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Hi, DITA and Arbortext users and gurus:Anybody know how to disable the warning you get if you try to insert a topicref into a reltable cell and the type of the topicref does not match the type of the reltable column? We want to put topicrefs of type "html" into the reltable, which are links to external websites (format=html, scope=external). We want to put them in the reltable column of type "topic" (actually a specialization thereof) and we get two warnings when we do. We could create a reltable column of type "html" and this works fine, but want to avoid that.ThxSteve Fogel, Information Architect, Oracle Corporation

Though this involves a macro, it seemed to be a general font issue.We utilize a copyright symbol in one of our documents that is created entirely in IsoDraw. I replace this by macro at particular times. One of our associates in China, however, ends up with a question mark instead of a copyright when the same sequence is run on their machines. Another China associate does not have this problem. We've made sure our fonts match on both China machines and our US machines. Any thoughts on why this might be happening?

Hi All,I have a dialog box that I display when a user is inside a table and selects the menu option that I added. What I am stump on now is how I get the oid of the table so that I can then set attributes on the table tag depending on the option selected in the dialog.Here is the javascript function I am trying to write, maybe javascript is not the best option for this so if you have other solutions I will take them into consideration also.function getTableid(){ var table_oid=0; var caretCellId = Acl.eval("tbl_oid_cell(oid_caret())"); Acl.eval("tbl_obj_attr_get( caretCellId, 'OID', table_oid )"); Application.alert("inside get Table id "+caretCellId +"-"+table_oid); return table_oid;}I am getting a numberfor the caretCellId, but the table_oid is always 0.Thanks,Ellen

When choosing between Print Composer as opposed to Arbortext Publishing Engine for generating PDFs, am I correct in saying that the former is more suitable for lower levels of output rather than the latter which is suitable for very high levels of output ?Please can someome clarify when one should use the latter over the former ?Regards,Andy

This month's meeting is Saturday..

This seems like such a stupid question but I've looked and looked and am getting nowhere...and I'm not that good with XSL FO.Is there a way to test if the text is wider than the block and if so, change the inherited text-align=left to text-align=center if it is just one short sentence?<xsl:template match="trim.para"> <fo:block font-family="sanserif" space-before.conditionality="discard" space-before.maximum="8pt" space-before.minimum="6pt" space-before.optimum="7pt" span="all"> <xsl:if test="@bullet" ==" yes"="> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="no">•</xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/"> </fo:block></xsl:template>Thanks,John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext PE version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.7

I have an element <rotate> permitted within the CALS table model <entry>that does some funky in the usetext:source="%\hbox{\special{pub: rotate 90}%,#CONTENT,%}%"In tables on portrait pages, this gives me text rotated 90 degreescounter-clockwise. I must manually set the row's height since the rotationtakes place after the formatting engine determines that. However, in tablesthat appear on portrait with landscape content or true landscape pages, myrotated TeX text doesn't show up.Any TeX mages out there that could suggest a mod to my rotate hack thatmight work on landscape output?Or know another way I could achieve this in 5.3 m110?(Looks to me like I'll be screen capping and shipping graphics, which I hatebut have done before.)-- Paul Nagai

I am using the <indexter><primary><secondary><tertiary>... setup. Someentries are bold, others are not and I can't quite figure out where the boldis coming from.-- Paul Nagai

stylersheet was working fine yesterday. today, crashy boing boing.When I'm composing locally (peservices=off), Styler hangs. If I "kill" it,it fails the composition and displays a DVI exception (opening dvi file(filename) dvipos: -1 code 1 can't open dvi file, failure post-processingfor compser type pdf.If I delete US Frontpage Set pageset, it's fine.If I recreate US Frontpage Set by creating a copy of US Bodypage Set, it'sfine.If I assign TOC, LOF, LOT, or Preface to trigger US Frontpage Set (or USBodypage Set) it fails again.What is up?-- Paul Nagai

Hi all,Now that you are all back from the conference I can start asking questions again 🙂I am able to get my menu item added to the menu and the cmd is getting called like I want... but I haven't figured out the -active option so that the menu item is only active when the user isin a table or if they have selected the table. # *** Add table styles menu *** menu_add ".Table." "Change Table Style" -cmd {jepp_tabledlg::change_jepp_table_dlg();} -active "tbl_mod_table_dlg()" # table==oid_name(selected_element()) # selected() this is if any text is selected in the edit windowI guess I learn by example and just haven't found any examples of something like this. 🙂Ellen

Help !!! 🙂Maybe someone has seen something like this to give us help. We havesome ACL code called from the FOSI, it works when we compose from the Editor and from PE interactive. It does not work when the same file is requestedwith the servlet.This makes no sense to us, does it make sense to anybody else?Ellen

I am using the gsub ('<.*>', ' ', string) command to remove start tags within an ascii string.However, if there are nested elements within the string, it will remove a whole section from the very first '<' to the very last '>' regardless of the tag.Is there anyway of just getting it to remove individual start tags from '<' to the next occurance of '>' I assumed this is what the gsub command should be doing anyway ?

