Thanks to your earlier advice on conditions, I'm now fairly confident with
using and a ditaval file to flag changes between two versions of a
document.
What I'm wondering now is whether it's possible to use both status and rev for
really fine-grain control of output. When I was managing regulat
For my question about conditionals, I'll start by reading the helps about Easy
Profiling that I've just discovered :-}
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical author T&P
you know what you're talking about - I can help you say it
Worldline SA/NV - Chaussee de Haecht 1
Thanks for explaining the options, Hussein. By choosing the right option at the
right moment, I can now achieve what I want with 6.1:
* visual change-tracking in .pdf output, thanks to a .ditaval file
* live colouring of status attribute, thanks to a .profile
I have not yet been able to investiga
Trying to save a ditamap as EPUB has thrown up an unexpected message
Warning: file
"file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/XmlMind_6.1.0/addon/config/dita/xsl/epub/mimetype"
not found
True enough, there is no file mimetype in that directory. Is this something
that can easily be fixed?
[cid:image001.
1 > Simply create text file
file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/XmlMind_6.1.0/addon/config/dita/xsl/epub/mimetype
[...]
Thanks! that looks easy enough
2 > Even better solution, uninstall your copy of XMLmind XML Editor 6.1
and then reinstall it at the same location.
I s
erdag 10 december 2015 17:08
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] missing resource?
On 12/10/2015 12:08 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> Trying to save a ditamap as EPUB has thrown up an unexpected message
>
> Warning: file
> &
Good afternoon!
I have a directory T:\12_XPS\05_userGuideDITA that contains
* a set of .dita files
* a .ditamap file
* cover_titlepage.fo (in fact, a copy of the sample .fo file referenced
in the XMLmind DITA Converter Manual)
In the Document conversion parameters for
> You seem to have specified a relative URL: title-page=cover_titlepage.fo
[...]
> Please use the "Browse" button found in the dialog box displayed after
> clicking "Add" in the "Document conversion parameters" panel [...] to specify
> the value of the parameter as an *absolute* *URL*.
I had my
Tracking changes the way I'm used to keeps on getting better and better! thanks
to excellent support, I now know how to:
* flag new/deleted content in the output .pdf, using a .ditaval file
* highlight new/deleted content while writing in XXE, using a
Conditional Processing Prof
the two would be
a nifty extension of XXE's already impressive functionality :-}
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: maandag 21 december 2015 9:53
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] st
Well, I'm happy to report that generating WebHelp this morning with the
parameter ignore-navigation-links=no gave me the output I wanted. It must have
been some time since I last generated that particular Help set :-}
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical author T&P
you know what you're talking abo
Good morning! I've found your reply about this question from 24 February 2014
... and just wanted to check: thanks to our IT "support", I'm still using XXE
6.1.0. Can the DITAC in the current version of XXE (6.5?) now generate "related
links" in WebHelp output?
from Hussein Shafie
24 February
Aha, I thought, starting to update a stack of DITA topics for a new release:
time for ...
Yes, indeed. But:
* the name of the element is vrmlist
* the order of the attributes (driven by the alphabet/DITA standards,
so nothing we can change there) is mrv
* the Prolog i
Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: maandag 11 januari 2016 11:39
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] UI quibble!
On 01/11/2016 09:29 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> A
Happy to pass on a question from a team of developers: how can they take the
stack of .dita files (plus .ditamap, document conversion parameters in an .xml,
and the referenced graphics I use) and use a command-line to generate the
WebHelp?
I'm pretty sure there is a simple "Yes; use ..." answer
Just to let you know that someone fairly reputable isn't happy with some of
your descriptive text ;-} see
http://dita.xml.org/news/release-of-xmlmind-dita-converter-v257-a-serious-alternative-to-the-dita-open-toolkit
I think she might be mollified if you said Download a free evaluation copy of
I'm probably not using the right search option, but I was a bit surprised when
searching in a .ditamap didn't find the search term in the href; and I didn't
have the "whole word" checkbox selected
[cid:image001.png@01D159BF.91234B50]
What's the best tool for locating a particular topic in a map
Thanks to the example you proved, and a bit of digging around on the Web for
extra information, I have managed to define a single-page cover sheet to be
included in the .pdf output from a .ditamap
I ran into problems, though, trying to make a multi-page cover sheet - our
standard .pdf layout ha
> I've been trying to download an upgrade for a few days now, and my
> credentials are always refused.
