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by chrispitude
Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:07 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number
Replies: 7
Views: 1361

Re: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number

Hi Cosmin,

Unfortunately we don't have a Java developer in our particular group. Maybe I can find some time next year to try to start learning it and make some progress on this. I appreciate all the links you provided, they will certainly be helpful!

- Chris
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 4:40 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues
Replies: 18
Views: 4450

Re: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues

Hi Julien, When I publish in Linux with -Xmx20G set in our global Java options file, I see the following in the log: [java] INFO OxygenPDFChemistry - Max memory available: 18204Mb which is great! When I publish in Oxygen in Windows using framework-defined transformations (with the memory option set ...
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:27 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Suppress "buildId" to make WebHelp output deterministic
Replies: 5
Views: 1167

Re: Suppress "buildId" to make WebHelp output deterministic

It looks like maybe I could set the following transformation parameters to an empty string value: webhelp.build.number webhelp.transformation.timestamp which leaves empty "?buildId=" references in the HTML. Or perhaps if there is an XSLT template that the HTML content ultimately flows thro...
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:04 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Using CSS to provide placeholder-text writer guidance in the Oxygen editor
Replies: 2
Views: 336

Re: Using CSS to provide placeholder-text writer guidance in the Oxygen editor

Thanks Radu, that simplifies it quite a bit: .snps-d\/step > .topic\/p:first-child { -oxy-placeholder-content: 'instruct [result] [explain]'; } Somehow I looked through the CSS files inside the Oxygen installation directory to try to figure this out, but I failed to simply read the documentation.
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:02 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: View all maps that a topic is referenced in?
Replies: 4
Views: 479

Re: View all maps that a topic is referenced in?

In Oxygen v25, Main Files also supports the addition of directories as well as individual files. We configured Main Files to include our directory of DITA-OT project files. Now Oxygen considers all source files needed for our deliverables, automatically adapting to the addition or removal of individ...
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:56 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Appendix to another topic
Replies: 5
Views: 681

Re: Appendix to another topic

For references to book-structure topics, our writers manually set a specialized @xformat attribute, then we use that for <xref> formatting: /************************************** ** Print-specific formatting */ @media print { /* references to bookmap things */ *.topic\/link[xformat~="part"...
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:23 am
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Suppress "buildId" to make WebHelp output deterministic
Replies: 5
Views: 1167

Suppress "buildId" to make WebHelp output deterministic

When we integrate WebHelp into our tools, the entire WebHelp directory is checked into R&D revision control along with the C code. Currently, revision control detects every HTML file in the WebHelp output as changed because of differences in "buildId" values as follows: diff -r out1/ou...
by chrispitude
Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:39 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Using CSS to provide placeholder-text writer guidance in the Oxygen editor
Replies: 2
Views: 336

Using CSS to provide placeholder-text writer guidance in the Oxygen editor

Hi everyone, Our DITA grammar has a <procedure> element (specialized from <ol> ) that contains <step> elements (specialized from <li> ). I wanted to provide guidance to our writers that each <step> should (1) instruct the reader, (2) optionally describe the result, and (3) optionally explain what ha...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:50 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues
Replies: 18
Views: 4450

Re: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues

Hi Julien,

Thanks very much for this fix! This will be very helpful the next time I am debugging publishing issues for writers working with some of our larger reference books.
by chrispitude
Fri Oct 14, 2022 6:39 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Modernize "Format and Indent" support for preview, remembering .bak setting
Replies: 2
Views: 612

Modernize "Format and Indent" support for preview, remembering .bak setting

Now that our writers are becoming more comfortable with XML, they are starting to manually modify files (such as .ditamap files or .xml DITA-OT project files). As a best practice, we use Format and Indent to keep manually modified files clean and consistent: image.png We are finding that the followi...
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:50 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Defining Conditional Profiling Groups in Subject Scheme maps
Replies: 9
Views: 2858

Re: Defining Conditional Profiling Groups in Subject Scheme maps

Hi Cosmin,

We use attribute groups to organize the @product attribute to product families, then products. This is exactly what we needed to make use of subject schemes. Thank you!
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:47 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: "XPath/XQuery Builder" takes much longer than expected
Replies: 5
Views: 654

Re: "XPath/XQuery Builder" takes much longer than expected

Hi Radu,

You weren't kidding - this feature is enormously faster for us now - thank you!

For the sake of others, is this improvement only for RelaxNG DITA grammars, or does it apply to DTD too?
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:43 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Show unhandled profiling attributes (DOTJ031I) in "Transformation problems" summary
Replies: 11
Views: 1961

Re: Show unhandled profiling attributes (DOTJ031I) in "Transformation problems" summary

Thanks Radu! This will help us avoid incorrect content getting published when writers do not know that branch filtering is needed for a book in a help collection.
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:42 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Feature Request: Main Files references to on-disk directories
Replies: 3
Views: 681

Re: Feature Request: Main Files references to on-disk directories

Hi Cosmin,

This feature provides exactly what we needed. Thank you!
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:40 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Pages Footer styling issues...
Replies: 3
Views: 499

Re: Pages Footer styling issues...

