Revision of Plans for the DITA Open Toolkit PDF2 Plug-in from Tue, 2008-07-29 12:04

We are in the process of reviewing the bugs, patches and feature requests listed on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728) in order to integrate them into this document. We will prioritize the list below in a later version of this document. We welcome all feedback including suggestions for new features, existing bugs, and comments about prioritization of the items below.

One of our primary goals is to incorporate the plug-in into the core Toolkit functionality and to make the plug-in architecture more consistent with the rest of the Toolkit.

Items under development
  • Integrate plug-in into Toolkit
  • Implement print=no
  • Improve internationalization post-process
    • Add locale parameter to make fonts locale specific
    • Expand override size functionality
    • Provide documentation of the font post-processing functionality
New items for consideration
  • Improve glossary support
  • Incorporate support for Antenna House
    • Change RenderX specific code to generic XSL-FO code
    • Incorporate Antenna House processing option into build.xml
  • Support xml:lang attribute
    • Single language in a document
    • Multiple languages in a document
  • Improve ID generation
  • Implement unsupported features
    • args.draft
    • flagging based on ditavals
    • toc=no
    • char attribute of an entry element
    • copy-to attribute on related links
  • Improved reltable support
    • Enable reltables by default
    • Ensure that duplicate links don’t appear in the same related links section
    • Related bug: 1708977
  • Table borders
    • Retain border conditionality by default for tables that break across pages
    • Ensure that the border lines are complete when the table includes merged cells
    • Ensure that cell content is displayed when char attribute is used
  • Chunking issues
    • 1897497
    • 1897542
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