Hi all, We have 40 ditamaps and counting in our project. To enable our writers to adjust cross-references when moving files, I added all the ditamap files to the Master Files list. Unfortunately, now the Context drop-down menu in the DITA Maps Manager is showing the first 20 maps from the DITA Maps ...

Hi Cosmin, I just tried this out and it works brilliantly - thank you!! Here is the command line I used for the LibreOffice Math equation editor in LibreOffice 6: "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\smath.exe" --nologo "${cf}" The --nologo option suppresses the splash screen, which provides a more...

Hi Cosmin,

I just tried this out and it works brilliantly - thank you!!

Hi all, I'd like to provide some company-specific AutoCorrect entries to our writing team. We store our project on a Git server. From the documentation at https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/22.1/ug-author/topics/add-dictionaries-for-autocorrect.html I see that I can provide an incremental AutoCo...

Hi Alex, I did some experimenting with Git submodules through the Oxygen Git plugin. The basic functionality is there, but some of our writers are nontechnical and anything beyond a pushbutton interface will invite confusion. Accordingly, I have the following enhancement requests: 1. When you clone ...

Okay, I think I figured it out. On my Windows 10 machine, I have Oxygen for Windows installed, and I have Ubuntu linux installed via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). By default, Oxygen's Git plugin converts text files to CRLF upon checkout. In that same repo directory, if I commit a CRLF file via ...

Here's another strange finding - if I discard the files, they come back listed as "modified" when I switch focus away from Oxygen and switch back!

crlf-test.tgz Hi Alex, So you have pointed me down the right path, and it looks like it's not related specifically to submodules at all. We have a mixed environment with multiple Git clients: Oxygen for Windows Git client Git for WIndows Git command line in Ubuntu linux I created LF and CRLF versio...

Hi Radu, Thanks for the reply and thought. It's more that we select the label text to wrap it in <codeph> (or another) tag. Or we might want to copy/paste the label into another window to search internal documentation or paste it into a terminal window. From a broad perspective, underscores are simp...

Hi all, I tried to use the Git submodule feature of the Git plugin today, but didn't work as I expected. When I switch to a submodule, the plugin shows every file in the submodule as having an uncommited local change: image.png If I select all files and Discard them, the list becomes empty - but onl...

When I double-click in the Oxygen editor, it selects a phrase for me. Currently, this phrase selection stops at underscores. However, I would like it to select through underscores, as almost all the labels we wrap in <codeph> in our documentation have underscores in the names. It would be very usefu...

Hi Radu, I have writers that are asking for such a combination of features: Allow topic editing in a map with resolved topics (this request) Allow resolved-maps to be opened from a selected branch of the map This would allow them to open all topics relevant to a particular feature, then edit those t...

Hi Alex, I am trying to avoid the use of external Git clients for two reasons. (1) I've tried to use the following Git clients in parallel: JGit in the Oxygen Git plugin Git for Windows Git in Ubuntu linux, via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but I get weird interactions where one client reports f...

Is there a way to place table footnotes below the table? This is a FrameMaker style that we would like to replicate in our PDF Chemistry PDF files.

Thanks!

The challenge for pre-commit hooks in Oxygen is that most pre-commit scripts rely on various git commands to query aspects of the commit and repo. However, there is no such command available to run in an Oxygen/Git client (unless you supply an external environment on each writer's machine). Is there...

Thank you Alex!! This post is exactly what I'm looking for. I'll wait for the new Git plugin (waiting is easier than downgrading) and give it a shot. I'm going to investigate using WSL bash scripts and/or Python for Windows scripts to implement the pre-commit checks. I'll reply back here with my fin...

I see in the DITA 3.5 release notes at https://www.dita-ot.org/3.5/release-notes/ that dita now allows additional resources, such as key-providing maps , to be provided on the command line. This would enable Oxygen to transform individual topics with the sticky context! We've had many writers wantin...

Important note: (thanks to alex_jitianu) The Oxygen's Git plugin is based on the JGit library, which supports at least the precommit Git hooks. If you are running on Windows, you need to: 1. Install Cygwin. You'll need to nstall the Git packages in Cygwin too, because the hook scripts want to execu...

Hi Radu,

This plugin approach sounds promising! Where can I find instructions on how to use it? I don't know enough to guess just from the file names and types.

I see that Oxygen remembers the following settings in the "Insert Table" dialog: image.png But where does Oxygen store these settings? The settings shown above are the defaults from a fresh Oxygen installation. But this causes us problems because we want new tables to be created with "<unset>" prope...

Thanks Cosmin, that would be great! These features are actively changed by the writers to configure their editing window, rather than being a part of the underlying project-level definitions themselves.

Hi Alex,

If multiple-choice is an option, you could have ignore, ask, always choices. This would allow each customer to choose what is best.

Hi Cosmin, Only the first and third options cause the project file to change. Here is the diff: $ diff 1.xpr 2.xpr 142a143,146 > <String>show.colors.and.styles.default.value</String> > <Boolean>true</Boolean> > </entry> > <entry> $ diff 2.xpr 3.xpr 146,149d145 < <entry> < <String>show.excluded.conte...

Hi Alex,

We had a writers' meeting yesterday and one of the topics was Git and the mechanics of push/pull/commit and conflict resolution. I mentioned the idea of doing an auto-pull whenever the pull would complete without conflict, and there was quite a bit of interest in this.

We have been extremely successful with the "DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS" transformation. By editing the CSS file then refreshing your browser displaying the intermediate HTML5 file, you can see the results of your adjustments almost instantly. You can also use the powerful CSS inspector/debu...

Hi steinbacherGE,

I have a solution for cross-deliverable (cross-book) links with Oxygen's HTML5-based WebHelp:

https://github.com/chrispy-snps/DITA-fi ... html-links

Feel free to ask any questions!

- Chris

Hi Radu, The picture I had in my head was that the processing stages at https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/reference/preprocessing.html were applied one at a time. And if you made a copy of the working directory between the steps, you'd have a series of snapshot directories that you could diff -- or rerun ...

Hi Lisa, I am currently converting a set of four application notes from Word to DITA. They vary from 50 pages to 300 pages in length. I saved the app notes from Word as "Web Page, Filtered" which is a simplified HTML output. I was then able to write a perl script to read each HTML file and process i...

We use a 3GB default for the transformations that our writers run on their laptops (8GB memory).

My company also uses different formatting for single-step procedures, so it seems like a good enhancement to have.