[XXE] fallback attribute

2021-02-23 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen, Niels Peter
Good morning - obviously enough, keyrefs are not resolved when I convert a single topic to an output format; and XML Mind helpfully alerts to me to this with the message file:/T:/17_yumi/ownerManual/yuo_048.dita:49:55: cannot resolve keyref="productName" and there is no "href" fallback

[XXE] something I should have documented …

2020-12-01 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen, Niels Peter
Good morning! This morning’s challenge: store a set of WebHelp on SharePoint. I know I have done this before, and I even have a python script from a helpful colleague: it runs through the .html files in the output directory and changes all occurrences of html – file extension, but also any

Re: [XXE] search in WebHelp not finding numeric strings

2020-11-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen, Niels Peter
Quick and accurate answer, as expected - thanks! N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 4 november 2020 9:54 To: Grundtvig Nielsen, Niels Peter Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] search in WebHelp

[XXE] search in WebHelp not finding numeric strings

2020-11-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen, Niels Peter
Good morning - a new puzzle! we've just added some topics explaining error codes, so it's a bit strange to discover we can't search for them. Is this a known issue I've not run into before? N [cid:image001.png@01D6B288.740D3F90] Worldline and Ingenico are registered trademarks and trade names

[XXE] problems accessing FAQ

2020-10-01 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! now happily running 9.4.1, having (finally) discovered the only person in IT support who understands the problems caused by our corporate security policies … I'm updating a DITA topic with a table of yes / no values, where I want to use the unicode tick (✓, U+2713) and cross (✘,

Re: [XXE] language-specific labels

2020-09-24 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
mlmind.com] Sent: vrijdag 11 september 2020 15:56 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] language-specific labels Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender an

[XXE] language-specific labels

2020-09-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! some of my international colleagues, who are happily taking it for granted that XML Mind will let me do everything they might possibly want, are asking me to manage a set of procedures translated into Dutch. One of them has even prepared me a file called nl.xml and starting

Re: [XXE] fonts in svg files

2020-08-25 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: dinsdag 25 augustus 2020 11:05 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] fonts in svg files Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender

Re: [XXE] svg with embedded jpg

2020-08-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
again for a quick and effective answer. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein.sha...@gmail.com] Sent: maandag 10 augustus 2020 15:34 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] svg with embedded jpg Caution! External email. Do

[XXE] svg with embedded jpg

2020-08-10 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I have a few Illustrator graphics (.eps) in my non-DITA documents that are built up from a photograph (.jpg) and arrows/callouts. They display correctly in the XML Mind workspace, and in Chrome - but when I try to create a .pdf, conversion fails because the jpg 'cannot be found'.

Re: [XXE] using icons as class-labels for DITA elements

2020-08-03 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
: maandag 3 augustus 2020 15:08 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: ** SUSPICIOUS SENDER ** Re: [XXE] using icons as class-labels for DITA elements Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender and you

[XXE] using icons as class-labels for DITA elements

2020-08-03 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! My new task (which will keep me out of mischief for a couple of months ...) is to migrate an assortment of documents from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA, and we've been accustomed to using graphics to highlight Tip and Warning notes. I've seen examples of this in the Helps,

[XXE] DITA note types and prefix images

2020-07-20 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I see from several pages in "About DITA support in XMLmind XML Editor" that you have used icons in front of / instead of text labels to identify what looks like a note type: Remember, for example, or Tip. I was actually looking through "About DITA support in XMLmind XML Editor"

Re: [XXE] ** SUSPICIOUS SENDER ** Re: Customise document conversion stylesheets: something I haven't noticed till recently

2020-07-16 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks for the quick and helpful answer. I'll check the three customisation options first, then see how things behave tomorrow. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 16 juli 2020 11:22 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support

[XXE] Customise document conversion stylesheets: something I haven't noticed till recently

2020-07-16 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! colleagues very impressed at how thoughtful implementation of DITA with re-use and a nifty IDE is helping us sort out a whole stack of regulatory documents, so thanks for that. But, I've recently noticed something that hadn't struck me before: every time I start XXE these days

[XXE] document conversion parameters and ditamaps

2020-04-27 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon - and a quick question from my "working at home" corner. It's something I remember asking about before, but a while ago - which means, for me, many releases ago. 9.2.0 today, and looking forward to installing the 9.3.0 upgrade - which I have! - later this week. My question is

