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Oxygen Author Mode as a Word-Processor; Was RE: Easy insertion of en/em-dash
by Robert Leif 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

I agree that author mode should have word-processor like features. Unfortunately, it lacks one major feature. It does not have the equivalent of a styles menu for body, paragraphs and fonts. Although, the underlying CSS page can contain all of the styling information in any order, the standard mode for a word-processor like Microsoft Word and preferably Adobe FrameMaker is to have separate menus for pages, paragraphs, fonts, etc. Since CSS has these levels, a CSS page can be and is often organized by them. Thus, a pull-down tree should be organized by them and at each level permit the user to change the style except when the style is read-only. The mechanism of making these changes should include fill-in suggestions. The result is an ultra-powerful web page and EPUB creation system that is much more powerful and versatile than Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker. Robert (Bob) Leif, Ph.D. -----Original Message----- From: oxygen-user-bounces(a)oxygenxml.com [mailto:oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com] On Behalf Of Syd Bauman Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:38 AM To: <oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Easy insertion of en/em-dash Good point. I concede that I meant in "text" mode, and don't care much what hapens in author mode. JK> I tend to disagree -- oXygen has two different products hidden below JK> "Text" and "Author" tabs. From author mode one would expect word JK> processor like features and current auto-correct options for smart JK> quotes can already be enabled/disabled. Of course in text mode JK> editor shouldn't mess with typed characters. LC> That depends on what mode you are using it under. If you are LC> editing a DocBook, DITA, TEI, etc. in Author mode, then it could be LC> considered a words 😉 processor. _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user

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Easy insertion of en/em-dash
by Cwiklowski, Don 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

I use the standard keyboard shortcut of Alt+0151, but I'd love to see en-dashes and em-dashes added to the Entities tab. I also tried added them in the code templates, and while it does work, it gives them the appearance of being actual elements, rather than character entities. Thanks, DC Message: 1 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:12:27 +0200 From: Jirka Kosek <jirka(a)kosek.cz<mailto:jirka@kosek.cz>> To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com<mailto:oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com> Subject: [oXygen-user] Easy insertion of en/em-dash Message-ID: <542C27EB.3080601(a)kosek.cz<mailto:542C27EB.3080601@kosek.cz>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, good text content should properly use en-dash and em-dash characters. Easy way to type them would be similar to how auto-correction work in some editors: Typed characters => output - => - -- => ? (en-dash) --- => ? (em-dash) ---- => - (cycle back to hyphen and so on) Has already someone implemented this as a pluging? Or would it be possible to provide this feature directly in oXygen, probably as a part of existing auto-corrections? If answer is no, I will do it myself, but I thought that I would ask first :-) TIA, Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka(a)kosek.cz<mailto:jirka@kosek.cz> http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Cwiklowski, Jr. Senior Technical Communicator Customer Technical Communications | Operations and Technology MasterCard 2200 MasterCard Blvd | O'Fallon, MO 63366 tel 636-722-6802 don_cwiklowski(a)mastercard.com<mailto:don_cwiklowski@mastercard.com> [cid:image001.gif@01CFDD74.C7F794B0]<www.mastercard.com> Please think of the environment before printing this email. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This e-mail message and any attachments are only for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution or other use of this e-mail message or attachments is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please delete and notify the sender immediately. Thank you.

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Re: [oXygen-user] Oxygen Author Mode as a Word-Processor; Was RE: Easy insertion of en/em-dash
by Graham Hay 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

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Easy insertion of en/em-dash
by Jirka Kosek 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hi, good text content should properly use en-dash and em-dash characters. Easy way to type them would be similar to how auto-correction work in some editors: Typed characters => output - => - -- => – (en-dash) --- => — (em-dash) ---- => - (cycle back to hyphen and so on) Has already someone implemented this as a pluging? Or would it be possible to provide this feature directly in oXygen, probably as a part of existing auto-corrections? If answer is no, I will do it myself, but I thought that I would ask first :-) TIA, Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka(a)kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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topicref pointing to reference topic within a glossentry topic
by Khaled Aly 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Hi I'm building a glossary using a bookmap with nested glossentry topicref elements, were transforming fine until I inserted a reference topicref within a glossentry one. The item appears inside its rendered parent topic but the rendered link cannot resolve to the corresponding page. Is there a problem in nesting a reference topicref within a glossentry in the map? The same error appears when transforming to different output formats. Thanks for any advice on this issue. Khaled ---------------------------------------------------------------- Khaled A.B. Aly, Senior Author & Analyst in ICT Technopsis Research; Cairo, Egypt (GMT+2) Technopsis.com/pro LinkedIn.com/in/kaaly +20 (0)12 2294 6280 Skype:ka.aly

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Planning to drop support for Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5 in Oxygen 17.0
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi everybody, The next Oxygen Eclipse plugin version (16.1) will probably be the last one to have support for Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5. We plan to drop support for Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5 next year when Oxygen 17.0 will get released. Does any of you still use Eclipse 3.4 or 3.5? And for what reason? Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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[ann] oXygen users meetup - San Francisco and other October events
by George Bina 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi everyone! If you happen to be around San Francisco on October 21st it will be great if you can join the oXygen users meetup! This is a free event but registration is required. You can find more details and register at: http://oxygenxml.com/events/2014/meetup-san-francisco.html I would like to take this opportunity to thank our customer Salesforce for hosting this meeting and to our special guest Eliot Kimber. You can find an overview of more October events where you can meet us below: * we will be at Lavacon in Portland (Oct 13-15) where we exhibit and present on XML review and authoring in the browser and on mobile devices http://lavacon.org/2014/ * we were invited by the STC Silicon Valley Chapter (Oct 20) to show some oXygen tips - everyone is welcome to join this meeting: http://www.stc-siliconvalley.org/2014/07/11/october-20-2014-tips-with-oxyge… * the oXygen users meetup San Francisco (Oct 21) with multiple oXygen related presentations: http://oxygenxml.com/events/2014/meetup-san-francisco.html * we will exhibit at Information Development World in San Jose (Oct 23-24) and demo oXygen review and editing across devices: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/86671/ Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Custom colors for element tags: -oxy-tags-color and -oxy-tags-background-color
by Yves Barbion 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi oXygen I'd like to use custom colors for various element tags in my Author view of oXygen XML Author, for example yellow tags for step/cmd and green tags for info. I have found this Help topic, but it does not really tell me where I can find the css file to customize: http://oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/topics/custom-colors-for-element-tags.ht… Any ideas? Thanks -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu

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EPUB 3.01 schemas
by Peter West 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

I earlier installed the html5-document-30.rnc schema to solve some validation problems with epub 3. I have run into another problem with the package file, and have downloaded the set of 301 schemas from idpf. Has anyone tried to install this set of schemas in the oxygen frameworks directories? Peter West "...her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little."

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Using XQuery Update Modifies Whole Document
by Eliot Kimber 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

I suspect this is a limitation or unavoidable consequence of how XQuery update works, or at least how Saxon does things, but I wanted to check. If I have a DTD-based document, e.g., a DITA map or topic, and apply an XQuery update to it using Saxon EE, I noticed that the entire document is updated such that the DOCTYPE declaration is removed and all defaulted attributes are now explicit in the instance, which is obviously not to be desired. Is there any way to avoid this behavior? My alternative is to use XSLT of course but I was trying to use XQuery update as being more convenient for certain types of enhancements to existing documents, namely adding attributes to existing elements. Thanks, Eliot ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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