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3: \textbf{Daxe Editor Overview}
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1.2 ! raeburn 5: 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.
! 6: It provides a dynamic graphical user interface with a preview to facilitate viewing of changes to the
! 7: resulting web page.
! 8: As Daxe understands the LON-CAPA language perfectly, it will provide a list of elements that can be inserted at the
! 9: cursor position, and can check file validity in real-time.
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11: Daxe is an alternative to the LON-CAPA ``colorful'' editor (which is the current editor by default).
12: Compared to the ``colorful'' editor, Daxe provides a more dynamic interface: elements can be inserted anywhere
13: at any time without the need for saving and reloading the document, and the display is updated immediately.
14: Daxe also provides a preview that is updated whenever the document is saved.
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16: Daxe is not meant to replace the source editor (which is sometimes called ``plain text editor'',
1.2 ! raeburn 17: or ``XML editor'': this text editor can still be useful to fix errors
1.1 raeburn 18: in a document syntax, and for authors who prefer to use a simple text editor.
19: Note that when Daxe is used, the resulting document will always have a correct syntax,
1.2 ! raeburn 20: so it is a better-suited editor for authors who are not familiar with the syntax.
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