November 2015 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

Multi-row tabs?
by Jostein Austvik Jacobsen 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

I often have a lot of XML-files open simultaneously. Is it possible to configure multiple rows of tabs? Something similar to this: http://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Firefox-with-multi-row-t… Jostein

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Re: [oXygen-user] Pretty Print <lb/> in Oxygen
by Syd Bauman 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

A few hours ago Ute Recker-Hamm posted a wonderful question to TEI-L, the main list for the Text Encoding Initiative.[1] She basically asked "what do y'all do to get your physical lines, as encoded with the empty TEI <lb> element, to line up nicely in oXygen?". I remember asking a similar question a few years ago, and vaguely recall being told that manipulating the options under "Preferences > Editor / Format / XML" (in particular the "Preserve space" and "Default space" lists) should get format-and-indent to do the trick. However, I recall that I never got it working to my satisfaction, and when I look through the archives of this list now, I can't find the answer I recall. So what is "it" that I want format-and-indent to do? When given a text that looks like this: view A ---- - I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make <lb/>its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live <lb/>in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, <lb/>Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining <lb/>fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without <lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows <lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty <lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, <lb/>I should have said “my universe:” but now my mind has been opened <lb/>to higher views of things. I'd like it to end up formatted as it is now -- with each <lb> starting a new line. If the desired line length were long enough, it wouldn't be changed at all. If the desired line length were shorter, it might look like this: view B ---- - I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make <lb/>its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live <lb/>in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, <lb/>Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining <lb/>fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without <lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows <lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty <lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, <lb/>I should have said “my universe:” but now my mind has been opened <lb/>to higher views of things. What I *don't* want is for format-and-indent to make it look like this: view C ---- - I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make <lb/>its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live <lb/>in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, <lb/>Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining <lb/>fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without <lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows <lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty <lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, <lb/>I should have said “my universe:” but now my mind has been opened <lb/>to higher views of things. In fact, if I had my druthers, an input document that looked like view C would come out of the processing looking like view A or B. Note ---- [1] Those of you who are members of a TEI list at Brown can find it at https://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=ind1410&L=tei-l&F=&S=&P=64155. I have not re-produced it here because I did not get the original poster's permission to do so. (Not that I think it is illegal or immoral to re-post without such permission, only that it's rude.)

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Not indent elements with 'linefeed-treatment="preserve"'?
by Tony Graham 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Is there a way that a framework can make oXygen not reindent elements that have 'linefeed-treatment="preserve"'? http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.0/ug-editor/#topics/preferences-ed… says that elements can be added to the 'Preserve space' list, but "*[@linefeed-treatment='preserve']" isn't a 'simple node test' and seems to be being silently ignored. Even if it did work, it can't be set by the 'focheck' framework. (Separately, the ability to edit an item in the list, rather than having to make a new item based on an existing item then deleting the old item, seems to me to be useful.) http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.0/ug-editor/#topics/format-and-ind… says that it can be done with CSS using 'white-space: pre', but *[linefeed-treatment=preserve] { white-space: pre; } is having no effect on Text mode 'Format and Indent Element' results. (Separately again, is there a key combination to insert a line break that doesn't also insert indenting white-space?) Regards, Tony Graham. -- Senior Architect XML Division Antenna House, Inc. ---- Skerries, Ireland tgraham(a)antenna.co.jp

