11. Other features

More toolbar buttons

If you use menu entry "Options|Preferences", visit the "General|Features" section of the Preferences dialog box, select "Enable the Developer Tools" feature and restart XMLmind XML Editor, you'll get a TEI toolbar containing more buttons. The added buttons are all related to TEI elements found in technical documentation (code, ident, gi, eg, etc).

Paste As

The "TEI|Paste As" sub-menu lets you paste a text snippet or an image copied to the system clipboard (generally using an application other than XXE) as a TEI element.

• Menu entry "graphic" replaces the text or node selection if any. When there is no selection, this menu entry pastes its element at caret position (just like  Paste).
• All the other menu entries also replace the text or node selection if any. When there is no selection, these menu entries paste their elements at any valid position in the document following the caret position.

Index terms

The "TEI|Insert or Edit Index Term" menu entry displays a dialog box which can be used to insert a new index element at caret position. If the caret is anywhere inside an existing index element, then this dialog box may be used to modify this index element.

Content reuse

XMLmind XML Editor lets you reference (and not only copy) in document B any element having an xml:id attribute found in document A[1]. Of course, document A and document B may be the same document. See figure below for example.

An element reference cannot be modified. It is given a blue gray background indicating that the element is “read-only”. If you modify the original element and save the document to disk then all its references will be automatically updated.

Creating an element reference in XXE is simple and safe. It's simply a matter of using menu entry "Edit|Reference| Copy As Reference" and then " Paste Before", " Paste" or " Paste After".

Online tutorials including screencasts: "Creating a modular document"; "Inserting boilerplate content"; "Working with master documents".