When I worked at Idiom, we had an early version of bookmaps, so I was thrilled when Xmetal SP1 came out with a bookmap preview. Recently I created our first...
Xmetal is a desktop tool that is used by groups of people. I imagine that at each site, there is some configuration that shoudl be the same across all desktops...
What are folks doing about file storage? Are you using the file system? A content management system? A source-code control system? Here, we're using...
Hi Liz, We're currently using Subversion (SVN) as we continue to migrate from both RoboHelp and unstructured Frame. There are only a few writers involved in...
Hi Liz, We're converting our unstructured Frame docs to DITA, and we are also using Subversion. We have considered DITA Exchange CMS (uses MS Sharepoint) and...
Thanks, Andy. We are also a small shop and I suspect we won't be buying a CMS for a long time, if ever. We haven't even gotten an SCM system yet, which is...
Hi Andy, What is the cost of the two that you mention? I know Bluestream runs between 5K and 10K for the software (a deal, I think) but I don't know about DITA...
Hi Bernard, The proof-of-concept for DITA Exchange was, I think, around $40/month per seat. As for Bluestream, their price was in $5K to $10K range (darn ...
I'm in a position where I'm needing to put in a lot of special characters. The characters are not included in the toolbars within XMetal 5. How are people...
XMetaL toolbars, including the special characters ones, are customizable -- you can add your own new symbols. This raises some deployment issues if you have...
When we generate our books in RenderX, the headers say something like <page number> | OpenTopic | <chapter heading> It's all fine except the "OpenTopic" part....
You can set it in one of two places: * <prodname> in your DITA bookmap (best if you want it to change book to book) * demo/fo/cfg/common/vars/en_us.xml (best...
Liz, My guess is that XFTs are not related to this issue. Here are a few suggestions: - I would suggest looking into the hierarchy of your topicrefs in the ...
Oh my gosh. Thank you so much! -- liz ________________________________ From: xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com [mailto:xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul...
I found a newer version of Xmetal on their web site, so I updated from V5.0. It seems to have a number of new features, including maybe an Index for Eclipse...
Hi Dave, Our team is using Version#: 5.0.10.162, known as a Service Pack. It is more stable, has clearer logging messages that are highlighted in the log file,...
Hi, I remember running the OT manually before XMetal was installed and generated their sample project for XHTML. The resulting files ran the content in a...
Hey Liz, Not sure if you have a Developer license, but it comes with a big "Customization Guide." In that guide there's a whole section on the xmetal50.ini...
Thanks Julia. A quick clarification: What you referred to as "OT v1.1" is actually version 1.1 of the DITA standard, not version 1.1 of the DITA Open Toolkit. ...
Hey Su-Laine, I've heard that the next "release" of XMetal isn't due until November. If so, will there be another SP to support both the official 1.1 DTD...
Rick, The plan is for the fall (tentatively November) release of XMetaL to be the one that includes support for both of these updates. We don't have any...
Thanks, Tom. Is there an easy way from within XMetal to see what version of the DTD and the OT is being used? Is there a "not so easy" way? ;-} -Rick ... to...
The DITA Users site (no relation to this list) is offering Beta memberships until they launch officially. Err, that's their spin, mine is that they are trying...
Depends on what you consider "easy". ;-) The only way to know what DTD is being used is to peer into the {$xm}\Author\DITA\DITA_OT_DTD directory and examine...
Hiya, I have recently been trying to use XMetaL DITA Edition. I have created a DITAMAP using the Resource Manager and there are a number of xml files/topics in...
Apologies if this is answered somewhere obvious, I haven't been able to locate it... I've created a custom ant script to apply our own styles, headers, and ...
