Thank you Hussein, I was not complaining about the XMLMind software or suggesting that it was not operating in accordance with the DITA standard. It is just that both the standard and the software are (by necessity) very complicated and therefore I am struggling up a steep learning curve.
I am preparing a proposal to persuade my customer to move their technical documentation away from unstructured documentation in MS Word and to adopt XML/Dita using XMLMind. The problem is that they want the ditac output to look exactly like the old manual style of documentation they are used to. I have therefore been trying to structure my data and set the xmlMind conversion parameters to achieve this. I have not, however, been able to set up the footer in the way they want. I was hoping that there would be a way of achieving what my end user wants by structuring the data differently, by using other elements or attributes that I am not yet aware of. I was therefore asking for advice from someone with a far greater knowledge of the subject in the hope that I was missing something simple and obvious.. Vic Steadman Executive Consultant Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 507304 -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 September 2013 11:52 To: Vic Steadman Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] Output to pdf - Running Footer On 09/30/2013 11:20 AM, Vic Steadman wrote: > Thank you Hussein, I have been following your advice and experimenting > with DITA BookMaps and the title variables but have not been able to > achieve what I want. > > I have set the value of the navtitle element in each of my topics to > contain the value of my ID field which I want to appear as my running > footer. > > I want to get: > > *Main Body Title - title element (i.e. the default topic title.) > > *Toc title - the title element (which suggests loctitle should be set > to no) > > *Running footer - the navtitle > > I can get the navtitle to appear in the running footer using > {{section1-title}} if I set loctitle to yes but this also changes how > the title appears in the toc. Yes, that's right. It is implemented like that this seems consistent with the name "navtitle". However, if you point us to the part of the DITA spec which explains that "navtitle" should be used differently, we'll of course change our implementation in ditac. > > Is there any way to get what I am trying to get? > Sorry but the answer is: no, not without modifying the XSLT stylesheets. -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
