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Hi all,I built a 2-column table like so:<usetext<br/>source='!<figtable frame="all" colsep="1" rowsep="0"><tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col1" colwidth="8.5pi"></colspec><colspec colname="col2" colwidth="5pi"></colspec><thead><row rowsep="1"><entry align="center">PART<brk></brk>NUMBER</entry><entry align="center">FIGURE<brk></brk>&<brk></brk>INDEX NO.</entry></row></thead><tbody>!,rows.app,!</tbody></tgroup></figtable>!' placemnt="after"></usetext>There's too much space between each row, and I don't know where it's coming from. Is there any way to get rid of this extra space? I tried playing with leading on entry, row, the partno and figindex eics and the usetext but no luck.My second question, is there any way to test for a column break? This table is on a 3 column page and I have to put an extra blank line after ever

So I can't remember if I have the standard Arbortext publishing engine do I also have Advance Print Publisher or is there a separate charge for the Advance Print Publisher?Thanks in advance.

I am trying to temporarily change a read only document to insert a PI. I set rochange to on and then go to change the document, but get an Arbortext message saying that I cannot modify the document because it is read only. Not sure what I am doing wrong. This used to work in version 4.3, but no longer works in 5.3. Anyone have any clues. Thanks.

Good day! I have an interesting problem. At least, interesting to me. I have a custom table, and it has a few cells that are generated by Xpath strings.What I would like to do is generate a custom table cell from an Xpath string that incorporates the content of two tags. No problem. But I would like to put a line return between those two instances. I'm not sure if there's a way to do this.Here's an example of what I'm trying to do.concat(string(tagx[1]/tagy/tagz), '{this is where the line return should be'}, string(tagx[2]/tagy/tagz))I have control of the stylesheet, made via Arbortext with Styler, but by contract I cannot alter the DTD.I have attempted to put various iterations of line returns, but they don't get called as line returns for the PDF. They just appear as the text that would constitute a line return in XML. In other words, '
' literally appears in the PDF as 
 and not as a line return. Xpath is not my strong suit, so I may be going about this all wrong.I a

Hello experts!!Well, I have bee working in the creation of a custom XUI window, I'm inserting a group of radiobuttons, however, I'm having a problem when I try to change the background colors 😞 I don't want the background in gray, but when I change the background color for the label's buttons, I'm still having the background of the small circle button in gray. Does anybody know if I have a chance to change it? Also I would like to know if anybody knows where I can Find more information in order to make my XUI implementation.As always all your help and suggestion are more than welcome!Best Regards.Paulette Zorrilla

Hi All!I'm a newbie here and fairly new to the dark underbelly of structured authoring. I've been using Editor/PE/CPA for almost 5 years and have been working with the e-learning modules for several months. All of which leads to:I've been working on a custom doctype for a supplement publication management wants. Everything is great so far except for one thing. Graphics in a document display properly on output using Styler's print preview and compose buttons, but not when using Editor's print preview and compose features. Our PE installation lives on a server with our CPA installation.All graphics live in a folder at the same directory level as their associated document file. We're running Editor/PE 5.4 M030.Thanks for any help!!

When inserting graphic file into an XML document, Arbortext Editor inserts the absolute filesystem path. Instead, it should import graphic file into Windchill storage and insert a link to that file. How do we achieve this behavior?

Hi Folks,I have a situation where we publish documents in both French and English. In French, we use the male ordinal character (ordm - º) frequently when stating think like No 1, No 2, etc. My organization has a preference to not have the 'o' part of the numero underlined - and our font set has it underlined as part of the character.Our solution is basically to substitute a different font for that one character (like Times where the male ordinal does not have a line under it).In areas of our document where text is gentext, we have an APP override to change the font, but in the general text of the document (like in paragraphs etc), we were just going to use a font override. I would rather not have every element of the style sheet overridden this way as it is very cumbersome.I was trying to automate it using the replace function with something like the following:' First replace any cases of the male ordinal with font markup with just the male ordinal (I do this so we don't keep

I just published my book and I have a formatter warning pop up that says "A float fault occurred. The float's page type could not be obeyed." It show up twice. I have never seen this error yet.thanksBryon

I apologize for arbortext newbie question, but I don't see a quick option for going through changes in a document. I do not see a toolbar shortcut, key stroke shortcut, or recording a macro option available.Is file menu "Tools-->Change Tracking-->Find Next Change" only option?Thanks in advance for help.

