http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/549 Hi, I'm new to DITA and serna. I've downloaded a trial version and created a small dita test document from which I wanted to generate a pdf. All of this worked wonderfully, however I want to add my own header and footer to the generated pdf and cannot find out how to achieve this. I've looked in many forums, faqs and tutorials, but without avail. Maybe someone on this list can give me hint, how I can achieve this. Thanks! Michel 2008-08-06T07:35:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/548 Beims Bob would like to recall the message, "[Serna] Configure Serna to use XEP processor". Beims Bob 2008-07-23T17:09:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/544 Hi, I have syntext serna 3.8 installed on my system. I am trying to use XEP to publish PDF but unable to do so. Can anyone help me? Steps that I have performed so far are: 1) Installed Serna 3.8 2) Installed the Idiom fo plug-in into the C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8\plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo folder. 3) Installed the XEP into C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\xep folder 4) Installed the saxon.jar in C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\xep\lib folder. 5) Installed the ICU4j.jar in C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\ folder. 6) Added saxon.jar to the classpath in the startcmd.bat file 7) Made a copy of the dita2pdf.bat and did modifications as per FO readme instructions. 8) Run the "ant -f integrator.xml" from the C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8\plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\ folder. Result: Build successful. I checked the generated Sonu Mangla 2008-07-18T11:19:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/543 Hi, I have syntext serna 3.8 installed on my system. I am trying to use XEP to publish PDF but unable to do so. Can anyone help me? Steps that I have performed so far are: 1) Installed Serna 3.8 2) Installed the Idiom fo plug-in into the C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8\plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo folder. 3) Installed the XEP into C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\xep folder 4) Installed the saxon.jar in C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\xep\lib folder. 5) Installed the ICU4j.jar in C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8 \plugins\dita\DITA-OT1.4\demo\fo\lib\ folder. 6) Added saxon.jar to the classpath in the startcmd.bat file (also attached) 7) Made a copy of the dita2pdf.bat and did modifications as per FO readme instructions. (Attaching the modified dita2pdf_xep.bat) 8) Run the "ant -f integrator.xml" from the C:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.8\plugins\dita\DITA-OT1. Sonu Mangla 2008-07-18T11:10:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/538 Hi, I am using two monitors and Serna 4.0b version. Whenever I select any option from Element menu (i.e. Insert Element, or Element Attributes) the window is being opened on the other monitor than the Serna program itself (i.e. if Serna is on monitor 1 these windows are being opened on monitor 2). It is not very useful and rather annoying. I hope that feature is not an expected behavior? Regards Grzegorz Junka Grzegorz Junka 2008-06-22T19:43:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/531 Hi, I have a simple structure with some ditamaps and some topics, which I try to compile with 1.4.1 DITA open toolkit. The compilation fails because original schemas don't define attributes xmlns:xsi and xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, which Serna adds to each created DITA file. Also the Publish command from Serna produces warnings for each such file. How can I configure Serna to not add not standard attributes to these files, or change relevant schemas in the toolkit directory so these attributes are recognized and don't produce any errors or warnings? Many thanks for your help in advance. Kind Regards Grzegorz Junka Grzegorz Junka 2008-05-25T15:46:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/528 test1 cherdn-YYLLxrGCLz9BDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org 2008-05-04T14:11:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/526 serna-users-YYLLxrGCLz9BDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org 2008-03-03T23:34:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/525 When copying/pasting formatted content into Serna (e.g., from a web browser, or from Word), Serna seems to just dump it all as text, without any tags at all. I've used some other editors that seem to have more intelligence when pasting -- for example, it's no problem to copy a table from Firefox and paste it into a DITA topic, and preserve all the table formatting. Can Serna already do that, but I just haven't turned on the right preferences or something? Thanks! Seraphim Seraphim Larsen 2008-02-28T20:44:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/524 admin-B+mABYKtKinQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org 2008-01-18T18:17:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/523 admin-B+mABYKtKinQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org 2008-01-16T01:10:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/515 Using Syntext Serna v3.5.1 - 20071123.16371 on OS X, I was using text mode to correct a document that had literal "<" characters. I did this by typing "&lt;", copying it to the clipboard then pasting it in place of literal "<" characters. When I do that Serna consistently inserts two "&lt;" references. Cheers, Eliot Eliot Kimber 2008-01-09T18:33:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/513 Hedley Finger 2008-01-09T00:02:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/512 At the moment, all elements that are legal at a particular point are shown in one long alphabetically ordered list. Why not split this list into two lists, one for block elements like <p>, and the other for embeddable elements, like <i>? In the case of DITA documens, you might even colour the backgrounds behind the latter by domain. This way, the structural elements would be largely separated from the 'formatting' elements. By the way, I like the way that frequently inserted elements float to the top of the list in bold whence they can be inserted quickly with the Alt key shortcut. