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by Costin
Wed Dec 19, 2018 6:17 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Named Page
Replies: 1
Views: 1160

Re: Named Page

Hi, Please note that named-pages do not refer to some pages that could be renamed using a custom name. Those are specific pages (called "named pages") that could not be matched by the @page rule alone, but need more specific selectors (like "@page table-of-contents {" or "ta...
by Costin
Tue Dec 18, 2018 1:40 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: selecting the table title
Replies: 2
Views: 1418

Re: selecting the table title

Hi mrpaultracey, First, I want to make you aware that the classes in the WebHelp output are not the same with the ones defined in the DITA source files. You should use the CSS inspector of your internet browser to inspect styles for a specific element and find its specific selector. For example, you...
by Costin
Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:56 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Setting PDF Bookmarks and Properties (DITA and CSS)
Replies: 1
Views: 1420

Re: Setting PDF Bookmarks and Properties (DITA and CSS)

Hi shannonxtreme, Set the PDF bookmarks so that the mainbooktitle and booktitlealt are displayed as the top-level bookmark label in the format " mainbooktitle – booktitlealt " Your approach - setting the bookmark-level to 1 on the booktitle is correct. However, to concatenate the text cont...
by Costin
Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:37 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to reference same topic twice
Replies: 1
Views: 1193

Re: How to reference same topic twice

Hi, There were some issues that could make duplicate navigation arrows to occur in some special circumstances, in older versions of oXygen. However, those were fixed in the latest version of oXygen. Therefore, you should try using the latest version of oXygen available in the Downloads section from ...
by Costin
Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:37 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Auto add product name beside web page title
Replies: 4
Views: 2536

Re: Auto add product name beside web page title

Hi Catherine, Yes, we are aware that it is possible to modify the title from the <head> element of an HTML document. However, I'm afraid that the publishing process has its limitations, so this is not something that could be also performed automatically during transformation (at publishing time). Th...
by Costin
Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:09 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Auto add product name beside web page title
Replies: 4
Views: 2536

Re: Auto add product name beside web page title

Hi catherine, It is not possible to keep the same topic title for multiple products, but change only the title from the header of the HTML pages. However, the next best thing would be to have topics with different topic title for each of the publications (each product). This way, the topic with the ...
by Costin
Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:45 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: CSS Page Break Avoid Too Strict
Replies: 4
Views: 3825

Re: CSS Page Break Avoid Too Strict

Hello, I logged this as a feature request in our internal tracking system. However, as this is the way the page breaks work and this is also as it is defined in the CSS language (and compliant to the W3C standard), I can not guarantee this will be implemented, or tell when this would occur. When/if ...
by Costin
Fri Nov 23, 2018 12:07 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Sort topics by the last change
Replies: 3
Views: 1911

Re: Sort topics by the last change

Hi Anna, I'm afraid there is no such possibility in the current implementation of WebHelp so far. The good news, if I can say so myself, is that we already had an improvement request logged also for this - to make it possible to display a timestamp for last modification on a topic. I have just added...
by Costin
Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:54 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: CSS-Based PDF, change language of "Note", "Warning", "Caution" etc
Replies: 6
Views: 3279

Re: CSS-Based PDF, change language of "Note", "Warning", "Caution" etc

Hello, Yes, depending on the language you set through the "xml:lang parameter", the DITA-OT uses the set of labels appropriate to that specific language. Going further, you could edit the text used for specific labels, through CSS customization. More specific, you could use your own custom...
by Costin
Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Oxygen 20.1 Webhelp compatible with old DITA OT versions?
Replies: 1
Views: 1327

Re: Oxygen 20.1 Webhelp compatible with old DITA OT versions?

Hi B-E-N, Basically, you should be able to use a custom DITA-OT, different by the one that a specific version of oXygen comes bundled with. However, as also stated in the requirements section from the WebHelp Responsive User-Guid e: The Oxygen XML WebHelp Responsive plugin has only been tested with ...
by Costin
Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:30 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF
Replies: 17
Views: 10532

Re: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF

Hi cud, As long as the peer folders are both local (it would be recommended to have all the resources in the same folder or in a child folder with the .ditamap file though), it should not have any influence on this. We have logged an issue in our internal tracking system to perform some profiling on...
by Costin
Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:05 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Add "Compiling to Sass Stylesheets" (and editor mode)?
Replies: 6
Views: 4716

Re: Add "Compiling to Sass Stylesheets" (and editor mode)?

Hello,

I just checked our system and this improvement is still open.
Most probably, this won't be implemented in the upcoming v21 release.
However, we will update this thread when /if this will get implemented.

Best Regards,
Costin
by Costin
Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:26 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Topics findable even when processing-role="resource-only"
Replies: 7
Views: 3881

Re: Topics findable even when processing-role="resource-only"

Hello,

In order to tell the search engine to exclude certain topics from indexing, you should use the search="no" attribute on the specific topic references in your DITA Map.

