Z. wrote:
I am working on a technical book written in DITA with some figures in
PNG format.
I need some software to publish my book in PDF and EPUB3 formats for commercial
purposes. I am interested in XMLMind, but I have two sets of questions:
(1) What type of customer support can I get? To be specific, I would
like know the
following tricks:
- How to start the first chapter of a volume at page and chapter numbers
other than one?
- How to use the dropped capital feature on the first letter
in the first paragraph of a chapter?
- How to set page margins?
- How to customize header / footer so that they can be
different on odd and even pages?
- How to keep a large table on the same page, instead of being
split between two pages?
- How to prevent a word from being separated at the end of a line?
- Other similar things I might need.
All your questions are related to the way a DITA document is converted
to PDF and EPUB3.
Our product is a DITA *editor*, not a publishing software. Indeed, it
can convert a DITA document to several output formats, but customizing
the output, while quite possible (we have a graphical tool which makes
this relatively quick and safe: the "XMLmind XSL Customizer" helper
application) requires you to really understand how this output is
created, namely to understand the XSL technology.
See the "Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets" dialog box:
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/ConversionStylesheetsEditor_intro.html
See the "XMLmind XSL Customizer" application:
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xslcustom.Customizer.html
I am not sure support A, B, C, D will cover the above.
"C. Help me customize the output of the "Convert Document" submenu",
could be understand as if it covered the above. See "Support policy",
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/support_policy.html.
This is definitely not the case. We merely give you leads about what you
can do and also, sometime, give you a quick start by answering at most a
couple of questions, (e.g. "How to customize header / footer so that
they can be different on odd and even pages").
I don't
even know what is a
configuration.
You don't need to. The "XMLmind XSL Customizer" application will take
care of that. See "Options", "Customize Configuration" menu, "Customize
Document Conversion Stylesheets" menu item,
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/customizeConfigurationMenu.html
However, given what you want to achieve, you must really understand how
this output is created, namely to understand the XSL technology.
I am not a DITA expert at all.
I will go over the online document, but I need someone to help me
if something is not
documented or I cannot figure it out myself after reading the document.
(2) I am considering the DITA Editor Professional Edition.
My question is: Can I run DITA editor on both Windows and Ubuntu
Linux?
Sure.
I might need
to use fonts available on Windows because I am not sure fonts on
Ubuntu are good enough.
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