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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - Sharing Application Settings
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Sharing Application Settings Posted: 24 Nov 2015 11:44 PM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/ijz2ztr8NGQ/sharing-… There are varios ways in the Oxygen standalone version through which a team of writers can share and use a set of common settings. Below I will try to list each of these possibilities along with useful links: Save the settings at project level and have all users use the same project "projectName.xpr" file in the Project view when editing. Most of the Oxygen Preference pages have a switch radio button which allows you to pass the settings to Project level and save them in the current project configuration file opened in the Project view. If you commit that Project configuration file to a version control system like GIT or SVN, all writers can open and use that project when working with the repository content. For example, when we work on the Oxygen User's Manual using our common GitHub repository, we all open in the Project view the "userguide.xpr" project which comes with various fixed options (eg: enabling automatic spell checking):https://github.com/oxygenxml/userguide You can find out more details about sharing projects here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/sharing-proje…. Create and then provide a default options XML document to others. When placed in a specific place in the Oxygen installation or referenced via a specific property in the application startup script, this default options XML document will be used by the application to provide default values for certain settings. You can find out more about how default options work here:https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/default-…. Have others manually import an options XML document which you exported from Oxygen:https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/import…. An Oxygen plugin could use our Java API to impose fixed options when the application starts using the API method: PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().setGlobalObjectProperty(key, value). In our Maven-based SDK we have a sample plugin called ImposeOptions which imposes a fixed set of options when the application starts. If you want to share document type configurations (for editing certain XML vocabulary) you can find more details in this older blog post: http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2015/08/document-type-extension-sharing.html. -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 17.1 (2015111718)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2015111718) for oXygen 17.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author). The build number can be verified in the Help -> About dialog box from the application (next to the version number). You can download the new installation kits from our web site: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html Here you can find the complete list of bug-fixes: http://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history.html#2015111718 You can follow our oXygen release/build RSS feed here: http://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this new build. Regards, Adrian -- Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020 Fax: +40-251-461482 support(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com

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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA Posted: 16 Nov 2015 01:07 PM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/sXZMCVP56Pc/possibil… Lately while attending Tekom 2015 and DITA OT Day 2015 I happened to come across two more DITA to PDF solutions that I did not know about so I tried to compile below a list of all DITA to PDF possibilities that I know of, along with some details: Legacy DITA to PDF editing solution. It is no longer distribute with DITA OT 2.x and is probably not compatible anymore with it. Default DITA to PDF solution embedded in the DITA Open Toolkit distribution. Besides Apache FOP you can also use RenderX XEP or Antenna House for publishing. It's customization can be done either via a plugin or via a PDF customization folder: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/index.html#topics/dit…. DITA to PDF using CSS. This open source DITA OT plugin was developed by Oxygen as an alternative to the default PDF publishing. It allows styling the DITA content using CSS and publishing to PDF using either Prince XML or Antenna House. Antenna House DITA OT plugin for producing PDF from DITA using Antenna House. There is also a DITA specialization plugin which allows you to set specific formatting attributes directly to DITA elements. The TopLeaf XML Publisher commercial product allows you to produce various outputs like PDF and EPUB from XML content. The application also has a visual PDF layout formatter, it comes also with a DITA OT plugin and has installation instructions for Oxygen:http://www.turnkey.com.au/tksweb/xmtp/webhelp_out/oxygen/install.html. Miramo, again a commercial solution which recently started developing support for DITA using a DITA OT plugin. Possibly user based DITA to PDF publishing will be free and server based production will require buying a license. Like TopLeaf, it also has a visual PDF layout designer. Adobe FrameMaker can also publish to PDF using its own solution. Now the question would be, why there are so many solutions available? In my opinion all these solutions are available because the default DITA to PDF output still requires quite a lot of XSLT skills in order to customize. Jarno Elovirta's PDF plugin generator covers some of the mainstream possible customizations but not all. What do you think? -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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Automatic Validation - in text mode, in Eclipse release of oXygen
by Echlin, Robert 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi I have developed some schematron rules to apply to DITA content for our staff. We use the IXIASOFT CMS Client, which means that we are using oXygen inside of Eclipse. When I open a file in Author Mode, the schematron rules are applied automatically. Red and yellow underlines flag the items considered invalid by the Schematron rules. When I switch to editing the file in Text mode, the Schematron rules are not applied automatically. I have to manually run validation. We are behind in the IXIASOFT releases, so we are using Eclipse 3.5.2 and oXygen 16.1. Is there a setting I can change to fix this? Is this fixed in oXygen 17.1? Is it fixed in newer versions of Eclipse? All my very best, Rob -- Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River Office: 613-270-5796, Cell: 613-266-8311, Skype: rob.echlin.wr

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displaying <> around element names in Schematron messages
by Echlin, Robert 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Hi Adrian and Radu et all, I want to display Schematron messages such as: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. The display in oXygen looks like this: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. I was expecting this: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. Is there a way to achieve that? Or can you add it in a future release, please? All my very best, Rob -- Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River Office: 613-270-5796, Cell: 613-266-8311, Skype: rob.echlin.wr

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