Publishing Engine

Ant target extension points were added to allow custom tasks to be executed before and after various WebHelp transformation steps. For more details, see Ant Extensions for WebHelp Responsive.

A new page has been added in the output root directory to help speed up the loading time for context-sensitive help. More specifically, the file name used for context-sensitive help was changed from index.html to cshelp.html.

New transformation parameters were added to allow you to control whether or not certain components remain sticky in the WebHelp output interface:

• webhelp.enable.sticky.topic.toc - Controls whether or not the Topic TOC component remains sticky. The default setting is yes.
• webhelp.enable.sticky.publication.toc - Controls whether or not the Publication TOC component remains sticky. The default setting is yes.
• webhelp.enable.sticky.header - Controls whether or not the Header section remains sticky. The default setting is yes.

The top menu was optimized by adding a short delay before it is being displayed to help you avoid accidentally triggering a menu item.

The processor now supports absolute positions for inline elements. For example, you could define custom CSS rules to display an image in a certain absolute position within the document or paragraph.

A new transformation parameter (show.media.as.link) can be used to display media objects with an external link instead of a graphic.

You can set the new sort.and.group.glossentries transformation parameter to yes to have the glossary entries sorted alphabetically and grouped by the first letter of the word. By default, they are inserted based upon the document order.

The DITA Open Toolkit version bundled with Oxygen Publishing Engine has been updated to version 3.7.0.