Hi,
I've recently discovered XMLMind, and am impressed by its customization
possibilities. I'm investigating how it can be used in the short term
for a TEI-based edition project that will involve a text transcription
phase by volunteers. In this context, XMLMind's capabilities for tagless
editing and customized menu buttons are looking very promising.
In order to facilitate the editing experience, I would like to implement
following key bindings:
-DELETE: IF (caret is at last position and there is a following
sibling element) THEN unwrap following sibling element ELSE
deleteSelectionOrJoinBlockOrDeleteChar
-BACKSPACE: IF (caret is at first position and there is a preceding
sibling element) THEN unwrap preceding sibling element ELSE
deleteSelectionOrJoinBlockOrDeleteChar
That is: if the caret is right before the <add> element in following
example:
<p>This is paragraph containing <add>added text with <del>some deletions</del> as
well</add>.</p>
When the user hits the DELETE key, I would like to get following output:
<p>This is paragraph containing added text with <del>some deletions</del> as
well.</p>
Thanks to the examples, I've been able to figure out immediately how the
keys can be bound to the specific commands. Yet, I'm facing two problems
when implementing the condition in a macro:
1. How can a condition be specified that tests for the caret
position and following/preceding sibling?
2. How can an unwrap action be defined that preserves any elements
inside the tag to be removed (this means that the "convert to (text)"
function can't be used, since that will convert its content to a string
without further tags.
I think the suggestion at
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02082.html
contains useful pointers for both questions (the $dotOffset variable and
the use of <set variable>), but so far I haven't been able to make a
useful macro with them. In order to shortcut precious time: has this
been done before, and are examples available somewhere?
Best,
Ron
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