Pierce Tyler wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have been reading the archives about how to configure XXE to have
> thumbnails always on. In particular, I have been reading:
>
> http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/2005-November/003485.html
>
>
> But I am running into problems and can't seem to get this to work. I
> will explain the steps I have used. And if someone has the time to
> notice what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it!
>
> 1. From XXE, use Options > Install Add-ons
> 2. Select "A customized configuration for the DocBook DTD"
> 3. This installs a directory called "custom_docbook_config" in the
> following location on Windows 2000/XP:
>
> %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application
> Data\XMLmind\XMLeditor\addon\
>
> 4. Attempt to open ...\addon\custom_docbook_config\mydocbook.xxe
> 5. Windows thinks this is a .zip file--which can't be edited
> 6. XXE won't open this file
> 7. So I use the NoteTab Light text editor to open mydocbook.xxe
> 8. Inside the file mydocbook.exe, I find the following at the top of the
> file:
>
> <include location="xxe-config:docbook/docbook.xxe"/>
>
> <!-- Discard this CSS -->
> <css name="Show info about included elements"/>
>
> <!-- Customize the normal CSS -->
> <css name="DocBook" location="mydocbook.css" />
>
> 9. After reading the mailing list instructions from 2005-November, I
> believe I am supposed to insert the following information in this file:
>
> <css name="DocBook"
> location="xxe-config:docbook/css/docbook.css"
> alternate="true" />
> <css name="Images displayed as thumbnails"
> location="xxe-config:docbook/css/thumbnails.css"
> alternate="false" />
>
> 10. But I am not sure where to insert it. Do I replace the <!-- Discard
> this CSS --> and <!-- Customize the normal CSS --> information both?
> 11. I tried several different combinations, and nothing seemed to work
> 12. I say "didn't work" because I expected to restart XXE, then open a
> file with images in it and see the images as thumbnails. But this did
> not happen; the images were regular size as normal.
>
> Hopefully, I am missing something obvious. Any help sorting this out
> would be greatly appreciated.
I cannot reproduce this problem. I did everything you did and after:
[1] Adding alternate="true" to
<css name="DocBook" location="mydocbook.css" />
[2] Adding the following rule after the former one:
<css name="Images displayed as thumbnails" alternate="false"
location="xxe-config:docbook/css/thumbnails.css" />
everything worked fine.
See attached mydocbook.xxe.
Of course all this cannot work if you edit DocBook *5* documents. The
above configuration customize the bundled configuration associated to
DocBook *4* documents.
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PS: Professional Edtion users: there is no need to tweak configuration
files by hand to achieve this result. Simply
[1] Select the CSS style sheet of choice using the "Views" menu.
[2] Then use Options|Customize "Configuration|Save Views As Default" and
confirm by clicking OK. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/optionsMenu.html#customizeConfigurationMenu
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