Daniel Dekany wrote: > There is a need for a clickable ToC for navigating in bigger DocBook > documents. The "Document structure" CSS seems to be fine for this > purpose, but it is rather problematic to use for this because of > GUI-related problems. Basically, you have to go trough this hassle for > a simple ToC-based jumping: > > 1. View -> Add...-> bottom (or top) set to "Document structure". > This must be repeated once per opening the document. > > 2. Enlarge the height of the bottom view by dragging its border. > > 3. Double-click on the desired ToC line.
No need to double click. A single click is sufficient. > 4. Decrease the height of the bottom view by dragging its border > (you don't want the ToC to take any vertical space from the main > view when you don't "navigate"). > > Regarding some tricks involved in this process: > > - In 3. if you just click instead of double click, XXE may jumps back > to the document start when the view is later resized in 4, hence > spoiling what the whole thing was about. > > - The view has to be in top or the bottom slot, and must be enlarged > vertically before the dobule-clicking, because the selected title > will be at the bottom of the normal view, while you want it to be at > the top of it. Now if the normal view is vertically small, and then > after the double-clicking it is enlarged (4.) then the earlier > bottom line will become the top line (try it to see why). > > So it is nor trivial nor convenient to do. > > Further notes: > > - Simply choosing the "Document structure" under View and then later > restore it to "DocBook" is not good, as it is *very* slow for larger > documents. Especially the switching back to "DocBook". > > - Putting the "Document structure" view at left or right and just > always leaving it there is not good, because that CSS wastes > horizontal space awfully (quite needlessly BTW -- this may could be > improved), and thus its frame had to be so wide that no horizontal > space is left for frame of the norma view on a 1280x1024 monitor. > Not to mention that the selected title will be at the bottom of the > normal view, and now the earlier explained vertical resizing trick > can't be applied. > > - I know XXE can be customized and maybe this problem can be solved > with that (I don't know), but a good *out-of-the-box* DocBook > editing experience would be important. I'm sure most users just want > to edit their DocBook (or DITA or XHTML) documents, not learn how to > customize XXE. We have implemented "Options|Customize Configuration|Save Views As Default" in XXE Professional Edition v3.6. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/optionsMenu.html#customizeConfigurationMenu If you prefer to always work with both the styled view and the document structure view, you need to do (1) and (2) and then "Save Views as Default" *once* *for* *all*. And, of course, the average user can do that. No need to edit XXE configuration files. This being said, the above facility does not solve *all* the usability problems you have described. I'm sorry but, for now, I have no clue about how these usability problems you can be solved.
