[Xerte] Bug with the text icon

Bárbara Furtado bfurtado at student.dei.uc.pt
Wed Sep 8 12:47:32 BST 2010


Thanks a lot. It works. Is there a place where I can see all Xerte's special
chars/code (desktop version)?

2010/9/8 Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>

>  sorry missed the fact that the previous post was about Xerte not XOT.
> However it would be useful to know if there is a solution other than images
> to display special chars/code in an XOT page as this has cropped up as a
> question during f2f training.
>
>
>
> I just tested just using < with the plain text page and I don't think it is
> escaped. Here's my test file
> http://xerte5.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/play_5158
>
>
>
> Which has the following on page 1:
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> This is a test of displaying a less than symbol in an XOT plan text page
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> Testing so far indicates that either &lt or the less than symbol doesn't
> display and prevents any text after the symbol from displaying
>
>
>
> e.g. there is text after this line but not showing as this line ends with
> the less than symbol <
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> this text is after the less than symbol
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> As you'll see it doesn't show anything after the < e.g. the last line.
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> The > symbol doesn't cause the same problem as shown on page 2.
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 08 September 2010 10:04
>
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] Bug with the text icon
>
>
>
> the question is about Xerte, not toolkits. In toolkits you ought to be able
> to write <> etc anywhere - it ought to be escaped??
>
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* Wed 08/09/2010 09:53
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] Bug with the text icon
>
> Hi Julian should that work in the plain text page? It doesn't appear to.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 08 September 2010 09:32
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] Bug with the text icon
>
>
>
> Instead of <, write &lt;
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Bárbara Furtado
> *Sent:* 08 September 2010 00:29
> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Bug with the text icon
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem on Xerte, and I'm looking for someone that could
> please help me.
>
> I would like to know why I cannot write the < character in the text icon.
> When I use it, all the text bellow disappear on the preview. Those anyone
> knows how to solve this?
>
> Thanks,
> Bárbara Furtado
>
>
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