Re: [XXE] XXE not starting

2020-03-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: maandag 30 maart 2020 9:59 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] XXE not starting Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender an

[XXE] XXE not starting - more info

2020-03-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Started after six or seven minutes ... ten minutes after that, the "Cannot start XML Mind XML Editor in single instance mode: Address already in use: bind" As we know, I've already set the "single instance" mode. N From: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Sent: maandag 30 maart 202

[XXE] XXE not starting

2020-03-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Hm. Unwelcome problems this morning ... for the last week or so, XML Mind has been taking longer to start, both by association from the file explorer and directly from the Start menu. This morning it's not starting at all! not even from XMLMind_XMLEditor > bin Any ideas? Niels Grundtvig

Re: [XXE] observation

2020-03-18 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] observation Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender and you know the content is safe. "search files" (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_d

Re: [XXE] observation

2020-03-12 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
rch_02.png is from notepad++ N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 11 maart 2020 16:29 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] observation Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click lin

Re: [XXE] observation

2020-03-12 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good question! I'll watch what I do next time and send you more information. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 11 maart 2020 16:29 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] observation Caution

Re: [XXE] question about importing plain text

2020-03-12 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
: woensdag 11 maart 2020 16:34 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] question about importing plain text Caution! External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender and you know the content is safe. I'm not sure

[XXE] question about importing plain text

2020-03-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! When rescuing content from other formats, I often find it easiest to prepare a plain-text file, add DITA tags and then paste the content into the XML source view of a topic. Fairly often, what looks like clean XML source with no extra spaces appears in the DITA topic view with

[XXE] observation

2020-03-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! constantly trying to use XXE better, I've started to use the search functions. (XQuery, I imagine?) The wizard is really handy. But ... image I'm using the search to try and make sure I've spelled a word consistently throughout a set of topics. It looks to me as though only the

Re: [XXE] another puzzle!

2020-03-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Niels Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] another puzzle! Caution! Atos External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender and you know the content is safe. On 3/4/20 3:33 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > Using the technique

Re: [XXE] another puzzle!

2020-03-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
[mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 4 maart 2020 16:48 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] another puzzle! Caution! Atos External email. Do not open attachments or click links, unless this email comes from a known sender and you know the content is safe

[XXE] another puzzle!

2020-03-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Using the technique you explained to me, I have am now comfortable preparing elements that contain more than one . Just one case, however, is now giving strange results: which is all the stranger when I have used exactly the same technique and settings for other pairs of graphics and not run

Re: [XXE] small issue with source-view editor

2020-03-02 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks! useful information, and reassurance that I haven't complete broken my favourite DITA IDE :-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: zondag 1 maart 2020 11:06 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject

[XXE] small issue with source-view editor

2020-02-28 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning - a careless key-stroke (numeric key pad?) while using the source-view editor has collapsed the view. I managed to expand some lines by hovering over/click on the [+] sign, but this is not working for every collapsed line. The text I thoughtfully composed is now hidden and

Re: [XXE] how to suppress LoF

2020-02-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: maandag 17 februari 2020 11:07 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: ** SUSPICIOUS SENDER ** Re: [XXE] how to suppress LoF On 2/17/20 10:12 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote

Re: [XXE] how to suppress LoF

2020-02-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
> Sorry but I cannot reproduce this issue using XXE 9.2. See attached sample. Oh, but I can, easily :-} demonstrating once again my skill at missing things ... I checked the source files again, extra carefully, and realised I was confused by a mismatch between what I (normally) see and what I

[XXE] how to suppress LoF

2020-02-13 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! updating the content of an existing bookmap means there are now no elements in it ... but when I generate a .pdf from the source, there is a completely empty List of Figures. I can't find anything in the Helps, and the source for the .bookmap only includes a in the front

Re: [XXE] xml:lang

2020-01-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
That's great! thanks for what should have been a reminder ;-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 22 januari 2020 10:08 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels; Leif Halvard Silli Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] xml:lang On 1

Re: [XXE] xml:lang

2020-01-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
k.no] Sent: dinsdag 21 januari 2020 21:59 To: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Cc: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Subject: Re: [XXE] xml:lang If we consider the DITA philosophy, then each topic file is meant to be - kind of - standalone. Hence it makes sense that one has to specify the language for each topic f

[XXE] xml:lang

2020-01-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! happily documenting, and then my eye is caught by an unexpected wiggly underline ... * the .bookmap is set to and as master document [en-GB shown as a valid example on https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag] * topics have no xml:lang set * a

[XXE] hooray - 9.1 installed!

