Thanks for your quick reply and clarification! Appreciate it really.
________________________________ From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 3:25 PM To: mike heer Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] Configuration ditac converter On 08/19/2016 03:07 PM, mike heer wrote: > As a response to your mail announcing ditac-2_6_2 and since you have > recommended to me the use of XMLmind DITA Converter as an alternative > for the dita-ot curiosity made me to download the zipped converter > files, unzipped it on my portable drive. Simple enough I managed to > convert my first bigger project into various output formats. Just out of > the box, it worked perfectly. One thing however is not clear to me when > it comes to register the location of my HTML help compiler. I can > convert into a CHM file when I add the location of the hcc compiler > every time as a command line option (-hhc exe_file). Now I want to fix > that path in the ditac.option file as per manual. FYI, here is a copy of my own ditac.option file: --- -ahf "C:\Program Files\Antenna House\AHFormatterV6\AHFCmd.exe" -xep C:\opt\xep\xep.bat -fop C:\opt\fop\fop.bat -xfc C:\src\xfc\java\bin\fo2rtf.bat -jhindexer C:\opt\javahelp\javahelp\bin\jhindexer.bat -hhc "C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe" --- > My problem now, > where shall I place that ditac.option file really. Remember, I did not > install the dita converter, but only unzipped it. The manual says, the > ditac.option file shall be located in > "C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\XMLmind\ditac\", which normally will be > created during an installation, but not when unzipping it. Well I > created the directory manually and copied my ditac.option file there. Yes, this is the normal way to do that. > And it works. My only concern is, that when I wanted to run the dita > converter from my portable drive, the AppData\Roaming-path and thus the > ditac.option file might be missing on my other computers. My question > now: Can I keep the ditac.option file within the installation directory > of the ditac converter? No. The ditac.options is expected to be found exclusively in %APPDATA%\XMLmind\ditac\ Note that APPDATA is an environment variable, not a hardwired value. > And if, where shall I place it? > An alternative is to create an option file similar to ditac.options and use the -o (or -option) command-line option when invoking ditac. See http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/commandLine.html#commandLine__option-option
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