On 2011 Mar 28, at 16:13, Trevor John Thompson wrote:
> On 2011 Mar 28, at 10:15, Hussein Shafie wrote:
>
>> On 03/28/2011 04:57 PM, Trevor John Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you for your prompt response.
>>> I have followed your recommendations, to no effect.
>>
>> Really strange.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I notice that the tiny triangle in the upper left corner of the selection
>>> flashes red.
>>
>> This means that the caret is inside the text node of the literal
>> element, but the caret cannot be displayed normally because the literal
>> element is hidden.
>>
>> This would correspond to the following CSS snippet:
>> ---
>> literal {
>> display: none;
>> }
>> ---
>>
>>
>>
>>> Might this be a clue?
>>
>> Not really.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that docbook.css or any of the CSS stylesheets
>> (e.g. docbook1.imp) it includes is damaged.
>>
>> Unless you have a weird customization of the DocBook configuration
>> floating around, hidden somewhere (that is, not inside directory
>> $HOME/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/), you should
>> perform an fsck on your filesystem. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck
>>
>> However [1] I don't know how this is done on the Mac and [2] I thought
>> that with the modern journaled filesystems, such fsck was no longer needed.
>
>
> I have no customization whatsoever, and my filesystem is fine (according to
> 'Disk Utility').
> The CSS stylesheets look OK to me, but i would like to run them through a
> verifier.
> Would you know of a tool to do that on local files, rather than URLs and web
> sites?
I have not been able to verify the css, but cannot imagine how it could have
changed;
so i began to suspect fonts, and found this:
TidBITS Problem Solving: OpenType PostScript Fonts Troublesome in 10.6.7
Could this be my problem? If so, then only Apple can fix.
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