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I'm trying to work out the number of seconds it takes for a macro to run.I set two variables - time_start = ticks() time_end = ticks()To work out the total time in seconds I want to take away time_start from time_end (and divide by 60) but it gives an error.Is this because they are strings?If so, can they be converted to floats for the calculation? In a previous life, the ME10 macro language had a "val" function that would convert a string to a value (float I presume). Is there a way round it in IML?

Hi all,Is there anything that I'm not getting, in that migrating a (standalone - non server, old generic print composer workstation) system to Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build M040 would cause us to lose XML source edit and touchup capability (ACL newpage, newline commands)?If so, is our only recourse to revert to build M010?Am I the only one frustrated with advancing software builds that remove (instead of add) capabilities within an existing software product line?Someone throw me a life ring before I toss this system and software out my 3rd story window to the gutter (where I often think it belongs.)All insights and advice appreciated. Thanks in advance for reading and replies.Regards,Bob WilliamsEast Providence RI, USEMail addy robert.williams@techresearchgroup.com

I see that the reltable element is only displayed when a DITA map is saved as HTML. How can I have links display when the DITA map is saved as a PDF?Thanks!

Thanks for all the help provided so far.If anyone has seen my previous threads, we are in a pickle trying to get our system up and running with limited resources.The current project is trying to utilize stylesheets and customizations from our parent company to output xml books given to us by them. This is proving to be a hefty challenge with many trials, and without manageable goals.Our current thought process is, can we just write our own sheets in APP, and use their xml files according to our sheets. With that thought, here are my questions:When I open xml files that are part of the ditamap, without using the stylesheet from our parent company, there are still stylesheet commands implied (in purple), even though not defined. Do I need to strip the XML files of this, or what would be the thought there? If I apply a different stylesheet, these undefined styles are still there.I've asked this before, but does anyone know where to learn more about APP style? (our parent company used styl

We are having a little trouble with our PDF's making the round trip from PDMLink (10.0 M30 not sure that matters as we had similar problems with 9.1) to PE and back to PDMLink. PE is making the PDF but PDMLink just doesn't always get it back. Any help or I've been there will greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance.Brian

Still trying to chase down differences between those that do, those thatdon't, but was wondering in advance if anyone saw/fixed tables, generatedor otherwise, that broke just fine before an upgrade to 6.0.-- Paul Nagai

Hello All,I used language support in the styler to translate English to German for the generated texts in the stylesheet. I imported XLF file which has the rules/notes for the translation.All the element generated texts are working fine. But Header/Footer generated text is NOT working. still the English content is showing in the output.Could you anyone please help me to find the reason.I have attached xlf file. See line 837 which has the header generated content.Note: I am using AT-Styler 6.0 M040 and APP engine used for producing PDF.Thanks,BALA AJ

Here's a quick quiz to check everyone's knowledge 🙂What's the simplest way to get a copy of the Resolved Document for Styling for a given DITA map? XSLT via an identity template? Sneaky tricks with .aptcache?[cid:image001.jpg@01CD6377.8CD575B0]Gareth Oakes+44-7557-300-608

I stumbled across some code, or one of my authors did, that is behavingdifferently in 6.0 than in 5.3.In 5.3, a package with _STRICT_=1 operates "silently" but in 6.0 the debugwindow opens and displays warnings regarding the implicit declaration ofvariables. The 6.0 behavior seems, actually, to be correct, but I can'tquite figure out why it is behaving differently than 5.3.At this point, not a biggee, just a curiosity.-- Paul Nagai

Hello all,Thanks for the responses on my previous threads. We are learning and trying tocatch up as fast as we can, and I appreiciate everyone's input on past responses.I wanted to know if everyone knew of any place to learn about APP styling code.Some stylesheets we received from our mother company have APP code written into FOSI stylesheets. There are a lot of quirks with their system, and this is part of the bug. They can't print to pdf from edit view. They have to first resolve the document for styling and then print. Their goal was to provide for 2 columns in the fosi sheet with wrapped text around graphics. The problem is, we can't run batch processes if we have to resolve for styling from AE everytime.I might not be able to undo the resolve for styling issue yet, but if I can understand APP better it might give me insight on how to change it in the future.ThanksBryon Thomas

Running into this error when using the PE. It terminates any prints to PDF. I tried increasing the heap size from 768 to 1024 to 2000 fromPE configuration,rebooting every to,e, but this is not fixing the issue. Any thoughts?ThanksBryon Thomas

I have created some macros in the arbortext editor and can't work out how to assign them to a keyboard shortcut. Any help would be great.

Dear Friends, While import the "AI" file in Isodraw 7.1, Some Text are broken. How I will avoid that?

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).I need to collect the text from text nodes. Additionally, I have to add "\r\n" after parsing some nodes."\r\n" are used as sentence terminator.<heading>Some text</heading><content>Main article<content> will be transformed into "Some text\r\nMain article\r\n". So, we have 2 sentences though they don't have standard dots at the end.So, in this example "heading", "content" are external tags, "b" is an internal tag.Can I get the list of such standard internal/external tags? Or should I make a dialog with the settings which allows to add them to ini file? The division is required to control sentence boundaries.

