Good morning,

I have tried to use the covertdoc command but I couldn't know how to use
it. I have a document called "01manual_completo.xml" which has 17
documents linked with xinclude and I want to convert it to RTF. I have
read the manual but I'm not able to execute the convertdoc commad.

Thank you for your help,
Sandra Sol

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein at xmlmind.com] 
Enviado el: martes, 20 de enero de 2009 18:43
Para: Sandra Sol Rodrigo
CC: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com
Asunto: Re: [XXE] Question about dividing a modular document

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#cust
omizeConfigurationMenu

[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.



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