Conref file for tasks

Standard Path / Directory Names: dita-ot-dir; dita-ot-dir/bin/dita; dita-ot-dir/docsrc/samples
Plug-In Info: plug-in-id is the unique ID of the plug-in, as defined in the plug-in's configuration file (plugin.xml).

plug-in-zip is the filename or URL of the plug-in's distribution ZIP file (optional).

If no filename or URL argument is provided, the installation process reloads plug-ins from the plugins directory. This approach can be used to install multiple plug-ins at once, or install any individual plug-ins you have already copied to the plugins directory.

Open a command prompt or terminal session, and then change to the directory where the DITA Open Toolkit is installed.

is the DITA-OT installation directory.
input-file is the DITA map or DITA file that you want to process.
format is the output format (transformation type). Use the same values available for the transtype build parameter, for example, html5 or pdf.
options include the following optional build parameters:

If processing is successful, nothing is printed in the terminal window. The built output is written to the specified output directory (by default, in the out subdirectory of the current directory).

Add the absolute path for /bin to the PATH environment variable to run the dita command from any location on the file system without typing the path. Copy /properties/template.properties; this template describes each of the properties you can set. If you are building in different environments where the location of the input files is not consistent, set with the dita command and reference its value with ${args.input.dir} in your .properties file.