2020-01-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
... so now I'm recreating the PDF output preferences I painstakingly fine-tuned for 6.1 :-} I've managed to configure title colours and underlinings, body font, shortdesc font, general indent ... but even after exploring the Helps, I can't find the option to output figure titles after the .

[XXE] FW: hooray - 9.1 installed!

2020-01-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
OK, first problem solved: figure titles after figures is under Convert document > Conversion parameters ... But I still can't find how to set the font for the List of figures. N From: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Sent: woensdag 15 januari 2020 9:42 To: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: hoo

Re: [XXE] problem with

2019-06-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
15:40 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com; 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] problem with On 06/11/2019 12:19 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > > > I thought I had the hang of this, but it's not working as expected > today :-{ > > > > *

[XXE] problem with

2019-06-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I thought I had the hang of this, but it's not working as expected today :-{ * source file (task): ctp_31bo40.dita * * includes a step with id="fixedIP" is not resolved on output to WebHelp [cid:image003.jpg@01D5204F.DED824B0] Let me know if you

Re: [XXE] jpeg problems [WAS: another new and exciting error message :-}]

2019-06-05 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
with their graphics where the title in the properties is left over from quite different pictures ...) N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 5 juni 2019 12:39 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: jpeg problems

[XXE] reltable generates duplicate references

2019-02-25 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Puzzled! The reltable in this map is very simple: [cid:image001.png@01D4CCF5.29147F50] but the output seems to have generated the Related information xrefs for the second

Re: [XXE] document footers per ditamap

2019-02-25 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] document footers per ditamap On 02/22/2019 02:03 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > > > Talking of comfort, though ... the footer in .pdf output can contain a > {{chapter title}} var

[XXE] document footers per ditamap

2019-02-23 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks again for the explanation about the file-chooser! you can't believe how much more comfortable it is to be able to set ditamap as filetype Talking of comfort, though ... the footer in .pdf output can contain a {{chapter title}} variable, which is populated by reference to topic content.

Re: [XXE] filetypes and 'File > Open' dialogue on Windows

2019-02-21 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Excellent! I'll try changing the file chooser, and look forward to mastering tab movement :-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 21 februari 2019 10:59 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE

[XXE] filetypes and 'File > Open' dialogue on Windows

2019-02-21 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
I do realise that questions starting with "why" do not always have an answer ... but pretty well every time I settle down for a good session with XML Mind I catching myself asking the same question: why does File > Open not always include DITAMAP in the options from the filetype pulldown?

[XXE] output question

2019-02-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I strongly suspect I already asked this question years ago, but it has just come back to bother me ... using in a spoils the alignment of text and step numbers :-{ Can you remind me if there's an easy workaround? [cid:image001.jpg@01D4C51B.CB9AB690] Can't resist mentioning, en

Re: [XXE] a non-urgent how-to question

2019-01-25 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
o a colleague in Athens - he was delighted to discover ditac, and already understands a lot more about it than I do. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 24 januari 2019 18:48 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com

[XXE] a non-urgent how-to question

2019-01-24 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! the upgrade debate continues, but for the time being I'm still quite happily working with 7.6.0. I've started looking at a potential new project, and have a fairly clear question: when I use and in DITA topics and then generate WebHelp, what needs to be done to display these

Re: [XXE] "fo:inline" is not a valid child of "fo:list-block"

2019-01-21 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
: vrijdag 18 januari 2019 19:00 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] "fo:inline" is not a valid child of "fo:list-block" On 01/17/2019 03:54 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > Thanks! note that th

[XXE] "fo:inline" is not a valid child of "fo:list-block"

2019-01-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon - * every topic referenced in a .ditamap is valid, and can be converted to PDF without any problem * trying to convert the .ditamap to PDF throws the error "fo:inline" is not a valid child of "fo:list-block" May I send you the fileset (topics, map, referenced

Re: [XXE] helpless! [FOLLOW UP]

2019-01-02 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
XXE itself that fails. Next time I run into the problem, I'll raise an in-house ticket ... N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 20 december 2018 16:29 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] helpless!

[XXE] helpless!

