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headers Roy MacLean | 1 Feb 2011 15:26

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On 02/01/2011 03:26 PM, Roy MacLean wrote:
> 
> Some of my colleagues are not seeing the ‘Topic’ menu for a valid DITA
> Topic in XXE – they get a greyed-out ‘XML’ menu.
> 
> Everything is fine on my laptop, and the configuration files should be
> essentially the same between the different machines.
> 
> What configuration differences (or something else) might cause this?
> I’ve run out of ideas...

My answer assumes that you and your colleagues all use our stock DITA
configurations. If this not the case, then sorry but I cannot help you.

If this is the case, please tell your colleague to send me one of the
DITA topics causing this problem and also tell her/him to send me
(mailto:hussein <at> xmlmind.com) a capture of her/his working environment.

In order to capture one's working environment:

[1] Select menu item "Help|About XMLmind XML Editor" by *shift*-clicking
on "About XMLmind XML Editor".

[2] Open a new file in a text editor.

[3] Press Ctrl-V to copy the contents of the clipboard.

[4] Save the text file to disk and send it to me
(mailto:hussein <at> xmlmind.com).

More information in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/helpMenu.html

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Richard Taylor wrote:
> I am using XML Mind Professional Edition 4.5.1, and am trying to figure out how to do something that I think
should be simple.
> 
>  
> 
> I have added an informaltable to my file and within the tgroup I want to add a colspec so I can adjust the width
of the columns.
> 
>  
> 
> When I search Help on “colspec” I only get a single hit (a Table rendering page).
> 
>  
> 
> So, how does one do this within XML Mind (without resorting to editing the raw file)?
> 
>  
> 
> Anxiously awaiting enlightenment,

[1] Please explicitly select the tbody.

[2] Select menu item Edit|Insert *Before* (or press Ctrl-H)

[3] Select or type "colspec" in the Edit tool.

See attached screenshot.

If your informaltable had a thead, you should have selected the thead
instead of the tbody. In a nutshell, select the right element within the
table and then use "Insert Before".

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Sorry, Hussein, once I woke up I found the reason: 
The other custom .xxe file did not include the standard xxe-config:dita/topic.xxe (mine did).
It's a while since I set this up...

Thanks for your quick response.

/Roy

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From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein <at> xmlmind.com] 
Sent: 01 February 2011 17:24
To: Roy MacLean
Cc: 'xmleditor-support <at> xmlmind.com'
Subject: Re: [XXE] Help, please - DITA Topic in XXE has no 'Topic' Menu

On 02/01/2011 03:26 PM, Roy MacLean wrote:
> 
> Some of my colleagues are not seeing the 'Topic' menu for a valid DITA
> Topic in XXE - they get a greyed-out 'XML' menu.
> 
> Everything is fine on my laptop, and the configuration files should be
> essentially the same between the different machines.
> 
> What configuration differences (or something else) might cause this?
> I've run out of ideas...

My answer assumes that you and your colleagues all use our stock DITA
configurations. If this not the case, then sorry but I cannot help you.

If this is the case, please tell your colleague to send me one of the
DITA topics causing this problem and also tell her/him to send me
(mailto:hussein <at> xmlmind.com) a capture of her/his working environment.

In order to capture one's working environment:

[1] Select menu item "Help|About XMLmind XML Editor" by *shift*-clicking
on "About XMLmind XML Editor".

[2] Open a new file in a text editor.

[3] Press Ctrl-V to copy the contents of the clipboard.

[4] Save the text file to disk and send it to me
(mailto:hussein <at> xmlmind.com).

More information in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/helpMenu.html

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On 02/02/2011 01:13 PM, Kevin Flynn wrote:
> 
> Do you have any plans that will make it possible to:
> 
> - Have a ditamap permanently visible as a kind of "contents list" while
> working on DITA topics (for example in a dedicated pane on the left)

No. However it's always possible to have the topics and the map side by
side by selecting on "Move Tab to the Opposite Side" in a document view.

See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/openedDocumentTabs.html

> - Display the title of referenced topics rather than file paths

 <at> navtitle is already displayed by the stock CSS of a map.

> - Make the topicrefs directly clickable

This is already the case. Simply click the "Edit" button (or press
shortcut "F2 e") found the tool bar of a map.

See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dita/help-2.html#map_toolbar

> 
> I imagine it's possible to achieve at least the last two of the above
> using CSS/XPath, but it would be easier to "sell" XmlMind to others if
> it looked a bit more like other XML editors "out of the box".
> 

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On 02/03/2011 11:35 AM, BARTH LIONEL wrote:
> 
> I wanted to check the link tool. I downloaded the 4.8 version on a
> macosx10.6 with a java 1.6.0_22 (java version "1.6.0_22"; Java(TM) SE
> Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04-307-10M3261); Java HotSpot(TM)
> 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.1-b03-307, mixed mode).
> 
> I have enabled the link tool in the preferences, quit and relauch
> xmleditor, the link tool panel is present but I cannot create any link,
> after selecting text the Edit --> Add or Change Link is not active (it
> is grey) just as the link panel.
> 
> What did I miss ?
> 

From what you describe, my guess is that you have opened a document
associated to an XXE configuration in which there is no <linkScheme>.

See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/linkScheme.html

Currently link schemes are defined for the following configurations:
DITA topic (not map), XHTML, DocBook 4 and 5, Slides, Simplified DocBook.

You'll find a short introduction to the Link tool
here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/changes.html#v4.6.0
You should find there answers for most of your questions.

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On 02/03/2011 01:57 PM, Sandra Sol Rodrigo wrote:
[[[ In French:
> 
> Je vous écris pour vous poser une question sur la visualisation d’images
> en miniature. On vient de mettre à jour le XMLeditor (v. 4.8) et on a
> perdu l’option de visualiser les images comme miniatures.
> 
>  
> 
> Lorsque l’on va sur préférences et que l’on coche la case « view images
> as thumbnails » les images s’affichent comme miniatures mais le cadre
> autour d’elles garde sa taille originale et cela nous pose de problèmes
> de visualisation. Est-ce qu’il y a une solution à ce problème ?
> 
>  
> 
> Ci-jointe, une image d’exemple.
]]]

Approximate translation to English:
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After upgrading to XMLmind XML Editor v4.8, we found out that menu item
"Images displayed as thumbnails" in the View menu has disappeared.

After turning on option "View images as thumbnails" in the Preferences
dialog, images are indeed displayed as thumbnails, but that a frame
around each image still shows its actual size. This poses us
visualization problems. Is there a solution to this problem?
---

There is no simple solution to your problem. You need to customize the
DocBook configuration by hand in order to restore the behavior of older
versions of XMLmind XML Editor.

We don't consider the new behavior to be a regression in the general
case. The DocBook CSS stylesheet called "thumbnails.css" has been
removed but we have replaced this specific stylesheet by a generic, more
powerful, facility implemented by the "View|Display Images" submenu. You
should give it a try. May be you'll like it.

More information here:

* http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/viewMenu.html

*
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.guiutil.PreferencesEditorDialog.html#imageViewportMode

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