In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaves like that in the first place. This week, a support question came in inquiring how they could have more control in ID generation! As usual, support question! This one read like this: We […]
Fonto: Why & How: How do I generate IDs in a more predictable way?! 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 sees enabled operations for a document they have no rights to edit! A support question came in: an author loaded a document
Fonto Why & How: Why is my operation on a locked document enabled?! Read More »
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 found their editor to slow down while typing! A support request came in: When we load a huge document, we notice a significant slowdown in just about everything.
Fonto Why & How: Why is typing so slow?! 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 gets an error caused by a cyclic dependency in their configuration! A developer just updated something in a random file, after which
Why is my configuration cyclic!? 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 wondering how to do something asynchronous in a template! A support issue came in that went a little like this: Hey
How do I do async things in a template!? Read More »
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 got into a fight with XPath when trying to target a specific element! A support issue came in with the following description: Hello, I am trying to select
My selector does not match?! 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 wondering how to use XPath in markup labels! A support ticket came in with the following question: Hey, We’d like to
How do I make dynamic markup labels!? 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 uses an uncommon way to defined sublists: with different element names! A support question came in that went a little like this:
Fonto Why & How: My sublists are not nested!? Read More »
Fonto 8.0 is introducing TypeScript! To fully benefit of TypeScript you need to convert your editor. In this blog post I want to show how easy it is to convert your editor to TypeScript. I will exhibit how we upgraded our DITA example configuration from JavaScript to TypeScript. This effort took around a day and
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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 confused because the callback for their MutationHook is called a lot! This one came in from the support board. Summarized, a
Fonto Why & How: My hooks are too spammy?! Read More »
