I like to reflect each new level of containment by consistently indenting four spaces (you might prefer two spaces). Books contain chapters, chapters contain sections, sections contain paragraphs, etc. I have Sublime Text configured to show me every single space as a small faint dot, since I like to be certain I have no stray whitespace anywhere. You may be able to set your editor to translate the tab key to a certain number of spaces, or to translate tabs to spaces when you save a file (and these behaviors are useful). Never use tabs, they can only cause problems. An example is that you can add as much whitespace as you like between the paragraphs of a section, such as a preceding blank line and indentation, and none of it will affect your output in any way. In other parts of a PreTeXt document, every single whitespace character is ignored, and you have the freedom to use indentation and blank lines to help you understand the logical structure of your document.
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#TEXTWRANGLER FORMAT XML CODE#
But you can indent all of your code to match your XML indentation and the entire (or ) content will be uniformly shifted left to the margin in your final output. Since Sage code mostly follows Python syntax, indentation is important and leading spaces must be preserved. In some parts of a PreTeXt document, every single whitespace character is important and will be transmitted to your output, such as in the and portions of a element. Unlike some other markup languages, PreTeXt does not ever use whitespace to convey formatting information. For us they are space, non-breaking space, tab and newline (also known as a “carriage return” and/or “line feed”). The term whitespace refers to characters you type but typically do not see.
#TEXTWRANGLER FORMAT XML HOW TO#
But see (((topic-git-coexistence))) which has hints on how to best use git together with a PreTeXt project and look for Beezer and Farmer's Git For Authors. The hands-down favorite is git which has a steep learning curve, and so is beyond the scope of this guide. If you are writing a book, or if you are collaborating with co-authors, then you owe it to yourself and your co-authors to learn how to use revision control, which works well with PreTeXt. Invest a little time early on to learn, and configure, your editor and you can be even more efficient about capturing your ideas with a minimum of overhead and interference. Sublime Text recognizes that I already have a elsewhere, so when I start my second section, I very quickly (and automatically) get a short list of choices as I type, with the one I want at the top of the list, or close to it. If your editor can predict your opening tag, all the better. This one shortcut can pretty much cut your authoring overhead in half. Not only is this quick and easy, I often recognize that I am not getting the tag I expected since I forgot to close one earlier. For me, in Sublime Text on Linux, I just press Alt-Period and get a closing tag. Discover this first and consider switching editors if it is not available. Your editor should know what tag to close next and there should be a simple command to do that. Learn to Use Your Editor.īecause XML requires a closing tag for every opening tag, it feels like a lot of typing. We have one recommendation for a spell checker, which you can read about later in Section E.2. They do have some advantages and XML Copy Editor is one that I have found that is possibly useful. There are XML editors, which I have generally found too complex for authoring in PreTeXt. Support for writing HTML sometimes translates directly to good support for XML. Sometimes these editors are known as a programmer's editor (though we will be doing no programming).
#TEXTWRANGLER FORMAT XML LICENSE#
I have had a very good experience with Sublime Text, which is cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux), and can be used for free, though it has a very liberal license and is well worth the cost.
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Popular text editors include vi, emacs, Notepad, Notepad++, Atom, TextWrangler, and BBEdit. In other words, do not create your source with Word, LibreOffice, WordPerfect, AbiWord, Pages or similar programs.
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Your source should be plain ASCII files which you will create with a text editor. At least skim through the following, come back here often, and also consult (((exhaustive-chapter-on-source-files))). There are a lot of details related to how you prepare your source: the actual files that you, and you alone, will create. Feature Requests and Reporting Problems.Writing Your Student-Friendly Math Textbook.