Hi Markus et al.
I wrote "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. (Underline added). I anticipated what you want with read-only. oXygen author is very useful for webpage WISIWIG coding. Unfortunately, the authors of HTML5 made it difficult to embed XML data-types in it.
CSS formatting capabilities would potentially be a very useful tool for structured document development. I believe that we are in agreement that content and style information should be kept separate, which is what I proposed. The CSS document must be separate from the XML content. In fact, it would be quite useful when one writes a paper to be able to directly copy code written in XML into another XML document and format that code with a premade CSS style sheet. Presently in FrameMaker, I have to individually tag all of the elements, attributes, and their values, which is tedious.
I believe that the automatic generation capabilities of oXygen need to be restrained, but not eliminated.
Bob Leif
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Hi Bob,
> I agree that author mode should have word-processor like features. It does not have the equivalent of a styles menu for body, paragraphs and fonts.
Hopefully such features will never!!! be implemented in oXygen Author. I like features which makes author's work as easy as possible. And if there would be a "do what I mean button", I would be very happy about it. But all this stuff should be content and not layout oriented.
Of course, designing your XML structure with CSS-, FO designers etc. would be really cool. But this must not be part of the Xml Author (mode). I see this feature exclusive in Xml Editor, similar to XSLT and CSS editing. It is an administrative task and not author's job.
I don't want getting oXygen a word processor. I want to have it what it is, a real cool, user-friendly XML editor, which is getting better and better. If I want a word processor I would use Word. And by the way: I really like FrameMaker, but allowing users to change their layout in any case they like, is not XML.
Markus Wiedenmaier
BTW: I agree, if there will be an auto completion, it should be turned off by default.
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