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by expatriate
Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:23 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Equations: Alignment, automatic numbering, referencing, etc.
Replies: 8
Views: 5606

Re: Equations: Alignment, automatic numbering, referencing, etc.

Hi Radu Apologies for the (very) late response. This is now a live issue for me again. Thanks very much for taking the related xref-to-equation issue forward as https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/2183. I see your point, but in STEM-type content equations have no titles. References to them are...
by expatriate
Fri May 05, 2017 8:13 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Custom map icons for specialised DITA topics?
Replies: 4
Views: 2610

Re: Custom map icons for specialised DITA topics?

Thanks, Sorin, for the quick and encouraging response. Yes, in principle this sounds perfect, especially as (if this is relevant) the titles of these topics will normally be not be rendered and would only be seen by the author. The oXygen API is an unvisited foreign country for me and I'm qualified ...
by expatriate
Fri May 05, 2017 10:12 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Custom map icons for specialised DITA topics?
Replies: 4
Views: 2610

Custom map icons for specialised DITA topics?

Hello
Is it somehow possible, using a customised icon, to indicate in the DITA Maps Manager view which topics which are of specialised types (i.e. other than task, reference or concept)?
This sounds like a big ask, but would be really useful.
Thanks
Pat
by expatriate
Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:44 am
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario
Replies: 3
Views: 2239

Re: Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario

Thanks yet again, Radu! Fixed.
by expatriate
Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:24 am
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario
Replies: 3
Views: 2239

Re: Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario

Just a follow-up to confirm that if I copy oXygen's call to AHF from the log, insert a parameter "-i [path-to-AHF-settings_file]" and run that from the command line, it works fine. But how can I tell the transformation scenario to do that? I see nowhere to enter that parameter…
Pat
by expatriate
Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:09 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario
Replies: 3
Views: 2239

Setting math font in 'Antenna House Formatter' scenario

To help me draw SVG diagrams containing math content using a sans-serif font, my stylesheet makes some character substitutions in MathFlow's MML then wraps the MML in a small FO file and sends it to Antenna House Formatter. The stylesheet is applied using oXygen's "Antenna House Formatter"...
by expatriate
Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:41 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: lcMatching2 sample does not validate
Replies: 2
Views: 1715

lcMatching2 sample does not validate

I've had some difficulties writing a DITA 1.3 Learning and Training "Matching" question. The syntax of lcMatching2 isn't exactly easy to begin with, so I tried using the OASIS sample at http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/os/part3-all-inclusive/langRef/learningTraining/lcMatching2.ht...
by expatriate
Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:08 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Mac system windows quickly lose focus
Replies: 2
Views: 1719

Re: Mac system windows quickly lose focus

Hi Adrian
Offline, you asked: "Are you maybe using Witch?"

Yes I was, and disabling it immediately and permanently cleared the problem. Pity: Witch is a good application/window switching app, but I'll live without it.

Thanks as always for outstanding support.
Pat
by expatriate
Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:22 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Mac system windows quickly lose focus
Replies: 2
Views: 1719

Mac system windows quickly lose focus

Hi I've recently hit a problem running build 2016081012 on a Mac Pro under OS 10.11.6. Focus is lost from any system window (open save etc.) after a second or so. This may have started after updating Java to 1.8.0_65, JRE build 1.8.0_65-b17,HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM build 25.65-b01, mixed mode. Using...
by expatriate
Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:46 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: ID attributes for equation domain
Replies: 1
Views: 1812

ID attributes for equation domain

oXygen's support for the new DITA equation domain is great to have. I've written a PDF5 customisation to automatically number and cross-reference <equation-block> elements, but of course each such element (or, at least, each one which has an child <equation-number>) will need an ID attribute. Can oX...
by expatriate
Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:02 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Equations: Alignment, automatic numbering, referencing, etc.
Replies: 8
Views: 5606

Re: Equations: Alignment, automatic numbering, referencing, etc.

Dear Frank, Radu, I've come late to this discussion, but I write DITA content for STEM education and have been struggling with similar problems for a few years. Salvation by DITA 1.3 now seems very close, but I still find it difficult to figure out what we should write into a <block-equation>'s <equ...
by expatriate
Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Hi Radu Thanks for finally tracking this one down. Inkscape’s “plain SVG” files till contain -inkscape-font-specification attributes. Tavmjong Bah has reported the continuing existence of -inkscape-font-specification, which is no longer necessary, as a bug but the bug status is still undecided. Alth...
by expatriate
Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:13 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Hi Radu Once again, apologies for slow response. Perhaps surprisingly, saving Inkscape drawings as Plain SVG does NOT fix the problem. Rendered text is still scattered unpredictably including, frustratingly, outside the viewport. Any possibility of using an alternative renderer, even Inkscape's own?...
by expatriate
Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:04 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Thanks, George.

Sadly this time the magic doesn't seem to have worked. Really simple images are not rendering correctly.

Batik's letting you down. Is there any other option to just viewing embedded SVG graphics outside oXygen?

Best wishes
Pat
by expatriate
Sun May 31, 2015 10:37 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Hi Radu
This variant kit worked perfectly for me and I saw no other bugs comparable to the one it cured.
Now I've upgraded to Oxygen 17 and I'm back where I was. Will there be a Java 1.8 version for this one too?

