Yes, I'm using the styled ditamap to do the work – adding topics, changing the hierarchy, inserting placeholder topicrefs. The navigation pane has the advantage of being more compact, though; I can see more of the structure without scrolling, and it is handy to see at a glance which topicrefs are tasks, which are concepts and which are placeholders with no link.
Thinking on, the colour-coding might actually be distracting in the ditamap view; but could perhaps be optional? On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/08/2014 10:57 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > >> Is there any trick for getting these two views of a library to move in >> synch? I thought at first of training myself to use one or the other, >> but I can't add topicrefs in the navigation pane (afaik) and don't get >> the useful colour-coding (task, concept, 'reserved for future >> development') in the ditamap. >> >> I have no idea how much work it would require, but a new context-menu >> option "Highlight in map/navigation pane" might be a nice-to-have. >> >> > I'm sorry but the Navigation Pane and the DITA map opened as a styled view > of XXE have not been designed to be used together (well, at least not all > the time). > > As of v5.9 (March 27, 2014), the DITA map opened as a styled view of XXE > is an excellent map editor, allowing to easily create empty topics and then > to add topicrefs corresponding to these newly created topics. > > See screenshot: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/screenshots/dita_map.png > > The Navigation Pane is useful when you need to populate the newly created > topics with prose and/or modifying existing topics. In order words, the > Navigation Pane is useful because it allows you to concentrate on the prose > you are writing, no matter the overall size of you document and the file > structure of your document. > > > > --- > PS: If you take the time to explain us why colour-coding (task, concept, > 'reserved for future development') is useful in the styled view of a DITA > map, may be we'll implement it. (No technical difficulty.) > >
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