Hello everyone!Ok, so I'm having a big problem and I don't have any idea why is that? It happens that when I'm testing some ACL scripts that I created suddenly my Arbortext ends 😞 And I was wondering if there's some log file where maybe I could see what's happening, because I have not any idea what's the problem/bug/issue.Please, if anybody could help me I would really appreciate it!As always thank you so much for your time and support, since all your suggestions save me every day 😄Best Regards.Paulette Zorrilla

Does anyone know an efficient way of upgrading and purchasing Arbortext Editor. The last time I ordered 1 copy of Arbortext Editor it took 3 months to process the order. I searched and navigated the website and can only find a telephone number.TIA!

There are two problems I've come across with Isodraw macros that I'm hoping someone can help with.1. I have several macros that repeat - where you select items on an illustration one after the other and the macro makes a change each time.The problem on all these macros is that after about the 5th time you select an item (within a while loop), it insists on refreshing the screen every time you select something.2. Some macros I have specifically put "select none" at the end but it still leaves lines selected when the macro is finished.3. I have another macro where you select 2 beziers on the illustration and the macro insists on changing the pens of these beziers. The first one becomes medium, the 2nd one becomes thin - though nothing in the macro changes the pens.Has anyone else come across this behaviour in their macros and did you find a way round them?

I was looking for a list of built-in syntax commands like #CONTENT, but I could not find anything, probably because I don't know what they're called. I remember reading a post where Clay mentioned some of these useful tags which I hadn't heard before and I can't find that either.Such as:#CONTENT#LT##GT##EQ##LE##GE##NE##ANY#NONE#XPATHCONTENT#XPATHSTRING@ to reference attributes

Hello there,I was wondering if any of you who is familiar to Arbortext Content Manager could help me out.I am trying to translate a manual made with DITA into multi-languages by using ACM.However, I am not certain how to manage the translation efficiently by ACM.For example, if you have a part of topic that has been changed or renewed, what kind of steps would you take to reflect it efficiently to the translations in other languages by using ACM?Thank you very much in advance.Tomomi

I need some help from the experts. I have a List of Figures and I need to be able to auto generate each figure title with the sheet numbers. It needs to look something like this:Figure 1 Engineering (Sheet 1 of 2)Figure 1 Engineering (Sheet 2 of 2)Everything is working correctly except for the total sheet count. It is counting the maximum number of sheets and putting that as the total sheet count for each figure. Example:Figure 1 Engineering (Sheet 1 of 3)Figure 1 Engineering (Sheet 2 of 3)Figure2 Engineering Symbols (Sheet 1 of 3)Figure2 Engineering Symbols (Sheet 2 of 3)Figure2 Engineering Symbols (Sheet3 of 3)I have the following FOSI code:<counter initial="1" style="arabic" enumid="totalsheet.ctr"><stringdecl textid="totalsht.txt" status="1"><e-i-c gi="figure"><reset resetlist="totalsheet.ctr"></e-i-c><e-i-c gi="sheet" occur="first"><charlist inherit="0"><enumerat enumid="totalsheet.ctr"></charlist></e-i-c><e-i-c gi="sh

Hello,Does anyone know of a way to have all of the bookmarks Arbortex produces in a PDF to be collapsed by default? It would be nice to control this, but I don't see anything in the PDFCF configuration. Using 6.0 M080 PE.Thanks,-Brett

