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I do agree with Julian that we shouldn't put too much effort in
making this an HTML editor, because whatever we accomplish it will
still be awkward. The real solution is creating an HTML 5 editor...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 3-5-2013 14:01, Julian Tenney
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span> 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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You need to use
some caution - it was never intended as an HTML editor. In
fact it was intended to NOT be an HTML editor, that was the
point. Because of the way Flash (aka the wizard, not the
engine) handles XML it is not easy to escape it properly – I
have tried. Others are welcome to try again…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Query re formatting?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However it is proving a bit unpredictable
in the code. Can anyone advise us on the following?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- 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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- 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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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