Automatic character substitution?

[ptc-953343]

In previous versions of Epic I've been able to cycle through the
different types of quotes and dashes just by pressing the key
multiple times. This functionality is not appearing in our document
type nor was I able to get it to work in the DITA concept templates
using 5.3 m10.

In our doctype I even went into the dcf file and specifically allowed
this on an element with the same result.

This functionality is still documented in the Help system so I'm
assuming that it is still a supported feature.

..dan

[DavidA.Helfinst]

In Reply to:

In previous versions of Epic I've been able to cycle through the
different types of quotes and dashes just by pressing the key
multiple times. This functionality is not appearing in our document
type nor was I able to get it to work in the DITA concept templates
using 5.3 m10.

In our doctype I even went into the dcf file and specifically allowed
this on an element with the same result.

This functionality is still documented in the Help system so I'm
assuming that it is still a supported feature.

..dan

[jogden]

What David said in his reply is correct, for DITA documents and possibly
other doctypes, the ability to cycle through different dashes and quotes
was restored in 5.3 M040.

Prior to M040 this ability was tied to a setting in the .dcf file and
also to the presence of certain specific character entity definitions in
the doctype. If the entity definitions were missing from the doctype,
then you couldn't cycle even if the .dcf file setting was on. Those
entity definitions aren't present in the DITA doctypes.

Starting with M040 cycling is just tied to the .dcf file setting and not
to the presence or absence of any specific entity definitions.

-Jeff

[ptc-953343]

At 07:55 AM 7/3/2008, Ogden, Jeff wrote:
>Starting with M040 cycling is just tied to the .dcf file setting and not
>to the presence or absence of any specific entity definitions.

So what is the key to making this work in my DTD in m10? I have no
dcf declarations that say no to this feature and I tried adding one
specifically to say yes to see if that made a difference.

I only referenced the DITA files to say it looked like the
functionality was broke in this version. Is that not the case?

..dan
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Danny Vint

Specializing in Panoramic Images of California and the West

[CraigGalan]

I hope someone is able to steer me in the right direction. I have a
paragraph element which I would like to set a prespace on. The
paragraph follows a table as in

<table>
<tgroup>
...
</tgroup>
</table>
<date>
<paragraph space_before="22pt">Text</paragraph>
</date>

When I do this, the paragraph's space_before, which gets mapped to
prespace in the FOSI, is not respected. The paragraph sits directly
underneath the table. If I add a paragraph inbetween the table and the
paragraph I want to have the prespace and set its Text Node to a single
space it works fine.

We are using E3 5.1M and the CALS table model. Any thoughts on why the
prespace is not respected on the paragraph when it is directly after the
table?

Thanks,
Craig