>> This is a FAQ: "'m supposed to be allowed to upgrade Professional Edition
>> for free. How can I do that?"
You're right, of course, though I wasn't actually trying to upgrade from
Eval
I remember you've already advised me not to worry too much about overflows, but
the current doc still puzzles me. It doesn't help that each page has two
numbers :-} "output page", referenced in the Acrobat toolbar as (n of m), and
"body page" shown in the footer and in the Acrobat 'go to page' f
rrecting it was easy
enough, too; the root of the problem was nasty Visio code polluting the .svg
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: donderdag 10 maart 2016 12:05
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subj
Question from anxious end-user, who seems to want the best of both worlds: is
it possible to generate .pdf output from a .bookmap that includes the familiar
.pdf table of contents in the bookmarks pane?
Observation from me: .pdf outline = yes seems to be without effect when the
starting point i
> You probably made a little mistake when invoking XMLmind DITA Converter.
Thanks for including your parameters in the reply ... I can now confirm (with
some embarrassment) it was just user-error - I'd added pdf_outline instead of
pdf-outline
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Seems to me ... that I can't use Convert document functions on a ditamap while
there are unsaved changes in the map itself; no bad thing, and I'm now used to
seeing that behaviour instead of the older "unsaved changes; do you want to
save ..." dialogue.
But, it also seems to me, if I save the m
"give them an egg and they want an elephant ..."
Thanks to XML Mind, I've done a good job* of rescuing content from a huge,
poorly-structured developer wiki with no hard-copy output option :-} But
instead of focusing on the content, the developers are asking questions about
layout in the pdf.
I
-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: vrijdag 25 maart 2016 16:32
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; xfc-supp...@xmlmind.com;
ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] adjusting .pdf output
On 03/25/2016 09:07 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Nie
When I need feedback from colleagues, it's often quicker to take a screenshot
of a topic in an XXE window than it is to copy the content into an e-mail and
painstakingly reformat it. Everyone's very happy with that way of exchanging
information ... but given the number of strange terms (includin
author T&P
you know what you're talking about - I can help you say it
-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2016 8:53
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] small and unimport
Aha! well, there's more than one way to skin a cat ;-} even if it involves a
bit of creative code-abuse ...
Based on the document I'm updating at the moment, I'd suggest , ,
and probably as early candidates for a future extension :-}
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:
Good morning!
not sure what's happening here ... someone sent me a sample reference topic,
which I've pasted in below.
It opens and validates in XML Mind, but there are problems with the output:
if I try output to XHTML (one page) the result adds an empty column at the
right of the table
if I t
Given the number of times I've asked you questions about this, I'm now fairly
confident at being able to do what I need to; I've even started using xsl.fo
cover pages ... and saving different sets of conversion parameters for easy
re-use.
I was wondering, though, if there's a mechanism for asso
uss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2016 8:53
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] small and unimportant question :-}
The elements you cite are *not* checked for spelling because we have added this
declaration in /addon/config/dita/topi
... wonderful things!
I'm trying to search all the files included in a .ditamap that include three
upper-case letters. After thinking about for a while, I realised what the Helps
meant by Match operation combobox, and I managed to set up a search string =~
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]
What I notice in
A colleague has just spotted a left-over hardcoded date in a document
information table. Is there any way I can pull in a system filestamp, or do I
need to set something in the .ditamap properties by hand and [somehow]
redisplay it?
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical author T&P
you know what you
e of mails on this topic, in case it helps.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: vrijdag 25 december 2015 12:00
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmin
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/profiling/the_solutions.html says
Suffice to associate the ".profiles" file[3] to the map and to check Tools →
Use as Master Document in XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help.
With focus on a bookmap or a ditamap, the Tools menu in XXE 6.6.0 does not
inc
dtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] system variables
On 06/22/2016 12:23 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> A colleague has just spotted a left-over hardcoded date in a document
> information table. Is there any way I can pull in a system file
Not expecting your usual speedy answer, of course, when submitting a question
on Bastille Day :-} but if I ask the question while I'm thinking about it, then
I won't forget ...
When I select a multi-level list and paste it in with Topic > Paste as > ul,
the result is a single ul with all items
You have already answered this question, I know, but probably a couple of years
ago and I've forgotten where to find the answer ... it's about font mapping,
and how to resolve the discrepancies between What You See and What You Get :-}
specifically, I just used the helpful symbols palette to ins
Looks good! thanks for your help. (and I'll keep the URL for the archive, if
that's OK by you)
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: dinsdag 19 juli 2016 10:02
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Sub
Successfully worked out how to use glossgroup to make glossentries easier to
manage, and as usual XXE just discreetly supports whatever I'm (legally) trying
to do.
