Wes W. wrote:
It appears that each time we do an update for the docbook editor version all of our
custom "Convert Text" settings disappear. This causes us to have to set them
all up again each time. Is there any way that we can export these settings so we don't
have to go through this configuration after each upgrade?
My answer assumes that you are talking about the "Customize..." item
found at the end of the menus displayed by the "toggles" found at the
beginning of the DocBook tool bar. See second screenshot in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/docbook/docbook_toolbar.html .
If this is not the case, please send us another support request so we
can fix a possible bug.
--> When you use the "Customize..." item, the settings are saved here:
<XXE_user_preferences_dir>/custom/<configuration name>/custom.incl
Where <XXE_user_preferences_dir> is:
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- $HOME/.xxe8/ on Linux.
- $HOME/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor8/ on the Mac.
- %APPDATA%\XMLmind\XMLEditor8\ on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
Example: C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application
Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor8\ on Windows XP.
C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\XMLmind\XMLEditor8\ on Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
If you cannot see the "Application Data" directory using Microsoft
Windows File Manager, turn on Tools>Folder Options>View>File and
Folders>Show hidden files and folders.
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and where <configuration name> is something like "DocBook v5+".
Example of such file (I've added "application" to the menu of the "B"
toggle" to test this):
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cfg:configuration
...
<cfg:property
name="DocBook v5+.db5.boldTextStyles"
emphasis[bold]
{http://docbook.org/ns/docbook}emphasis[@role="bold";]
-
-
application
{http://docbook.org/ns/docbook}application</cfg:property
</cfg:configuration
---
Therefore when you upgrade, the new version of the DocBook Editor
automatically picks up your settings, as the contents of an existing
<XXE_user_preferences_dir> is never deleted by our product.
In a nutshell, I cannot reproduce the issue you have reported.
--> However, there are 2 cases for which DocBook Editor will indeed
ignore your existing settings:
A) You upgraded from DocBook Editor v7.x to v8.x.
In this case, <XXE_user_preferences_dir> which was something like
"C:\Documents and Settings\wes\Application Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor7\"
is now something like
"C:\Documents and Settings\wes\Application Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor8\".
(The "XMLEditor7" is not deleted by DocBook Editor v8.x; just ignored.)
B) You created your settings for DocBook V5.0 documents (configuration
name = "DocBook v5+") and you are now authoring DocBook V5.1 documents
(configuration name = "DocBook Assembly v5.1+").
(Of course, the same reasoning applies to DocBook V4 documents;
configuration name = "DocBook").
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