Allen Bierbaum wrote: > And, truely the pain of this one feature not being there > is keeping them from switching. The reason is simply that > we have a large number of is that we reference in our > Docbook files. Requiring the users to remember of lookup > each of these id's everytime they want to reference it is > time-consuming and error-prone.
I'm not sure what it is you are making idrefs to, but in my documents I have about 300 ids and I can remember most of them just by knowing the title of the section or varlistentry or other element I'm refering too. Because all my ids are lowercase letters only the only problem I have is spelling :-) In XXE 1.3 I didn't like the dropdown box because it took too long to find the id I wanted. I used the text entry box at the bottom of the attribute window. If I entered an incorrect id then I was warned. I would like that feature back in addition to the combo box already suggested. So I suggest that if a user enters a non-existant id in the proposed combo box then a non-intrusive but attention-getting warning is displayed (preferrably in a status bar and by highlighting the idref in red) -- Devin Bayer - http://elektrono.com/contact
