To access the DITA Preferences page, open the
Preferences dialog box and click on DITA.
The
DITA-OT directory option specifies the directory of the DITA Open
Toolkit distribution to be used, by default, for validating and publishing DITA content. 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.
Note: The DITA Open Toolkit is bundled
with the Oxygen XML Editor installation.
The
DITA Maps file patterns option allows you to set the extension of
the files that will be handled as DITA maps when opened in Oxygen XML Editor. Oxygen XML Editor can open a DITA map in the regular editor view or in the DITA Maps Manager. The following options are available
When opening a
map:
- Always open in the DITA Maps Manager - A DITA Map file is always
opened in the DITA Maps Manager view.
- Always open as XML - A DITA Map file is always opened in the XML
editor.
- Always ask - When opening a DITA Map, you are prompted to choose
between opening it in the XML editor panel or in the DITA Maps
Manager view.
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.
At the bottom of the page there is a
link to the Profiling Attributes preferences, where you can configure how profiling and
conditional text is shown in Author mode.