Hi Thanks for that I will go and have a play as out shop is Linux I wll save to /xxe-std-26/config
Thus to work out of box (your attachement ) add the snippet. Anyway I will be trying out all your points to get a feel and a better understanding of Xml Mind . Thanks again Chuck On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:50, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Chuck Amadi wrote: > > I found that when I use Entity References i.e ™ for Trademarks and > > &, for say me & you . It doesn't produce the desired text when I use > > a Docbook script to check and produce the xml it adds ™& say > > instead of ™ > > [1] Use Options|Options, Save Tab. > > [a] Here select "US-ASCII" in the "Encoding" combobox > [b] Make sure that "Save characters outside encoding as entity > references" is checked. > [c] In the text field "Always save these characters as entity > references", add 0x26 which is the ASCII code of "&" in hexadecimal. > (This step is only needed for characters which are part of ASCII but > that you want to see treated as special characters.) > > > > [2] Now please never type something like "™" or "&". If you > type "foo", XXE understand this as "f" "o" "o". Similarly if you type > "&", XXE understands this as "&" "a" "m" "p" ";" and nothing more. > > * If you want to get an "&", simply type "&"! It will be saved as > "&" in your XML file because of the settings done in step [1]. > > * If you want to get the trade sign, you have two ways to get it: > > [A] Use the Character Tool (one of the tabs at the right of the window) > and click on the trade sign (you'll find it in the "Superscripts and > Subscripts" character range). > > [B] OR if you prefer, specify it by its name (i.e. "trade"). > > Unlike [A], [B] does not work out of the box. You need to bind command > "insertCharByName" to a keystroke. This is done by adding this snippet > to your customize.xxe: > > --- > <binding> > <keyPressed code="F2" /> > <command name="insertCharByName" /> > </binding> > --- > > Please find such a customize.xxe attached to this email. If you don't > have one, simply copy it to C:\Documents and Settings\<your > name>\xxe2\config and restart XXE. > > After that, if you want to get the trade sign, press F2, when the dialog > box is displayed, type "trade" in its text field (or type "t" then > *space*, "r" then *space*, etc, to use *auto-completion*). > > Works the same for greek letters and any other character entity defined > in the DocBook DTD. > > You can change F2 to any sequence of keystrokes you want. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> > <configuration xmlns="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration"; > xmlns:cfg="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > > <!-- ======================================================================= > Inserts at caret position a character specified using its entity name. > > Add parameter="[DocBook]" to use the character entities defined > in the DocBook 4.2 DTD, whatever is the DTD/Schema of the document > being edited. > ======================================================================== --> > > <binding> > <keyPressed code="F2" /> > <command name="insertCharByName" /> > </binding> > > </configuration> -- Chuck Amadi, Systems Administrator, | http://www.smtl.co.uk/ Surgical Materials Testing Lab, | http://www.worldwidewounds.com/ Princess of Wales Hospital, S Wales | http://www.dressings.org/ Tel/Fax: +44 1656-752820 | chuck at smtl.co.uk
