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Re: formatting and branding output

1 hour 5 min ago
Thanks, I knew that the OT did the transforms in the background, and I had found the frameworks dir, but I still wasn't sure where to begin - so this is very

Re: Xmetal 5 and Windows 7?

1 hour 26 min ago
I believe Vista support was added in 5.5: http://forums.xmetal.com/index.php/topic,96.msg258.html#msg258 http://forums.xmetal.com/index.php/topic,108.0.html

Re: When does an index make sense?

2 hours 26 min ago
... We started to define an index design for our browser-based document center, which contains tutorials and API descriptions. However, when looking at the

Re: Chunking and htmlhelp (CHM) output

2 hours 30 min ago
As others have indicated in this (and many other) thread, chunking usually leaves me scratching my head. However, there's one thing I'd run into that you might

Re: Use of the chunk attribute at the Map Level

2 hours 36 min ago
Julio; "process the child map first" ... how do you go about telling the OT to do that within a single build task (without diving into the XSLT)? Is this what

Re: Xmetal 5 and Windows 7?

3 hours 36 min ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but you're much more likely to get a quick response over on the XMetaL Community Forums:

Re: Plus plugins--possible PEBKAC error

9 hours 50 min ago
Hi Joe, ... I don't recall seeing that exact error before, but I'd consider the jar file suspect. It might be corrupted, perhaps when I checked it into CVS.

Plus plugins--possible PEBKAC error

12 hours 19 min ago
I've been away from using DITA except for some simple transforms using Oxygen and wanted to explore the Plus Plugins. So, I downloaded the latest DITA-OT1.5

Xmetal 5 and Windows 7?

14 hours 20 min ago
We are still using XMetaL 5 (it's a large company so rolling forward to Version 6 is not a priority to the guys with the purse strings). We have heard we are

Re: Creating a <mailto:> link

Thu, 2010-03-18 02:38
... You need to add scope="external" ( as you would for any reference to things that are outside of your DITA content set). You may need to also say

Re: Chunking and htmlhelp (CHM) output

Wed, 2010-03-17 23:46
Hi Chad In addition to Julio's comments, can I add a few more hints? Firstly, topichead can't contain href, so I assume that should be a topicref. If you're

Re: Using onlytopic.in.map causes an empty imagelist

Wed, 2010-03-17 23:21
Well, I don't know if it was designed this way or not, but, looking at the Java source, GenListModuleReader is indeed coded in such a way that it will always

Related links in PDF output that are not defined in the reltable

Wed, 2010-03-17 22:35
Hi, I am trying to customize the PDF2 output of DITA OT 1.5. I am working with a bookmap. The PDF output should contain a related links section in every topic

Re: When does an index make sense?

Wed, 2010-03-17 21:57
In my opinion, an index is warranted whenever the content is too extensive or complex to easily find any specific item of information by quickly scanning the

Re: Files being skipped

Wed, 2010-03-17 21:55
I kind of found out what the problem is. It has to do with the case of the file names. The ditamap map that I was processing has filenames upper case in the

Re: formatting and branding output

Wed, 2010-03-17 21:21
Hi, oXygen doesn't transform the files. The files are transformed using the integrated DITA Open Toolkit. oXygen installs the DITA OT into the Frameworks

When does an index make sense?

Wed, 2010-03-17 21:18
Hi, We started to define an index design for our browser-based document center, which contains tutorials and API descriptions. However, when looking at the

formatting and branding output

Wed, 2010-03-17 20:37
I'm working w/ Oxygen 11, so this question is more about the tool - I'm trying to figure out what the intended approach is for formatting and branding

Re: Creating a <mailto:> link

Wed, 2010-03-17 20:12
... Yes, that looks good. I'd also recommend adding scope="external" so that the build knows not to try to follow the link.

Creating a <mailto:> link

Wed, 2010-03-17 18:38
I'm not finding this in online help for DITA. How do I code DITA so that a link is a mailto link? Click to send
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