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Odd keep-together behavior

Tue, 2013-05-14 14:56
I'm seeing some odd behavior where if a figure follows a table it's trying to keep them together. If the figure is larger than what will fit on the page with

Re: reltables (and collection-type, perhaps?)

Tue, 2013-05-14 14:45
Hi Niels I use the @type attribute on the topicrefs in my reltable (DITA-FMx does this automatically). Maybe this will help too:

Change in Affiliation: Contrext Solutions

Tue, 2013-05-14 14:27
Starting 1 June 2013 I will be hanging out my shingle as an independent consultant. I will continue to contract part time with RSI Content Solutions and will

Re: Referencing a glossary entry using Abbreviated-form, No PDF outp

Tue, 2013-05-14 14:19
I haven't been able to get it working with 1.7.3 yet either. Not sure if it's user error or broken. Does anyone have it working in PDF?

Re: reltables (and collection-type, perhaps?)

Tue, 2013-05-14 14:07
We use a two column reltable where the first column is the source topic and the second column is the target topic. Eric ... We use a two column reltable where

Re: Setting an ordered list (OL) to type=A" possible?

Tue, 2013-05-14 13:56
Hello Franz-Josef, Yes you can do this. Mark the lists you want to be "lettered" as @outputclass="A" and then edit lists.xsl. Find the template that starts

reltables (and collection-type, perhaps?)

Tue, 2013-05-14 13:29
So ? I have six task topics, and I'm wondering what the most elegant and correct approach is next: I want each task to display the list of six tasks as

Information Energy: One-Day Workshop on DITA Document Type Creation

Tue, 2013-05-14 11:28
I will be presenting a one-day workshop on DITA doctype creation and management basics as part of the Information Energy conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on

Referencing a glossary entry using Abbreviated-form, No PDF output

Tue, 2013-05-14 02:53
I'm trying to use for glossary items like and then , as listed in the Best Practice for using the DITA

Re: Thoughts about translation workflow

Mon, 2013-05-13 23:23
Hi Sam, it is true that you can't just exchange nouns. With names, it depends on a number of things. Our product names are artificial, we use them sparingly

Re: Thoughts about translation workflow

Mon, 2013-05-13 21:00
Hi Susanne, Thanks for the input. Interesting points. Swordfish does resolve conrefs and conkeyrefs to some extent, but there can still be problems with

body indentation in PDF output

Mon, 2013-05-13 18:57
Hi all, I'm trying to move the indents of my document around a bit. For example, I want H1 - flush left body 1 - 0.5" indent from left margin H2 - 0.5" indent

Re: Thoughts about translation workflow

Mon, 2013-05-13 18:19
Hi Sam, some random thoughts: * Doesn't Swordfish resolve inline conrefs anyway? So why are there still problems with inflection? * The strings from the

Re: Can one include fonts in a DITA-OT plug-in?

Mon, 2013-05-13 18:12
I have found http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/tasks/add-font-to-builtin-FOP.html useful in the past. Can't say much for the plugin part, I'm sure it is

Can one include fonts in a DITA-OT plug-in?

Mon, 2013-05-13 17:44
I don't really understand how fonts work on a computer. It's easy to specify which fonts you want a toolkit plug-in to use, but is it possible to build a

Setting an ordered list (OL) to type=A" possible?

Mon, 2013-05-13 16:10
Hi there, we'd like to visually separate the numerated task steps from screenshots with call-outs (all our screenshots have them) using captial letters in the

Re: Why does the order of the reused/chunk topicrefs giving two diff

Mon, 2013-05-13 15:46
Bump. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this problem. Do you reuse chunked content in the same map? and do you find the inconsistent output? Thanks,

Re: Flagging reused content

Mon, 2013-05-13 15:28
Great find, thanks!

Re: Japanese punctuation characters look strange

Mon, 2013-05-13 15:20
Hi Joe, thank you for this information. Probably I have to do some research how to change the language settings of my oXygen xml editor. Best regards, Annette

Re: Japanese punctuation characters look strange

Mon, 2013-05-13 14:51
Hi Annette, Some Chinese typefaces (MingLiU, for example) have the full-width ideographic punctuation marks vertically centered. It may be the same for
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