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by IsleofGough
Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:54 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA Open toolkit 4.0
Replies: 4
Views: 803

Re: DITA Open toolkit 4.0

Thank you for your response, Radu. It sounds like it would be best to just wait until your update Oxygen and Java support. I saw that one can redirect from one DITA-OT to another either through preferences or with an explicit statement in the custom transform to use the other one. I didn't want to c...
by IsleofGough
Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:35 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA Open toolkit 4.0
Replies: 4
Views: 803

DITA Open toolkit 4.0

I notice that Oxygen is using Open toolkit 3.0. I downloaded the DITA Open toolkit 4.0 and placed its folder in the "oxygen XML editor/frameworks/dita" folder. I set a global configure transform to use this folder rather than the open toolkit 3.0 folder. I ran the DITA-ot integrator and re...
by IsleofGough
Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:43 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Custom semantic elements
Replies: 1
Views: 357

Custom semantic elements

I know this is a beginner question, but is there a way in DITA/OxygenXML to create a custom semantic or typographical element? DITA has several semantic elements for quotations, notes, etc. and typographical elements for bold, italic, etc. But if you want to define a DITA element that gets translate...
by IsleofGough
Tue Nov 15, 2022 7:23 am
Forum: DocBook
Topic: Assemblies and Directories
Replies: 1
Views: 671

Assemblies and Directories

With DITA topics and a DITA bookmap, I can easily have topics in logical directories and create a pdf target that works. I tried doing the same thing in a Docbook Assembly and encountered problems. I put the Docbook topics in various subdirectories which basically corresponded to chapter titles. If ...
by IsleofGough
Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:58 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to troubleshoot "Unresolved ID reference" error?
Replies: 8
Views: 2740

Re: How to troubleshoot "Unresolved ID reference" error?

Thank you, Julien, for identifying and solving the issue. In my case, it was because the custom CSS hid the title and subtitle from the title page (since I had an image with these already). Julien's fix was to add the lines: *[class ~= "front-page/front-page-title"] > *[class ~= "book...
by IsleofGough
Sat Nov 05, 2022 3:51 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to troubleshoot "Unresolved ID reference" error?
Replies: 8
Views: 2740

Re: How to troubleshoot "Unresolved ID reference" error?

I'm having the same issue with a warning unresolved ID reference. None of the files fails validation and the only reference to this is in the generated "fo" file. I can't find a fix but the pdf seems to generate without problems.
by IsleofGough
Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:51 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to create multiple lines in DITA table cell
Replies: 0
Views: 727

How to create multiple lines in DITA table cell

Is there a way of creating multiple lines in a single DITA table cell without excessive spacing? I created a pdf target using HTML/CSS and I've tried three options: adding <p></p> to each line within an <entry></entry> and using the <line></line>. Both give a lot of extra spacing. The closest I can ...
by IsleofGough
Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:20 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Omit sub table of contents in epub target
Replies: 3
Views: 454

Re: Omit sub table of contents in epub target

Thanks. That looks a lot better. So far I'm finding that Docbook export has much better defaults than DITA for ePubs. I can get close with a DITA Bookman but I still need to edit the ePub afterwards with Sigil or some other editing program.
by IsleofGough
Fri Oct 07, 2022 12:17 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Omit sub table of contents in epub target
Replies: 3
Views: 454

Omit sub table of contents in epub target

When I export a DITA book map to ePub, I get a mini TOC every time I have nested topics. Is there a way of turning this off?
by IsleofGough
Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:49 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Show/Hide Title and Subtitle in pdf target
Replies: 3
Views: 774

Show/Hide Title and Subtitle in pdf target

I have a reasonable pdf output from a DITA Bookmap file using custom HTML/CSS now, but would like to display the subtitle (but not the title) on the title page (since the cover image already has title and author). I imagine this requires modifying some xpath rule, but I don't really know where to st...
by IsleofGough
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:50 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: page numbering
Replies: 7
Views: 1310

Re: page numbering

That fixed it. Thanks!
by IsleofGough
Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:39 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Suppress Page Number in CrossRef
Replies: 2
Views: 610

Suppress Page Number in CrossRef

I would like to suppress the page numbering in cross-references in the HTML/CSS pdf target so that I can use these as endnotes (where more than one cross-reference may go to the same endnote). I created a custom CSS: *[class ~= "topic/xref"][href]:after, *[class ~= "topic/link"][...
by IsleofGough
Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:37 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: page numbering
Replies: 7
Views: 1310

