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Trademarks in PDF
Hi, Kate -- Sorry for the business process solution, but we simply put all trademarked items in a list at the beginning of each book as a boilerplate topic. This meets legal requirements and doesn't r
Hi, Kate -- Sorry for the business process solution, but we simply put all trademarked items in a list at the beginning of each book as a boilerplate topic. This meets legal requirements and doesn't r
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38753
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Creating API documentation in DITA
Hi, Mari - We had a similar situation with reference parameters shared by the documentation and a user interface. The writer wanted to centrally manage the API information and have it feed into the as
Hi, Mari - We had a similar situation with reference parameters shared by the documentation and a user interface. The writer wanted to centrally manage the API information and have it feed into the as
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38705
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Publish keydef map for reference?
Hi, We'd like to publish a map full of key defs to shared topics. Keydefs don't show up in output even if you remove the processing-role attribute. Besides maintaining a second map with topicrefs, is
Hi, We'd like to publish a map full of key defs to shared topics. Keydefs don't show up in output even if you remove the processing-role attribute. Besides maintaining a second map with topicrefs, is
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38587
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Schematron rules for shortdesc glossary issue
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Hello, We are developing Schematron rules for our organization. This rule identifies when a topic is missing a shortdesc: <pattern> <rule id="R_008" context="*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')]"> <as
Hello, We are developing Schematron rules for our organization. This rule identifies when a topic is missing a shortdesc: <pattern> <rule id="R_008" context="*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')]"> <as
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38529
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Automatic glossary creation
Hi, Erland -- That seems interesting. Is it a separate preprocessing plugin? Can you share implementation details? Thanks, - Nick
Hi, Erland -- That seems interesting. Is it a separate preprocessing plugin? Can you share implementation details? Thanks, - Nick
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38515
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Automatic glossary creation
Hi, folks - Is there a way to automatically create a glossary based on the terms used in an information set? We typically maintain a glossary at the end of our PDF and HTML documents. Right now, we us
Hi, folks - Is there a way to automatically create a glossary based on the terms used in an information set? We typically maintain a glossary at the end of our PDF and HTML documents. Right now, we us
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38508
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Trip Report: Tekom 2015, DITA vs Walled Garden CCMS Systems
Proprietary systems vs open standards often have this dichotomy. It would be interesting to see some sort of heat map showing CMS penetration / DITA adoption in Europe.
Proprietary systems vs open standards often have this dichotomy. It would be interesting to see some sort of heat map showing CMS penetration / DITA adoption in Europe.
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38403
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Automatic numbering on titles
You can set the collection-type attribute to "sequence" on the map's topicref element for the topics. It works for one sequence, but I have not tried it with a stage1, stage2 sequence. Take care, - Ni
You can set the collection-type attribute to "sequence" on the map's topicref element for the topics. It works for one sequence, but I have not tried it with a stage1, stage2 sequence. Take care, - Ni
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38341
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Handling Upper/Lower case in
We created an outputclass for handling the case of keyword, term, and abbreviated-form elements. It works quite well. One issue that we still have is handling plural forms. - Nick
We created an outputclass for handling the case of keyword, term, and abbreviated-form elements. It works quite well. One issue that we still have is handling plural forms. - Nick
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Nicholas Mucks
· #38340
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tasks with one step
hi, all - We have many tasks with only one step. Some writers add the step to the short description and others use steps-unordered to render the single step as a bullet. What's the best practice for h
hi, all - We have many tasks with only one step. Some writers add the step to the short description and others use steps-unordered to render the single step as a bullet. What's the best practice for h
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37992
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Title case glossary terms in body text
Hi, everyone. Just putting this out there in case other people have this capitalization problem. I built a working solution in the term template. Fortunately, this also works for the keyword element,
Hi, everyone. Just putting this out there in case other people have this capitalization problem. I built a working solution in the term template. Fortunately, this also works for the keyword element,
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37808
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Title case glossary terms in body text
Hello, Does anyone have a recommendation for handling lowercase glossary terms that appear as the first word in a sentence? Some of our glossary terms start with a lowercase letter, and this causes pr
Hello, Does anyone have a recommendation for handling lowercase glossary terms that appear as the first word in a sentence? Some of our glossary terms start with a lowercase letter, and this causes pr
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37647
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Change header/footer to landscape on landscape tables/figures
Hi Folks, We have a PDF outputclass that turns wide tables and figures to landscape orientation. This is great, but also creates two problems: 1. The header and footer are sideways on that page. 2. It
Hi Folks, We have a PDF outputclass that turns wide tables and figures to landscape orientation. This is great, but also creates two problems: 1. The header and footer are sideways on that page. 2. It
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37569
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Changing Product Name
Hi Marsha, You can use maps to define key spaces and then set the keyref attribute on your topic keyword elements to reference that key. For example, define the key with a keys value of "product" as "
Hi Marsha, You can use maps to define key spaces and then set the keyref attribute on your topic keyword elements to reference that key. For example, define the key with a keys value of "product" as "
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37452
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Publishing for Europe units of measurement
Hi Folks, We need to publish documents that use commas for the decimal mark and other units of measurement used by the European Union. Does anyone know how to do this? I'm thinking that it's akin to a
Hi Folks, We need to publish documents that use commas for the decimal mark and other units of measurement used by the European Union. Does anyone know how to do this? I'm thinking that it's akin to a
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37380
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Special Characters in Topic Titles
Hi, AnandG. You can try using character encoding instead. So : is : Here is more: http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-printable-characters/colon-ascii-code-58.html We have noticed that doing this fix
Hi, AnandG. You can try using character encoding instead. So : is : Here is more: http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-printable-characters/colon-ascii-code-58.html We have noticed that doing this fix
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37355
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Modify chunk="by-topic" for XHTML2
Hi Scott, Seems odd to only have one topicref element in your map if you have multiple topics to reference. If you indeed have several topic references, adding the chunk="to-content" attribute on all
Hi Scott, Seems odd to only have one topicref element in your map if you have multiple topics to reference. If you indeed have several topic references, adding the chunk="to-content" attribute on all
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37062
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No HTML files created for topicref keyrefs in subfolder maps
We use folders to organize content in a file repository. The HTML transform works fine when we use direct references down to subfolder resources (href=“folder/123.xml”) or up to shared resources (href
We use folders to organize content in a file repository. The HTML transform works fine when we use direct references down to subfolder resources (href=“folder/123.xml”) or up to shared resources (href
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Nicholas Mucks
· #37016
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