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Hopefully this will be a simple question...Does anyone know offhand what causes the quick tag insert to becomeavailable? In our old DTDs with pretty complex FOSIs, hitting the <enter>key brings up any context-specific tags.I have created a few new DTDs, but can only seem to get tags inserted bygoing to Insert -> Markup then selecting the tag. The DTD itself isbeing recognized, and only appropriate tags are available in context.Furthermore, in Tools->Preferences->Edit, I do have "Show quick tags onenter" selected.I created a very very simple FOSI (by hand) to ensure tags are indentedwith line breaks, and a very simple DCF to handle hidden tags and restrictcharacter substitution. This is also in Arbortext 6.0M030.I can attach any related documents if needed.Thanks,keith

I am building an SGML document type using the NAVSEAC2 DTD Revision F.The document type compiles fine but in the view dropdown menu "Tables"is grayed out. So I can't switch from table markup viewing the tablelayout. In my DCF I have selected cals and tablesupport is on. Just incase you need it, here is my dcfType Configuration 2.0//EN" "dcfdtd.dtd"><documenttypeconfiguration><options allowapplicationtoolbar="no" allowcomposestylesheetlist="no"<br"/>allowFosiMod="yes"allowTouchup="yes" defaultTableModel="cals" protected="no"/>Caret1?><newdialog><new description="NAVSEA" c2=" pf"=" samplefile="demo.sgm"<br"/>templateFile="template.sgm"/></newdialog><elementoptions><elementoption category="division" element="table"/"><elementoption category="division" element="appendix"/"><elementoption category="division" element="chgrec"/"><elementoption category="division" element="contents"/"><elementopti

Is there a way to incorporate dimension reportated from artwork in macro? I explain... I have many custom frame inside STD Isodraw frame with text inside in middle of the lowest line frame. I would like to take this text and move to the top line frame. The probleme i have, is all my custom frame have different size,the only thing who does not change is the lowest line frame and text. So i try do create a macro to select line of side frame just by selecting rectangle selection, and report dimension of this line to move text (title) under lower top frame line, by removing 0.25in from this reported dimension (text dimension 2X).Thanks!

Adepters:I'd like to ensure that these settings are always enforced: inlineediting=on expandinclusions=onI've put the corresponding set commands in the instance.acl startup file. Oddly, only the "inlineediting" setting is honored and overrides the "off" setting in the preferences. The "expandinclusions" setting is ignored. I've also added the settings to a custom "init" folder ACL file. But, I wouldn't expect that to work as it's processed before the preferences file (see help 5716). Clearly, the instance.acl file is processed after the preferences and seems to work for one setting, but not the other.Any other ideas of how to forcibly override a specific user's preference setting? Perhaps it has to occur before the document instance starts processing, which leaves me only with the user startup file. I don't want to go there as we don't want to set these for all editor sessions.Thanks,Dave

The question of how to ensure the last page of a FOSI-formatted document is a verso page keeps coming up, so I decided to add it to my book. However, supporting this in a FOSI using system-func to call a function at the end of the document to determine if the last page number is odd or even may or may not work, depending on the DTD structure, FOSI coding, and software version.An alternative that should always work is to use a batch process that utilizes ACL scripting and a FOSI-generated external file. I've attached PDF of the relevant pages from my book.ACL experts: Why is edit -current needed here? It seems like the force option should be all that's needed, but edit -current is necessary for the format/preview/print at the end to add the verso page when $addpage=yes. What am I missing?Thanks!Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

Probably a simple question for the experienced Adepters here:How can I start Arbortext (from the command line) and go to a specific bookmark? Can't seem to find the right parameter to pass to epic.exe.Thanks in advance!!Joe

We have a VB6 COM DLL that contains a dialog that we currently call from editor 5.2 & 6.0 using ACL. We want to convert the VB6 code to a .NET 3.5 COM object. Will the ACL code continue to work with this converted DLL?

