[Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?

Fri May 3 14:29:40 BST 2013

Hi Alistair

just a thought and I'm not sure how it would affect the accessibility etc
but as you know with the HTML 5 player you can embed iframes wherever
required so for instance to resolve the displaying of code on nested pages
you could put that code in an external html page, upload via media and quota
and embed that link via an iframe. I haven't tested it but in theory it
should work because the xml will only have the iframe code and link not the
code to display. But as I say perhaps that would reduce the accessibility?

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 03 May 2013 13:34
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?

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
To: Xerte discussion list
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] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 03 May 2013 10:04
To: 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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