points me to a more appropriate list I'll ask there. The...
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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