Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook and OXygen Xml Editor
On 28/08/2012 09:39, Radu Coravu wrote: Hi Paul, Sorry for the delay, please see some more observations below: Hi, thanks for the detailed answer but all I meant was that I accept the data is pasted into Oxygen the way it is, but once you have a table in Oxygen is there not a way to make the the first row a table header row form within Oxygen. In the end I got round this by going to text mode and manually copying and pasting the thead from another docbook created table. Yes, right now this is quite hard to accomplish in the Author page. It is possible but hard to work with. You could position the caret right before the tbody, press ENTER to insert the thead and then copy the first row from the tbody to the thread. How would you see an easier way to do this in Oxygen? Maybe select the first row, right click and have a custom action like Make Header Row? Something like this? Yes, exactly like that Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook and OXygen Xml Editor
Hi Paul, Please see some answers below: 1. If I create a table within Docbook it creates a header, but if I create a table by copying the table the table data from a (openoffice) spreadsheet it doesn't make the first column into a table header, how can I convert the first field into a table header ? Basically when copying content in Open Office, the office application sets in the clipboard a lot of flavors. One of them is an HTML flavor. When pasting in Oxygen, the editor takes that HTML content from the clipboard which looks something like this: HTML...BODY TABLE FRAME=VOID CELLSPACING=0 COLS=3 RULES=NONE BORDER=0 COLGROUPCOL WIDTH=86COL WIDTH=86COL WIDTH=86/COLGROUP TBODY TR TD WIDTH=86 HEIGHT=17 ALIGN=LEFTa/TD TD WIDTH=86 ALIGN=LEFTb/TD TD WIDTH=86 ALIGN=LEFTc/TD /TR TR TD HEIGHT=17 ALIGN=LEFTe/TD TD ALIGN=LEFTf/TD TD ALIGN=LEFTd/TD /TR /TBODY /TABLE /BODY./HTML and after converting it to proper XHTML applies an XSLT stylesheet. The XSLT stylesheet which makes this conversion in the case of Docbook 5 is this one: OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/docbook/resources/xhtml2db5.xsl So you could try to look in it and see if you can change it to generate also a thead for each table. By the way, do you mark in any way in the openoffice spreadsheet the values on the first line? Unfortunately the clipboard contents do not seem to mark the first line as an XHTML thead so this is why the default stylesheet does not produce by default a Docbook thread containing the first line. 2. Chunking html is creating a seperate file for each main section, section 2, section 3 ectera but I want it to create a html page for section 2, section2.1, section 2.2 ... how do I do this within Oxygen ? If you edit the DocBook HTML - Chunk transformation scenario, there is a Parameters button. It contains a list of XSLT parameters which can be used to customize the Docbook XSLT transformation. You should look at the chunk.* parameters, especially at the chunk.section.depth parameter. 3. If I Use Docbook5/Insert Table I can specify the size of the table but if i use Insert List Item it just creates a list of size 1, there seems then to add the second list item I have to do the insert again, sure there must be an easier way ? If the caret is at the end of the current edited list item, just press ENTER. The first proposal should be something like Split listitem. 4. If I'm in the main editing window and have Section3, section 3.2 and then I want to create a new section 4 how do I do that, it always creates section 3.3 instead. I can do this from the outline view by selecting Section 3 and choosing Insert After/Section but isn't there a way to do it from the main edit window. Basically you need to position the caret in the right location in order to insert the proper section. On the Author toolbar there is a drop down button in which you can choose the view the XML document with Full Tags. This should allow you to place the caret in the parent Section 2 instead of having it in the Section 3 before inserting the section. If you do not use Full Tags Oxygen also has a position tooltip which can be used to navigate using the arrow keys to the proper location where the section should be inserted. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu oXygen/ XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 8/26/2012 11:26 PM, Paul Taylor wrote: I've been using Oxygen Editor with Docbook 5 with reasonable success but stuck on a few basic things, here is hoping you can help. 1. If I create a table within Docbook it creates a header, but if I create a table by copying the table the table data from a (openoffice) spreadsheet it doesn't make the first column into a table header, how can I convert the first field into a table header ? 2. Chunking html is creating a seperate file for each main section, section 2, section 3 ectera but I want it to create a html page for section 2, section2.1, section 2.2 ... how do I do this within Oxygen ? 3. If I Use Docbook5/Insert Table I can specify the size of the table but if i use Insert List Item it just creates a list of size 1, there seems then to add the second list item I have to do the insert again, sure there must be an easier way ? 4. If I'm in the main editing window and have Section3, section 3.2 and then I want to create a new section 4 how do I do that, it always creates section 3.3 instead. I can do this from the outline view by selecting Section 3 and choosing Insert After/Section but isn't there a way to do it from the main edit window. thanks Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook and OXygen Xml Editor
On 27/08/2012 07:20, Radu Coravu wrote: Hi Paul, Please see some answers below: 1. If I create a table within Docbook it creates a header, but if I create a table by copying the table the table data from a (openoffice) spreadsheet it doesn't make the first column into a table header, how can I convert the first field into a table header ? So you could try to look in it and see if you can change it to generate also a thead for each table. Hi, thanks for the detailed answer but all I meant was that I accept the data is pasted into Oxygen the way it is, but once you have a table in Oxygen is there not a way to make the the first row a table header row form within Oxygen. In the end I got round this by going to text mode and manually copying and pasting the thead from another docbook created table. 2. Chunking html is creating a seperate file for each main section, section 2, section 3 ectera but I want it to create a html page for section 2, section2.1, section 2.2 ... how do I do this within Oxygen ? If you edit the DocBook HTML - Chunk transformation scenario, there is a Parameters button. It contains a list of XSLT parameters which can be used to customize the Docbook XSLT transformation. You should look at the chunk.* parameters, especially at the chunk.section.depth parameter. Hi, I did go here first but the Edit option was greyed out. Now realized I have to duplicate the docbook scenarios that I want for my project, and then edit them, now works thanks. 3. If I Use Docbook5/Insert Table I can specify the size of the table but if i use Insert List Item it just creates a list of size 1, there seems then to add the second list item I have to do the insert again, sure there must be an easier way ? If the caret is at the end of the current edited list item, just press ENTER. The first proposal should be something like Split listitem. Okay, found that but it is still quite annoying, that you have to press ENTER twice at the end of each row, I'd suggest that just pressing ENTER (Or CNTL-ENTER) should create the next item. 4. If I'm in the main editing window and have Section3, section 3.2 and then I want to create a new section 4 how do I do that, it always creates section 3.3 instead. I can do this from the outline view by selecting Section 3 and choosing Insert After/Section but isn't there a way to do it from the main edit window. Basically you need to position the caret in the right location in order to insert the proper section. On the Author toolbar there is a drop down button in which you can choose the view the XML document with Full Tags. This should allow you to place the caret in the parent Section 2 instead of having it in the Section 3 before inserting the section. If you do not use Full Tags Oxygen also has a position tooltip which can be used to navigate using the arrow keys to the proper location where the section should be inserted. Cannot find this option, but even without this I should be able to do what I want, shouldnt I ?. Currently I have Section 3, section3.1 and section 4 I want to create a new Section 4 so that section 4 becomes section 5, so we have Section 3, section 3.1, section 4 and section 5. If I position caret at the end of title for section3 and insert section it creates a new section before section3.1, bot what I want. If I position caret at end of section section 3.1 it creates a section 3.2 instead of a section 4. It wouldn't be so bad if I could go to end of section 3.1 create section 3.2, and then click on new section 3.2 and convert it to section 4 by promoting it to a higher level section but I cannot see any option of this type. Paul thanks Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
