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Re: Thoughts about translation workflow

Mon, 2013-05-13 14:42
It might work if you're not paying for exact match. One of our goals is to only send topics to the translation vendor that have changed. If you translate

Re: Customize epub output

Mon, 2013-05-13 14:38
The route to SVG in EPUB2 would be to generate a bitmap from it using something like Batik or ImageMagick or saving manually from Illustrator or other

Re: Flagging reused content

Mon, 2013-05-13 14:37
Check this out: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/28523

Japanese punctuation characters look strange

Mon, 2013-05-13 14:32
Using DITA-OT and oXygen, I wonder how to get the Japanese comma and periods in line with the other Japanes characters. The comma and the pointers seem to hang

Re: Dita Open Toolkit Java wrapper - interest?

Mon, 2013-05-13 12:21
I thought about the same thing just the other day, that it might be helpful to have a clean driver in Java for OT. If you already have the code cleared for

Dita Open Toolkit Java wrapper - interest?

Mon, 2013-05-13 11:07
Hi, As part of a publishing line revamp at a customer (Swift SCRL), we are using the Dita Open toolkit to convert our Dita files to HTML, PDF and soon other

Re: Customize epub output

Mon, 2013-05-13 08:11
Update I just saw in another thread that the epub3 plugin is not operational and we shouldn't expect it to work. Since epub3 would support svg graphics, I'd

Thoughts about translation workflow

Mon, 2013-05-13 07:11
Hi, We currently translate our content into 12 languages, with more to come. We use Swordfish to convert the ditamaps to XLIFFs before they are sent for

Re: Customize epub output

Mon, 2013-05-13 07:10
Hi Eliot and Ray, Thanks for the input. The advice you gave was entirely correct. I had been looking at the epub using SumatraPDF (which can also read epub).

Using collection-type=sequence to generate next and previous linksw/

Sun, 2013-05-12 07:38
Hi, I'm trying to use the collection-type=sequence attribute to generate next and previous links. I have the additional wrinkle that I'm using nested maps to

cover page image question

Sat, 2013-05-11 23:03
Ditaphiles, I'm using XMetaL Author 8.0 (and so DITA-OT 1.7) and Windows 7. In earier versions, I had my customizations in /demo/fo but in this version

Re: Flagging reused content

Sat, 2013-05-11 17:35
Since the DITA conrefs & keyrefs are resolved early in the processing pipeline, my guess is your template is applied after those attributes have already been

Flagging reused content

Sat, 2013-05-11 15:39
Hi, I'm trying to flag con(key)refed content in the PDF output (I'm using DITA-ot) for debugging purposes. How would one go about to write a template that

Re: Use of Syntax Elements

Fri, 2013-05-10 22:23
For mutually exclusive choices or optional arguments you can use the groupchoice element. The separator is defined in the stylesheet. I use the var element to

Re: pubid content in D4P for multi-volume book

Fri, 2013-05-10 21:08
[Sorry it took me so long to get to this question--I've been freaky busy and I wasn't able to answer when it first came in.] ... That is what I do, just

Re: D4P pub map entry for child of a .dita file

Fri, 2013-05-10 21:00
The simplest solution of course would be to store the sidebar outside the main chapter file and and then just reference it with a topicref that is a child of

Re: specifying the HTML images folder

Fri, 2013-05-10 20:51
The DITA for Publishers HTML2 transform type lets you put the images anywhere--it is architected to allow you to completely control the output locations of all

Re: dita-xliff: dita to xliff transformation problem : Error at xsl:

Fri, 2013-05-10 19:19
update : works great with standard DITA-OT (1.7.4 in my case), and pay special attention to load the environnement variables (classpath, path) contained in

Re: PDF: full page image on even page

Fri, 2013-05-10 18:21
Hi Kevin, Thank you very much for the information. It looks a very interesting feature of the RenderX engine. Unfortunately, I do not have this engine. Regards

Re: PDF: full page image on even page

Fri, 2013-05-10 18:17
If you are using RenderX, the easiest way is to format only the flowing content (ignore the images at first) to the Intermediate Format (called XEPOUT) which
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