Known limitations in the current version of DITA-FMx.
The following list describes the currently known issues:
Elements within table cells aren’t listed in the Reference Manager, and thus can’t be used as the target of a conref or xref. This will be fixed in a future update.
The link element is not currently supported by the Reference Manager. One workaround is to embed an xref element within the desc element of a link (related-links/link/desc/xref). Although this might be frowned upon, it is legal and should produce workable results. We plan to fully support the link element in a future release.
When building a book, some tables that should fill the width of the text column, are only 3/4 wide. This will be fixed in a future update.
Column widths in simpletable elements do not round-trip properly; on import the columns are evenly divided across the full width. This will be fixed in a future update.
Indexterms with multiple child elements that are siblings, will not round-trip properly. On import, the sibling indexterms are incorrectly converted into FM index syntax, which means the exported indexterms will be nested rather than siblings. A workaround is to disable indexterm conversion on import and export (although this will not allow you to generate a FM index). This will be fixed in a future update.
For the Apply Ditaval as Conditions command, currently only the “prop” ditaval element is used. Other elements may be recognized in a future release if that is seen as beneficial.
Conrefs within titles won’t be included when you run the Update References command in a DITA map unless the target file is already open. If you have conrefs in your titles, you should open the file first before running the Update References command.
Deleting an fm-topicreflabel element from a DITA map file without deleting the entire topicref, may result in the “plus” symbol being left in the map. This is a temporary issue and will go away the next time you open the file; it has no effect on the ability to process the files.
Double-byte characters are garbled in the fm-topicreflabel elements, and don’t update properly.
Using DITA-FMx for DITA authoring in binary FrameMaker files has the following limitations:
A file that can’t be opened due to missing fonts or images and it is the target of a conref or xref, the Reference Manager won’t display when the conref or xref is double-clicked. This can be resolved by opening the referenced file before double-clicking the conref or xref.
Double-clicking a conref then choosing Update, will delete the conref.
Please send any problems or suggestions to ditafmx-help@leximation.com.