Thanks, Radu. I tried changing the colour of this grey background in the preferences, but gave up after several tries. It appears to be uneditable?

That is a good, concise explanation, Radu! It makes sense to me.

Ironically, it's much easier for me to comprehend your "if not using keys" example. Sounds natural to me. Maybe it's because this is how I did this before, prior to DITA!

Thank you, Radu! It turns out that my "Link with editor" button was turned off. This is exactly what I wanted. I even figured out how to change the colour of the highlight in the ditamap to make it more obvious. On a related note, why are all the topics within a ditamap (in the Maps Manager) highlig...

I have a very common problem, but haven't figured out if there is a feature to help me out. If not, this is a good feature request. It's very simple: I open my user manual with resolved topics in the editor. The manual could be 100 pages or more. I scroll through the editor, reviewing the resolved t...

Thanks, Radu. Chris has summarized the enhancement request well. Right now, it's unfeasible to work with ditamaps with different root maps simultaneously. On a related issue, I never really understood keyrefs and the advantages of using them. Seems a lot more hassle to me when they keep breaking bec...

I am working with different ditamaps in the Map Manager and I have different topics open. One annoying thing I've encountered is when I switch between ditamaps, I must also constantly remember to change the root map. If I don't, my open topics suddenly start showing a slew of "Key not found" as the ...

Yes, things worked normally again when I changed the DITA Type Document from " DITA " to " *DITA* ", or when I changed it to the actual custom DITA document that I had created (it's better to use "*DITA*" though). Radu said the preferences should have defaulted to "*DITA*" in the first place, but mi...

Thanks Radu, that worked! Turns out I had created a new DITA document type based on your solution to another question I had (about forcing the editor to do line breaks, even in a code block). This broke the link to the profiling attributes. Oddly enough, my Preferences were showing just " DITA " as ...

Until today, I was able to apply profiling attributes by right-clicking the selected text and choosing Edit Profiling Attributes . But for whatever reason, I just see "There are no attribute conditions defined" when I do this. When I click "Configure profiling attributes and values", the Preferences...

I have noticed that text within <codeblock> tags do not line wrap in the editor. When compiled as WebHelp, they also do not line wrap unless there is an explicit line break within the code. But this code does wrap when PDF is the output. My question: It was probably by design that code blocks do not...

I understand the that "<shortdesc>" element is used to display tooltip text when you hover over a topic in WebHelp. Most of the time it works, but I've seen instances where the displayed tooltip contains garbled text. I've check the <shortdesc> contents and nothing seems to be amiss. That is, unless...

I am receiving this error "The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup". It's repeated five times for a single line in my topic. I can't figure out what this means--the OxygenXML validator isn't helping.

Please see the attached screenshot.

Yes, using the "Restrict to XPath" option worked. I never would have figured this out myself--talk about non-obvious!

Can't you make a search that actually searches ALL the text in a dita topic? A simple text string search is all I need.

Thanks Radu. I have attached a screenshot showing my Find settings. I believe I've made it as liberal as I could, yet I still get: Scanned Files: 357 Occurrences: 0 I copied the conkeyref[/b] string directly from my topic and I know there are many many instances of this string in my project. I canno...

This problem has vexed me ever since I started using OxygenXML: how do I search for specific XML code? For example, I want to find all occurrences of: conkeyref="corp-vars/corp" And replace it with: conkeyref="strings-corp/corp" I've tried different options under "Find/Replace in Files", but I can't...

I have discovered a curious glitch: when I PDF my entire project (from the DITA Maps Manager), the output contains all my images, as expected. But when I PDF individual topics, sometimes the image appears, other times it is excluded! When excluded, I get errors like this: System ID: /home/clum/repos...

Hi Radu. So what you're saying is that this line break feature added 10 years ago was quickly removed, because it didn't work in DITA? I am surprised to hear that line breaks are not requested very often. I agree that I don't use it often, but when it's needed, a workaround is difficult. For example...

Hello. This simple word processing task has eluded me in Oxygen. I did a Google search and found this response from Radu 10 years ago: Re: Entering a newline from the middle of a tag Post by Radu » Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:32 am Hello Mark, Oxygen 11 (available in a few weeks) will have the Insert new lin...

Hi. I already had clean.output = yes. And I renamed the output folder, allowing Oxygen to create a new WebHelp output folder. Neither worked: when I switched back to build 2019090904, the resulting WebHelp will not search.

Will it help if I send you a copy of my faulty WebHelp?

A few days ago, my OxygenXML Author notified me there was an update. So I installed the update and continued working. Everything seemed normal. Today, I did another WebHelp compile using the WebHelp Responsive transformation that I've been using all along. The compile completed normally and the WebH...

Hi Radu. I am revisiting your reply above, as I thought I got rid of the problem but now it's reappeared in my project again. I don't understand this sentence from your reply: so forcefully treating all links as generic topics by setting the @type attribute on the related links element I don't see a...

Thanks, Radu. I tried the HTML5 version and it does align properly. I will look to see if we can adapt that for our template.

I am new to DITA--what's the difference between "FO" and "HTML5"? Why would I use one over the other?

I am using the Global transformation "DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO - Copy". My version of Oxygen is XML Author 21.1, build 2019061404.

Here is a minor but annoying visual glitch that I can't figure out how to resolve. In a numbered step, if there is a graphic in the line (for example, a button illustration), the line is :pushed down: to accommodate the taller graphic, but step number stays in the same place. This results in an awkw...

Hi Radu. It just occurred to me maybe the reason why I can't create CHM is that I'm running on Linux? I just upgraded to OxygenXML version 21 and now the CHM compile does result in output in the CHM directory, but it's just my source files as HTML files. Then there are three separate .hhc, .hhk, and...

I have sent you a copy of my DITA OT console output. Hopefully you can resolve this as this error is blocking me from compiling a WebHelp for our release. (We need WebHelp from v21, because it resolves a security issue.) For what it's worth, I tried creating a simple 2-topic test project, and the We...

Radu, I have emailed the DITA OT console output to your Support email, referencing this topic. Hopefully you will be able to figure this out quickly, as we need WebHelp output from version 21 imminently.

I decided to try compiling our online help into CHM to see how it looks like. I chose the CHM transformation and it completed successfully: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 27 seconds The process finished with exit code: 0 Right after that, my browser opens and I see this message: File Not Found Firefox...

I just installed OxygenXML Author version 21 this morning and tried recompiling my WebHelp (which worked with no problems in version 20). After running into a host of more minor errors that I was able to figure out myself, I am stumped at this transformation error: Transformation failed. /home/clum/...

Hello. I am asking about text in the WebHelp output.