Arbortext

With ACL language, How to enable or disable a customized menu depending the position of the cursor in the SGML document ?

Hello! I'm still learning Arbortext Editor and have a new question. How can I create this element to prevent the tag. I'm trying to use the properties of the context, but not very successfully.

Happy Friday! I have a few questions that I am hoping someone can advise on:When I publish a Service Manual authored in Arbortect to HTML, the content is output into a framed window that has a structure tree, expand/collapse controls, an index search tab, there are some navigation arrows in the upper right corner, etc. My question is ... has anyone created a "How To Use This Online Manual" type of page? I am thinking it would be good to plan for the lowest common denominator (if you get my meaning) and I do not want to reinvent the wheel.Has anyone developed a better Index Search function than what is there out of the box? It is a little weak, in my opinion.Thanks in advance for any input/direction you have. Andy Burke

Hi, all...We use Arbortext but don't have a license for Styler, and we want to properly style an element we're introducing to the DTD. Actually, it's the inline element from DocBook 4.5, not supported by the current version of Arbortext. How to do this? I added the following code to our *.style file underneath our custom/doctypes directory, and the code element is now being styled properly, but now all generated text (chapter and section numbers, section titles from xrefs) is getting many leading and trailing spaces or underscores. <element name="code" style="inline"> </context>

I'm starting to study ArborText and I have a few questions. I converted fos-file (Arbortext Epic) to style-file (Arbortext 6.0) and lost some element. I need to insert name of the img file into border of picture. Please, help me!

Hi Adepters, I recently upgraded from Arbortext 5.2 to Arbortext 6 and converted my stylesheets. I'm using Styler. I've got a small image in a table in generated text and for some reason when I publish to PDF, the image is right-aligned in the table cell. In the Edit window it looks left-aligned. The cell alignment is Left and the left margin for the cell is 0. If I put text in the same cell, the text is left-aligned. Does anyone have any idea why the image is appearing right-aligned and what I can do about it? Thanks, Carolyn

Problem: Dialogs freeze and hang application when inserting element with defaulted attvalueUsing Task Explorer to kill app.Resources: Arbortext Editor/Styler Version 5.3 Platform: Windows7 localhostDTD/Schema: MIL-DTL-24784C (using IETMProduct DTD)Observations: Can reproduce consistently on elements with attributes that have a default value such assecurity (u | c | s) 'u'from parameter entity in Common.entAppears that dialog gets the att values, populates the text boxes, highlights the defaulted value and freezes.Can edit the att decl and set the value tosecurity CDATA #IMPLIEDand it works normally. It seems to be in the routine for autopopulating the instance and may be a set focus issue, but that is speculation.NOTE: I've seen other instances of a dialog freezing the application but this is the case I can reproduce consistently. I am in the early phase of setting up the editing environment for the project. Len BullardTeledyne Brown Engineering

Hello all, I have an odd issue, using Editor/Print Composer 5.4 M100 with FOSI stylesheets.We developed our FOSIs to create PDF print masters, so of course, blank backing pages were always a necessity.I have been working a project to generated hyperlinked/bookmarked PDFs for web display. With these PDFs, it has been requested that all blank pages be removed.The documents I am producing contain chapters, which contain a list of effective pages, and table of contents, followed by one or more ATA-style pageblocks.I would have thought this would have been as easy as removing the blank page specs from my pagesets, and setting startpg="next" instead of "recto". This worked just fine for the LEP, the TOC, and the chapter title page. But the pageblocks with an odd number of pages still generate a blank.The only difference I could see in e-i-c for the LEP and TOC, and the e-i-c for the pageblock is that the LEP/TOC e-i-c had the newpage declared in the charsubset of the e-i-c, while the pageblo

If I call some Java code from ACL and the Java code throws an exception, I see a message in the status bar, but the ACL script continues. I tried this: if ( 0 != catch("java_instance( $myObj, 'myMethod' )") ) { response( "Barfed." ) } The message wasn't displayed. Is there another way to handle the exception? Jonathan Reeve Practical Law Company 19 Hatfields London SE1 8DJ T +44 (0)20 3423 6586 E jonathan.reeve@practicallaw.com W http://www.practicallaw.com/

Hii,I am trying to load /save as server object some lacs of dita files. Is it possible to write or call acl in java or viceversa and achieve the same . If yes then how do I go about it. Please provide any other solution that will be suitable to this .Thanks

