Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing supportfor DocBook

[George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>]

Elliotte Harold wrote:
[...]
> I do expect that real semantic markup may not fit in a toolbar. Menus or 
> palettes may be a better option than buttons. I do like the compromise 
> that was suggested where the i button drops down to a menu, and the user 
> has to choose the *reason* they're italicizing some text. That will 
> actually help teach users and wean them off presentational markup in a 
> way a simple one-click i-button won't.

Support for providing a drop down button with a set of actions in the 
custom toolbar was recorded on our Jira to be fixed in version 9.1. We 
just discussed about that in a meeting a few minuets ago and we decided 
to implement that support for the 9.0 release.
When the custom toolbar for a document type is defined it will be 
possible to add an "action group" and then place actions inside that 
action group. The "action group" will have a name and an icon and it 
will be presented with the icon plus a drop down arrow or, if no icon is 
specified, with the name and a drop down arrow.
Once we have this ready we will consider also some updated on the 
default customization for DocBook to take advantage of this support.

Best Regards,
George
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