Hussein,
Thanks for your quick response. I have taken a look at the links
below, I see the node path and that contains <primary> and have been
able to type in a term.
Feeling a bit dense, but I cannot find the DocBook menu/menu item. I
get what you are saying about indexterm editor and it looks great but
I can't find anyway to invoke it.
Where will I find the DocBook menu/menu item please?
Thanks again, Kim
Quoting Hussein Shafie <[email protected]>:
On 10/01/2014 04:52 AM, Kim Melson wrote:
Am using your Trial version that I downloaded and installed a couple of
days ago.
I am doing index tags.
XMLmind XML Editor has a dedicated <indexterm> editor. More info at
the very end of this email.
When I insert a tag, I can get the indexterm
tag, but the next Ctrl-I which should give me 'primary' only gives me
'citetitle'.
The newly inserted <indexterm> contains by default a <primary>,
therefore suffice to type the primary term right away.
The next Ctrl-I (=Insert *Into*) inserts a child element into the
element containing the caret.
As explained above, this element is <primary> and not <indexterm>.
The content model of <primary>
(http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/primary.html) allows to contain
<citetitle>, among dozens of other ``inline'' elements (<code>,
<command>, <computeroutput>, etc).
The basics of editing in XMLmind XML Editor are explained in this
tutorial (screencast available):
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/basic_edit/index.html
Even shorter tutorial (screencast available):
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/quickstart.html
Also when I want to enter an attribute -- sortas -- it is not in the
attributes list, nor can I type it in with a value, just get a beep.
sortas is an attribute of <primary>. You must select, explicitly or
implicitly, <primary> in order to be able to able to add this
attribute.
Just after you insert <indexterm>, this <indexterm> is explicitly
selected (red box around it; "indexterm" shown in the node path
bar). Hence no sortas attribute.
Now if you simply click inside this <indexterm>, you in fact click
in its <primary> child and by doing this, you implicitly select the
<primary>. Now you have the sortas attribute.
Turning on --temporarily-- the visible tags (menu item "View|Show
Tags") may help you understanding what happens.
Once again you are loosing your time with XMLmind XML Editor if you
don't take the time to learn how it works. XMLmind XML Editor is
definitely not intuitive to use. However it's simple, quick and very
straightforward to use once you understand its basics. (Think of
attempting to use Adobe Photoshop without understanding selections.)
The good news is that you don't need to learn how XMLmind XML Editor
works if you are just adding index terms to a document. Suffice to
use our *dedicated* *indexterm* *editor*. See below.
I'm following a class tutorial for an online UC Berkeley Embedded
Indexing class.
Are these features not available in the trial version?
These features are indeed available in the trial version. In fact,
all features are.
Any ideas where I have gone astray? Any suggestions or help
appreciated. Am happy to go to a support forum if there is one.
I suggest that you always use the dedicated <indexterm> editor (menu
item "DocBook|Insert or Edit indexterm").
See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/docbook/docbook_menu.html#docbook_indexterm_editor
You can use it to insert a <indexterm> and/or to modify an existing
<indexterm> after you click anywhere inside it.
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