[1] *Explicitly* select paragraph #2 (the one containing "Text of paragraph 2"). (For example, Ctrl-Click inside it several times without moving the mouse until you see it selected in the node path bar.)
[2] Use DocBook|Demote. --- PS: In my answer, I assume that your sections are valid ones. I'm saying this because the sections you gave us as examples lacks a <title> or a <sectioninfo>. maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu wrote: > 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.) >
