Sorry, our minds did not meet... It is not on a layout mode that I wanted to say, but, as in an earlier post in this list, on an outline view/mode. My apologies. Like MS Word Outline mode, I think that xxe could be a lot more usefull with this issue. Here is the post, and your answer, Shafie.
----begin post Michel Kergoat wrote: >> >> I enjoy xxe as a docbook documents writer. I found it really usefull and >> the new 2.1 is pretty good. >> >> But as a writer, I'll enjoy it really more if I could work on the >> outline view of the document. >> >> That is : move sections up & down (I could do this with cut & paste) but >> also - and almost - move sections across levels (I do not find how I >> could do that if I could). >> This means that a sect1 becomes a sect2, and the enclosed sect2 becomes >> a sect3 and so on. >> All of these with shortcut of course but better with drag'n drop... >> >> Ideally, I'd like to work as with MS Word's outline view which I feel >> simply genious. >> >> I understood reading the list that maybe I could customize. Could >> someone put me on this way ? I do not know very much about XSL/CCS, I >> feel these so obvious. Really harder than procedural languages like C or sh. >> >> Remember that Outline is one of the Linux Documentation Project's advice >> for the writers. > > > It is possible to implement a nice outline view using a specific CSS > with embedded buttons and a docbook specific command (written in Java or > in a scripting language -- do not try to do this with a macro command). > Is it hard to do so? Well, everything needed to do so is documented but > the learning curve is probably too steep for a power user. > We are too busy to implement this in the short term but we've added this > feature to the wish list. (It is very likely that it will be implemented > because it is easy and fun to do it.) ----end post So my question is : when could you, if ever, plan to work on this ? Best regards Michel:-) Hussein Shafie a ?crit: > Michel Kergoat: > >> Now, the "killer" question : we are several asking for a "layout >> mode", that is, an easy and productive way to work at the layout of a >> (docbook) document. As I did mail this list, you seems to find this >> interesting and a good / reasonable wish. What is it on, if something >> is, whith this issue? > > > The easiest way to do exactly what you want is to create your own DTD > and then, to automatically convert the document instances to DocBook > using a XSLT style sheet. > > > > Denis Bradford wrote: > >> It's not an XXE bug, it's a feature of the docbook design. I forget all >> the reasons for it, but it was definitely a deliberate decision, not an >> accident. I believe that the issue is discussed at length in the docbook >> mail archive (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/ ), if you >> want to check it out for yourself. >> >> A more technical person can correct me, but I suspect that inserting >> sections in any old place complicates the programming side of things >> (like XSL style sheets) a lot. And programmability is the point of XML, >> I think. Speaking as a tech writer who has lived with docbook for >> several years), it has not proved to be a very severe restriction and >> may even have improved my writing :-). > > > From a technical point of view, XXE, which makes no difference between > a para and a section (both are blocks), would be happy to insert a > section between 2 paras *if this was allowed by the DTD*. > > > > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support >
