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  4. <task id="using-command-line-tool">
  5. <title>Building output using the <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command</title>
  6. <shortdesc>You can generate output using the DITA Open Toolkit <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command-line tool. Build
  7. parameters can be specified on the command line or with <filepath>.properties</filepath> files.</shortdesc>
  8. <taskbody>
  9. <context audience="novice">The DITA-OT client is a command-line tool with no graphical user interface. To verify
  10. that your installation works correctly, you can build output using the sample files included in the distribution
  11. package.</context>
  12. <steps>
  13. <step audience="novice">
  14. <cmd>Open a terminal window by typing the following in the search bar:</cmd>
  15. <info>
  16. <ul>
  17. <li platform="linux osx">On Linux and macOS, type <userinput>Terminal</userinput>.</li>
  18. <li platform="windows">On Windows, type <userinput>Command Prompt</userinput>.</li>
  19. </ul>
  20. </info>
  21. </step>
  22. <step>
  23. <cmd>At the command-line prompt, enter the following command:</cmd>
  24. <info><codeblock><filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/dita-cmd"/> <parmname>--input</parmname>=<varname>input-file</varname> <parmname>--format</parmname>=<varname>format</varname> <varname audience="expert">options</varname></codeblock>
  25. <p>where:</p>
  26. <ul>
  27. <li conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-1"
  28. conrefend="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-last" audience="novice"/>
  29. <li conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-1"
  30. conrefend="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/novice-variables-2" audience="expert"/>
  31. <li conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/expert-variables-last" audience="expert"/>
  32. <li conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/options" audience="expert"/>
  33. </ul></info>
  34. <stepresult conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/running-ditaot-results"/>
  35. </step>
  36. </steps>
  37. <example audience="novice">
  38. <p>Run from <filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/samples-dir"/>, the following command generates
  39. HTML5 output for the <filepath>sequence.ditamap</filepath> file:</p>
  40. <codeblock><filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/dita-cmd"/> <parmname>--input</parmname>=<filepath>sequence.ditamap</filepath> <parmname>--format</parmname>=<option>html5</option></codeblock>
  41. </example>
  42. <example audience="expert">
  43. <p>For example, from <filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/samples-dir"/>, run:</p>
  44. <codeblock><cmdname>dita</cmdname> <parmname>--input</parmname>=<filepath>sequence.ditamap</filepath> <parmname>--format</parmname>=<option>html5</option> \
  45. <parmname>--output</parmname>=<filepath>output/sequence</filepath> \
  46. <parmname>--args.input.dir</parmname>=<filepath conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/samples-dir"/> \
  47. <parmname>--propertyfile</parmname>=<filepath>properties/sequence-html5.properties</filepath></codeblock>
  48. <p>This builds <filepath>sequence.ditamap</filepath> to HTML5 output in <filepath>output/sequence</filepath> using
  49. the following additional parameters specified in the <filepath>properties/sequence-html5.properties</filepath>
  50. file:</p>
  51. <codeblock><coderef href="../samples/properties/sequence-html5.properties"/></codeblock>
  52. </example>
  53. <postreq>
  54. <p audience="novice">Most builds require you to specify more options than are described in this topic.</p>
  55. <p audience="expert">Usually, you will want to specify a set of reusable build parameters in a
  56. <filepath>.properties</filepath> file.</p>
  57. </postreq>
  58. </taskbody>
  59. </task>