At output time, though, something in the conversion is numbering the group
titles: I'm getting
1. Numerics
2. A - D
Drat! I thought I'd worked out how to code links properly, but something odd is
still happening and now I don't know where in the process the error is arising.
The source includes a element
for a more detailed description of U-Boot SPL and Spica,
see
for a m
...
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: maandag 8 augustus 2016 16:45
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] rendering of
On 08/08/2016 03:53 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen
Thanks for the extra information! I've experimented, and it begins to look like
a case where I'll have to go for the "least harmful" option (le moindre mal ...)
with chapter prepend, we get clear sequential numbering for chapter/section
titles
Chapter 3. title
3.1 title
3.2 title
but we get conf
Thanks for your patience, and for reminding me of all the options there are to
consider! I'll work through them and learn more.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: donderdag 11 augustus 2016 15:52
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: '
Good morning! I'm still on 6.7, but on the point of upgrading to 7.1. I've also
given three presentations in-house about the benefits of structured authoring,
demonstrating (of course!) DITA and XML Mind as my tool-set ...
question: I've been reading the 22 August 2016 "Easy Profiling" document
ribute 'status' used in the topics/book to be processed"
-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: woensdag 14 september 2016 10:18
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] first question about profiling
> I would say that you have associated a ".profiles" file to your topic but you
> forgot to select one of the profiles of this set.
You're absolutely right ... I shall write myself some extra notes.
I'm assuming, now I've seen the output, that specifying a border isn't showing
anything because
for setting borders ...
I can live with the fact that .pdf conversion can't handle changebars, though.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: woensdag 14 september 2016 16:28
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com&#x
umentation tools, makes a
poor job of change bars in tables unless the user knows the workaround
-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: donderdag 15 september 2016 9:13
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac
ailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: vrijdag 16 september 2016 14:02
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] profiling still causing me grief
On 09/16/2016 12:33 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> I'm puzzled and confused ... I checked all your rece
I take my hat off to you, and not for the first time ... you correctly guessed
exactly what I'd done - copying a *.profiles set from one directory to another
to save time. I have just done the Save as ... and voilà! correctly highlighted
changes in the .pdf
>From a user's perspective, the conve
50
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Subject: RE: new extract for your review
Splendid,
Thanks
*
Worldline SA/NV - Chaussee de Haecht 1442 Haachtsesteenweg
- 1130 Brussels - Belgium
RPM-RPR Bruxelles-Brussel - TVA-B
At least, not a question for you ... a colleague called me on Friday to ask if
I had any ideas for handling a certain situation. Once we had worked out
exactly what the situation was, I was able to say "Yes: start using XML Mind!"
And only a few minutes afterwards, I was already able to send her
... and I have no idea why :-{ Just let me know if you need more information
than this extract from the log.
Transforming XML file "__doc.ditac" to "__doc.fo" using ""
Compiling stylesheet "file:/T:/structured/fo_custom.xsl"
Using the following stylesheet parameters:
footer-right=two-sides first|
question is going to
be WebHelp, anwway, and the problem only occurred when I was trying to generate
a .pdf
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: dinsdag 18 oktober 2016 15:49
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Good morning! just a small question to get us ready for the weekend ...
I have a .ditamap (not a .bookmap) and would like to use critdates. If I just
add , this is accepted as valid - but the output uses the latest
critdate from the first .dita topic instead of the latest critdate from the map.
Well, don't ask me why ... but I regenerated the output this morning and now
the first page of the WebHelp is correctly showing the latest from
the .map file.
A mystery :-}
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical author T&P
you know what you're talking about - I can help you say it
**
"When possible, the number of figure, table, example or equation is made
relative to the number of the ancestor chapter or appendix. This gives for
example (for descendants of chapter 5): Figure 5-1. Title of first figure of
chapter 5, Figure 5-2. Title of second figure of chapter 5, etc." [XML
Good morning! I've just been reminded (luckily, by spotting something in time
to correct it) that I haven't worked out how to pull information from metadata
to footer: specifically, it would be one less thing to worry about if I could
pull the revisionid from the bookchangehist straight into the
: vrijdag 2 december 2016 12:16
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] pulling information into footers
On 12/02/2016 10:36 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> Good morning! I've just been reminded (luckily, by
I'm continuing to improve my conversion-to-DITA skills by transforming a large
paper-based reference guide into WebHelp. It's going pretty well, and I've
certainly gained a better understanding of reltables.
