I understand your reluctance to add most of those things to your default configuration or even the power users tutorial...the more things you add, the more you have to maintain going forward. Your position is the right one--I'd much rather see your developers spending time on core features that benefit you whatever DTD you happen to use. I think the answer is for members of the docbook community to maintain a set of customizations (which XMLMind's design makes easy to do) at the docbook open repository on sourceforge--they already have sample configurations and enhancements for other editors--that will probably happen as a matter of course. My perspective is of one who has to convince reluctant fellow tech writers of the benefits of docbook--often they don't get past the new authoring experience. Finally in XMLMind I see something I can point them to that will solve most of those problems at a reasonable price. Please don't take my suggestions as criticism--far from it, I'm really impressed with what you've achieved here :-)
Regarding itemizedlists: I did know about the text button, but I though it wasn't working because it was grayed out in that situation. If you are in a para and you use CTRL+i to insert a block element, then the element is inside the para. I hadn't noticed that if you are inside a para and use the toolbar buttons to insert a list, table, etc., then it closes the para first and then inserts the block element. Regarding japanese: I have the asian language pack installed (Windows XP) and can see japanese characters in the same document in notepad and other editors. I'm using xmlmind 2.4p1. I installed the one with its own jvm. Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:33 AM To: David Cramer (Tech Pubs) Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] Bugs/Feature requests/Suggestions > * Question: I can't seem to put text in some situations. I can't do this: > > <para>Foo <itemizedlist>....</itemizedlist> I can't put text here, but I > should be able to.</para> > > I have to do this: > > <para>Foo </para> <itemizedlist>....</itemizedlist> <para>I can't put text > here, but I should be able to.</para> > > Maybe I missed something in the help/docs? [1] Select the <itemizedlist> which is inside the <para>. [2] Click on Insert After [3] Click on the *Text button* below the Name: field. (Few people notice the existence of this button. May be we need to move it to the top of the form?) Or quicker: [1] Select the <itemizedlist> [2] Hit the Ins key of the keypad. <snip> > * Question: When I open a xml document that contains Japanese (utf-8), the > characters are square boxes. This is not a high priority for me--the > translation house will use whatever tools they want on the xml, but I thought > I'd mention it. Maybe I have something configured wrong? I don't think this problem comes from XXE. May be from your OS. May be from Java. Do you have the needed fonts? That is, what do you see when you open the XML document using notepad?
