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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

I've been doing lots of work in XSLT/FO but I'm having to switch gears andwork on a FOSI.I'm in the XSLT/XPATH mindset and I know there are similar capabilities,but I'm wondering if the approaches to problems would be different. TheI'm currently considering is transformation, specifically moving largesections around. So I have a rear section that can contain appendices,list of effective pages, index, etc. In my DTD I want to set a specificorder and repeatability on these objects. So I have the following:* appendix? index? lepwell some groups might want the lep in front of the index. With XSLT Iwould just choose to process the lep before the index and I wouldn'tchange the physical order in the content. FOSIs I've seen in the past seemto just process things in place in terms of large objects. They generatetext and such but I don't think I've seen much reorganization of thecontent.Is this a limitation of FOSIs or just the [programming style of the writer?..dan

We're gearing up to translate some documents and I was wondering if anyone has experience with using other languages in Arbortext documents, particularly non-Western languages such as Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. How does it work? What issues do I need to be aware of? Any guidance is appreciated. Carolyn Herlin

Hello Adepters,I've created an embedded xui dialog box that's a simple dropdown menu, and its purpose is to let the user set an attribute value on the replaced element. When the dialog box is loaded, I want the dropdown to display the current value of the attribute. But I can't figure out how to access the replaced element from inside the WindowLoad event handler. I can access it from the domactivate event by using: Application.event.view.window.ownerNodeBut Application.event.view is undefined when I try to do that from the WindowLoad event. Any pointers? This seems like it should be easy to do.Thanks,-James

I know that you can use the wild-card character (*) in the context attribute of a FOSI e-i-c, such as context="para * chapter", which would mean a <para> within a <chapter> with any other elements in-between.However, I would like to know if there is a way to use a wild-card to describe all elements with a certain suffix. We have dozens of container elements which can contain this inline element, and whose names all end in the suffix "-xxx-yyy".Let's say we have an e-i-c for an element called "inline" (<inline>). If this element occurs within the context of any of the elements whose name ends with the "-xxx-yyy" suffix, it always needs to be formatted a certain way, which is different from the formatting in other contexts.I would like to use something like <e-i-c gi="inline" context="*-xxx-yyy">, which I know will not work because of the default FOSI wild-card (*) character. Is there another way to write this without listing all of the dozens of "-xxx-yyy" elemen

Hi Everyone,We have discovered an issue with recompiling from 5.4 to 5.3. This situation is we are testing 5.4M40 for our books. Only a few of us have 5.4 on our machines. We released it on a limited basis since I found no issues with using 5.4 in the classroom for training and in any of the books that I have worked on. However, today we discovered that if a DTD is compiled in 5.4 and then someone using 5.3 reopens the same DTD and recompiles to 5.3, some elements are no longer listed in the DTD Viewer, i.e. TABLE. According to the DTD, Table should be allowed anywhere in the <front> element, but when we recompile in 5.3 from 5.4 the element <table> is no longer valid in <front>. So I guess my question is this, has anyone else had any problems recompiling to an earlier version after opening a document in 5.4.

I don't even know if this is possible but I need to be able to add alternative text to an image in XML file so that when it is converted to a PDF and the user places there cursor over the image it produces the alternative text. Just like when you hover your cursor over a graphic file on an HTML page.Can this even be done through a FOSI stylesheet?Thanks in advance for your response.Sarah

I have down loaded and installed the first four versions of Epic 5.4. I recently noticed the following problem with all four versions. If I open an existingdocument I am unable to add any tagging at the beginning of the document. The tag will appear at the bottom of the document or the next valid spot. This currently works in the Epic 5.3 versions. I read through the release notes of the 5.4 versions and tried a few things but have not figured out the problem.We are using the UNIX version and SGML.Thank you for any help.