I am about ready to scream (I don't have any hair to pull anymore). I wantto put a simple little script together that I can source, add to my popupmenu, and call when I want it. It will take the name of the an ENTITY from agraphic attribute using the following command stringgraphic_path = entity_path(oid_attr(oid_caret()) This works BEAUTIFULLY from the Epic command line (of course adding the $before the variable name). However in this simple little script, it does notwork, the variable always returns nothing. function graphic_info (){graph_type = oid_graphic_format(oid_caret())graph_path = entity_path(oid_attr(oid_caret(), boardno)) tag_name = oid_name(oid_current_tag())eval "Graphic path - $graph_path\Graphic type - $graph_type\Current tag - $tag_name"}The variable $graph_type will show up in the output, but the path is blank.I've even tried to narrow this down to just displaying the path using this:eval entity_path(oid_attr(oid_caret(), boardno)) Again, this works from the command l

Please read the whole thread carefully before trying to apply the script supported.Recently one of my colleagues found a way to exit Editor in a very quick way. I made myself a little script out of it.function exitEditor(){var p = Application.getActiveDocument().getElementsByTagName("p").item(0);var newnode = Application.getActiveDocument().createTextNode("50 ...Hz ±2");p.appendChild(newnode);}where "p" in getElementsByTagName can be replaced with any tag where #PCDATA is allowed.Please note that the script is meant to be a joke, worthy a try though.Kind regards

Hello,I'm new to the PTC community and Arbortext and am in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I have a temporary assignment (1 year) where I need a technical author experienced in Arbortext AND who has knowledge of mechanical, industrial or refrigeration/HVAC.Message me if you want more details.

Hi,How do i get the leader fills to appear in my RTF Output ?

When publishing part of a manual that has xrefs that are not included in the selected section of the manual to publish. Why does it sometimes show the text to the section and other times it shows nothing. See attached image (xref) step 8 is included in the published selection and step 9 has a xref that is not in the publsihed selection. Image 2 (xref 2) shows step 8 with a xref that was not inlcuded in the published selection. This one shows for some reason.Any insight would be great.ThanksBryon

how can i set the different column width in the style sheet for the table?there are three tables which are finished by three guys, but the column width is different in different table, can i set the column width in the style sheet to keep them accordance? thanks!

I am trying to create a new window with some custom menus in version 5.3. I can't seem to get the custom menus to appear. I am doing: local win = window_create('edit', 1+2+8+16, -1, "400x500-20+20") current_window(win) menu_add -menu . CustomMenu window_show(win, 1)According to the help, the "2" in the window_create flag is to add a menu_bar. Not sure what I am doing wrong.Thanks in advance.

I've added a toolbar button by customising $APTCUSTOM/dialogs/editwindow.xml as suggested in previous Adepters answers. That's working fine.My button calls a remote service that may or may not be available, and I'd like to change the state of the button to indicate this. It looks as if I can poll the remote service occasionally with timer_add_callback, but I can't see how to change the button to make it "disabled". Is this possible?Jonathan ReevePractical Law CompanyThis e-mail from Practical Law Company (

Is there a way to configure Arbortext 6.0 M070 to insert relative paths in hrefs? Currently, it inserts full absolute paths with drive letters. This is killing our publications pipeline.We have a large team of globally dispersed authors using SVN to share and maintain content. Their file structure is consistent within maintained content, but it's impossible for us to know what drive/folder they check out content into.

I'd like to be able to test in ACL whether a document has changed. Putting it another way, if the user closed the document, would they be prompted to save?Thanks.Jonathan ReevePractical Law CompanyThis e-mail from Practical Law Company (

If you open a new document in Arbortext and select "Arbortext XML DocBook V4.0", the empty document presents several "placeholder" texts for title, pubdate, corpauthor, street, and so forth (see image)How can this placeholder text be generated in styler? Whenever I style an element and it's empty, there is nothing displayed on the editor.

I am using version 5.3. I want to remap a toolbar button to a custom function. In the help, it states I can map a toobar item (such as Toolbar_Print) in Unix only. How do I accomplish the same thing in Windows? Thanks in advance.

Hello all,Updated Browser supportEditor JRE updated to 1.6.0_43and morerelease noteshttp://www.ptc.com/cs/product_calendar/PTC_Product_Calendar.htmThanks!Pushpinder Toor, SLM Solution Manager

Hi,Is there any way in the DCF file or in the FOSI to limit the size the images are shown in the Editor's view?We are working with Epic 5.4 and we would like to limit the large images (sometimes more than 2000 pixels wide or high) to be shown in the editor's view with a maximum of 600 px wide or high. Unfortunately I can't force the editors to use smaller images while working the XML files with Epic.Tnx!_____________________________Gabriel Oreggioni