To access the DITA Preferences page, open the
Preferences dialog box and go to
DITA. This preferences page includes the following sections and
options:
DITA Open Toolkit
Section
This section allows you to specify the default directory of the DITA Open
Toolkit distribution (bundled with the
Oxygen XML Developer installation) to be used for
validating and publishing DITA content. You can select from the following:
- Built-in DITA-OT 1.8 - This is the default setting and the
default DITA OT directory is:
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT.
- Built-in DITA-OT 2.x (with experimental DITA 1.3 support) - All
defined DITA transformation scenarios will run with DITA-OT 2.x. This also gives you
access to new DITA 1.3 file templates when you create new documents from templates. The default DITA OT directory is:
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT2.x.
- Custom - In the Location field, you can
either provide a new file path for the specific DITA OT that you want to use or you can
select a previously used one from the drop-down list.
The Show console
output option allows you to specify when to display the console output log.
The following options are available:
- When build fails - displays the console output log if the build
fails.
- Always - displays the console output log, regardless of whether
or not the build fails.
The following options are available for the
Insert
Reference and
Edit Properties operations:
- Always fill values for attributes - Allows you to specify that in
the Insert Reference\Edit Properties dialog box, the values for
these attributes will be automatically populated with a detected value (based on the
specifications), even if it is the same as the default value.
- Format - If enabled, the Format attribute will always
be populated automatically .
- Scope - If enabled, the Scope attribute will always be
populated automatically.
- Type - If enabled, the Type attribute will always be
populated automatically.
