--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_Daxe_Introduction.tex 2024/03/27 16:39:44 1.1 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_Daxe_Introduction.tex 2024/09/18 04:11:17 1.2 @@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ \textbf{Daxe Editor Overview} -The LON-CAPA Daxe editor lets authors edit HTML files and LON-CAPA problem files. -It provides a dynamic graphical user interface with a preview, making it easy to see the resulting web page. -Daxe understands the LON-CAPA language perfectly, providing a list of elements that can be inserted at the -cursor position, and checking the file validity in real-time. +The LON-CAPA Daxe editor is one of the editors which may be available in your domain for editing HTML files and LON-CAPA problem files. +It provides a dynamic graphical user interface with a preview to facilitate viewing of changes to the +resulting web page. +As Daxe understands the LON-CAPA language perfectly, it will provide a list of elements that can be inserted at the +cursor position, and can check file validity in real-time. Daxe is an alternative to the LON-CAPA ``colorful'' editor (which is the current editor by default). Compared to the ``colorful'' editor, Daxe provides a more dynamic interface: elements can be inserted anywhere @@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ at any time without the need for saving Daxe also provides a preview that is updated whenever the document is saved. Daxe is not meant to replace the source editor (which is sometimes called ``plain text editor'', -or ``XML editor'' even though its syntax is not XML): this text editor can still be useful to fix errors +or ``XML editor'': this text editor can still be useful to fix errors in a document syntax, and for authors who prefer to use a simple text editor. Note that when Daxe is used, the resulting document will always have a correct syntax, -so it is a better-suited editor for authors who are not used to the syntax. +so it is a better-suited editor for authors who are not familiar with the syntax.