Re: [Serna] A couple V3.5 (10.17) observations

Hello Don,

> This latest version is working very well for DITA authoring!  I've been
> preparing some materials for a DITA User Group meeting tonight and got a
> chance to try the integrated Toolkit feature. The DITA OT 1.4.1 maintenance
> release will be coming out soon--will it be possible to link it in place of
> the 1.3 provided in the installation? (or to point the installaation to a
> DITA OT located elsewhere on the user's system or network?)

In the Serna 3.5 distribution there are DITA 1.3.1 for DITA 1.0 
template and DITA 1.4.0 for DITA 1.1 template.
As soon as the DITA OT 1.4.1 is released, we'll replace current DITA 1.4 
with it.

> I was using the Publishing dialog to generate PDF test files today. At one
> point, I used PF4 on the master ditamap to refresh the view of some topic
> titles that I had changed. Upon calling the Publishing dialog again, I
> noticed that the setting had returned to HTML for output. In effect, using
> PF4 resets the state of the publish dialog for a document that is still
> "in-editor."  Is there any way to make the state of that dialog persistent
> for the editing session so that PF4 does not refresh the dialog as well?

'Reload Document' command (F4) fully rebuilds Serna's user interface 
that's why the publishing dialog settings do not persist.

BTW, you needn't reload your document to refresh the view of topic titles. 
While publishing Serna uses original documents - not their Serna's view.

> While inserting Xrefs to external HTML locations, I realized that I had to
> insert the format="html" attribute before entering the href atttribute
> value. Otherwise, the xref style template tries to do a title lookup on the
> URL and fails (since it is not going to a valid DITA target). Among the bad
> things that happen are slowdowns, messages, and in one case I even lost the
> entire attribute selection list for the xref attribute dialog.

Don, now we are working out new DITA dialogs. They are planned to be 
more convenient and easy-to-use. One of the feature in it is to add the 
'format' attribute automatically while inserting Xrefs to non-DITA 
documents.

> These are not critical issues since there are workarounds. On the balance,
> I'm finding the topicref placement to be much easier to do by drag/drop in
> the contentmap now--thanks!

Thank you.
Regards,
Daria Chernova

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