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

Hi Chris, I suggest using the dita2dita plugin that comes bundled with DITA-OT and then extending it with a mapping of your changes as a “system interoperability” plugin output. (You can use the plugi

Hi Cud, I’ll comment on this problem statement: “”” Enterprise A offers to send Enterprise B their prepared source every week, so Enterprise B can produce their branded output -- PDFs and HTML that co

Hi Eliot, We have teams using Electricflow. It automates tasks against a VM hosting a DITA-OT environment. When a user submits content to Perforce, that triggers an Electricflow procedure to run the D

Thanks, Radu. I ended up experimenting with inserting an XSLT target after the preprocess step and before the PDF-specific ANT targets in the plugin. The XSLT transforms the ditamap in temp to a bookm

Hi Yves, Have you considered building a Schematron file with your patterns? You could use this to match certain criteria and then apply an XSLT when necessary. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi! We’re using ditamaps, not bookmaps. Is there a simple way to tell the pdf plugin to render all first-level topics as a chapter? We’d like for a regular ditamap to publish like a bookmap with chapt

Thanks, Chris. I experimented a bit and it turns out that fop is a bit more sensitive than ah for logical errors in the attribute sets. All good now. Your suggestion on testing with a different versio