I really miss all the great help I used to get in the ITEDO IsoDraw Macro forums. IsoDraw has very powerful Macro abilities. Will we see this kind of forum again?

I'm still trying to get FOSI with my XSLT orientation.I have the following XML<procedure> <step> <challenge>this is a challenge</challenge> <para>First para in a step but with a challenge preceeding sibling</para> </step> <step> <para>This is a para with no sibling, truly the first child of step</para> </step></procedure>So how can I apply different formatting to the second para in step 2, than the para in step 1? In both cases they are occurence= first so that test doesn't work. In XLST I would check to see if there was a preceeding-sibling, what is the best way to detect this in FOSI?..dan

I hate special characters.Does anyone know how to control the presentation of apostrophes (decimal 39)in PDFs generated on Publishing Engine by PDF Direct (not Distiller) in theArial font? I am getting a curly apostrophe in the Arial MT font. (I doubtArial MT is actually the problem, but I mention it just because.) I can usecharent.cf to map the output of ' to a good old fashionedstraight-quote / non-curly-apostrophe ... decimal 39. But this doesn't fixthe ' character itself ...-- Paul Nagai

When trying to compare two files that are about 1MB each, I get this error:[A19314] Compare: insufficient memory to complete the comparison. Use the set diffmemory command to increase the diffmemory setting. I can compare smaller files with no problem. I've upped my diffmemory from the default of 50MB to 5000MB with no success. Others in my organization have tried as well, with no success. Does anyone know the magic number?

Well, got my 38,000 page book up to PTC to see if they can get it to compile. They got the 13,000 page chapter to PDF stably...something I haven't been able to do yet.Do any of you have any experience setting the Java heap size for the PE?Setting Tomcats appears rather straightforward, but that doesn't seem to affect the PE java services.Thanks John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.7

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.4 M050 release. In addition to bug fixes, this release adds full support for theArbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP) feature. For earlier releases,APP was classified as a Technology Preview, and recommended for use onlyin test environments. If you want to know all the details about this release, please check outthe release notes <">http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=112888> . If youhave any questions about the release schedule, please reference the PTCProduct Calendar at: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Before I open a call with PTC, just wondering if anyone has had an installation of Arbortext Editor 5.4 (M040) fail with this error message:Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly component{98CB24AD-52FB-DB5F-A01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}.HRESULT: 0x80070BC9.Or, any idea what it's trying to tell me?Thanks,Dave HintzSiemens

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Hi everybody,Is there a way to make a link toan elementthat does not have an attributedefined in the DTD as an ID? I don't think so since I found this in the help files "Supported links are to the id of another element in the same document". But I wanted to ask here just incase I missed something.Ellen

I have a situation where I need to test the preceding siblings and process the contetns accordingly. I know how I would get there with XSLT/XPath but what is the corresponding method in FOSI?I have a list item in which a para or challenge element can be first and then there can be additional para elements. The Occur first doesn't seem to work in this case. I suppose I have to set some sort of flag when processing the content of an item to indicate the "first thing" has already occurred, is there an alternative to this?So I have content like this:<item><challenge>this is challenge</challenge><para>this is a para</para></item>should format as:1. this is challenge this is a paraand <item><para>this is para 1 </para><para>this is a para</para></item>should format as:1. this is para 1 this is a para If I set the occur to first on <para> I get1. this is para 1 this is a para First is the first occurrence of a para

After installing Epic 5.3 on my laptop I am having problems getting Print Composer to work properly.Having installed, and when I attempt to File> Print Preview, the whole application hangs.Anyone else have this problem ? I am running with Vista.Regards,Andy

With earlier versions of Excel you could import tables into Epic with ease. We recently upgraded to Excel 2007 and find that function no longer works with ANY version of Epic that we are using, i.e. 5.3 or 5.4. Has anyone else had the same experience and if so, were you able to find a solution?Sindy YoungAWACS Tools and Technology Team,(253) 657-6964Kent, WA 98032

For any of you who are interested. MIL-PRF-28001C has been inactivated for new design as of 22 Apr 2010.28000, 28002 and 28003 have also been inactivated. It is still the source for the FOSI tagging, but can no longer be used on any government contracts. Existing contracts are not affected. Lynn