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I'm currently working on a stylesheet for a manual.In this case I must see to it so that the inside of the cover pages dont contain any information at all (the cover will be printed 4+0).This is easy for page 2 since you can define "Start new: Odd page" for the following page set which then will begin on page 3 and leave page 2 empty. But i dont know how to do this with the second to last page. My thought was to create a xpath-expression that based on if the page count was odd or even would add one or two empty pages before the last page.Is there a way to calculate and use page count in xpath-exressions?Is there some other way to solve this?

I'm trying to format my figures such that they float to the next page asneeded. I have two sets of markup for figures, one for a single graphicand then another with multiple sheets.SINGLE<figure><title>this is the title</title><graphic filreref="image.cgm"/"></figure>MUTLI-SHEET<figure><title>this is the title</title><subfig><graphic filreref="image2.cgm"/"></subfig><subfig><graphic filreref="image3.cgm"/"></subfig></figure>I created a floatloc:<floatloc floatid="figfloat" floattyp="once" minspace="13pt"<br"/>nomspace="13pt" maxspace="13pt">I have set this as both a bot and top float on the page descriptions withvarying results.<rectopg bind="lleft" chgmkplc="pright" xvjstretch="max"<br"/>topfloat="table-title.top" botfloat="figfloat" ><rectopg bind="lleft" chgmkplc="pright" xvjstretch="max"<br"/>topfloat="table-title.top figfloat" >And I use the flo

I received a Virus alert while extracting from the zip file forMicrosoft Windows 5.4 M070. The alert was on the file pstill.exe inData2.cab. I did open an issue with PTC (7907403). I haven't heard muchfrom PTC yet. I downloaded the zip file just this morning. Ray Anderson

Hello all,I have a turkish document and so far I could able to view the document correctly in the editor view. However I could not use change case feature very effiectively for example in turkish a lower case "i" when changed to uppercase "i" should be like "I" with a dot above it. How do I get this in ArborText. The Language option in preferences does not have turkish.Karthik

Hello,I need to use "boxing" for some blocks in XSL-FO and enable the deepcontentsplitting functionality of E3 on these boxes.It is OK but there are some change bars with the boxing and deep splitting pages. I noticed "Deep splitting pages with change bars is not supported" in Arbortext Help.Does anybody have any solutions to circumvent this limitation?Thanks a lot!Billy

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I have a page in which the title of the section/chapter spans the twocolumns of text that make oup the text. At least that is what I want. Thepage composes with 2 columns of text and the heading wrapped in the firstcolumn. I wen in and checked the CALS sample and saw that they placed aspan of 2 on their title elements, so I tried that. That causes the titleto span the 2 columns but now the page content is just set as a singlecolumn. I checked the CALS sample para0 tag to see if it reset the columnvalue it did; to 0.I did the same thing to the first element after my title. No change. Titlespans the two columns and the body text is in a single column.What did I miss?..dan

Hi,I am considering deploying some code that will save a document within thesave callback during the first pass and return a do not proceed code so therest of the callback is not executed but also (and this is the key) avoidingthe actual save.Huh? Yeah, me too.My understanding of the save and save callback program flow is this:1) A save is initiated.2) The function assigned to the save callback is called with op=1. If thefunction returns -1, the save is aborted. Otherwise, the flow proceeds tostep 3.3) The function assigned to the save callback is called again. This is wherecode to be executed prior to the save is placed.4) Once the function is complete and returns, Editor performs a save.Am I missing anything important? Is my understanding correct?My plan is to perform the save during step 2 above ... the first call to thefunction assigned to the save callback and abort further processing.What do I need to consider in order to fully evaluate the risk of deployingthis strategy relative

I have a requirement to create a [Continued] mark at the bottom of a pagewhen a procedure breaks across pages. I've got no idea on how to make thishappen with a FOSI, any ideas?The printed sample I have looks like the marking may be placed in thefooter so it is always in a consistent location at the bottom of the pagerather than floating to the point where the text breaks. Not sure if thisis a hard requirement or if either method is harder/easier to accomplish...dan

Is PTC going to fix the problem IsoDraw has opening .xpr and .xas files? Anyone have issues with this? Open .asm file that has .xpr files in it and all those files are missing or replaced with the "generic" representation of the .xpr file.

I have recently created some time saver macros for speeding up the process of creating illustrations to the S1000D standard. I have a hotspotter, a file checker (for things such things as typefaces, elements within boundaries, empty Background layer etc.) and they work extremely well. But, I have created one that replaces the illustration id reference in the bottom-right corner of the illustration template area, it takes the input as the current file name without the extension as the input and at present it works by selecting the macro from the dropdown menu with the file open.I would like to know if there is a way to trigger this macro when using the normal 'save' or 'save as' in Isodraw, or somehow capture the 'on change' event when the file is renamed as the trigger.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I've got a toolbar with one button defined like this:<toolbar id="mytoolbar" name="myname" x="2000" y="0">in ...custom/dialogs/mytoolbar.xmlWhen the custom directory is parsed and files executed on the open of an XMLinstance for that doctype, my button is displaying "aligned right" on thevery top row of the toolbar area. I want the toolbar to redisplay "alignedright' if/when an author resizes or maximizes the Editor window.Possible? How? I can't seem to find a command that will relocate thattoolbar, let alone starting to look for the hooks/callbacks.dlgitem_hide/_show simply make it disappear and reappear, but in-place.I must be thinking wrong ...-- Paul Nagai

