I thought I knew how to do something, but I was wrong.
In a DocBook document we're editing in XMLmind, I want to convert some
existing paragraphs into a subsection. So starting from something like:
<section>
<para>Text of paragraph 1</para>
<para>Text of paragraph 2</para>
<para>Text of paragraph 3</para>
</section>
--I wanted to get to
<section>
<para>Text of paragraph 1</para>
<section>
<para>Text of paragraph 2</para>
<para>Text of paragraph 3</para>
</section>
</section>
(The newly added section could be a subsection of the existing section, as
I've shown here, or a sibling section; either would work, on the
assumption that I can demote the sibling section after I create it.)
I thought I could do this by selecting paras 2 and 3, and doing Convert
[Wrap]. But 'section' is not one of the possibilities that comes up in
the list (which includes 'abstract', 'authorblurb'...'warning' etc.).
I thought (based on the documentation) that maybe this was because of a
limit to only being able to wrap a single object, but I get the same list
of possibilities when I select a single para.
My work-around is to do an Insert After of the <section>, then cut and
paste the relevant paragraphs in. This works, but it's clumsy.
Is there a more direct way to do what I want? Why is 'section' not
available in the Convert [Wrap] possibilities list when the object being
wrapped is a para, and the next element up is a section? (I can see why
it wouldn't work if I selected paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 in the above
example, but selecting paragraph 3, or 2+3, seems like it should work.)
Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U MD