Thanks
Pat
by expatriate
Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:21 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX: diagnosis

Hi Adrian, After hours of experimentation I can offer a diagnosis, but no explanation. It seems that Oxygen will not render styled text which has no "stroke" colour. Inkscape seems to give text every conceivable attribute EXCEPT stroke colour: "stroke: none;". This won't do for O...
by expatriate
Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:59 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

Re: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Hi Adrian
Thanks for your quick response, sorry for my slow one.
Distribution: .zip with Java 1.6.0_65-b14-466.1-11M4716
Mac yes, Retina display no -- and I'm using 3 different displays with the same effect on all.
Pat
by expatriate
Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:18 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX
Replies: 14
Views: 8200

SVG text not rendered under Mac OSX

Using the latest build of Oxygen, I can't get simple text objects in SVG to render. I'm not too sure when the problem appeared as I've often previously converted text to paths. In Inkscape 0.91 I'm now asking for font-family="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" and seeing nothing, even in very s...
by expatriate
Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:24 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Favourite entities and elements
Replies: 2
Views: 2382

Re: Favourite entities and elements

Costin, Thanks for understanding what I meant even when I hadn't clearly written it. The feature you say would be possible is exactly what I hoped for. I hadn't thought of using code templates -- it's a lot more elegant than my quick-and-dirty method of copying a few empty elements and entities into...
by expatriate
Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:30 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Favourite entities and elements
Replies: 2
Views: 2382

Favourite entities and elements

Oxygen's a superb application and I can't believe it doesn't already have this feature: I probably just can't find it. The Entities and Elements lists can be very long indeed. Could items on each be copied to sublists of favourites at the top, based on frequency of usage? I spend hours of my life se...
by expatriate
Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:27 am
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Insert Equation
Replies: 1
Views: 2065

Insert Equation

Greetings Virtually every topic I write contains equations, and inserting every equation involves a few extra operations. A few years back Radu mentioned (responding to lascar) that a future Oxygen release might allow an 'Insert Equation' toolbar button to be configured. With the upcoming DITA 1.3 r...
by expatriate
Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:41 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Incorrect replacement in 'Find in Files...'
Replies: 3
Views: 1959

Re: Incorrect replacement in 'Find in Files...'

Hi Adrian,
Thanks once again for the usual excellent support.
Pat
by expatriate
Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:35 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Incorrect replacement in 'Find in Files...'
Replies: 3
Views: 1959

Incorrect replacement in 'Find in Files...'

Hi I'm running 13.1 on a Mac. I'm seeing a serious and baffling problem with Find/Replace in files. I very often do a sequence of two replacements in the same batch of HTML files. The first correctly replaces all text-fragment-1 with the specified replacement-text-1. The second then replaces all tex...
by expatriate
Mon May 16, 2011 12:25 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: DITA with MathML to WebHelp
Replies: 6
Views: 3909

Re: DITA with MathML to WebHelp

Hi Radu Thanks, as always, for helpful and interesting comments. For HTML I should have pointed out that I'm still using Firefox 3.6, but it seems Firefox 4 has similar issues. For PDF I'm now evaluating the Antenna House formatter which handles MathML very nicely indeed -- at a price! We were also ...
by expatriate
Sun May 15, 2011 8:03 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: DITA with MathML to WebHelp
Replies: 6
Views: 3909

Re: DITA with MathML to WebHelp

OK - now I remember to put a namespace on the html element, and it works: perfectly rendered MathML in WebHelp pages. From Firefox, at least.

That's all it takes: any chance this might be built into the WebHelp transformation for 10.2?

Pat
by expatriate
Sun May 15, 2011 6:17 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: DITA with MathML to WebHelp
Replies: 6
Views: 3909

DITA with MathML to WebHelp

Hi We really, really need to publish DITA plus MathML to PDF (no problem), WebHelp and ideally SCORM outputs. For WebHelp, MathML makes it from Oxygen's Composite topic type to the HTML files -- but Firefox won't render it. If I change the .html extension to .xhtml, Firefox renders the MathML perfec...
by expatriate
Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:01 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: jeuclid will not render entitiies
Replies: 4
Views: 2336

Re: jeuclid will not render entitiies

Hi Radu Sorry for the slow response. I'm using MathFlow, but the problem doesn't arise from that. 1. Open a new document on the 'Composite with MathML' template 2. Replace variable m in Line 27 with the entity '&alpha;' 3. Equation will no longer render. The value for alpha is '&#x03B1;'. Ch...
by expatriate
Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:51 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: jeuclid will not render entitiies
Replies: 4
Views: 2336

jeuclid will not render entitiies

Hi
Using Editor 12.1, build 2011012011, I'm seeing a new problem with jEuclid failing to render entities in MathML. The entities are listed and seem to be recognised OK; they're just not rendered in the Author view, which is a nuisance.

Any idea what I've broken?
Pat
by expatriate
Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: WebHelp toc file not found
Replies: 1
Views: 1430

WebHelp toc file not found

I'm getting a minor error with WebHelp output under 12.1 for DITA maps which worked under 12.0. On the output index page, the toc file reference lacks an extension (.html) and can't be found Firefox; adding the extension manually fixes the problem. Am I doing something dumb, or could there be a styl...
by expatriate
Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:32 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: SCORM learning object output
Replies: 12
Views: 7991

Re: SCORM learning object output

Hi Radu With Oxygen 12.1 with DITA OT 1.5.2M05, setting up SCORM output is a little easier than it was when I last wrote. For anyone else trying this, here's your original guidance annotated with the path corrections still needed; I hardwired these, but those who know what they're doing can do bette...