Franco T. wrote:
as you can see from the attached file, my use of XMLMind for writing notes for
my students is growing day by day and I think I am not doing that bad after
all. Also your merit, thank you.
I must say that, for some kind of operations, I find more practical to use
BBEdit for editing and XMLMind for compiling.
I'm sorry but XMLmind XML Editor is an XML Editor and definitely not an
XML publishing environment or an XML IDE (used for "compiling" XML).
You seem to prefer to use a text editor to edit XML rather than our
product, which means that you are not an ordinary user of our product.
(In fact, you should not use XMLmind XML Editor at all.)
Support costs us time and money. I don't see why we would bother spend
time answering the questions of a user as atypical as you.
Once again, please give up the idea of using XMLmind XML Editor Personal
Edition and be informed that we'll no longer answer to any of your emails.
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PS: I reviewed all the "bugs/imperfections" you have reported. These are
NOT bugs.
--> For example, the solution for PDF problem (1) and (2) is a FAQ:
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When I convert documents written in Russian (or Polish or Czech or any
non-western language) to PDF, almost all characters are replaced by the
"#" character. Is there a workaround for this problem?
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http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_pdf_fonts
--> Custom keyboard shortcuts may be defined by the end-user as
explained in this tutorial:
Custom keyboard shortcuts
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/custom_bindings/index.html
--> About your "MaterialiOS.xml" (which lacks xml:lang="it" on its root
element; hence no “Capitolo” in the PDF), a <para> may not contain a
<m:math>, an error which could not happen if you used XMLmind XML Editor
to create "MaterialiOS.xml".
Toolbar button "Add MathML Equation"
2. How to add equations to your XML documents
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/mathml/how_to.html
inserts an <inlineequation> which itself contains a <m:math>:
http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/inlineequation.html
Following are a couple of bug/imperfections reports and a few little
suggestions about how your XMLMind program could possibly be further improved.
Bugs/imperfections:
1) <screen><emphasis role="bold"> −e file</emphasis> # vera se il file
esiste</screen>
prints in the pdf:
#e file # vera se il file esiste
that is, the hyphen is rendered as #
2) The insertion of some characters by the “Characters” panel, is poorly
rendered in pdf (see attached image for the greater-equal sign);
3) The use of the tag <userinput> to render a command line, causes the command
line to be printed in the pdf with a different character size from the command
output, so that the two lines have columns out of alignment (not a great idea for a
terminal session transcript).
Suggestions:
1) Since it is such a frequent operation, I would suggest to add a keyboard
shortcut to DocBook -> Insert or edit indexterm...
2) Same for reloading a document (as I said, very often, although not always, I
use an external text editor so, to compile, I need XMLMind to re-read a
modified file each time). A keyboard shortcut for that would save many trips to
the menus.
3) Also the DocBook -> Convert Document -> Convert to PDF is such a frequent
operation that a keyboard shortcut would be much welcome.
Questions:
1) When I use href (as in <xref linkend="Proc_gen”/>) I get a very long
reference string (Section 6.3, “Generazione dei processi”). I would like better a simple
“Section 6.3”. Is it possible/easy to get such a shorter label?
2) Is there a way to get “Chapter”, “Section” “Table of contents” ecc. in
italian (“Capitolo”, “Sezione”, “Indice dei contenuti”)?
3) I constantly get an error: “[1] element "math" from namespace
"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" not allowed in this context”
for the formula starting at line 1984 (beside that, it is very poorly rendered
in the pdf). Is there a better way to insert math in a text? What am I doing
wrong?
That’s it
Thanks again and all the best
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