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by Bob.Conlin
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Webhelp Glossary help
Replies: 3
Views: 3380

Re: Webhelp Glossary help

Hi Sorin, This is what I found to work to get the Glossaries that I wanted. <topichead navtitle="Glossary" locktitle="yes" audience="pdf"> <!-- Works for PDF --> <glossref href="Glossary/DITA.dita" keys="dita" print="yes"/> <glossref href=&...
by Bob.Conlin
Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:10 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Webhelp Glossary help
Replies: 3
Views: 3380

Webhelp Glossary help

Using a topichead and glossrefs (with print="yes") to individual glossentry dita files I was able to get my pdf glossary to look exactly as expected: Glossary title with individual entries to browse thru. When I transformed to CHM & Webhelp the output was not as expected. In my searche...
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:03 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Customize WebHelp
Replies: 1
Views: 2386

Customize WebHelp

Is there a way to specify a different folder for WebHelp customizations? For PDF transforms the parameter dita.dir can be changed to specify a different DITA-OT or customization.dir can be change to specify a different customization folder. I have a few font changes and a header logo that I would li...
by Bob.Conlin
Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:10 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Script to process multiple Transformations
Replies: 6
Views: 6250

Re: Script to process multiple Transformations

Thanks Radu, outputFile.base works great. Delivers the correctly named file to the right place without any extra baggage.
by Bob.Conlin
Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:44 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Script to process multiple Transformations
Replies: 6
Views: 6250

Re: Script to process multiple Transformations

Another interesting feature (?). Regardless of the value under the Output tab, Output folder with a value for outputFile the pdf lands in the parent folder (location of ditamap). I added "out/" to the beginning of each of the file names for outputFile and the files land in the out folder. ...
by Bob.Conlin
Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:21 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Script to process multiple Transformations
Replies: 6
Views: 6250

Re: Script to process multiple Transformations

Hi Radu, I tried the outputFile parameter and had some odd results. The transformation ran and created the correctly named pdf but then opened the pdf from the previous unmodified transformation (the file that had the unmodified file name). At first I thought the previous transformation was the one ...
by Bob.Conlin
Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:53 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Script to process multiple Transformations
Replies: 6
Views: 6250

Script to process multiple Transformations

Hi, I have a project that includes a dozen or more pdf targets from a single ditamap, a dozen transformations (each using a different ditaval), and a few dozen dita files. Conditional profiling takes care of which topics to include with which pdf targets. I currently run each transformation, change ...
by Bob.Conlin
Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:18 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Xref to email address, DOTX063W
Replies: 2
Views: 5233

Xref to email address, DOTX063W

Hello, For every occurance of a xref to an email address such as <xref href="yourEmail@address.com" format="html"/> I get an error like [java] [DOTX063W][WARN]: It appears that dita file 'yourEmail@address.com' is not referenced by a topicref tag in the ditamap file. Please make ...
by Bob.Conlin
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA-OT 1.5.4
Replies: 7
Views: 5130

Re: DITA-OT 1.5.4

Thanks Radu, That got it done. I think I must be doing something wrong. I have 4 complete sets of the OT when I should probably have 2. The first 2 are OT 1.5.3 that came with Oxygen, one in the Oxygen install and the second in the same folder as my project content files. The second is where I've be...
by Bob.Conlin
Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:58 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA-OT 1.5.4
Replies: 7
Views: 5130

DITA-OT 1.5.4

I'm trying to implement the new release of DITA-OT-1.5.4. I downloaded the zip and copied the extracted files to a sub folder with my content files (ditamap and dita). I made a dublicate of a working transformation scenario and changed the paramenter for dita.dir to "${cfd}/DITA-OT154". Wh...
by Bob.Conlin
Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:46 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Creating subtitles on first page from ditamap
Replies: 2
Views: 4000

Re: Creating subtitles on first page from ditamap

Thanks Radu,

I had one bit of trouble. In front-matter-attr.xsl in
<xsl:attribute-set name="__frontmatter__owner__container">
the top attribute was set to 210, effectively pushing the content off the page. I set it to 20 and there my content was. All better.

Bob
by Bob.Conlin
Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:50 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Creating subtitles on first page from ditamap
Replies: 2
Views: 4000

Creating subtitles on first page from ditamap

Using a Bookmap with a <booktitlealt> I can create a subtitle on the title page of the PDF render, no problem. Now I want to the do the same thing from a ditamap. In front-matter_1.0.xsl I tried: <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[contains(@class,' map/map ')][1]/*[contains(@class,' map/topicmeta...
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:01 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Getting a wide table to print in landscape
Replies: 16
Views: 14436

Re: Getting a wide table to print in landscape

What kind of customizing is needed? I too have a table (several) in a topic that is part of a larger ditamap. Only a few tables needs to be oriented to landscape. How can this be accomplished?
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:44 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Large PDF failed to render
Replies: 2
Views: 2682

Re: Large PDF failed to render

That fixed it, Thank you.
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:45 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Large PDF failed to render
Replies: 2
Views: 2682

Large PDF failed to render

My pdf renders have grown to over 600 pages with all topics enabled. Above 600 pages the pdf won't render, 599 works ok. When I adjust the ditaval filters to stay below 600 pages the render transforms are Ok. Different ditavals work ok and all topics work under some ditavals as long as the total pag...
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:21 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Reusable content (table) error
Replies: 1
Views: 2747

Reusable content (table) error

I created a table (it's a CALS table, 3 rows, and is used many times) and then did "Create Reusable Component" on the DITA menu. In several different topics I imported this table with "Insert Reusable Content" on the DITA menu. Now I'm getting the following Authoring error: "...
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:31 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Conditional processing
Replies: 5
Views: 6884

Re: Conditional processing

Thanks for the quick response. Actually I like your solution (a single ditamap for multiple output) better than my plan to create multiple datamaps. The DITAVAL filter file is new to me, I'll research that. I'm not clear on how to implement the DITAVAL in the transformation scenarios but you have de...
by Bob.Conlin
Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Conditional processing
Replies: 5
Views: 6884

Conditional processing

Hello, How do I set up automatic conditional processing? Specifically I want to use the product attribute to control if an element is included or not. What I have so far is a topic that will be reused many times that only needs a couple of <p> elements to be specific for the different ditamaps that ...
by Bob.Conlin
Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:21 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: <abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/>
Replies: 7
Views: 5317

Re: <abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/>

Thanks for checking it out for me. I thought the problem was something I was doing. The OT is up to 1.5.4. Is there a way to test with that OT?
by Bob.Conlin
Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:18 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: <abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/>
Replies: 7
Views: 5317

<abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/>

I figured out abbrevlist rendering a glosslist, that works ok. Next I'm trying to get <abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/> to work. I have the glossary information in place that works to populate the abbrevlist but when I try <abbreviated-form keyref="xxx"/> nothing is rendered in th...
by Bob.Conlin
Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:56 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Table header row control
Replies: 2
Views: 5501

Re: Table header row control

Thanks, looks like that working for me.
by Bob.Conlin
Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:50 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Table header row control
Replies: 2
Views: 5501

Table header row control

Using the default DITA xml transformation to PDF I get tables ok but I need to change the style sheet (or something) for a couple of formatting issues. 1) How do I get rows not to break over page breaks? 2) How do I get table header row entries to render vertically? 3) How do I change the header row...