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Re: [Serna] formatting gets lost when switching to markup view

2008-05-06T13:40:03

Hello Jakob, Markup view is designed for working with script-like documents where seeing XML tags is helpful. For navigation in Serna it's better to use ContentMap and context hints. Markup has its own background colours and it's impossible to switch it off. Thank you. Regards, Daria Chernova On Sun, 4 May 2008, Jakob Fix wrote:

[Serna] formatting gets lost when switching to markup view

Jakob Fix — 2008-05-04T14:29:31

Hello, I am a new user of Syntext Serna. I have created a xsl fo stylesheet to customise the look for my documents. Among other things, I have added background colours to a number of elements. When switching to markup view where all element tags are displayed, the background colours disappear. How can I avoid this? It is really helpful to see the background colours. Thanks in advance. -- cheers, Jakob.

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2008-05-04T14:11:53

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Re: [Serna] Feature request - copy/paste from external applications

2008-03-04T09:17:29

Hello Seraphim, Serna does not have this functionality now. We'll add it in our future feature-list. By now, we may suggest you the following work-around: - copy formatted content in some application - select a portion of document with place where you are planning to paste the formatted content (in Serna) - call Edit -> Edit Selection as Text - paste your formatted content in the appropriate place, press OK -> Serna inserts the content with tags. Have you any other questions please feel free to contact me. Thank you. Regards, Daria Chernova On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Seraphim Larsen wrote:

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2008-03-03T23:34:06

[Serna] Feature request - copy/paste from external applications

Seraphim Larsen — 2008-02-28T20:44:28

When copying/pasting formatted content into Serna (e.g., from a web browser, or from Word), Serna seems to just dump it all as text, without any tags at all. I've used some other editors that seem to have more intelligence when pasting -- for example, it's no problem to copy a table from Firefox and paste it into a DITA topic, and preserve all the table formatting. Can Serna already do that, but I just haven't turned on the right preferences or something? Thanks! Seraphim

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2008-01-16T01:10:54

Re: [Serna] Apparent Bug In Text Mode: Inserting < results in <<

2008-01-15T12:54:27

Hello Eliot, We've reproduced the issue. It's sent to our developers. Thank you. Regards, Daria Chernova On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Paul Antonov wrote:

Re: [Serna] A better way to display < at >ttributes and their legal values

2008-01-14T14:46:43

Hedley, Thank you for these suggestions. We'll work them out. Regards, Daria On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Hedley Finger wrote:

Re: [Serna] Changing the font size in the editing pane

2008-01-14T14:40:07

Hedley, we've added the body font size parameter into the XSLT Parameters list for DITA documents. Thank you. Regards, Daria On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Paul Antonov wrote:

Re: [Serna] More convenient "Insert Symbol" dialogue

2008-01-14T14:15:07

Hello Hedley, Thank you for your suggestions. They are added into our future-release-feature list. Thank you. Regards, Daria Chernova On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Hedley Finger wrote:

Re: [Serna] Migrating Custom DITA Templates from 3.4 to 3.5.1

2008-01-14T09:58:24

Hello Eliot, We've added some information in our Documentation (offline version) about Document Template Development. See: Syntext Serna 3.5 Developer's Guide -> Document Template Development -> Introduction to Document Template Development. In the online there is still an old version of Serna's Documentation. It'll be renewed soon. Thank you. Regards, Daria Chernova

Re: [Serna] Maddeningly difficult to insert some DITA elements

2008-01-14T09:01:02

Hello Hedley, We've fixed this bug. Thanks for your help. Regards, Daria On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Paul Antonov wrote:

Re: [Serna] Apparent Bug In Text Mode: Inserting < results in <<

Paul Antonov — 2008-01-10T17:20:51

Eliot, of course this may be a bug. We will research this issue. Regards,

[Serna] Apparent Bug In Text Mode: Inserting < results in <<

Eliot Kimber — 2008-01-09T18:33:21

Using Syntext Serna v3.5.1 - 20071123.16371 on OS X, I was using text mode to correct a document that had literal "<" characters. I did this by typing "<", copying it to the clipboard then pasting it in place of literal "<" characters. When I do that Serna consistently inserts two "<" references. Cheers, Eliot

Re: [Serna] A better way to display legal elements

Don Day — 2008-01-09T18:06:04

Hedley, what would you do with the element, which has a "placement" attribute for inline or break? It's the only one I can think of at this time with a changeable behavior, but I thought I'd toss out the prospect of others that might have a "block or inline" identity crisis, especially as a result of a specialization that might change its override behavior in the content. Would it make sense to organize the list by relative level in the document hierarchy? For example,

is probably not used as often as

, which is not used as often as its allowed child elements. So by inverting that list, the most common ones might conceivably be the easiest to pick from, at least initially (as the history-based list is being built). The nice thing is that this can be inferred from the Schemas at the time the document is opened--it does not require anyone's definition work through a sidefile, for example, that defines which is block and which is inline (information that is not automatically available an

[Serna] A better way to display < at >ttributes and their legal values

Hedley Finger — 2008-01-09T00:02:33

[Serna] A better way to display legal elements

Hedley Finger — 2008-01-08T23:44:41

At the moment, all elements that are legal at a particular point are shown in one long alphabetically ordered list. Why not split this list into two lists, one for block elements like

, and the other for embeddable elements, like ? In the case of DITA documens, you might even colour the backgrounds behind the latter by domain. This way, the structural elements would be largely separated from the 'formatting' elements. By the way, I like the way that frequently inserted elements float to the top of the list in bold whence they can be inserted quickly with the Alt key shortcut. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail public.gmane.org>

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2008-01-08T23:01:04

Re: [Serna] Changing the font size in the editing pane

Paul Antonov — 2008-01-08T20:53:29
Hedley, we will modify the stylesheet to include the body font size into the XSLT Parameters list. Thanks for the suggestion. Regards,