[Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?

[Alistair McNaught]

This is a very specialised bit of publisher training so really we're just looking to understand the issues so we can work around it - what has been shared so far has been very helpful and should help us meet our objective in the short term.

Many thanks

Alistair

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 03 May 2013 13:16
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?

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...

Op 3-5-2013 14:01, Julian Tenney schreef:
> 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?

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...


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 03 May 2013 10:04
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Query re formatting?

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.

However it is proving a bit unpredictable in the code. Can anyone advise us on the following?

-- 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

-- 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?

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?

Many thanks

Alistair



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