Comments for DITA Open Platform http://www.dita-op.org The Open Source DITA Authoring Platform Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on DITA-OP 1.0.0 M1 Announcement by Igor Lino http://www.dita-op.org/2008/06/22/dita-op-100-m1-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Igor Lino Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?p=4#comment-74 Hi Claude, Congrats! I have tried the latest DITA OP from the trunk using the Eclipse 3.5 SR1 and it seems to work great even using the latest DITA OT 1.5 M21 (There was bug I was having using the DITA 1.5 when they upgraded to a new XML parser and now the bug is gone, launchers were unusable, had to use command line). Another think that was quite a surprise is the DITA MAP editor, looks quite good. Those eclipse forms come in handy quite well. The saving was a bit tricky though, there is bug (modifying the description of a ditamap, does not get the dirty asterisk that allows you to save unless you click in another part of the form [i.e. like the tree structure]). I had the chance as well to see that the preview is working quite well with PNG files. All the documents with the PNGs look quite good. I made a test if SVG would be working but did not work, it showed a missing red square. Also the 'Note' element does not show a hand. I basically work quite a lot with Eclipse plugins as a developer and user. I have seen that JBoss Tools XHTML has some kind of pseudo WYSIWYG. I was thinking maybe there is way to adapt a bit of it, and reuse an Eclipse form, with the tree structure of the topic to the left and the editor to the right. If there is a way how to help please tell me. Anyway, very good work and nice improvements so far. Cheers, Igor Hi Claude,

Congrats!

I have tried the latest DITA OP from the trunk using the Eclipse 3.5 SR1 and it seems to work great even using the latest DITA OT 1.5 M21 (There was bug I was having using the DITA 1.5 when they upgraded to a new XML parser and now the bug is gone, launchers were unusable, had to use command line).

Another think that was quite a surprise is the DITA MAP editor, looks quite good. Those eclipse forms come in handy quite well. The saving was a bit tricky though, there is bug (modifying the description of a ditamap, does not get the dirty asterisk that allows you to save unless you click in another part of the form [i.e. like the tree structure]).

I had the chance as well to see that the preview is working quite well with PNG files. All the documents with the PNGs look quite good.
I made a test if SVG would be working but did not work, it showed a missing red square.
Also the ‘Note’ element does not show a hand.

I basically work quite a lot with Eclipse plugins as a developer and user. I have seen that JBoss Tools XHTML has some kind of pseudo WYSIWYG. I was thinking maybe there is way to adapt a bit of it, and reuse an Eclipse form, with the tree structure of the topic to the left and the editor to the right.

If there is a way how to help please tell me.

Anyway, very good work and nice improvements so far.

Cheers,
Igor

]]> Comment on DITA-OP 1.0.0 M1 Announcement by Claude http://www.dita-op.org/2008/06/22/dita-op-100-m1-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Claude Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:12:56 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?p=4#comment-73 Hi Igor, I did not have time yet to try it, but if you do and find bugs do not hesitate to report them, I will do my best to correct them :) Regards, Claude Hi Igor,
I did not have time yet to try it, but if you do and find bugs do not hesitate to report them, I will do my best to correct them :)
Regards,
Claude

]]> Comment on DITA-OP 1.0.0 M1 Announcement by Igor Lino http://www.dita-op.org/2008/06/22/dita-op-100-m1-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Igor Lino Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:46 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?p=4#comment-72 Hi, Do you have any plans to support Eclipse Galileo? Cheers, Igor Hi,

Do you have any plans to support Eclipse Galileo?

Cheers,
Igor

]]> Comment on DITA-OP 1.0.0 M1 Announcement by keshav singh http://www.dita-op.org/2008/06/22/dita-op-100-m1-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-71 keshav singh Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:57:52 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?p=4#comment-71 Hi, Its a great work you have done. I am a technical writer. I had been looking for such solution. In fact i had been trying to create DITA project in Eclipse itself, but could not, as i am not that techie. Your solution, till now, is working fine. I would like to understand how it works. I would even like to create documentation for the installation and how to use it. Please reply to my Email Id. Hi,

Its a great work you have done. I am a technical writer.
I had been looking for such solution. In fact i had been trying to create DITA project in Eclipse itself, but could not, as i am not that techie.
Your solution, till now, is working fine. I would like to understand how it works.
I would even like to create documentation for the installation and how to use it.

Please reply to my Email Id.

]]> Comment on Getting started with EasyTrac by Claude http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/easytrac/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Claude Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:30:08 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=75#comment-69 HI Ben, Thanks for the feedback, I will look into this SVNAutoversioning option and update the package accordingly. As for the xml-aware diff, keep me posted if you find anything. Claude HI Ben,
Thanks for the feedback, I will look into this SVNAutoversioning option and update the package accordingly.
As for the xml-aware diff, keep me posted if you find anything.
Claude

]]> Comment on Getting started with EasyTrac by Ben C http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/easytrac/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Ben C Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:21:38 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=75#comment-68 I don't know what the uptake has been on this package, but I have been able to set it up and use it quite easily. The only difficulty I had was using a WebDAV client to manipulate the repository. I kept getting 409 Conflict error messages whenever I tried to do anything. To fix the problem, I had to add this directive to the block in httpd.conf: SVNAutoversioning on Once I did that, it worked great. I would also love to see the Trac repository browser use an XML-aware diff. I'll be looking into that and will comment if I get something working. Ben I don’t know what the uptake has been on this package, but I have been able to set it up and use it quite easily.

The only difficulty I had was using a WebDAV client to manipulate the repository. I kept getting 409 Conflict error messages whenever I tried to do anything.

To fix the problem, I had to add this directive to the block in httpd.conf:

SVNAutoversioning on

Once I did that, it worked great.

I would also love to see the Trac repository browser use an XML-aware diff. I’ll be looking into that and will comment if I get something working.

Ben

]]> Comment on Getting started with EasyTrac by Claude http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/easytrac/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Claude Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:49:55 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=75#comment-67 Thanks David, it's corrected now :) Thanks David, it’s corrected now :)

]]> Comment on Downloading the Editor by Claude http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/downloading-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Claude Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:41:07 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=5#comment-66 You can use any editor that can connect to a WebDAV repository to access the files in Subversion but for continuous building you will have to tailor an Ant build file and use <a href="http://bitten.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/commands.html#java-ant" rel="nofollow">the Bitten Ant command</a> in your build recipe instead of the DITA-OP command. You can use any editor that can connect to a WebDAV repository to access the files in Subversion but for continuous building you will have to tailor an Ant build file and use the Bitten Ant command in your build recipe instead of the DITA-OP command.

]]> Comment on Getting started with EasyTrac by David http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/easytrac/comment-page-1/#comment-65 David Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:29:01 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=75#comment-65 The links to localhost on this page have a typo in them: they point to locahost instead, which of course gives you a host not found error. The links to localhost on this page have a typo in them: they point to locahost instead, which of course gives you a host not found error.

]]> Comment on Downloading the Editor by David http://www.dita-op.org/documentation/downloading-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-64 David Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:04:21 +0000 http://www.dita-op.org/?page_id=5#comment-64 Hi, I'm just downloading everything to check out your solution. It certainly sounds promising. We are mostly interested in the project management and version control aspects, as well as the continuous building. Could we use this setup with other DITA editors; or is everything tied closely to Eclipse usage? Thanks... Hi,

I’m just downloading everything to check out your solution. It certainly sounds promising.

We are mostly interested in the project management and version control aspects, as well as the continuous building. Could we use this setup with other DITA editors; or is everything tied closely to Eclipse usage?

Thanks…

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