Prefixes for DITA elements
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:57 am
Hello,
Hope to be a future Oxygen user, but until then I am here to ask some questions.
Currently I am using Adobe FrameMaker to author and publish DITA content.
The authoring is not too bad, but the publishing is arduously painful.
FrameMakers uses a combination of EDD files and FrameMaker templates (FM) to render the output.
By default some DITA elements will publish a prefix in the PDF output. For example, using the context element in a task will insert the word "Context:" in the output. Same thing for Result, StepResult, etc. These prefixes are controlled by the FrameMaker EDD files.
Other prefixes are controlled by the template file and are part of a paragraph style.
Where to find out where to control these prefixes is part of the challenge with FrameMaker. A lot of this functionality probably predates FrameMaker's integegration of DITA and quite honestely I find it unnecessary.
So, to my question, can one insert/remove/edit these prefixes in Oxygen XML? Where would this be done? Would this be handled by a CSS file or additional transformation file? I don't dismiss this functionality outright, but it would be good to know where and how this integration is handled.
Thank you.
Hope to be a future Oxygen user, but until then I am here to ask some questions.
Currently I am using Adobe FrameMaker to author and publish DITA content.
The authoring is not too bad, but the publishing is arduously painful.
FrameMakers uses a combination of EDD files and FrameMaker templates (FM) to render the output.
By default some DITA elements will publish a prefix in the PDF output. For example, using the context element in a task will insert the word "Context:" in the output. Same thing for Result, StepResult, etc. These prefixes are controlled by the FrameMaker EDD files.
Other prefixes are controlled by the template file and are part of a paragraph style.
Where to find out where to control these prefixes is part of the challenge with FrameMaker. A lot of this functionality probably predates FrameMaker's integegration of DITA and quite honestely I find it unnecessary.
So, to my question, can one insert/remove/edit these prefixes in Oxygen XML? Where would this be done? Would this be handled by a CSS file or additional transformation file? I don't dismiss this functionality outright, but it would be good to know where and how this integration is handled.
Thank you.