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 ...
Hello, I am a new user of XmetaL. We are imporing SVG images and only a small portion of the image (upper left corner) is visible in XmetaL. Output to HTML...
Hi Kevin, SVG support should be improved by Justsystems, I agree! It does not work out of the box in Author and HTML. a) XMetaL Editor My IT expert is not in...
Hi Gunnar, Thanks for your reply. a) Yes I do find the javascript you mention in my install dir. (not sure how to use it though) b) HTML viewing with IE will...
Hi, guys...I just joined this group as I'm currently using XMetal as an authoring tool for my help application, under Paul Masalsky's watchful eye. As I only...
Welcome John, What configuration are you using? We're using XMetal 5.0 with Documentum 5.3. We've managed to limp through four manuals in this configuration....
There is no Zoom feature in XMetaL. The closest thing to it is explained in the help topic called "Overriding base formatting", which describes how to edit a...
There is an example how to switch between multiple CSS via a toolbar. In case you only differ the CSS of choice by font size this might be your required...
Hi, guys...using XMetal Enterprise to author help topics. From within a task topic, I need to refer to a step number in the topic. When I select Insert > Link...
Hi John, Just delete the text inside the xref element. XMetaL will still show the "xref:" placeholder text, but when you generate the HTML, you'll see the...
For most output formats, deleting text inside the xref would do the trick. For PDF, however, xrefs to <step> elements are not processed properly and there is...
Then how do you create the ubiquitous "See step x for the procedure on how to ..." where x is the step number (that could change)? ... -- John Posada Senior...
Hi John, This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I believe some people tweak the Idiom plugin themselves to change how it handles xrefs. It was...
Hi John, Could you tell the group about your steps and the target output format(s)? The open toolkit is for free and may need your programming to reach what is...
(cross-posted to dita-users) Hi, I am having a terrible time trying to get CJK characters to wrap acceptably in table cells. I am using an externalized build...
FYI With some help, I found a solution to this problem. It turned out that the problems I was having were a side effect of an attempt to solve another problem....
Su-Laine, thank you kindly for addressing this issue. At EMC, we have programmed the Idiom plugin (for PDFs) and DITA toolkit transforms (for help systems) to...
Paul, It is heartwarming to see how people in the XMetaL community take care of each other! You're the one who needs to be thanked for giving the help here -...
My apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but things have been busy and I'm still catching up! ... Can you go into any more detail? We are using XM 5.1 with...
Hi Jason, We are making progress! There were a couple of things that we found in our setup. - we had a custom XML app and XMetal installs a custom XML app and...
Using XMetaL EE with Documentum is largely about XML applications, which reside in the Documentum content server, control interatctions with DITA objects...
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