I have to replace hundreds of graphic links in a document and am exploring the best method for performing this task.Experimenting, I found an unusual result in my first case.Example:Old graphic link<graphic align="center" fileref="mydirectory\myfilename.jpg" scale=""/>New graphic link<graphic align="center" fileref="mydirectory\myNEWfilename.jpg" scale=""/>After making the above change, my graphic being displayed is very large (travels off of page). I understand I can scale this image using the scale value, however, I prefer to not have to individually scale each image. My first instinct as to this difference of size is the resolution of the images. This is the unusual part ... the original image is 3300x2463 and the replacement image is 768x733. The original image is significantly larger in size, but displays correctly whereas the smaller replacement image travels off of the page. Is there an attribute (like autofit or something) that I am missing? How does the original im

I am using Arbortext Tyler 5.4 M70. I am using S1000D 4.0.1 and I am trying to auto number procedural steps down to level 5. Levels one through three work as expected, however, level 4 repeats level five numbering unless I manually add a label, and level 5 steps revert back to level 1 numbering. Does anybody have any suggestions on this?As you can see levels 1 through 3 work fine, levels 4 and five are hosed. I have tried every combination of things I can think of to no avail. Any suggestions?

Hi,We have application specific PIs in our documents. We need to display these PIs and the elements/text under it in a different color in the editor. Any ideas on how this can be done?SRN

Ok, I am too lazy to find it my email mess. I want to do a perl (or bat)script firing off Arbortext from a command line with Arbortext opening afile, running a set command, validate, save it out and the perl scriptcontinues doing more magic.#--- Sets the length of the file width before a line break set outputrecordlength=10000I went looking thru 10 years of emails and cannot find it. But, I know Clayor Liz (plus dozen others could answer it in their sleep).d

Hi Folks,I am not able to create a line of length 4.8 mm in isodraw 7.0 and 7.1.Once I create a Line with 4.8 mm length and then check the properties (ctrl+I) That would result in 4.799 mm only.I wanted to create a specific length of 4.8 mm!! Please suggest????I would like to add upon the same point:I am not able to draw a line of length 1.8, 2.8, 3.8, 4.8 etc...When I check the properties they are displayed as 1.799, 2.799, 3.799, 4.799 etc.

Hi,I have a set of informaltables. In those tables I have some <indexterm>elements.I have a link tag that refers to those informal tables. I want the<indexterm>s to process from within the link tag.Specifically, if I have:<h1><title>section 1</title><para>Blah blah blah <link id="qwerty">.</para>...<h1><title>section 2</title><para>Blah blah blah <link id="qwerty">.</para>...<h1><title>section 4</title><para>Blah blah blah <link id="qwerty">.</para>...<informaltable id="qwerty">....<indexterm><primary>MyTerm</primary></indexterm>I want "MyTerm" in the index three times (four if you count the actuallocation, but honestly, I'm going to suppress that), once each in section1, 2, and 4. I have looked at the FOSI source for <indexterm> and can seethat it is not added to Main_Index__index.tiv if context = "* _sfe:Gentext"but even if I edit

Hello,I make a list (- and indentation) data composed as follows:<list><item> <para> <p> .......................... </ item><item> <para> <p> .......................... </ item><item> <para> <p> .......................... </ item>....</ list>In publication, whether the list should be on two pages, the break is made ​​anyhow.example:Page 1:- Cxcxcxc cxccxc ccxcxc ccxcxc ccxccxx- Fgfggf dyydyd ryryry fjjfjfjf ororo lfllfflm fmmmmm ppppp kkfkfkfkfkfkPage 2: fgfggfgfgf hhhfhhfhf hhfhfhhfh hhfhfhfhfhfh- Cvcvcvvvcvc vcvcvcvcvcvcvIf you have an idea about the problem, I think this is the parser PTCthank youcordially============================================================================ Bonjour,Je fabrique une liste (- et indentation) de données composée comme suit :<list><item><para><p>..........................</item><item><para><p>.........................

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