On Dec 16, 2013, at 7:47 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/16/2013 6:32 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:49 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> All of which is utterly moot, because it doesn’t work with our documents: >>> It requires that you open each file separately for editing. It will display >>> the whole document just fine, but it won’t let you edit anything that’s in >>> a separate file. It’s too dumb, even when the master document is opened as >>> a document set, to go look at the master document for the attribute >>> references, so none of the chapter files will load. >> Editing entities inline is tougher than you think because entities can have >> quite a different environment than the parent document. This is probably >> not true of GnuCash documents, but in the general case can be. I was >> involved in implementing that one time and it's not trivial. It's more >> likely that they allow editing of XIncludes inline than entities (although I >> haven't looked so I don't know for sure) and we could probably change things >> to use them instead of entities. >> >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > As a non-developer who is used to simple editors like e-mail editors up > to the various Office Suite editors, I can report that my first try to > generate a patch file with TortoiseGit was not completely successful, > but it seemed close enough for that example. > > One of the difficulties that I had was figuring out which steps had to > be done online or offline and in which order in which software since > there were several programs and files involved in that unfamiliar > setting. I thought I was juggling six bowling pins at once. > > I think that a developer could put together an instruction sheet with > all the specific details to use it on those specific GnuCash documents > in the current format. John already put most of it earlier in this thread. > > If there were some references to examples of similar XML, the form of > the syntax is easy, but valid tags and their definitions for that > particular style and nesting are not so easy, but not too hard either. > > I still have a working copy of Lotus WordPro which even today is my > favorite editor for certain types of documents and XML is one of those > types. In Windows with the end-of-line issue, a recommendation for an > editor that respects that would help too. Will Lotus WordPro work with our DocBook files? The only editor so far that I can recommend is the one Geert found, Serna (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sernafree.mirror/). Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
