Abbreviated form does not display in web or PDF output

[mhovey]

I want to use abbreviated forms, along with a glossary, in my guide which is outputted in bioth PDF and WEBHELP forms. The abbreviated form does not display in the ouput. Here is the code:
<abbreviated-form keyref="EMS"/>

thanks,
Margot

[Radu]

Hi Margot,

Oxygen 14.2 uses the DITA Open Toolkit 1.6 for publishing DITA content to various outputs.
The PDF output in DITA OT 1.6 and older indeed does not properly output abbreviated forms.
Oxygen 15 will come with DITA OT 1.7 which will have more support for outputting abbreviated forms in the PDF output.

But you can download DITA Open Toolkit 1.7 separately and use it from an Oxygen transformation scenario to build PDF output:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ta-ot.html

As for WebHelp output, that should work.
How exactly is the key defined in the DITA Map?

Regards,
Radu

[mhovey]

Thanks Radu.

This is what I have in the webhelp ditamap:
<keydef keys="EMS" href="../Common/Glossary/EMS.dita"/ <keydef keys="EMS" href="../Common/Glossary/EMS.dita"/>

Margot

Hi Margot,

Oxygen 14.2 uses the DITA Open Toolkit 1.6 for publishing DITA content to various outputs.
The PDF output in DITA OT 1.6 and older indeed does not properly output abbreviated forms.
Oxygen 15 will come with DITA OT 1.7 which will have more support for outputting abbreviated forms in the PDF output.

But you can download DITA Open Toolkit 1.7 separately and use it from an Oxygen transformation scenario to build PDF output:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ta-ot.html

As for WebHelp output, that should work.
How exactly is the key defined in the DITA Map?

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi Margot,

The DITA Open Toolkit publishing engine has problems when the DITA Map references topic which are located on a folder path outside of the folder where the published DITA Map is located.
So please try one of the workarounds described here:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... -refs.html

Regards,
Radu