But ... I'm puzzled by the difference in behaviour between two .ditamaps and
their cont
> I'm sorry but I don't see any problem here.
The problem is clear enough, and I was nowhere near suggesting a bug - what
look like two identical groups are behaving differently.
> See for example option "ignore-navigation-links":
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html
... just to be sure I'm not missing something.
The table in the screenshot is beautifully coloured by using an easyProfile and
the props value of each row, but I'm not sure how much else I might be able to
do.
[cid:image001.png@01D25489.3A577AB0]
q 1 - this (helpful) colouring is not showing u
Thanks! I'll double-check the profiles selection question and let you know.
In the meantime, though, thanks very much for alerting me to the table-sort
function. That's impressive.
N
*
Worldline SA/NV -
It seems I have not totally forgotten all your helpful advice and warnings ...
I considered what I'd done in pwa_otaPackages.dita and it now looks to me as
though I was wrong to apply to an entire
A pity, that; but a restriction I'll just need to remember.
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical au
Luckily, I was also working with a smaller .bookmap and a set of updated files.
I tried converting each file separately, and it seems the problem is in the
attached pwa_otaPackages.dita
I'll attach the .profiles file as well, in case that helps; it's giving good
results with all the other files
This .bookmap has been giving excellent results for the last six months, but
for some reason is no longer a happy file. Here’s the log file, which I’m
afraid doesn’t give show anything I can understand myself.
I’m still on 7.1.0, though hoping to check for updates in a week or so. Let me
know i
Good afternoon!
after a question from a colleague who's really keen to move his documentation
set to DITA, I carried out a quick experiment with SVG: to my satisfaction, I
found out that you can include hyperlinks in .svg code.
In the attached file, you should see that the text 'daily Webfocus
t; was their response.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: dinsdag 10 januari 2017 19:41
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] SVG question
On 01/10/2017 03:13 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
&g
I'm puzzled again :-} by some sort of discrepancy I can't see the reason for ...
I have an ordinary ditamap that includes three elements before the
first .
[cid:image001.jpg@01D27182.C5EDF840]
The option 'use as master' document is not selected. The first topic file
included in the book uses a
>> I'm hoping the problem is related to where I have defined the
>> elements.
> No, may be specified anywhere it is valid to do so.
>> Let me know if you need to compare the two map files, and thanks in
>> advance.
> Sure. I *always* need sample files allowing me to reproduce the problem.
> I'
Ha! as usual, you've managed to put your finger on the problem and it wasn't
quite what I'd expected ... converting a single topic fails. This is, I feel,
inconvenient: it's not efficient to have to generate a 226-page .pdf just to
check the behaviour of a couple of paragraphs. Nifty features li
> It's of course possible to mix profiling attributes excluding contents and
> attributes flagging contents in the same profile.
> profiling/about_profiles_files.html#flagging_contents
Encouraging! what I would like to do is set two attributes - status and rev -
on the same element, so I can t
Thanks for the tips! I'm getting there slowly ...
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: donderdag 26 januari 2017 10:56
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] taking easy profiles farther
O
Good morning!
We have a large amount of 'legacy' documentation written in Adobe FrameMaker
and referencing high-quality .eps graphics. Since we often publish to .pdf we
would like to continue using these graphics, and have them included as vector
images in the .pdf output so users can zoom with
try and carry out the
experiment at home. If the results are convincing, this could put me in a
better position to negotiate ;-}
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: dinsdag 14 februari 2017 21:22
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-su
Good morning!
I have a .bookmap, a topic and .profiles file, all attached.
The bookmap is set as a master document, and when I open the topic from the
bookmap the conditions defined in the .profile are applied: the last item in
the ordered list is highlighted in green, because the has status="
> This is almost certainly a bug in XMLmind DITA Converter
> (http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/).
We'll try to fix it in the next version of XMLmind DITA Converter, which will
be included in XMLmind XML Editor v7.4 (planned for this month).
Thanks! just wish me luck with ordering the update ;-}
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I was checking something else in the Helps, and noticed the description of
body-start-indent - this indent makes such a difference to the readability of a
page! and is something I've always applied.
