Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > Is there any way of hierarchically "raising" a structure one level, > e.g. making a > > <sect2><sect3><sect4>Text</sect4></sect3></sect2> > into > <sect1><sect2><sect3>Text</sect3></sect2></sect1> > ? I really need that quite often, since I want to change a subsection > into a section, without having to cut & paste all it's contents. > > Right now (under Linux) I have to do this manually, by using jed or > vi. This works, but after saving I have lots of additional blank lines > displayed in the XML editor. Also, the contents of <screen> are > totally destroyed after such an operation, all the newlines are missing.
You'll have such a command in next release. Note that without a specialized command, it just takes 5 seconds to do it ***but you need to <section> instead of <sect1>, <sect2>, <sect3>***. [1] Insert a (new, empty) <section>. [2] Select the <section> "to be raised". [3] Select all the child elements in the <section> "to be raised" by typing Esc Down-Arrow (or using the Select menu). [4] Ctrl-C to copy all these children to the clipboard. [5] Select the new, empty <section>. [6] Select all the child elements in the new, empty <section> (empty title+para) by typing Esc Down-Arrow. [7] Type Ctrl-V to replace empty title+paragraph by the content of <section> "to be raised". [8] Delete the <section> "to be raised". Basically, this is just copy/paste multiple elements at once. And of course, the content of <screen> will not be destroyed. My advice: use vi to replace <sect1>, <sect2>, etc, by <section> and after that, use the above recipe until a specialized command is added to XXE.