Regards,
Costin
by Costin
Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:07 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: HTML5 output: duplicated title and h1 tags
Replies: 4
Views: 2451

Re: HTML5 output: duplicated title and h1 tags

Hi Mike, In addition of what Radu already suggested, I just wanted to clarify that the title element from the header of an HTML document does not appear in the content, as it is part of the HTML metadata that is not visible. It is only used to display the title of the page on a browser tab, or in th...
by Costin
Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:59 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Task Labels Missing from PDF Based on CSS
Replies: 5
Views: 2667

Re: Task Labels Missing from PDF Based on CSS

Hi Carl, We do not have a public issue tracking system, it is only internal. However, were are already considering a quick workaround for the issue, in case you are using the HTML5 and CSS based scenario. I will get back to you tomorrow with the fix. Meanwhile, could you please also provide more det...
by Costin
Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:45 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Task Labels Missing from PDF Based on CSS
Replies: 5
Views: 2667

Re: Task Labels Missing from PDF Based on CSS

Hi Carl, There is indeed a known issue regarding the generation of tasks labels that we have it already logged in our internal tracking system. We are currently investigating why the parameter is ignored during transformation, so we are looking for a possible fix in a future version released. We've ...
by Costin
Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:52 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF
Replies: 17
Views: 10532

Re: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF

Hi cud, Could you please also try increasing the memory allocated to the transformation? Like I suggested in my previous post: in the Advanced Tab (DITA OT Transformations) - look for the " JVM Arguments parameter " You should try progressively increase the -Xmx value. For example, you cou...
by Costin
Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:38 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF
Replies: 17
Views: 10532

Re: Intermittent Lock after Transform to PDF

Hello, This could depend on the number and size of the files that are open in oXygen at the moment when you run the transformation scenario. Oxygen could run out of memory in case you are working with large files, or with a large number of files. You should try both increasing the available memory f...
by Costin
Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:49 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Responsive webhelp: special font-style to elements with attributes outputclass
Replies: 2
Views: 1582

Re: Responsive webhelp: special font-style to elements with attributes outputclass

Hi pieterjan_vdw, What you already tried is a good solution. However, if not avoid using ":" at all, you should make sure that you escape the colon sign in the CSS selector from your custom CSS, otherwise the ":" would be considered as the beginning of a pseudo-element, resulting...
by Costin
Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:28 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Emded videos in responsive design mode
Replies: 1
Views: 1206

Re: Emded videos in responsive design mode

Hello, I already replied back to the email you sent to our support email address. However, just to updated the thread, in case there are other users encountering the same issue, the support for responsive embedded videos was introduced at oXygen XML v20.0, so you need to generate the WebHelp Respons...
by Costin
Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: CSS-Based PDF: xref counters
Replies: 2
Views: 1558

Re: CSS-Based PDF: xref counters

Hi Dr. ABacus, This is a known issue that we already tried to avoid in the next version of oXygen. As we tried to include the fix in our internal development stream, I just sent you the latest nightly build by email. You could test if the numbering for your referred tables/figures is correct when us...
by Costin
Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:34 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: MathML support in Eclipse Oxygen 19.1 and Web
Replies: 14
Views: 5676

Re: MathML support in Eclipse Oxygen 19.1 and Web

Hi Shabeer, There is predefined support for MathML in oXygen, but that is more in a minimal form. More specific, in the Author mode, you can insert equations, or double click a MathML equation to open the equation in a dedicated window that makes it possible to see adn edit the MathML elements. This...
by Costin
Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:38 am
Forum: General XML Questions
Topic: Using group element
Replies: 1
Views: 1829

Re: Using group element

Hi, Unfortunately, it is not clear what exactly you need to achieve. Also, it is not very clear which XML document types you are working with (I can only guess you work with XML schema files and refer to the <group/> element). As this is an oXygen XML product oriented forum and it is hard to underst...
by Costin
Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:52 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: svg file not displayed in Chrome Browser
Replies: 2
Views: 1635

Re: svg file not displayed in Chrome Browser

Hi Catherine, I just test this using oXygen XML Editor v20.0 but could not reproduce the issue. The note icons from the WebHelp Responsive output look great on both Firefox 62.03 (Quantum) and Chrome 69.0.3497.100 - 64bit. Are you using a custom scenario? And, if you do, could you make sure you are ...
by Costin
Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:55 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: changing editor background colour
Replies: 2
Views: 3290

Re: changing editor background colour

Hi bernardusgui, You should try set the "Editor background color" / "Author default background color" from Options > Preferences >Editor > Edit Modes > Text /Author to change the editor background in the "Text" / "Author" editing modes. Regards, Costin
by Costin
Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:50 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Breadcrumbs include shortdesc text
Replies: 1
Views: 1293

Re: Breadcrumbs include shortdesc text

Hi Ann, This may occur if there are older publishing templates that are used with the latest version of oXygen. In such cases, some elements could end-up being incorrectly styled/displayed in the output. You should try running the default WebHelp Responsive transformation scenario that comes bundled...
by Costin
Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:44 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane
Replies: 8
Views: 3562

Re: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane

Hi, I've tested with the latest build of oXygen XML Editor v20.1 available on our website and both glossary and indexlist are present in the Bookmarks pane by default. However, there are indeed some problems that regard the position in which they appear in the output, so we logged a bug on this issu...
by Costin
Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:57 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane
Replies: 8
Views: 3562

Re: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane

If you have a topic-head with a glossary and an indexlist present in your DITA Map, they should be present by default in the PDF output. You could send us a small DITA Map (containing just a couple of topics, the glossary and the indexlist) on our support email address (support@oxygenxml.com) and we...
by Costin
Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:38 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane
Replies: 8
Views: 3562

Re: CSS-Based PDF: navigation pane

Hi, In the current implementation is not possible to control the generation of the bookmarks meta-information. However, as long as there is a simple setting you could apply in Acrobat Reader to hide or display the navigation pane, is there a specific use-case for which you need to control this throu...
by Costin
Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: TOC Last Entry shifting to next page
Replies: 10
Views: 4248

Re: TOC Last Entry shifting to next page

Hi dpksaini89, We already fixed this issue in the internal development stream, so, if you are willing to test, I can grant you access to the latest nightly build available of a package containing a ready to use customized DITA-OT (it contains also the latest build of Chemistry engine). If you are OK...