Hello Thank you for a quick reply and for your advice. I have tried the ditaval suggestion but cannot find any attribute to filter on that will affect the topic titles.
I tried your suggestion to link a table by reference but I was not sure what you meant by a "chapter topic" as I am using dita not docbook so used a strict topic file. This successfully omits the topic heading (as there is no content in that heading) but it also means there is no topic heading to pass to the header, where I do want it. Is there a way I can pass a metadata value from a topic into the header (I have tried using a keydef and keyref)? I could then put the required heading value in the metadata and then leave the topic heading blank as you suggest? Alternatively, as these are very simple reference tables which use very few dita elements or attributes and have very simple formatting, we could create some bespoke transforms to handle just these files and pass them to pdf without using ditac and combine them with the rest of the publication using Acrobat. Regards Vic Steadman Executive Consultant Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 507304 -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: 27 June 2013 09:29 To: Vic Steadman Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] Customising pdf Output - DITA Chapter/Topic Headings On 06/26/2013 05:02 PM, Vic Steadman wrote: > > I hope you can help me customise my output from XML Mind into pdf. In principle, this is out of the scope of normal support. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/support.html#xmleditor_support_policy > > I am using XML Mind to produce some reference tables that form part of a > maintenance manual. > > I have usied the DITA reference topic type. Each topic consists of a > CALS table with my reference information and no additional text. > > I am using a Dita bookmap - so that I can have chapter titles and, > later, add in other types of reference material. > > I have included the Chapter and topic titles inside my headers I'm not sure to understand this. Do you mean that XMLmind has automatically generated in the chapter an "Child topics:" block containing all subtopic titles? > and do not want these titles to appear in the body of the document when > published to pdf. > > Is there a way to turn the title off? I don't see an easy way to do that. (I doubt that filtering the topic title using a .ditaval file would work. You can always quickly try that if you want.) Personally, I would do what follows, which in my understanding, reflects what you are actually doing. (That is, the files containing the table are not actual topics, but simply convenient containers for the tables.) 1) Remove all topicrefs pointing to your files containing tables from your bookmap. 2) Open a ``chapter topic'' in XMLmind XML Editor. 3) For each file containing a table: a) open it in XMLmind XML Editor; b) select the table; c) give the table an id attribute; d) use Ctrl+Shift-C to copy the table by *reference*; e) switch back to the chapter; g) Press Ctrl-W (Paster After) somewhere in the chapter to paste a *reference* of the table into this chapter. Now the chapter contains all the tables, without containing any subtopic, and hence any subtopic title. > > I enclose a screen dump to illustrate what I mean. > > The Chapter title is - "System Aircraft - 01" > > The topic title is - "Sub-System General -00" > > I do not want the 2^nd instance of the topic title (circled in blue) to > appear. > -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