Hello! I use Epic Editor 5.1. I've read that it was impossible to cancel xml modification in event handlers.In Java plugin I use calls like this in DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ when we deal with node removing:((ADocument) doc).undo();But when I deal with node insertion, I get the following error in DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ :epic: segment violation (signal 11)undo procedure for insertion is made within DOMNodeInsertedListener_ and DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ does not execute undo procedure for insertion (the situation is inverse for removing - undo is called within DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_).What are the tricks for indirect cancellation?If I should use ACL, then show me the example of it for Java using Acl class, please.I mean the link of handler written in ACL and the ACL event by Java means.I'd like to avoid using external additional *.acl files in my Java plugin, instead of it I'd like to store acl scripts in String objects.

I just discovered tag templates in Arbortext and strongly encourage any Arbortext user to start using them!Where to find: Tools > Tag TemplatesUse to create and insert frequently used sets of tags and content.  So far I have created tables where I only need to add cell information.

Adepters,Using Arbortext Epic 5.3m040 running on Windows XP with 3 gig of RAM installed I am encountering a problem that I thought was solved y a custom.tmx file back in 2008. When a table continues to another page Arbortext Editor with Print Composer is repeating the top rule. This is not supposed to happen and I have no clue why it is happening now.Does anyone else have this problem or a different fix for it?Here is a snapshot of the top of the page and the applicable portion of the custom.tmx file:[cid:image002.png@01CD554B.109375E0]%------------------------------------------------------------------% File: custom.tmx%% Description: This file defines special formatting instructions% for all doctypes (locate in custom\inputs).%% Version: 2008-01-08 - testing complete, moved to production.%% 2007-07-25 Disable check for "5.0 (Chestnut)" so% "5.2 (Maple and later") will work.% -AWE%------------------------------------------------------------------% ****** Start of Patch NoRepeatColumnhe

Has anyone noticed a change to the behavior of \t within a response()dialog in 6.0?In Editor 5.3 m110 the following:local status = response("Ido:\n\tAAAA\n\tBBBB\n\tCCCC\n\nProceed?\n\n","&Yes","&No");Produced a prompt that looked like:

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).How should I modify the color of the nodes (I mean programming mode)?As far as I'm concerned, the usage of _font nodes is forbidden (a-la <_font>text). At least it leads to errors in SGML.Then we should use processing instructions (PI). How should we create them?The standard Java DOM method createProcessingInstruction() does not work when we deal with SGML.I think that it's because of the different format of PIs in SGML and XML.Should we use Acl OID commands/functions?

Hello all,Are there Java / Arbortext configuration updates required in order to run Arbortext 5.4 with Java 7? After doing an upgrade from Java 6.30 to 7.5 I’m getting the follow errors starting up Arbortext 5.4.“Internal error: dl_load failed for C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll”That error is followed by:“[A12281] Cannot create a Java virtual machine from “C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll (-1).”Will Arbortext 5.4 run with Java 7? If so, how?Thanks!>> Randy--Randy McGarveyOperations Software ArchitectGeneral Code ♦ 800-836-8834

I'm moving some code into a 6.0 environment and I'm having problemsmanaging a menu item.I can't menu_add -before ".Edit.Delete Markup" in 6.0 m010I can menu_add -before ".Edit.Change Markup" no problem.response(menu_add(".Edit.Delete Markup")) produces empty message.response(menu_add(".Edit.Change Markup")) produces "ChangeMarkup" asexpected.Whassup?A search through the Editor install tree for DeleteMarkup leads me to$DeleteMarkupLabel but I can't find that defined anywhere ... just theplaces it is used.Why can't I menu_add -before Edit.Delete Markup?Or, if you don't know that, where is $DeleteMarkupLabel initialized?Or, maybe just some sympathy 😉-- Paul Nagai

Hi,I have recorded one macro in my desktop. I want to create same macro other computer, How can I move the macro's one computer to another computer?

Does anyone know if I can use an XSLT 2.0 engine in Arbortext Editor . I'm using Arbortext Editor 5.2, M050. If so, how I should replace/config the system. Thanks, Carolyn Helrin

We add lots of callouts to our illustrations and nearly always have to zoom in to each one to move the end of the leader line slightly away from the geometry to make it look cleaner.I want to do a macro to move callout lines away from geometry automatically, but I need to know the start and end points of the callout to do this. I presume that when you select a callout, Isodraw knows where the start and end points of the leader line are but I don't know how to access this information.Anyone know if it's possible?

Hi all,In case you weren't aware, wanted to let you know that we've released Arbortext 6.0 M050 and it's now available for download from www.ptc.com/support. This version primarily was for SPR fixes and minor enhancements.You can take a look at the release notes at http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=141362Thanks,Pushpinder