Hello there,
first of all I want to express my thanks to you for creating what I
consider currently the *only* DocBook-Editor which is usable by people
knowing nothing about XML and the DocBook DTD.
We are currently evaluating XMLEditor because we want to move our
software documentation do DocBook. All in all, XMLEditor behaves like
people coming from a Word-WYSIWYG background would expect. The only
little quirk is the handling of text selection and copy/paste. I
completely understand that selecting the text and selecting the Markup
nodes are different things, but to the unsuspecting end-user, there is
no difference.
My question is: Would it be possible to have a mode in which the
"normal" text selection (and a copy of this) would at least include all
totally enclosed markup tags? This would save a lot of hassle when
people try to copy complete paragraphs. The normal expectation is to be
able to easily copy the markup within the paragraph. Or are there any
technical reasons which prohibit this? The issue is even more important
because the Shift-Ctrl-Click to select markup nodes in the normal
text-view sometimes does not seem register, so it is very difficult to
select multiple nodes (it's mostly OK in the tree view).
This could IMO be a major usability breakthrough for XMLEditor.
Thank you for your attention
Yours
Bernd
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Bernd Kuemmerlen | fon: +49-421-218-7704
MeVis - Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems | fax: +49-421-218-4236
and Visualization | mailto:bkuemmer at mevis.de
Universitaetsallee 29, 28359 Bremen, Germany | http://www.mevis.de/
