Petr Nalevka wrote: > > I very much appreciate the makeParagraphs command in XML Mind. I have > implemented a simple command to convert plain text into DocBook > paragraphs. This is a great feature which allows me to copy website text > or text from Word processor and integrate it into my DocBook document > with two clicks. > > I tried to create a similar paste command for DocBook itemized lists. > But here I was not so succesful. > > The idea is: > 1) to copy several lines of text > 2) insert an empty list using XML Mind DocBook Icons > 3) paste the plain text into the list as <listitem>s > > Unfortunately XML Mind does not allow me to INSERT into an > <itemizedlist>. The only workaround I found was to create a dummy > listitem first and then past the lines (wrapped by listitems) AFTER it. > > Also it would be great not to stop at simple wrapping of paragraphs. If > the makePragaraphs command would have more parameters (for example line > separator and column separator) I can imagine it would be simple to copy > a spreadsheet from let say Open Office as a DocBook table. > > But maybe I have missed something in the commands and it is possible to > implement such behavior? >
No, you did miss anything. It is of course possible, and even easy, to implement such commands (makeListItems, makeTableRows, etc). You just need to program them in Java[tm]. See "How to avoid writing a validating command" http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/command2.html#d0e3413
