Hello,
I would like to address some DITA limitations that are getting in the way, hoping they would be considered in the next DITA specification.
- <draft-comment> is allowed in <conbody> but not in <refbody> or <taskbody> - can it be made available everywhere?
- <dl> is not allowed in a "pure" reference topic, unless wrapped in a section; our definition lists are styled like parameter lists (not tables) and we
want to keep them like that and they are also reference topics
- <fn> elements are not allowed in <conbody>, etc so they need to be wrapped in a <div> or <section> (we don't use <fn> inline, only <xref type="fn">) –
can <fn> be allowed in <conbody>, etc. ?
- MathML equations - long (wide) equations need to be treated as images in order to make them fit on the page for PDF format. For example:
<equation-figure>
<image href="" width="6.5in"/>
</equation-figure>
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None of the <equation-figure>, <equation-inline>, <equation-block>, <mathml> or <mathmlref> elements support the @width attribute and not even
the @scalefit attribute (which we never use because it may lead to images or captions overwriting the footer).
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<equation-figure> supports the @scale attribute, but using may require a lot of trial and error and if the equation changes, the scaling factor
may need to be re-adjusted, so not a good solution for us.
My suggestion would be to allow the @width attribute for either <mathml> or <mathmlref>.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Ozana
Ozana Dragomir –
Information Developer, Automotive Operations
Imagination Technologies Limited
t: +44 1923 260511