XXE 4.1, editing a DocBook book.
I'm using "Document structure" view for quickly move in large
documents. However, I have not enough space on a 1280x1024 screen to
keep it visible, as I do this:
<windowLayout>
<center css="DocBook" />
<bottom css="Document structure" size="0.001" />
</windowLayout>
Whenever the ToC is needed, I resize the bottom view to bigger with
the mouse, click on the desired title in it, and the drag it back to
it's minimum size. (Yeah, lame enough... I hope I will find it's
possible to assign these operations to keyboard short-cuts. But
ideally the bottom view should also be automatically minimized when I
click on a title.)
The bug: When I click on a title in the structure view, the cursor
jumps to the correct position in views; so far so good. But when I try
to decrease the height of the bottom view, the cursor suddenly jumps
away to some apparently random place (several "pages" away from where
it should be), hence spoiling the whole navigation thing. This doesn't
occur if I only do a little resizing, but any serious height change
will trigger this. Interestingly, when I select the title in the
structure view (for example with double clicking), the cursor will not
jump away. So maybe it's trivial to fix.
Oh, and bug 2: If I switch the CSS within the same view (like
back-and-forth between DocBook and Document Structure views), I also
lose the cursor position, find myself elsewhere where I wanted to get
to. So it's not good for navigation either. I'm actually quite
surprised on that, as I believed that's the intended way of
navigation, only it's far too slow for me (document not small enough),
while I had no performance problems with two parallel views.
Actually, how do you guys navigate when using your own product? Do I
miss something?
(BTW, it would like to note again that it would be good if XXE
provides a *convenient* and fast ToC navigation view out-of-the-box
(i.e., without the user digging himself into the topic of writing
custom configurations, if it's possible to achieve it that way at
all). Think about potential users downloading your stuff for a trial;
I would think that you often fall under too fast, as efficient
navigation is on the checklist of many, I'm certain. Isn't that a low
hanging fruit for you? I mean, almost everything is on place for that,
so... why not?)
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Best regards,
Daniel Dekany
