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...
Here's what we can say, after much backing and forthing about confidentiality and configuration: Be sure everything is up to date. When using several pieces of...
... Do you have a utility to do that cleanup? It seems a fair bit of manual work for normal maintenance, especially once we roll this out to everyone. Plus the...
No utility, unfortunately. I do all the support and therefore perform all the cache cleanups for users. Now that our system is more stable and content authors...
Paul, When you *clean the cache* what steps do you do? We have some instructions but they apply to Desktop Client and don't seem to apply to Webtop. Wanda ... ...
1. In Windows Explorer, go to your local Documentum cache folder as specified in Webtop preferences. It is usually c:\Documents and Settings\<your Windows...
So, Paul, thanks! I looked and my checkout directory C:\Documentum\Checkout. I wasn't sure if this was my cache location, as I also had a Documentum directory...
Hi there I just found out that fop 0.20.5 which is delivered with the DITA OT does not support "keep-with" but fop 0.95 does. Actually I do not have any idea...
Dear all, I have a conref (a keyword) in the topic title, which doesn't get displayed in topicref when I insert a reference to the topic in the ditamap. DITA...
Try the following: Â 1. Insert the conref for <keyword> in the title. 2. Save the file (very important). 3. In XMetaL's map editor, select (highlight) the...
Hi Paul, Thanks for the quick response! I tried your solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. It seems that topicref in the map ignores the conref path in the...
We have found that cleaning out the checkout directory is not always sufficient. In addition to the procedure Paul described (quoted below), it may sometimes...
Helena, If I'm understanding your question correctly, this is a limitation of the map editor in XMetaL. The display in the map editor is the navtitle ...
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