[oXygen-user] Oxygen Author Mode as a Word-Processor; Was RE: Easy insertion of en/em-dash

[Robert Leif]

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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