Archive - Jun 2009

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DITA 1.2 feature article: Keyref overview

Feature article produced by the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Sowmya Kannan, Sun Microsystems. Published 21 September 2009. Note that the offical version of this document is the PDF file that is located in the document repository for the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Also note that the DITA source for this article and its code examples is available in a ZIP file that you can download from the bottom of this page.

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Gathering information for a new template

What information do you need to gather from your Subject Matter Experts to follow a new concept-based template and create  a procedure. In particular, what are good questions or information to gather to follow the new template and create a procedure, concept or pre and post requisites?

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DITA-OT1.5 M15 (Feature Request ID: 2698921)

Thanks to Robert Anderson (Feature Request ID: 2698921) you can now add attributes to the body tag in HTML output.

I wanted to use the http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ code highlighter and was able to get the script calls in using args.hdf/hdr, and use outputclass=prettyprint into the codeblock tag. The last thing was to modify the body tag to run the script when the page loaded. I modified the XSL to make it conditional, so it didn't modify the tag on pages that didn't actually need the script:

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ToC in PDF with Arbortext editor

Anyone out there who can tell me how to a ToC in my PDF output?

 

I have a map that incudes some preface stuff and then I'd like a ToC before the actual content.

 I assume I will need to include an element of some sort, but I can't figure out which one.

 Regards,

Søren Weimann

OASIS invites participation in new DITA Pharmaceutical Content Subcommittee

The DITA Pharmaceutical Content Subcommittee will define DITA topics, maps, associated metadata properties and terminology to streamline design and creation of the complete body of pharmaceutical documentation required to present a product for scientific and regulatory purposes throughout its lifecycle.

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