Giesecke & Devrient Using DITA Quick start guide to G&D's DITA future Version 1.0 Printed on 24th November 2015 Helmut Scherzer (Editor) Giesecke & Devrient / IBM Prinzregentenstr. 159 81677 Munich PO Box 80 07 29 Fon: +49 89 4119 2084 Mobile: +49 174 313 9891 mail: [email protected] http://www.gi-de.com http://www.hscherzer.de ID No.100.25003.230 © Copyright 2014 by Giesecke & Devrient Prinzregentenstr. 159 81677 Munich PO Box 80 07 29 This document as well as the information or material contained is copyrighted. Any use not explicitly permitted by copyright law requires prior testconsent of Giesecke & Devrient GmbH. This applies to any reproduction, revision, translation, storage on microfilm as well as its import and processing in electronical systems, in particular. Trademarks ezRead™ is a registered trademark of Giesecke Devrient GmbH, München. Java™ is a registered trademark of Oracle system IBM™ is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. Using DITA Table of Contents Table of Contents Tables ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Figures ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 1 Installing the DITA environment ......................................................................................................... 9 1.1 Installing the command line interface ............................................................................................................... 10 1.2 Installing the DITA toolchain ............................................................................................................................. 11 1.3 oxygen installation ............................................................................................................................................ 12 1.4 oxygen configuration ......................................................................................................................................... 14 1.5 AHF installation ................................................................................................................................................. 17 1.6 AHF configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 17 1.7 Installing a plugin .............................................................................................................................................. 17 1.8 ezRead Installation ........................................................................................................................................... 17 2 Processing the DITA-OT ......................................................................................................................... 19 2.1 Using the command line ................................................................................................................................... 19 2.2 Running DITA with command line ..................................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Configuring oxygen for DITA-OT ....................................................................................................................... 21 2.3.1 Additional parameters ............................................................................................................................. 30 2.3.1.1 Default figure link text .................................................................................................................... 30 2.4 Running oxygen scenarios ............................................................................................................................... 31 2.5 How DITA is processed... .................................................................................................................................. 33 2.6 PDF post processing ........................................................................................................................................ 33 3 Important Topics ......................................................................................................................................... 35 3.1 Using figures ..................................................................................................................................................... 35 3.2 Basic figure aspects .......................................................................................................................................... 35 3.2.1 image-width ............................................................................................................................................. 36 3.2.2 Wrap text around figures ......................................................................................................................... 37 3.3 Working with the Glossary ................................................................................................................................ 37 3.3.1 Creating a local glossary from a master list ............................................................................................ 38 3.4 Working with equations ..................................................................................................................................... 38 4 DITA-OT extensions ................................................................................................................................... 39 4.1 Extensions on the paragraph. ........................................................................................................................... 39 4.2 Extensions on section ....................................................................................................................................... 40 4.3 oxygen Annotations .......................................................................................................................................... 41 4.4 Extensions to tables .......................................................................................................................................... 42 4.4.1 Repeat table header ................................................................................................................................ 42 4.5 Extensions to fig/image ..................................................................................................................................... 43 4.5.1 Creating Figures From Visio .................................................................................................................... 43 4.5.2 Links within graphics ............................................................................................................................... 46 4.5.3 Tryout figures ........................................................................................................................................... 49 4.6 Extension to links .............................................................................................................................................. 52 4.6.1 Linking figures and tables ........................................................................................................................ 53 4.6.2 Trying out links ........................................................................................................................................ 54 IBM / G&D Confidential 3 Table of Contents Using DITA 4.6.3 ezRead auto-linking ................................................................................................................................ 55 4.7 Extensions to Notes .......................................................................................................................................... 56 4.8 Extensions to lists ............................................................................................................................................. 57 4.9 Extensions to Mini-Toc ...................................................................................................................................... 58 4.10 New page ....................................................................................................................................................... 59 4.11 Keep Lines together ........................................................................................................................................ 60 4.12 Extension on the title element ......................................................................................................................... 60 5 Managing the front page ........................................................................................................................ 61 5.1 First page layout ............................................................................................................................................... 61 5.2 Company Logo ................................................................................................................................................. 61 5.3 Security Class ................................................................................................................................................... 62 5.4 Watermark .......................................................................................................................................................