Sandra Sol Rodrigo wrote: > > I send you this e-mail because I have a doubt about modular documents. > Now I?m working with a document that has 17 chapters (each chapter is a > XML document). I can?t work with the whole document because it?s so huge > I can?t open.
Does it contain a lot of high-resolution images? If this is the case, there is a simple way to be able to open it: [1] Open a chapter. [2] From the View menu, Select the CSS style sheet called "Images displayed as thumbnails". [3] Using the Options menu, choose "Customize Configuration", then "Save Views As Default". Confirm your choice. More information in http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/optionsMenu.html#customizeConfigurationMenu [4] Now, try to open the whole book. Note that the "Images displayed as thumbnails" CSS has no influence on the results of converting the document to PDF, HTML, RTF, etc. > I tried to make 5 modular documents but the problem is > that each document starts in chapter 1. Can I configure any parameters > to change the chapter number? > Not to my knowledge. * It is possible to group chapters into parts (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/part.html). That is, part A includes chapter 1, 2, 3, part B includes chapters 4 and 5, etc. This will allow you to edit chapters but also parts separately. However, after doing that, your book needs to include all the parts you have defined. (This gives 2 levels of inclusion -- book include part include chapter --- instead of just 1 -- book include chapter) In such case, even if the first chapter of a part is always numbered #1 on the screen, this will not be the case when you'll convert the whole book to PDF, RTF, HTML, etc. The chapters will be numbered sequentially as you expect it. * If you book is really huge (that is, it is not simply a problem of high-resolution images), you don't really need to open it in XMLmind XML Editor in order to convert it to PDF, RTF, HTML. We have a command-line utility called convertdoc which does that exactly like XXE (convertdoc=XXE without a GUI). See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/convertdoc.html If you cannot solve your huge document problem, do not hesitate to point me to your document sources, so I can give a better diagnostic and thus, a workaround.
