20 Jun 08 Getting started with the Editor
Creating a DITA Project
- Select the menu
- In the DITA category choose DITA Project
- Click on the Next button
- Enter your project name
- Click on the Finish button
You can then import existing DITA files from your file system, using the file import wizard or drag and dropping them from your Windows Explorer window into your DITA project.
You can also start creating new DITA Files into your DITA Project.
Creating DITA Files
- Right-click on your DITA Project and select the menu
- In the DITA category choose the type of DITA file you wish to create
- Click on the Next button
- Choose a file name
- Click on the Finish button
The newly created file is automatically opened in the corresponding editor
Setting up the DITA Open Toolkit
To create DITA-OT launch configurations you first need to specify where the toolkit is installed. If you do not have already a working installation of the toolkit, we recommend you install the “full and easy” package.
- Select the menu
- Select the preference page
- Click on the Browse… button
- Navigate the folder where your installation of the DITA-OT is located (the “full and easy” package is recommended if you do not have already a working installation)
- Click the Open button
- Click the OK button
You can now create a DITA-OT launch configuration.
Creating a DITA Open Toolkit launch configuration
- Select the menu
- Right-click on the DITA-OT Build category
- Select the New menu
- Enter a name for your configuration
- Enter a transformation type (xhtml, pdf, etc.)
- Enter the location of the DITA Map you wish to process
- Enter the location for the generated output
- Optional: Enter the location of a ditaval processing profile
- Optional: Provide additional processing arguments
- Click on the Run button
Once you ran it once, the configuration is available either under the menu or with the Run External Tools button in the tool bar.
Reader's Comments
Hi,
there exist some screencast for an commercial Eclipse based DITA tool at:
http://www.instinctools.com/itsc/video/Take_a_tour/index.html
http://www.ditaworks.com/
May be it gives you some ideas.
regards,