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger-6P+1Du0vV4/qSFzvm+Tz3BCuuivNXqWP< at >public.gmane.org> Hedley Finger 2008-01-08T23:44:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/511 Nadia-B+mABYKtKinQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org 2008-01-08T23:01:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/506 I cannot understand why the editing pane for DITA topics in Serna divides content into pages. The page breaks will almost certainly be elsewhere when the various outputs are generated and scrolling through the page breaks is a pane (as a longtime FrameMaker user, I speak from great experience). Why not have a Normal view as in Word, a bit like a browser, that has no page breaks and reflows when you resize the editing pane? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger-6P+1Du0vV4/qSFzvm+Tz3BCuuivNXqWP< at >public.gmane.org> Hedley Finger 2008-01-08T06:55:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/505 Is it possible to change the font size in the editing window? I find it just a bit small for these fading eyes. Zooming the view is no good because then you have to keep scrolling sideways. The View > XSLT Parameters does not seem to list any font-size parameters. Anybody got any ideas is this another one for the enhancements list? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger-6P+1Du0vV4/qSFzvm+Tz3BCuuivNXqWP< at >public.gmane.org> Hedley Finger 2008-01-08T05:40:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/504 I would like to leave the "Insert Symbol" dialogue open most of the time, but it just gets in the way. Result: it is constantly opened and closed. What about a minimise/restore button on the title bar or perhaps turning it into a dockable palette? It could do with some other improvements: < at > Add typographic spaces such as thin, mid, thick, en, and em quads as pale blue rectangles < at > Display the glyph name, either the PostScript name if there is one or the Unicode name when a glyph is clicked. This would be especially helpful with typographic dashes, such as en dash, em dash, 2-em dash, and hyphen. In some fonts these are very similar in length and it becomes hard to distinguish them. Gentium appears to have two en rules and two em rules, for example (could be a font bug). < at > Show the Unicode number of a glyph when it is clicked. < at > Allow the user to re-order the glyphs in the Favorites grid. < at > Allow the user to insert the first ten Favorites glyphs by pressing Ctrl-0, etc. when the symbols dialo Hedley Finger 2008-01-08T05:14:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/502 I am currently writing a DITA Task topic. Within a <step> element you can insert a <choicetable> element, which in turn can contain <chrow> elements, representing a row in a special two-column table. When you insert the <chrow> element, Serna thoughtfully also inserts the two obligatory cell elements, <choption> and <chdesc>. Trouble is, in Show Markup mode, the <chrow> element is suppressed for some reason. It is nigh impossible to place the cursor to insert the next <chrow> element. I have tried in the Show Markup and Hide Markup views, and the Content Map outline, but for some reason the cursor finishes up within the <step> element but never within the <choicetable> element after the previous <chrow>. I prefer to try and keep in the document window and use the mouse as little as possible when entering content inititally. But this inconvenience prevent that way of working. Is anyone else experiencing this annoyance/bug? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Cam Hedley Finger 2008-01-07T02:35:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/501 I can't remember if I ever posted this, but I added this template to dita-elems.xsl to handle sections with spectitle= values (which I use heavily in specializations of reference): <!-- WEK: Added rule to generate title for sections with explicit spectitle values --> <xsl:template match="*[contains(< at >class,' topic/section ') and < at >spectitle != '']" dtm:id="topic.section"> <fo:block margin-top="15pt" line-height="12pt" id="{generate-id()}"> <fo:block font-weight="bold" margin-botton="12pt" font-size="14pt" line-height="16pt" color="blue"> <fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="< at >spectitle"/></fo:inline> </fo:block> <!-- preferentially pull the head here; process in place for now --> <xsl:apply-templates/> </fo:block> </xsl:template> Cheers, E. Eliot Kimber 2008-01-03T18:23:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.serna.user/496 I have custom DITA templates that work with Serna 3.4 but I'm having trouble getting them to work with 3.5 (or rather, I'm having trouble getting editing of my DITA content to work at all with 3.5, but since everything hinges on templates, that's my focus). My setup is: - OS X Tiger - Serna 3.5.1 - catalog-dita_template.xml from my local Open Toolkit directory added to the catalog list, set like so: $SERNA_XML/catalog.xml:$XML_CATALOG_FILES:/Applications/DITA-OT1.3.1/catalog-dita_template.xml - Within the xml/ directory I have a templates/ directory containing templates for my local DITA map and topic shell DTDs. Here is a typical such template: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE t:document-template PUBLIC "-//Syntext//DTD Syntext Document Template V2.0//EN" "doctemplate.dtd" [ <!ENTITY dita13.common SYSTEM "../../plugins/dita/oasis-dita-11-common.ent">]> <t:document-template xmlns:t="http://www.syntext.com/Extensions/DocTemplate-2.0"> <t:category>RSuite Docs</t:category> Eliot Kimber 2007-12-31T17:00:44 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.editors.serna.user