Hi Mathew, DITA-OT 3.x uses map-first preprocessing as the default for PDFs. This temporarily hashes all topics. You can probably try the preprocess (instead of preprocess2) Ant target instead. https:

Hi! We’re transitioning from Antenna House to Apache FOP. These attributes seem to consistently throw a runtime error: * provisional-distance-between-starts * space-before.conditionality * font-size T

Hi Yves, You can’t simply use conditions and a ditaval? Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Steve, You may want to consider using a different plugin for these different outputs instead of looking at modifying source files to fit output needs. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Ann, We gather analytics on some of our webhelp outputs. You’ll need to set up your GA account and include a script tag in the header or footer of each page that points to one of your account’s tra

Hi Steve, The preprocess (or preprocess2) task should push ditamap metadata to the topics as part of the element. You can review the temp files to see how that transfers to the xml files for the xhtml

You can use xref with type=fn to reference a footnote the second time. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi, I’d like to get the original value of args.input and then create a new file with a few changes, and then redefine args.input with the new file location for all future ANT targets in that publish.

Hi Danielle, Without using a key for this dynamic content, the subject scheme will likely always throw an error because that specific value does not exist in your subject scheme. Have you considered e

Hi Danielle, Have you considered using Schematron instead of a subject scheme? We do something like this for a variety of elements. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Yves, Have you tried adding an XML fragment using the webhelp.fragment.head runtime parameter? -Dwebhelp.fragment.headIn the generated output it inserts a given XHTML fragment in the element. The v

Hi! The org.dita.normalize plugin encounters a pipeline error on any key definitions with an href to a webpage. Here’s an example: <keydef keys=“web_python” href=“http://www.python.org” format=“html”

Hi Radu and Jang, Thank you! It makes more sense now. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Oops. Say, for example, class="+ map/topicref " vs class="- map/topicref ".

Hi, I'm trying to match on topicref and am getting unexpected results. Just curious, I notice that some class attributes include a + and others include a - sign. What does this mean? Say, for example,

Hi mdslup@gmail, You can try: 1. Set generate.copy.outer = 3 when running DITA-OT. Try setting it to 1 as well to compare the differences. You can find more info at: https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/parame

Hi Yves, We actually require that glossaries match the case of the glossary as if it were in a dictionary, so we don’t use capitalized words in the surface form unless the word is by definition capita

Hi, Is it possible to specify the PDF output file name with ditamap metadata? The PDF file name is the ditamap name and we’d like to customize this for each project. Take care, - Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Sandra, Do you use Oxygen? If so, you can search across a folder collection using an XPath expression //topicref//topicref on all *.ditamap files. You may also run a search with Notepad++ or Sublim

Hi Lisa, For developers who collaborate with writers on actual content, we prefer Markdown since that plays well with DITA. However, for the most part our engineers provide Word docs or Confluence pag