I need to create a xpath-expression in Styler that finds at the latest section element with a specific value on it´s type attribute. The section element can be nestled so I cant predict where the type attribute was set the last time. I need to do this so that I know what derived section type I have.Example of context:section/section@type='xx'/sectionsection/section/section/section@type='xx'section@type='xy'/section@type='xx'/section/sectionIn all the above I need to know the latest section where type was set.My thought was to create the following condition (and repeat it for other type values):parent::section[@type='xx']Unfortunatly it doesn´t seem to do the trick and I have spoken to others working with Styler that says it is hard to create working reverse expressions in Styler.Has anyone had any experience of this or perhaps even a solution?Greatful for all answers!

I've got my basic numbered list working minus the ability to align thenumbers properly. Currently I'm getting: 8. text here 9. text here 10. text hereWould really like 8. text here 9. text here 10. text hereI've got this setup on a usetext "itemct,\.\,@2pi"Also someone recently mentioned reading the "Arbortext® FOSI ReferenceArbortext Editor 5.4 F000 June 2009", I just found this document via theknowledge base when I logged the call on the table heading centeringissue. Looks like this was added to the doc sutie after 5.2 (which I'mcurrently using). Lots of good information here. Looks like itincorporated the "Fosi development techniques" document that I got at oneof the first user group meetings.

This relates to my previous post on table formatting. I've got a newproblem where I'm trying to format the header row of a table. I want toset the text to center justify. Setting this in the FOSI doesn't changethe output even though the "resolve" display shows it as center.When I select the row with Table Properties, it seems like Left justifymight be the default - Left is what I'm finding as my output.For table width, PTC indicates that having a full width table is the asdesigned intention when columns are set proportionally. Setting the TableProperty of Use Default (100%) seems to have no effect.Setting the columns to fixed values makes the table set to less than fullpage width. I thought that maybe center justification needed a fixedwidth, but that didn't change anything.Any idea why my headings will not center justify?..dan

Hi Adepters,Here's an easy question to start the day off: In addition to "plain text" XML catalogs, does Arbortext support catalogs with the XML syntax (

Does anyone know if it is possible to code the CRC-32 algorithm using ACL ?Or is it best carried out using Java and then called from within the ACL.Regards,Andy

I have a wide table that really needs to be oriented landscape, but just changing the attribute is not making it turn. What else should I be looking for that's keeping it from landscape? I am using Arbortext Editor 5.2 with Styler.

I have been working on an assembly from a customer. I have been converting STEP , STP files in IsoDraw with no problems. However I have encountered a huge 370M chassis STP file that takes about 20 minutes to open but when I try to save it the program has to close.Any suggestions as far as how I can make this work without getting the message “IsoDraw has to close now”?Would copying IsoDraw to my computer at home which has 4G Ram and a 64 bit processor help versus the 3G Ram 32 bit processor at work make a difference?

Anyone recognice this problem and how to solve it? It started with Iso-draw 7.1, I haven´t had the problem in earlier versions./Magnus

All,We have a large document that we assemble from several smaller docs managed and versioned independently. The large doc has a cross reference where the ID is in one of the smaller docs and the IDREF is in another. The problem is, our CMS checkin process (which we coded ourselves), runs a completeness check on the doc first, and only proceeds with the checkin if the check succeeds. The smaller docs with the ID and the IDREF obviously fail the completeness check since the doc is missing either the ID or the IDREF. Is there a way to get around this while still running the completeness check?Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com

Does anyone have the old EMS-2 40051 DTDs from Arbortext 4.3 converted and recompiled for 5.4?Since 4.3 won't run simultaneously with 5.4, it makes it hard to cut and paste from one to the other. Not to mention the mapped key shortcuts are different between versions and I keep deleting tags instead of modifying them.I know maintenae.dtd compiles wrong...not sure about the others. Shoot, they won't even recompile correctly for 4.3.1!Thanks,John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

I thought CALS table properties were "automatically" recognized. Withinthe editor, I have changed the width of my table to less than a page wide.This displays as expected in the editor. I then test the composed view andthe table fills the column width. It seems I can change the proportion ofthe columns, but I can't get the overal table width to change.I've set/unset the pgwide value to see if this affected anything - nodifference. I've alos used the table properties which inserts a PI - thishad no chnage.Any idea what is going on?..dan

As most of you know, we've been working on updating the Army's 40051 XSL style sheets. I think we've made headway, but there are so #%#$%^ permutations we'll never cover them all. 😞Anyway one of the things we've been sort of ignoring in favor of real formatting is that graphics are not showing up. The appear in the screen display and when I process using a print FOSI, but are totally absent in the FO. One of our ladies says she has it working, but only if she puts the graphics in the same folder as the FO files. Okay for testing, but definitely not what one would want for production. So is there a secret that we're missing here. Lynn