David Cramer (Tech Pubs) wrote: > 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 :-)
We love to hear about suggestions. We fully accept criticisms. Even something like ''I've played with XXE and trashed it after 5 minutes because it is is completely unusable''. We are currently working hard to release XXE V2.5: * with more comprehensive developer documentation (more examples about how to write custom commands, how to write custom views, style extension, etc) * and more powerful macro-commands. Contextual macro-commands among other things. For example: with the proper contextual macro-command, hitting key Enter will not trigger the same command inside a <listitem>/<para> and inside a <section>/<para>.) With this release, power users like you will be able to do (almost) what they want with XXE. > 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. This is done on purpose. We don't find that it is a good idea to insert an itemizedlist inside a para (even if it is allowed by the DTD and fully supported by XXE). > 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. Frankly, it is pretty hard for us to help you about this problem.
