On 11 Oct 2017, at 17:32, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 10/11/2017 01:34 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
What if the XMLmind editors allowed me to create links from valid
URLs
in 3 simple steps:
1. Insert/Write/Identify a valid URL in your XMLmind document
(Docbook,
Dita, XHTML);
* E.g. https://example.com
2. Select that URL;
3. Click the Link-creation button.
OK. We'll try implement this RFE in the next version of XMLmind XML
Editor.
Super happy to hear!
Voila! Ready! (Although the user may post-edit the link text, if
he/she
wants.)
* Expected code as result, HTML example:
o <a href="https://example.com";>https://example.com</a>
* Actual behavior today, HTML example:
o <a href="???">https://example.com</a>
o In the document, however, the link element has already
changed
color to blue, so it “looks ready” - which in itself
sometimes
is confusing.
o To actually complete the element, one must perform at minimum
5
additional steps (after the 3 steps I mention above):
0. often I find that I need first to reselect the very link
element;
1. now, go to/look at the editor’s attribute editing
interface;
2. then select the right attribute - href;
3. then one must select the old content ("???")
4. and then one must paste the URL into the field)
+ (you might even need to re-copy the URL before you
can
paste it!)
5. and finally press enter.
Meanwhile when you'll need this feature, think about recording the
above sequence of action in a macro and binding last recorded macro to
a keyboard shortcut.
This is what I personally do instead of repeating the above tedious
sequence over and over.
Tutorials:
* Automating repetitive tasks by recording macros,
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/record_macro/index.html
* Custom keyboard shortcuts,
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/custom_bindings/index.html
Thanks.
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My justifications for this proposal:
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3.
One of the defacto competitors for WYSIWYG-like editors like the
XMLmind editors, is intermediate markup such as MarkDown and Wiki
text.
Yes, that's right and we don't really understand why.
That’s a really interesting comment. It might be because a) certain
things - such as links - are sometimes less tedious via MarkDown than
via WYSIWYG; b) Markdown does not “get in the way”; c) the
authoring enviroment should focus on structure, and markdown achieves
that quite brilliantly; d) it looks the same accross all platforms. And
more ...
We have created something similar to Markdown and Wikitext called APT
("Almost Plain Text";
https://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html) several
years before Markdown and Wikitext were invented. We didn't find APT
good enough for authoring advanced documentation, that's why we ended
up creating XMLmind XML Editor.
Cool! Did not know.
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