Arbortext

I have added an item to the Arbortext edit menu. It calls an external service. I used timer_add_callback to poll the service occasionally to see if the menu item should be available. Then I used menu_change to enable or disable the menu item appropriately.This all works until the user uses "Edit selection as XML source", because that displays a new window. When the timer goes off, the menu item doesn't exist in the XML-as-source window, and an error dialog pops up.I tried calling menu_change inside catch, like this:catch( 'menu_change ".Edit.Use service" -active "$$polledOK" )That stops the error dialog, and the catch returns 0. But the menu item state never changes.- Am I doing something wrong in the catch?- Or is there some way of telling if the menu item is available?- Or is there a way to refer to the menu item in the right window?Jonathan ReeveThis e-mail from Practical Law Company (

Hi everyone,Can you confirm that PTC has no training available for Arbortext(Architect, Editor, Publishing Engine) *developers*? I see some Editorend-user training. Some Styler training. But that's about it.Is anyone else offering training that would cover: FOSI (cough, cough) Editor custom folder management ACL and XUI customizations Publishing Engine installation, configuration, performance tuning, andmaintenance.Thanks.-- Paul Nagai

Hello, I noticed that if I put a description within a container, and you stretch the dialog out horizontally. The description will get shorter (because there are less text wraps) but the container (box or grid) will not shrink with it.For example, the following will work fine (if I expand the dialog, the "Second Description" will stay against the first description when it shrinks heightwise):<groupbox scroll="vertical" orient="vertical" resize="both" pack="start"> <description width="200" multiline="true" backgroundcolor="#d6efff" resize="width">Some Text Some Text Some Text Some TextSome TextSome Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some TextSome Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some TextSome Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text Some Text</description> <description width="200" mu

Hi there,I'm using Arbortext 5.4 M080.I have a custom application and have created some .tpl tag templates files in my custom/tagtemplates folder.In the editor when I use Tools -> Tag Templates... to insert my newly added templates I can insert them into my document and all is well. However, when I go and insert the relevant element directly in my document the template is not inserted - just the element as normal.Does anyone know if I am missing something. Is there some additional configuration I need to do to make this work?Many Thanks for your help 🙂Johanna

I have my Preferences to Recover every 60 seconds. We just had a power failure. I went to the Checkout Folder to capture all my data I just lost in the power outage and it didn't save anything I had been working on for the past 30 minutes. So does the Write Recovery File save option actually save somewhere else or what. Why didn't my work save up unto that last minute?

I have set the cellpadding of my Oasis tables to 4px, but it does not show when i do a html file output or pdft. Can someone please help ? and is it possible for me to set the cellpadding for my tables via the style sheet ?

Here is an interesting question. I have a document I am working that stilluses a DTD. The document consists of several file entities. Each ENTITY usesthe OASIS TR 9601 Fragment Interchange (which Epic beautifully supports). For those not familiar with this TR, basically it allows you to use a toplevel DOCTYPE in documents that are subsets of the DOCTYPE (e.g., DOCTYPE is'doc' and you have a 'chapter'). My question is does anyone know if any other XML (that support DTD) alsosupport the TR 9601. I do not think Spy or Oxygen do (or if they do Ihaven't found the key for it to work). I want to work with this document on another computer that does not haveEpic and every time I open the file there are serious parsing error (mainlyENTITIES declared either in the DTD or in the file's declaration subset) arenot being read. The reason appears to be because the TR has the DoctypeDeclaration and its subset within a 'comment'

Does anyone know where I can find out what character this error message refers to?Attempt to use non-existent character (61527) in font "Arial"> - looking for slant=regular, weight=medium (500)> - no substitute character exists in font "Arial Unicode MS"Thanks!Suzanne Napoleonwww.FOSIexpert.com"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

Trying to map F12 to add the index marker to text, but do not know enough to see what I am doing wrong.Here is what I got so far. Can someone shed some light for me.function table auto_index(){$table_rows=tbl_row_count()$column_to_process=tbl_caret_col()while(tbl_caret_row() <= $table_rows && tbl_caret_row() > 0) {oid_select(oid_caret(0))copy_mark mymarkinsert_tag(indexterm)paste mymark# insert("-")if (goto_cell(tbl_caret_row()+1, $column_to_process) != 1){break}}map F12 auto_index();ThanksBryon

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