John L. Clark wrote: > Under the Print tab of the Options menu, one can specify the formatting > of the fields in the header and footer on each page when printing out a > document from XXE. I was wondering if there could be an additional > option for a basename field, which would just print out the last > component of the filename under consideration. For example, given an > absolute path of: > > /some/really/long/path/to/a/file.xml > > this field (perhaps it could be called "%B") would be replaced with > "file.xml". The reason I ask for this behavior is that some of our > authors have noticed that when printing documents with very long path > names, the end of the path name can actually overflow onto the contents > of the "middle" and "end" areas of content for headers and footers. > > An alternative is to elide a portion of the absolute path so that the > path fits within a certain width when printed. A second alternative is > to have the absolute path wrap; this would force the size of the headers > and footers to be somewhat dynamic. These alternatives are actually > better solutions to the problem than the original suggestion because a > long basename would exhibit the same problem. Perhaps the original > request and one of the alternatives could both be incorporated as > features due to this orthogonality.
OK, you'll have "%B" and compaction of long pathnames in next version (V2.7p1).