We have many thousand illustrations without any title visible on illustration to identify them, so is there a way to run batch export with macro that take existing illustrations and add is own file name inside at specific place. If somebody have experience to help me solving this problem and save us labor, it will be much appreciated!Thanks!

We have a VB6 COM DLL that contains a dialog that we currently call from editor 5.2 & 6.0 using ACL. We want to convert the VB6 code to a .NET 3.5 COM object. Will the ACL code continue to work with this converted DLL?

AllHas anyone loaded the subject DTD into the subject versions of Architect? Iam having a problem validating the DTD in an SGML Document Type. At line 123, column 22 the parser is telling me that it was expecting anasterisk. I am attaching a copy of the DTD. Any help that you can suggest would begreatly appreciated. John T. Groves W R Systems, LTD. 2500 Almeda Ave Suite 214 Norfolk, VA 23513-2403 Ph. 757.858.6000 ext 442 email: jgroves@wrsystems.comBut a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never berestored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.<john adams=" 1775=">

Adepters:We're using AE 5.4 patch M120. Our publishing environment uses XIncludes to reference objects in a map file (not DITA). So, if you check out a map and all of its children and open it in AE 5.4, you can edit all of the XIncluded objects that are expanded inline. However, one - and only one - user cannot edit these XIncluded objects as the editor either does not see them as writable or refuses to lock them for editing. He can open the objects individually outside of the map, so we know they're writable after the checkout (besides looking at their properties).Anyone have any idea what AE is looking at to decide that these objects are read-only? We've uninstalled and reinstalled AE just in case something was corrupt. The data is on his local D drive that he has full access to. Since we can examine each individual object and verify that it is not read-only, I'm at a loss as to what's different on his machine (which is XP SP3).Dave

Hi,In Styler (6.0 M040 with APP) the SFE for IndexLocators_MainIndexhas a description saying "This element wraps the page numbers or otherlocators of an index entry".I was wondering what the significance of "other locators" was,since I'm trying to find a way to use non-page number index"locators", such as clause numbers.There doesn't seem to be any way to specify that you want anindex item to use something other than page numbers.Thanks,Richard Steadman

Once again, in one of my environments, I am migrating a 5.3 m110 Stylerstylesheet to 6.0 m010. I am now reading through the docs onpre54stylerupdate. Can anyone share observations, advice, gotchas, etc.with respect to using this utility?If I have a stylersheet that is very heavily laden with edited source, isrunning, not running pre54stylerupdate really a Morton's Fork?-- Paul Nagai

Hi,More work on migrating our 5.3 m110 authoring environments to 6.0 m010. Ijust got this:On opening an XML instance in one of my environments, the Arbortext EditorDebug Messages window opens and says: agettext: Msgid not found in message file: Warning conrule literalcontains a reference to an entity not declared in the FOSI. Literal is: "%s". Conrule will becompiled under the assumption that the reference will resolve using the instance subsetand DTD at composition time.Of course I can't find the string %s anywhere in my FOSI let alone in aconrule.Did anyone run into this or something similar?Editor opens the FOSI without complaint and check completeness doesn't turnup any problems.-- Paul Nagai

Not sure if it was a windows, java, or acrobat update, but one of the ones today changed my file associations and icons (which I previously had all of my XML / SGML file associations and icons pointing to Arbortext). XML opened some microsoft xml edit window instead.So, I changed (at least) my XML file association back to Arbortext, but the icon is still some generic 'page' or something.My question is, short of reinstalling Arbortext, (happily running 6.0 build M010 with NO - repeat NO issues or problems), is there any other way or trick to reassociate the XML related files (and the icons) back to the Arbortext software family? I loathe the thought of having to reinstall the Arbortext, as (to me, a basic user in a standalone shop) that's just asking for aggravation.Thoughts? Thanks for reading.Bob WilliamsBristol RI, US

Hello all,This may be a tall order, but I have a question on column width measurement in Styler 6.0.We have a client that is upgraded from 5.3 to 6.0. All-in-all, the upgrade has had few issues. However, we have one issue where items are wrapping in tables in 6.0 where they did not in 5.3. Does anyone have a theory as to what may be causing the differences in column width?The stylesheet uses CALS tables. The widths are relative (ie. 0.88*). I know it is a jump from 5.3 to 6.0. Has anyone else seen similar?

