Revision of Plans for the DITA Open Toolkit PDF2 Plug-in from Thu, 2008-07-31 08:53

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 and FOP
    • Change RenderX specific code to generic XSL-FO code
    • Incorporate Antenna House processing option into build.xml
    • Ensure that the plug-in works properly with FOP.  See PDF2 with FOP.
  • Support xml:lang attribute
    • Single language in a document
    • Multiple languages in a document
    • Enable user to specify default font based on value of xml:lang attribute
  • 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
  • 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
  • Improve customization process
    • Reference customized index files from build.xml
    • Allow customization of a base class which doesn’t override a class specialized from that base class
    • Improve customization process for small changes
    • Remove hardcoded links to out of the box style sheets
    • Improve attribute set reflection calls
  • Improve built-in formatting
    • Add labels for prerequisites and post-requisites
    • Move notices to before the TOC
    • Improve chapter numbering
    • Improve spacing
    • Provide default header and footer
  • Improve handling of index terms
  • Improve handling for EPS graphics
DITA 1.2 Support
  • New elements
    • Text element
    • Navtitle element for topicref
    • Bodydiv
    • Sectiondiv
    • New task type
      • Support new elements in tasks
      • Add titles for each task section
  • Existing elements in new places
    • draft-comment
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