2018-12-19 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I was taking a look at Profiles this morning and wanted to check the online helps. In the Conditional Processing Profiles dialogue, I clicked on [Help]. After a while, a floating window "XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help" opened ... and that's all I get. Out of curiosity, I

[XXE] no mouse interaction with XXE

2018-12-12 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! Not seen this before: quite possibly not your fault, but I need to know before I start trying to get help from our IT support ... * I open XML Mind from the usual desktop shortcut: no mouse interaction with menus or toolbar icons * I open a .ditamap from the

[XXE] no mouse interaction with XXE - update

2018-12-12 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
The mouse is back, and functioning as normal ... good news, but I'm still curious as to why it stopped working yesterday. If there's anything I need to avoid doing / anything I need to make sure our IT department doesn't do, it would be good to know. N From: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Sent

[XXE] xslt question, I think ...

2018-08-31 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
... and one I may already have asked. A colleague is starting to use XML Mind to investigate the DITA topic-type troubleshooting, and we've agreed that we are not happy with the out-of-the-box label when is rendered to XHTML. It is not logical to have a section labelled "Solution" which

Re: [XXE] non-urgent question about graphics placement

2018-07-11 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Oho, very devious :-} thanks for the tip! N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: dinsdag 10 juli 2018 15:52 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] non-urgent question about graphics placement On 07/10/2018

[XXE] non-urgent question about graphics placement

2018-07-10 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Not Friday, so let's have a non-urgent question :-} In FrameMaker, I'm used to setting up a graphics frame and placing more than one graphic inside when I need to show several graphics left to right. I can apparently do the same in DITA .xml without getting an invalid file, but even with just

Re: [XXE] not seen this problem before!

2018-06-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
t: vrijdag 22 juni 2018 11:00 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] not seen this problem before! On 06/22/2018 08:55 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > Good morning! I feel I should apologise for frequently running into > problems on a Friday … it’s

[XXE] not seen this problem before!

2018-06-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I feel I should apologise for frequently running into problems on a Friday … it’s not the intention to put you under extra stress before the weekend :-} I’ve attached two files, a small DITA topic and the log file from XXE. Let me know if you need any additional information, and

Re: [XXE] conversion failure – source files

2018-05-31 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Problem solved, thanks to your mentioning tables … I'd made the mistake of using the status on a to invoke conditional processing. I do feel, though, this is a shortcoming: I need to present a table with three new rows, I need to highlight them, and now it seems I have to enclose the content

Re: [XXE] conversion failure – source files

2018-05-31 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks. By the way, I notice that the used after each topic is showing up in the ToC and the footer even though it is (correctly) not displayed in the body text. Is this an anomaly? N * Worldline

Re: [XXE] conversion to .pdf fails .

2018-05-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
From: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Sent: woensdag 30 mei 2018 9:35 To: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: conversion to .pdf fails ... Good morning - conversion of wss.ditamap is falling over, and I don't understand the message. Please let me know what I've done wrong this time! Note that I did run

Re: [XXE] conversion to .pdf fails .

2018-05-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
de. I mean, XMLmind servers don't do this. On 05/30/2018 09:34 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > Good morning - > > > > conversion of wss.ditamap is falling over, and I don't understand the > message. Please let me know what I've done wrong this time! Note that I > did r

[XXE] conversion to .pdf fails .

2018-05-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning - conversion of wss.ditamap is falling over, and I don't understand the message. Please let me know what I've done wrong this time! Note that I did run Check map first; it reported no errors. I've attached a .zip with the source files, though this is embarrassing large because

[XXE] attribute and conversion to .pdf

2018-04-26 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I've prepared a very short test file (attached) where I've used the attribute. When I convert this topic to .pdf, the language information is not included in the result; in fact, the .pdf is not tagged at all. Searching the Helps for 'language' or 'tagged' hasn't found anything.

