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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great tip on tables – we’ll sort that manually for the moment.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The </span><span style="color:#1F497D">< issue is a little more nuanced.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s the kind of thing he’s doing:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When he uses < the first time he gets an angle bracket but if he goes back to edit the text on a later occasion, angle brackets that worked as angle brackets suddenly become < text again. We’re going to
try to replicate it on a couple of pages to show you a before and after. At the moment the workaround is get a page right before leaving it and then don’t edit it again!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">Having said that, despite the odd bits like this we are LOVING working with XOT2.0 and excited about how much further it takes us than what we had before so well done all you superstars
of the content creation world!</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fay Cross<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2013 12:26<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ve just tried < in text on a few pages and it’s displaying as text for me. Is it a problem on just some pages types? Which ones?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I can fix the table <br> problem though. It’s adding brs in where ever there are line breaks which currently even includes in table markup. So, for example:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><table><tr><td>Hello</td></tr></table></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">... will look fine but...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><table></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><tr></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><td>Hello</td></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"></tr></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"></table></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">... will add in lots of unnecessary brs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ll get it to ignore those between table tags.</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alistair McNaught<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2013 10:04<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Query re formatting?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">A colleague and I have been working on creating a training module for publishers on accessibility metadata. The metadata is in XML format and we are trying to embed it in XOT pages to illustrate different metadata
and how it describes different parts of a book cover.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">However it is proving a bit unpredictable in the code. Can anyone advise us on the following?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">-- how does text containing the < character to work? It seems completely capricious, sometimes switching between displaying the < and trying to interpret it as markup even after you've got it all correct. In
two editing sessions, I was unable to form an understanding of what the editor was doing to my text</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">-- the application appears to insert a predictable (but not controllable) number of blank lines (as <br>) above each <table> inserted in a text box. Can this be controlled?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Any advice would be welcome. Obviously it’s brilliant to now have tables working in XOT but it would be nice if they weren’t so stuffed with BRs. And is there a way to understand < behaviour or should we be
using latex instead?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Many thanks</p>
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