Michael Huebner wrote: > when crossing element boudaries by hitting Cursor right/left it would be > very intuitive to change the shape of the insertion mark at the end of > the text element into a "]" and at the beginning of the following text > element into a "[". Inside a text element the shape should be the common > "|".
I'm not sure to understand if you are talking about the Insertion Mark or about the Mouse Cursor. There is no problem with the *insertion mark* (red/black vertical bar which blinks when the document view has the keyboard focus). If you need to know where you are, simply look at the "Node Path Bar" at the top of XXE window. The problem is to know where to click. When I try to move the caret, do I move it at the end of the <emphasis> or at the beginning of the #text which follows it? To improve this, we have already implemented 2 different *mouse cursors* (I'm using XXE V2.5a1 - not released to the public). Over the end of a text, the mouse cursor is shaped like this ']'. Over the beginning and middle of a text, the mouse cursor is shaped like this '|' (like in V2.4). (We have experimented with 3 mouse cursors ']', '[' and '|' and we have found that 2 are sufficient.) > The new insertion mark shapes should be visually distinguishable from a > normal character, e.g. they could be bigger and blinking. Even better > is to use the small vertical bar only at the top of the horizontal bar. > Using L-shapes ( the small vertical bar only at the buttom of the > horizontal bar) is also possible but they are not so visually > distinguishable. What we have implemented seems to be at the same time, simple, efficient, and easy to use. We hope to be able to release XXE V2.5 in October. You'll see by yourself.