[XXE] image conversion question

2018-04-04 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
colleagues adapt their command-line arguments to make sure referenced .svg files are copied to the output? Thanks in advance. N From: Matte Olivier Sent: woensdag 4 april 2018 11:07 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: Mahieu Philippe Subject: RE: image in concept_RetryAlgorithm.html not readable Here

Re: [XXE] something odd happening with WebHelp

2018-03-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
ginal Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 14 maart 2018 16:56 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] something odd happening with WebHelp On 03/14/2018 02:01 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > I'm surprised to learn

Re: [XXE] something odd happening with WebHelp

2018-03-14 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thank-you for your helpful analysis. I'm surprised to learn that I must have tried to set up a conref by hand! As for the capitalisation, it seems it is possible for user to be misled ... when I opened one of the problem files to check, the capitalisation in the XXE title bar did not match the

[XXE] something odd happening with WebHelp

2018-03-13 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! and once again, I am baffled. I'm working with a .ditamap that includes a reltable to generate 'Related information' links in WebHelp output. All the files involved exist, and the capitalisation of the filenames is correct; you can see that from the tabs in the screenshots, and

[XXE] adjusting bookmap output

2018-03-08 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good afternoon! as one of our ditamap documents gets bigger, and slightly more formal, we realise we're going to need to move it to a bookmap so we can have front-matter, appendixes and back-matter. No problem there ... but what we do not want is level one headings with the prefix Chapter and

[XXE] small UI thought

2018-03-08 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Very happily updating a set of fourteen small books by updating (of course!) just one .dita file ... and also taking the opportunity of making the source-code cleaner. When I use "Copy as reference", the copies are helpfully highlighted: but the source isn't, so I don't immediately and lazily

Re: [XXE] now you see it, now you don't ...

2017-11-25 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
14:02 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] now you see it, now you don't ... On 11/24/2017 10:54 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: >> XXE did exactly what you have instructed it to do in the "riskAssessment" >> profile found i

Re: [XXE] now you see it, now you don't ...

2017-11-24 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
-- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 22 november 2017 15:40 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] now you see it, now you don't ... On 11/22/2017 03:11 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > I'm probably missing somethi

[XXE] now you see it, now you don't ...

2017-11-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
I'm probably missing something again, even after checking the helps ... I've used a .profiles file to apply four colours to text, driven by the value of the props attribute on a In the editor, the results are perfect. Unfortunately, I'm not getting such good results in the output from the

Re: [XXE] does this assertion need to be corrected?

2017-11-13 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Glad to hear no-one has been spreading misleading information :-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: maandag 13 november 2017 12:55 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] does this assertion need

[XXE] does this assertion need to be corrected?

2017-11-13 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
I don't have any current need to work with the learning and training specialisations ... but wondered whether this assertion in the DITA users group deserves qualification or correction? > Well, XML Mind and Serna are fine tools, but certainly no where near > as robust as Oxygen (of course,

Re: [XXE] xref to substep

2017-08-31 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
in a related fourth document as well. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 15:13 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] xref to substep On 08/29/2017 01:24

[XXE] FW: did I hit this problem before? output to .pdf failing ...

2017-07-03 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Amazing ... even on a Monday morning, I've managed to remember something. By converting each chapter as a separate .bookmap, I was able to locate the problem topicrefs. Looking at the topics, I then realised my mistake: I'd applied a to a . Problem now solved! N From: Grundtvig Nielsen

[XXE] did I hit this problem before? output to .pdf failing ...

2017-07-03 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning - Check map identifies no errors, but BookMap > Convert Document > Convert to PDF fails with the message shown ditacListsURI=file:/C:/Users/a548040/AppData/Local/Temp/xxe2915903923858805340_d/ditac_lists.ditac_lists outputFormat=pdf Processing XML file

Re: [XXE] dangerous mix of content and presentation, but ...

2017-06-26 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
> When you convert a DITA topic, {{document-date}} is always the current date > (that is, always today). OK, thanks for clarifying that. Perhaps another argument in support of a tight link between a topic and its conversion parameters, so that generating output from topic A always pulls in the

Re: [XXE] dangerous mix of content and presentation, but ...

2017-06-23 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Beautiful! just the result I was hoping for. Thanks again for quick and effective support. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 22 juni 2017 15:05 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com

Re: [XXE] dangerous mix of content and presentation, but ...

2017-06-23 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks! I do tend to assume that XML Mind can do it, whatever "it" is and as long as I can find out how to ;-} I'll a) read the docs; b) experiment with the XMLmind XSL Customizer. By the way ... may I suggest a small addition to one in one help topic? I was reading pageHeaderFooter

[XXE] dangerous mix of content and presentation, but ...

2017-06-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
... I've seen allusions to a 'keep with next' option in the release notes and wonder whether it's available in DITA tasks: the more tasks I write, the more I see conversion to .pdf leaving the single-line on one page and the related on another. I am of course reluctant to invent extra content

Re: [XXE] another question about a relatively small detail ...