Hi Dan, At this page: PDF Chemistry Home > Styling for Print > Page Formatting > The @Page Rule > Page Margin Boxes notice it says the following for bottom-center : Using a bottom-center box together with a bottom-left or bottom-right will create a sequence of three areas of identical width, with th...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:15 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Highlight the differences
Replies: 19
Views: 1889

Re: Highlight the differences

Hi Bogdan,

Somehow I missed that this discussion was for Web Author. Do you think the tooltip enhancements might make their way to the desktop version some day too?

- Chris
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:54 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: How to hide some topics
Replies: 7
Views: 2205

Re: How to hide some topics

Hi vidven,

In this question, are you hiding topics with @props, or are you marking them as revised with @rev?

And can you confirm which transformation type (WebHelp or PDF Chemistry) this question is for?
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:12 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Problem when sorting a list
Replies: 6
Views: 907

Re: Problem when sorting a list

Hi Radu, I see what was happening, at least for me. If you select the <ul> and right-click, you will see a Sort context item whose dialog looks a lot like the sort dialog you get when you do the same thing for a <ul> outside a table. However, the dialog is for table rows, not list items. I was able ...
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:52 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Editor Uses Wrong Font
Replies: 6
Views: 921

Re: Editor Uses Wrong Font

Hi Scott, If you open the Options > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts setting window and press F1, the following documentation topic should open: Oxygen XML > Fonts Preferences In this case, I believe "Author" refers to the WYSIWYG authoring windows in Oxygen that are capable of showing for...
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:31 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Question about initial view
Replies: 3
Views: 1023

Re: Question about initial view

Hi Susanne, In the documentation here: PDF Chemistry > CSS Properties you will find some -oxy-pdf-viewer-* CSS properties that allow you to configure the default view properties when the PDF is opened: -oxy-pdf-viewer-zoom -oxy-pdf-viewer-hide-toolbar -oxy-pdf-viewer-hide-menubar -oxy-pdf-viewer-fit...
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:24 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Problem when sorting a list
Replies: 6
Views: 907

Re: Problem when sorting a list

Hi Susanne,

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. I was able to reproduce this issue in the Oxygen v25 nightly build (2022092906).
by chrispitude
Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:08 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Submap content duplicated - mapref
Replies: 2
Views: 335

Re: Submap content duplicated - mapref

catrachos - both forms should behave identically.

If you are seeing different behavior with the off-the-shelf DITA-OT, please file an issue so it can be fixed.

Thanks!
by chrispitude
Thu Oct 06, 2022 1:04 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Fast way to make and work with unordered lists in different levels. How?
Replies: 7
Views: 1020

Re: Fast way to make and work with unordered lists in different levels. How?

Hi Dan,

Put your cursor at the beginning of the <li> element, then press the Backspace key:

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by chrispitude
Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:46 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Paste relative path
Replies: 7
Views: 764

Re: Paste relative path

Thanks Alex! This sounds like a good adaptive solution. I can't think of a practical case in our environment where a reference would happen to accidentally exist at the new location.
by chrispitude
Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:17 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Paste relative path
Replies: 7
Views: 764

Re: Paste relative path

Related to this, we filed EXM-49471 to request similar @href-adjustment for copying files in the Project view:

Update outgoing (but not incoming) references when Main Files content is copied
by chrispitude
Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:02 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Paste relative path
Replies: 7
Views: 764

Re: Paste relative path

Hi Alex, In our environment, we rely on @href attributes being updated when DITA elements are copied from one place to another. For example, if I have the following content in dir/topic1.dita : <topic id="topic_in_dir"> <title>Topic in dir</title> <body> <p conref="../warehouse/wareho...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:12 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Highlight the differences
Replies: 19
Views: 1889

Re: Highlight the differences

In addition to the solution you proposed, we were thinking to show a tooltip for each diff saying something like "left changed 'abc' to 'def'". What do you think about this? Yes, this would be extremely useful! And you would get bonus points for describing XML-domain changes, like "w...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:59 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Highlight the differences
Replies: 19
Views: 1889

Re: Highlight the differences

Hi Smita, I think the colors that Bogdan described (addition of content on one side, the other side, or both sides) is as close as you are going to get. The differences aren't broken down into exact details of what element operations are performed. Sometimes I find that I get more insight by switchi...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:53 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: How to style fragment of a text in another styled text?
Replies: 17
Views: 1661

Re: How to style fragment of a text in another styled text?

Hi Julien, That's a cool idea! I never thought about using a more complex XPath expression for element operation refactoring operations. Hi Dan, Try using the Wrap element content refactoring operation from the editor context menu like this: image.png If you have multiple tables, you will need to sp...
by chrispitude
Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:26 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: How to style fragment of a text in another styled text?
Replies: 17
Views: 1661

Re: How to style fragment of a text in another styled text?

Hi Dan, The fonts in the Oxygen interface and the fonts in your output transformations are independent. To configure the fonts in the Oxygen interface, you can go into Tools > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts . DITA allows more specific elements to be specialized from more general elements. If you o...