Re: page numbering

Julien provided me with the solution to the numbering: The bookmap is valid indeed but there's still a problem: you are using empty chapters element: <chapter> <topicref href="topics/Overview.dita"/> </chapter> This structure is valid but lead to a wrong interpretation in PDF, you should h...
by IsleofGough
Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:23 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: page numbering
Replies: 7
Views: 1310

Re: page numbering

Thank you for the example. Your ditamap does indeed number correctly. I think I had some left over junk code from the docbook version causing problems.
by IsleofGough
Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:30 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: page numbering
Replies: 7
Views: 1310

Re: page numbering

It would be nice if only the front and back matter used lower roman numbering, but the entire book uses roman numbering if built with HTML/CSS. Fortunately I don't have any of these issues with docbook files and ePub or PDF targets. I was just hoping that DITA had reasonable conversions. Here is the...
by IsleofGough
Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:39 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: page numbering
Replies: 7
Views: 1310

page numbering

When I generate a ditamap to pdf based on HTML and CSS, the page numbers are all in roman. It does not do this with XSL-FO. How do I change the HTML/CSS conversion to use normal numbers for page numbers? Thanks.
by IsleofGough
Thu Apr 21, 2022 4:07 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Cross Reference to ordered list
Replies: 3
Views: 696

Re: Cross Reference to ordered list

I see the error. I need to use:

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<xref href="bibliography.dita#concept_60C4D0117D5941E4A5F815B50A7F8454/DITA" type="li"/>
or whatever the concept ID number is.
by IsleofGough
Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:35 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Cross Reference to ordered list
Replies: 3
Views: 696

Cross Reference to ordered list

Could you help me with the dita code for correct cross references to on ordered list (endnote)? Since I often have several references to the same endnote, I don’t want to use footnote/endnotes directly but have a bibliography file that has an ordered list. I created such a document “Bibliography.dit...
by IsleofGough
Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:45 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA to pdf loses images
Replies: 3
Views: 588

Re: DITA to pdf loses images

Moving the image directory to a subdirectory of topics did fix the issue. Unfortunately, the scale parameter doesn't seem to affect the pdf output if done with XSL-FO but fine with the HTML-CSS method. Thanks.
by IsleofGough
Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:48 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA to pdf loses images
Replies: 3
Views: 588

DITA to pdf loses images

I have a simple DITA file that looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA 1.3 Task//EN" "technicalContent/dtd/task.dtd" [ ]> <task id="id223PDG00Y5Z" xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/ar...
by IsleofGough
Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:01 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Translate plugin
Replies: 2
Views: 710

Translate plugin

In Oxygen XML editor, when I load the translate plugin, if I select anything other than a short paragraph and right click and select "translate", I get an error message that says "could not open browser". Is this limited to short sentences?
by IsleofGough
Wed May 12, 2021 4:51 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Non italic math equations
Replies: 7
Views: 1900

Re: Non italic math equations

Thank you
by IsleofGough
Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:47 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Non italic math equations
Replies: 7
Views: 1900

Re: Non italic math equations

I am on a Mac (Mac Pro 2019 running OS X 11.3). Here is a paragraph from the docbook: <para>When a loop crosses over itself - termed a &quot;riding turn&quot; - the capstan effect becomes important. At the point of crossing, the loop will exert force down on the underlying suture. If the fre...
by IsleofGough
Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:30 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Non italic math equations
Replies: 7
Views: 1900

Re: Non italic math equations

With the generic installation and no modifications, it outputs italic font. See attachment.
MathItalics.jpg
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by IsleofGough
Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:07 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Non italic math equations
Replies: 7
Views: 1900

Non italic math equations

Is there a way to modify the xls transform for doc book to pdf so that mathml equations are displayed as regular rather than italic font?
by IsleofGough
Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:22 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: docbook to pdf customization
Replies: 6
Views: 1726

Re: docbook to pdf customization

I downloaded the Antenna House FO processor and see that actually purchasing or renting would be VERY expensive. But I cannot get it to work, most likely because your instructions state that "The built-in Antenna House Formatter GUI transformation scenario requires that you configure an externa...
by IsleofGough
Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: docbook to pdf customization
Replies: 6
Views: 1726

Re: docbook to pdf customization

Thank you for your thoughts, Radu. You may be right about the Apache processor. All the fonts I tested were commercial non pirated fonts. The problematic fonts were invariably from European type foundries, like TEFF, Dutch Type, Hoftype, and Storm. It does not appear to be an issue with extended sym...