Hi folks, We can easily transform markdown to dita. Has anyone developed a dita to markdown plugin? This is useful for collaboration with non-dita content creators. Take care, - Nick Sent from mobile

Hi! We have a file failing during the map-first preprocessing step in DITA-OT 3.0.4. However, the file name is an automatically generated string during this phase. Is there any way to figure out the n

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Hi Tonia, These are in your localization strings for your plugin. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Kris, We find properties tables a little too restrictive and typically use the CALS tables in reference topics. Most of our reference tables don’t neatly fall into the propery/value/description mod

Hi Yves, You can apply CSS to the img or object element in the HTML output. Something like width:100%, height:auto should do the trick. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Wim, I don’t think outputclass cascades. https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/base/cascading-in-a-ditamap.html Topicmeta should cascade from the root map, if you’re using a regular dit

Hi Wayne, You could use conrefpush to build an unordered list of conreffed list items at the end of each topic. You’d lose the related links label, but you’re not really following a true related links

Hi! My pdf plugin in DITA-OT1.8.5 dynamically scales table columns widths but I can’t get this on work in DITA 2.x. Can anyone explain how/where this is configured? Take care, - Nick Sent from mobile

How about rendering the images using a block-container with a center alignment and an absolute width? Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi! Can anyone explain the processing differences between using ditavalref and args.filter? We notice that in some cases using ditavalref fails during the [branch-filtering] stage while specifying the

Hi Josh, DITA is built for specialization. Your vendor might not understand specialization that well. Specialization has three points of failure: - No specialized DTD/RNG/etc schemas available in your

Sweet! Thanks for sharing this. We always have people looking to enhance these skills. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Rick, The issue with the glossary rendering is that the main template uses the href for the target variable and this points to some "unique_XX" reference instead of the actual href. Here's the temp

Hi Rick, By default the glossary entries won’t render if there’s no glossary since it doesn’t have a keyref, but you can define a keymap with those glossary keydefs instead and then adjust your glosse

Hi Eliot, Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi folks, Is it possible to render landscape tables that span multiple pages using FOP? The tables render fine in AH, but we’d like to go with an open source solution. In FOP, landscape tables render

Turns out that setting the property preprocess.chunk.skip=true in the pdf build file does the trick. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi folks, We’re building a new pdf plugin in dita-ot 2.x and it seems any document with a topicref that includes chunk=to-content fails to produce output. Many projects publish in HTML and PDF, so chu

You’ll find the dita2dita plugin in DITA-OT 3+, but you can copy the plugin into an earlier DITA-OT release. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile