Practical FOSI

[ptc-1908075]

I have changed the title of my book to Practical FOSI to reflect the book's
focus on a practical way to code FOSI stylesheets. This approach removes
complexity without sacrificing formatting capabilities. It is described in
Chapter 3: A Practical Approach to FOSI.

PDF of the following can be downloaded from
www.FOSIexpert.com/Practical-fosi.html:

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: FOSI Basics
Chapter 3: A Practical Approach to FOSI
Chapter 4: FOSI Variables
Chapter 5: FOSI Syntax and Keywords
Chapter 6: FOSI Pseudo-elements
Chapter 7: FOSI-Generated Material

I have tried to put the narrative material is an order that makes sense. Please
let me know your feedback on this.

Note that I also added an example of some fancy FOSI footwork I was fooling
around with awhile back: change bars with "stripes."

I apologize the book is taking so long. I am not a fast writer, and I know too
much about the material. Finally, I don't like to document something until I
have proved to myself it works as stated. The good news is most of the rest of
the book is written, as the cross reference page numbers in the posted chapters
suggest.

Thank you for your comments and for your patience.

I'm at Caesar's Palace for PlanetPTC Live. Hope to see you 🙂

Suzanne Napoleon
www.FOSIexpert.com
"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

[ptc-3050150]

I just installed Arbortext on a new box and the PE is throwing an error I can't seem to fix:

<level>ERROR</level><message>Error response from e3: message = 'Failed
to open document 'E:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext PE\e3\e3\logs\transactions\rq_34868\source\x12.xml'
with flags '636' using stylesheet '(null)'.

Exception
error = '[A15015] Could not open the Schema/DTD file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\BAE_GTS.dtd".

main::ERROR
= '[A15015] Could not open the Schema/DTD file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\BAE_GTS.dtd".

main::ERRORS[
0 ]: '[A15015] Could not open the Schema/DTD file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\BAE_GTS.dtd"

main::ERRORS[
1 ]: '[A15015] Could not open the Schema/DTD file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\BAE_GTS.dtd"'.</message<br/>>

The catalog showing the DTD location is loading. The individual documents show up in the new file types list. The extant documents open and know where the DTD is. Everything runs just fine and normal right up to composition. Any ideas?

Sincerely,
John T. Jarrett
BAE Systems