Thanks for your answers. Yes, we can use some other tool like Tortoise to manage the files. I just thought it might be more convenient to have it built into...
For those people using the TopLeaf Plugin for XMetaL, a new recipe has been posted on the online documentation describing how to configure your title page to...
For those people using the TopLeaf Plugin for XMetaL, a new recipe has been posted in the online documentation describing how to layout footers on facing...
Do all CMS have to be web based, or is it possible to install onto a local server and replicate to another server (perhaps in another country)? Our company...
For those people using the TopLeaf Plugin for XMetaL Author a new recipe has been added to the online how-to guide describing how to include page numbers in...
Hi I find IBM's IA Workbench really useful. However, whenever i open the dita stub files (maps and topics) in XMetal, thats when the problem starts. Anyone of...
Hello Marco, What kind of problems are you having? If they are related to using XMetaL, you may be able to find assistance at the XMetaL Community Forums. ...
Is there a way just to reuse a name in a paragraph rather than the whole paragraph. I don't have the money to buy an Xmetal license? My 30 day trial is almost...
DITA has many elements that can be used to mark up phrase-like content. Most (all?) of them can be re-used in the same way as other DITA elements. In addition...
Every time I try to run a reuse operation Xmetal crashes. I am tried to reinstall and reboot but the problem refuses to go away. Also I have tried to find...
Hello XMetaL Users, I would like to use a set of constrained DITA DTDs (for topics, concepts, tasks, maps, and bookmaps) when authoring in XMetaL. I have the...
Hi Patrick, If you've got a unique public identifier for your constrained DTDs, you can use the XMetaL's Tools -> Select Specialized DITA DTD to tell XMetaL...
Thanks Yas! I have a lot of authors - is there a config file(s) that I can distribute or other way to make this configuration easy for authors to apply? ...
Patrick, You would need do distribute at least the following files, but I'm writing this off the top of my head and might have forgotten something: - Your...
Hi Patrick, I like to create an installer for my distributions... NSIS is what i use because I'm a little old school, although I'm sure that there are...
Thank you both for your suggestions. Patrick From: xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com [mailto:xmetal-dita@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Yas Etessam Sent: Friday,...
Hi there, I am trying to figure out a way to prevent page breaks from occurring in my pdf output between a title and its body text. What I experience is that...
Hi Fabien, Try keep-with-next.within-column. I have not tested it myself, but have heard of that working when other settings have not. Also, you might want to...
How can a user put a nonbreaking space in a xref for a table or figure and its number? For exemple in the xref, Figure 1, how would a user put a nonbreaking...
Hi everyone out there, and Happy New Year to you all. I have a question that has been posed by my boss following me introducing him to the possibilities of...
If by module you mean a DITA topic or a group of topics, then the maps that use the module are automatically updated. Producing output automatically is outside...
Hello, I am using XMetal to compose DITA. I'm not sure how to build a MAILTO link. I tried just pasting in the text of the e-mail address and got this: <xref...
The PI that you cite below is placeholder text. If you start typing in author view it is replaced with whatever you enter, and that is the text that will...
