In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer reached out! They have a modal that manages a prolog: it can either insert a new prolog, or it can edit one. …
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner wondered how to make their toolbar dynamic. How do you hide buttons when they are not applicable?! A partner reached out. They …
Fonto Why and How: How do I make a dynamic toolbar!? Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner reached out. Their authors are ‘cutting’ referenced nodes and pasting them in different documents! How can Fonto prevent these documents from breaking?! …
Fonto Why and How: How can I prevent nodes from being ‘cut’?! Read More »
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner wondered how to insert a caption to a number of different elements. They already had an operation, but it did not always …
Fonto Why and How: How do I use document metadata!? Read More »
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner wondered how to insert a caption to a number of different elements. They already had an operation, but it did not always …
Fonto Why & How: How to insert an image caption with XQuery Update Facility Read More »
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer reached out with a question we get more often: how do I build the indent / outdent feature you have in the …
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is wondering how to run some code when a document is saved! A support ticket came in that went a little like this: Hello …
Fonto Why and How: How do I know when a document is saved? Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week is a follow-up to an earlier blog post on dealing with large documents! How did we chunk megabytes of XML?! This post is a follow-up to …
Fonto Why & How: How to chunk a single XML file like NISO-STS or JATS Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is running into TypeScript errors when calling evaluateXPath and useXPath! A support issue came in from a partner who’s following the metadata …
Fonto Why & How: Why is my useXPath giving TypeScript errors!? Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. One of our own developers was puzzled: how do I change two attributes on different elements at once? One of our own developers reached out directly …
Fonto Why & How: How do I change two attributes at once?! Read More »
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