I am looking for someone to help me get Oxygen not to break with everything I try. I have watched every webinar and searched for answers, but it is just not helping.

I am new to Oxygen. I have a very large set of books that I need to get going quickly. While I have figured some complex things out, I can't get the basics working. I need to set up a project that will have three large books in it. For now, I am just trying to get one working.

I set up a project and added the ditamap I have been working on. I use the Ditamap PDF - based on HTML5 &CSS scenario and it outputs ok, although the bookmark are all squishy.

I want to customize the output, so I duplicate the scenario and change some parameters and save as a publishing template and add to my project.  Now I can output using the new scenario. If I use miniTOC, things get messed up. The only way to get rid of the problem is to delete the whole project and scenario and start over.. I do that and the new scenario works (without minTOC). Now I try to edit the css in the publishing template. No matter what I try to edit, even if I put in a period and then delete it, Oxygen breaks and won't transform anything. It says there is a problem with build.xml Again, the only way to get it working again is to delete everything and start over.

All I really need are the following items.

• Headers Bold non serif
• Table format: shaded top row and full borders
• Line under the first header(title).
• Headers to continue for tables (not available in Parameters)
• minitoc would be nice, but not necessary if it causes problems.
• hyphenation
• I'll need to configure the cover page at some point

This is really basic stuff that should take me a few miniutes. I just don't understand how to get it setup and working in Oxygen. I don' think that it will take more than 2 hours to get all this going. I have put about 18 in to attempting to make it work.

Between this and the issue I had with Equation conversion from Word (which Radu thankfully helped me through), I am way behind. If I can just get this basic startup, the rest should be pretty smooth. Creating the ditamap and content is not my issue and if I make no changes to the scenario or CSS I can output to PDF. But i do need to make changes to the CSS (or scenario) and I need help getting that working as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Debbi

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