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Unchecking "Use default catalog" Does Not Stop Framework's Catalog From Being Used
by Eliot Kimber 28 May '08

28 May '08

I'm trying to use Oxygen to test documents against a set of DTDs as organized for distribution to a client. These are DITA specializations that use the draft DITA 1.2 declarations, so I don't want the DITA 1.1 declarations to be involved at all. Unfortunately, it appears that Oxygen is including the DITA OT catalog from the frameworks directory even though I have "use default catalog" unchecked in my catalog options and only have my distribution-specific catalog included in the list of user-specified catalogs. Examining the catalog resolution trace I can see that references to the standard DITA declaration sets are resolving to the framework location. Is my expectation of how "use default catalog" should work correct or is there another way to disable use of the framework catalogs? Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Oxygen 9.2 - Howto disable "DITA Maps Manager"?
by Jan Nylund 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello! Is there a way to disable the "DITA Maps Manager" to get files with extension .ditamap opened directly into the editor view? Br, Jan -- Jan Nylund System Designer Citec Information Oy Ab

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very slow response when switching back to oXygen
by Seraphim Larsen 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi all, I'm a pretty new oXygen user (new since version 9.1). Really love the tool! But one thing that is really annoying is that if I leave oXygen for awhile (say, 20 minutes), and then come back to it, it usually takes at least 20-30 seconds before it starts responding, and it can sometimes take several minutes. I guess it's some kind of memory paging issue or something. This sometimes happens with other programs too, but it's much worse with oXygen than with any other program that I use. Is there something I can do to configure oXygen to get rid of this problem? I'm running oXygen 9.2 on Windows XP. Thanks, Seraphim

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Setting up and configuring the Idiom FO Plugin in 9.2
by Eliot Kimber 23 May '08

23 May '08

Using 9.2 I tried to use the Idiom plugin to generate PDF. I had not done anything to the built-in framework. The transform scenario panel indicated that XEP was detected, but when I ran it I got a failure saying that it couldn't find xep/lib in /Applications/DITA-OT1.4.1 (this is on OS X). I did not have an /Applications/DITA-OT1.4.1 directory on my machine (although I had in the past). I did a search within the framework for "DITA-OT1.4.1" and couldn't find it. I then tried copying a working copy of xep from another Toolkit instance I had lying about into the framework's fo/lib directory, but no change. Finally, I created the directory it was looking for and put xep there and the PDF generation worked. Clearly there's something odd on my machine that is causing this problem but I have no idea what it might be. I'm afraid I found the online help for setting up the Idiom plugin a bit confusing (although I find the plugin itself a bit confusing). I didn't see any configuration settings that would have been pointing at DITA-OT1.4.1. Is it possible this is actually a bug in the plugin as distributed that was simply masked by the fact that the target directory exists on the machine(s) used to test Oxygen? I would have never noticed the problem if I had kept my 1.4.1 Toolkit around. Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Feature Request: Collapse All/Expand All/Expand One Level in DITA Map View
by Eliot Kimber 23 May '08

23 May '08

One of the really nice features of Arbortext Editor is the way you can control the expansion in their tree viewer: expand/collapse all or expand one level (they also implement a triple click that does the expand one level). For example, given a fully-expanded map, selecting the map element and doing "expand one level" would collapse all the children of the map so you only see the direct child topicrefs/topicheads. This is especially handy for very long maps. For example, I'm doing a lot of DTD documentation where I have the reference entries grouped by letter and there might be 150 or 200 separate entries under 20 or more groups. It can take a while for the map to populate all the navigation titles when I first open it, but if it was initially collapsed, it would populate the letter groups pretty fast. It would be really nice if this could be set as the default expansion for opening maps. I'm not sure if it would be practical to remember the expansion state of the map on save, probably not, but that would be handy too. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Feature Request: Groovy Language Support
by Eliot Kimber 21 May '08

21 May '08

It would be cool if Oxygen could provide at a minimum syntax highlighting for Groovy language programs. Not a high-priority feature, probably but I've started using Groovy for doing scripting against Java APIs (I would probably use Jython myself but it wasn't my choice to make). Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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More Java memory errors with oXygen 9.2
by Jacques Foucry 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello, Using oXygen for a long time under Mac OS X, the new version (9.2) have more memory errors than previous version. It look like a memory leak. Since this version I pai really attention to the number of open file. But with only two open files but a lot opened and closed before, the memory error appears about every 3 hours of work. I know that I could change the memory allowed to oXygen, but the bug appears too. After more work but it appears. Did somebody else notice this issue ? Best Regards, Jacques

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QNames as attribute values in RNC
by Paul Hermans 19 May '08

19 May '08

If I have [code] element creator { (attribute scheme {"overheid:A"}, ("a" | "b" | "c" )) | (attribute scheme {"overheid:B"}, ("d" | "e" | "f" )) } [/code] Oxygen 9.2 acts as expected. After choosing an attribute value for attribute scheme, I do get the correct list of allowed values. "a", "b", "c", if attribute value is overheid:A. ---------------------------------------------- If the datatype is changed to a *QName* [code] element creator { (attribute scheme {xsd:QName "overheid:A"}, ("a" | "b" | "c" )) | (attribute scheme {xsd:QName "overheid:B"}, ("d" | "e" | "f" )) } [/code] whatever attribute value has been chosen, Oxygen 9.2 offers the full value list ("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"). Paul

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Feature Request: Combo List of Common non-ASCII Characters
by Eliot Kimber 16 May '08

16 May '08

I find myself needing to insert non-ASCII characters like em-dash and whatnot which is not really convenient to do in Author mode (in text mode I just type the numeric character reference) [while I work on a Mac, I usually use a Windows keyboard so the magic Mac keystrokes for inserting special characters are not available (as far as I know). Anyway, it would be nice to have a configurable pulldown on the tool bar that can be loaded with some number of characters for quick insertion. Would also be handy for authoring equations and whatnot. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Feature Request: Drag Tabs to Project and DITA Map Views
by Eliot Kimber 16 May '08

16 May '08

I find myself wanting to grab tabs for open files and drag them into either the project view or dita map view in order to add them to the respective view. For the project, just add to the project. For DITA maps, create topicref to the file. That would make it easy to create a new file and then add it to map without having to go through the "add topicref" process. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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