2017-06-20 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
for the updated ePub reader for Firefox; thank-you! my contribution was too small to deserve a mention :-} it's a good cause, though. N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: maandag 19 juni 2017 17:29 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support

[XXE] another question about a relatively small detail ...

2017-06-19 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
We have an extensive library of .eps graphics, so when I need to include a graphic in a .dita topic I usually use Illustrator "Save as" to generate the corresponding .svg file. I've learnt that when I ask Illustrator to use Arial it writes "Arial MT" into the .svg source, but that's easy to

[XXE] cross-reference formats

2017-06-02 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Checking back, it doesn't seem I've already asked this specific question ... my apologies if that just means I've lost the answer you gave last time! I have a second-level topic in a chapter. The chapter title topic is rendered correctly Chapter 3, and the topic title is rendered correctly as

[XXE] using a .profile to exclude content from .pdf output

2017-05-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
After your help last year, I'm comfortable with using a profile to flag new/deleted text and highlight the difference between two releases; thank-you! along with the body-text indent option, this means I can deliver good-looking, usable documentation. Now I need to try and take my use of

Re: [XXE] observation on colspec and .pdf rendering

2017-05-22 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
> In fact, specifying a AFTER a is > not allowed. Of course not! but it can happen ;-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: zondag 21 mei 2017 12:30 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmi

[XXE] observation on colspec and .pdf rendering

2017-05-19 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
... marked as 'low importance', since I've worked out what the problem is and how to correct it :-} but just so you know, it seems that using in DITA source can sometimes give odd results: specifically, when the columns are not specified left-to-right in the code, the output renders an

Re: [XXE] speculative question about xref output

2017-05-17 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
There are so many nifty options included in XXE ... I'll experiment. Thanks for the information! N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: woensdag 17 mei 2017 12:46 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp

[XXE] generating WebHelp from command line

2017-05-02 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
tos Expert in technical communications you know what you're talking about - I can help you say it Sent: dinsdag 2 mei 2017 14:32 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Subject: RE: XNT WebHelps updated with "contains" operator Niels, Here is the command line that we are using to build the h

Re: [XXE] adding border-bottom when using fo_indent.xsl

2017-04-19 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] adding border-bottom when using fo_indent.xsl On 04/19/2017 09:21 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote: > Good morning! I'm puzzled ... > > > > 1. A few weeks ago, I genera

[XXE] two questions about document conversion parameters

2017-03-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning - * Now we're migrating more and more content to DITA, I have a range of different conversion parameters to manage. OK, so I know about saving them as .xml files ... but I've had to start adding a comment at the top of each .ditamap to remind me which .xml parameter-file

Re: [XXE] interesting oddity with .profiles and numbering?

2017-03-03 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
> This is almost certainly a bug in XMLmind DITA Converter > (http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/). We'll try to fix it in the next version of XMLmind DITA Converter, which will be included in XMLmind XML Editor v7.4 (planned for this month). Thanks! just wish me luck with ordering the update ;-} N

[XXE] interesting oddity with .profiles and numbering?

2017-03-02 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! I have a .bookmap, a topic and .profiles file, all attached. The bookmap is set as a master document, and when I open the topic from the bookmap the conditions defined in the .profile are applied: the last item in the ordered list is highlighted in green, because the has

Re: [XXE] XXE and .eps

2017-02-15 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
try and carry out the experiment at home. If the results are convincing, this could put me in a better position to negotiate ;-} N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: dinsdag 14 februari 2017 21:22 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support

[XXE] XXE and .eps

2017-02-14 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Good morning! We have a large amount of 'legacy' documentation written in Adobe FrameMaker and referencing high-quality .eps graphics. Since we often publish to .pdf we would like to continue using these graphics, and have them included as vector images in the .pdf output so users can zoom

Re: [XXE] taking easy profiles farther

2017-01-30 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Thanks for the tips! I'm getting there slowly ... N -Original Message- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 26 januari 2017 10:56 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] taking easy profiles farther On 01/26/2017 09

[XXE] taking easy profiles farther

2017-01-26 Thread Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
> It's of course possible to mix profiling attributes excluding contents and > attributes flagging contents in the same profile. > profiling/about_profiles_files.html#flagging_contents Encouraging! what I would like to do is set two attributes - status and rev - on the same element, so I can

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