Thank you - this worked! David
-----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 October 2010 12:16 To: David Chance Cc: John Dowgin; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] ditac support for page numbers David Chance wrote: > > > We are currently using ditac to generate our DITA documentation in PDF > form. Whilst using XMLMind to generate the content, we are using > ditac from the command line as part of our build environment. > > > > We are currently having problems with generating page numbers in the > output - none are being added to the final document. > > > > Our command file is: > > > > ..\..\dita\ditac-1_2_2\bin\ditac -keepfo ^ > > -vvv ^ > > -xslt2 pdf ..\..\catalogs\xsl\dovetail2fo.xsl ^ > > -toc ^ > > -p pdf-outline yes ^ > > -p number all ^ > > -p default-table-width 100% ^ > > -p title-page "SD_Advice_Element_Definitions.fo" ^ > > -p footer-right "Confidential" ^ > > -param footer-center "%page-number%" ^ > > -p footer-left "Copyright (c) Dovetail Group, 2010" ^ > > -p header-left-image "dovetailsmall.jpg" ^ > > -p body-top-margin "30mm" ^ > > -filter ..\..\catalogs\filters\Full_External.ditaval ^ > > c:\temp\PageNoTest.pdf ^ > > ..\..\..\system_definition\Standard_Product\Functional\SDs\SD_Advice_E > lement_Defintions.ditamap > > > > And whilst everything else works, the center footer contains '' My first idea is that the Windows Command Prompt interprets "%page-number%" as a reference to an environment variable called "page-number" and because this environment variable does not exist, Windows substitutes it with the empty string. A workaround is to specify all your parameters into a local options file and then to run: ..\..\dita\ditac-1_2_2\bin\ditac -o my.options [...] See -o or -options in http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html See the options file format in http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html#commandLine__ditac_options_file We'll consider implementing an alternate way to reference variables such as %page-number% (e.g. {page-number}) in the next release (ditac 2.0, which should fully support DITA 1.2, before the end of this year). -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