Our 3rd Arbortext APP World international users' meeting will be held on the 20th and 21st of November 2012 in Cologne, Germany.The event this year is being held in conjunction with the German community users meeting (APP-Anwendertreffen now in it's 19th year) in parallel English and German language tracks and promises to be the largest ever international APP/3B2 community meeting.Registration for the event in now open!For further details please visitwww.tformat.com/appworld/RegardsChris WesternMD, tformat ltd.-----------------------Event organisers and hostswww.tformat.com & www.datacopy.de

Folks, I've been doing a fair amount of research on this and it seems I have one problem that may keep me in the DTD world a bit longer. Our DTD has several large referenced files containing general ENTITY replacement text (if anyone has ever parsed the 40051 DTD with 'dtgen' they have encountered those files. You normally will get several 'litlen' errors.) This replacement text contains markup, references to other editable ENTITIES and the text is generic required stuff the authors really don't need to redo for every TM. My question is this (and I think I already know the answer BUT thought I'd toss it out for verification), can I call those files from a schema? My searches to date have said NO. 😞If I cannot call those files, then converting to a schema won't work. Many thanks.Lynn

Hi,Is there a way to set this outside of the environmental variables (SET APTCUSTOM=xxxxxx), e.g. in acl?CheersPete

I'm running Arbortext 6 with a custom directory which contains an Init.js in the ../custom/init directory. This JScript uses Acl.execute to execute ACL commands during the Arbortext Editor initialization. Now with the previous version it worked just fine, but since I updated to Arbortext 6, the Acl object doesn't seem to be resolved in the JScript anymore. I receive script errors now and thus y custom Arbortext won't load properly.Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be or where I might look? I spent quite some time already tracking down the issue and am pretty certain that the Acl object not being resolved is the problem.Thanks for your help!

While importing CGM's the tabs/spacing are either deleted completly or changed. Fix ?

Hello Adepters,I have a Styler stylesheet (using the FOSI engine) in 5.2M020 and 5.4M070 which does not properly split a row onto the next page if the content within an entry is longer than the length of the page. This issue occurs with all types of content allowed in the entry including lists and paragraphs, so it does not seem to be keeps related to those elements. Any recommendations on fixing this issue in Styler? I have not seen any keeps settings for the table, tgroup, row, and entry that might cause the page overset fault; basically keep settings for previous, next, and together are set to off.Row:* Blocko widow count=any numbero orphan count=any number* Keep:o Together priority=offo With Next priority=offo With Previous priority=offo scope in same columnThank you,Bryan

Arbortext 6.0 M040 is now available for download! To check out what isnew and changed, refer to the release notes at: Software Updates". Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks,Mike SundquistVP, Arbortext Product ManagementPTC Service Lifecycle Management

Hello: We are new to Arbortext and I'm wondering if it can recognize a clipping mask within an eps file. Example: If I have standards that say a graphic is restricted to a particular size and the author uses a clipping mask within illustrator to generate a portion of a larger picture,does Arbortext recognize that and only show the clip itself?Tim

Hello adepters,I am using a FOSI for a bilingual print publication.For section titles, I have an e-i-c with a style set of sect1-title which bolds the text and also contains usetext which adds a colon 'after' the text.There is an attribute rule on title which adds underlining if the <section role="dosage">.There is another attribute rule on title which adds a space after the title text, and before the colon, if the language on the parent element is French. The usetext source is simply \\.The problem I am encountering is that for French titles with section role=dosage, the space is appearing but it is getting the underlining as well. Is there any way to stop the underlining from appearing beneath the space? Is there something I can put into the usetext source that will stop the underlining?Thanks for your help!AshleyAshley HolmesIT & Production ServicesCanadian Pharmacists Association