[cid:image001.png@01D29CAD.EE834020]
The Helps explain This stylesheet is invoked by passing opt
Good morning -
* Now we're migrating more and more content to DITA, I have a range of
different conversion parameters to manage. OK, so I know about saving them as
.xml files ... but I've had to start adding a comment at the top of each
.ditamap to remind me which .xml parameter-file t
: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] adding border-bottom when using fo_indent.xsl
On 04/19/2017 09:21 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> Good morning! I'm puzzled ...
>
>
>
> 1. A few weeks
tos Expert in technical communications
you know what you're talking about - I can help you say it
Sent: dinsdag 2 mei 2017 14:32
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Subject: RE: XNT WebHelps updated with "contains" operator
Niels,
Here is the command line that we are using to build
Migrating another elderly document to DITA yesterday prompts a new question ...
I've found and used the conversion parameter "show xref page", but I can
already imagine places where it would not be quite enough. Consider a task
topic that uses elements both for references to step numbers and fo
There are so many nifty options included in XXE ... I'll experiment. Thanks for
the information!
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: woensdag 17 mei 2017 12:46
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com&#x
... marked as 'low importance', since I've worked out what the problem is and
how to correct it :-} but just so you know, it seems that using in
DITA source can sometimes give odd results: specifically, when the columns are
not specified left-to-right in the code, the output renders an addition
> In fact, specifying a AFTER a is
> not allowed.
Of course not! but it can happen ;-}
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: zondag 21 mei 2017 12:30
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-sup
After your help last year, I'm comfortable with using a profile to flag
new/deleted text and highlight the difference between two releases; thank-you!
along with the body-text indent option, this means I can deliver good-looking,
usable documentation.
Now I need to try and take my use of profil
Checking back, it doesn't seem I've already asked this specific question ... my
apologies if that just means I've lost the answer you gave last time!
I have a second-level topic in a chapter. The chapter title topic is rendered
correctly Chapter 3, and the topic title is rendered correctly as 3.
We have an extensive library of .eps graphics, so when I need to include a
graphic in a .dita topic I usually use Illustrator "Save as" to generate the
corresponding .svg file.
I've learnt that when I ask Illustrator to use Arial it writes "Arial MT" into
the .svg source, but that's easy to cor
rowd-funding for the updated ePub
reader for Firefox; thank-you! my contribution was too small to deserve a
mention :-} it's a good cause, though.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: maandag 19 juni 2017 17:29
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Nie
... I've seen allusions to a 'keep with next' option in the release notes and
wonder whether it's available in DITA tasks: the more tasks I write, the more I
see conversion to .pdf leaving the single-line on one page and the
related on another. I am of course reluctant to invent extra content
Thanks! I do tend to assume that XML Mind can do it, whatever "it" is and as
long as I can find out how to ;-} I'll a) read the docs; b) experiment with the
XMLmind XSL Customizer.
By the way ... may I suggest a small addition to one in one help topic? I
was reading pageHeaderFooter yesterda
Beautiful! just the result I was hoping for. Thanks again for quick and
effective support.
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-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: donderdag 22 juni 2017 15:05
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@x
> When you convert a DITA topic, {{document-date}} is always the current date
> (that is, always today).
OK, thanks for clarifying that. Perhaps another argument in support of a tight
link between a topic and its conversion parameters, so that generating output
from topic A always pulls in the
Good morning - Check map identifies no errors, but BookMap > Convert Document >
Convert to PDF fails with the message shown
ditacListsURI=file:/C:/Users/a548040/AppData/Local/Temp/xxe2915903923858805340_d/ditac_lists.ditac_lists
outputFormat=pdf
Processing XML file
"C:\Users\a548040\AppData\Loca
Amazing ... even on a Monday morning, I've managed to remember something. By
converting each chapter as a separate .bookmap, I was able to locate the
problem topicrefs. Looking at the topics, I then realised my mistake: I'd
applied a to a .
Problem now solved!
N
From: Grundtv
It's been a while ... so here's a question to show I'm still happily using XXE
and exploring more things I can't quite do :-}
I have a DITA task ei_004.dita with the ID ei_24lb68 where one of the steps has
substeps; the substep has the id ecrDevice, and shows up (correctly) as 3a
[cid:image001.
tion up to date in a related fourth
document as well.
N
-Original Message-
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com]
Sent: dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 15:13
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] xref t
I thought I'd already asked about this, but can't find your reply in my e-mails
and haven't managed to locate the information in the helps/documentation ... is
there a setting to prevent table rows from breaking across a page when
outputting from .dita to .pdf?
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technic
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