A couple of improvements

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markoL
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A couple of improvements

Post by markoL »

Hi,

I've been using oXygen since version 9 and I find it to be extremely good.
Still I've always had two little nuisances and don't know how to fix them.
The only thing that comes to my mind is for the developers to add a couple of options.

Let's start with the outline panel.
I find it very useful to navigate through the document, yet I would like to have text besides parts, chapters and sections without having to explicitly define a label attribute. Instead that would be great if there was an option for these elements to pick up the contents of the nested title element.

This would be very useful because sometimes, while editing my documents, I often change a title but don't remember to modify the label attribute in the upper level part, chapter or section. And when I do it simply feels like I'm wasting time. So I often end up with mismatching descriptions in the outline. I know that I could expand the tree but it becomes quickly too messy just to navigate through the document.

Here's a small screenshot that shows what this is all about:
http://imagebin.ca/view/iblfZtrh.html

I would like to have Preamble show up beside sect1 without having to define a label attribute for the sect1 element. It should simply update whenever I change the title. Having an option to toggle this behaviour would certainly bring a boost in productivity for my workflow. Navigating through the document would become quite easier, without having too deal with an overcrowded outline view due to the excessive expanding.

The other thing that I don't think is implemented even in the latest 10.1 build is the ability to define the colour for the square brace that links opening and closing tags. I have a grey background that makes it hard to see said brace.

Here's another screenshot. I made it very big to make it easier to spot the brace:
http://imagebin.ca/view/yYTEVqJ.html

As you can see having the option to define the brace's colour would be quite a plus with my background. I would surely find the square brace very useful.

Any chance to see these small enhancements soon?
sorin_ristache
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Re: A couple of improvements

Post by sorin_ristache »

Hello,
markoL wrote:This would be very useful because sometimes, while editing my documents, I often change a title but don't remember to modify the label attribute in the upper level part, chapter or section. And when I do it simply feels like I'm wasting time. So I often end up with mismatching descriptions in the outline. I know that I could expand the tree but it becomes quickly too messy just to navigate through the document.
I logged the issue to our internal system and we will condider it for a future version.
markoL wrote:The other thing that I don't think is implemented even in the latest 10.1 build is the ability to define the colour for the square brace that links opening and closing tags. I have a grey background that makes it hard to see said brace.
You are the first one that asks this feature. We will consider it for a future version.


Thank you for your requests,
Sorin
Radu
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Re: A couple of improvements

Post by Radu »

Hi,

The first request (displaying the title text in the parent chapter, section) is already available from Oxygen 10.3.

Regards,
Radu
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