Hi Chris,
Thank you again for your reply (on the DITA Users List). I haven't had
the time to read it in full detail and try out some of the suggestions
until now.
* /Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will allow you to
change the element from one type to another./
How would you select just the opening tag? If I do that in Author mode,
the opening and closing tag with everything in between gets selected.
When I then press Enter, I can surround the tag with another. In Text
mode, the tag gets deleted when I press Enter.
* /We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that helps
writers visualize page width, as a guide to table and figure sizing./
Would you mind sharing this style with me?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Frank
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Am 07.12.2022 um 13:24 schrieb Chris Papademetrious:
Hi Frank,
If you are not using the DITA Perspective in Oxygen, I suggest
enabling it:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-author/topics/dita-perspective.html
It applies a collection of settings that are useful for DITA editing.
Some more random thoughts:
* We also find the tag-based map view in an editing window to be
somewhat overwhelming. We primarily edit maps in the following views:
o DITA Maps Manager - adding and restructuring content
o Editor window, Text view - fine-timing map attributes or
element structures
* Use keyboard shortcuts in the DITA Maps Manager - cursor keys to
move around and expand/collapse, and type the names of files to
auto-move to that matching file.
* When you select a topic editing window, if a map referencing that
topic is open in the DITA Maps Manager, it will scroll to that
topic's map entry.
o This is useful when you have multiple topic editing tabs open
and you want to quickly see the map context of each one while
editing.
* We bind a Ctrl-` (backtick) hotkey to toggling full tags on/off,
which makes it effortless to switch them on and off during
editing. This is a huge help!!
o I can provide details on how to configure this.
* Oxygen has a lot of clever shortcuts for element operations in the
editor. For example,
o Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will allow
you to change the element from one type to another.
o Placing the cursor just after the opening tag and pressing
Backspace will unwrap the tag but keep its content.
o Using Tab/Shift-tab at the beginning of list items can change
their list level, including the element structure work needed
to make it happen.
* In editing windows, there is an element ancestry shown at the top
for the current cursor position. This can be useful, especially
when tags are hidden and you want to select some containing
element (like an entire <note> element when the cursor is
somewhere inside its content).
* We use shared CSS that configures the Oxygen editor, PDF output,
and WebHelp output to all share a common style.
o As we also come from a FrameMaker background, our writers
wanted Oxygen's editing window to be as close to the PDF as
possible.
o We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that helps
writers visualize page width, as a guide to table and figure
sizing.
* Using Find in Files and XPath/XQuery Builder to quickly find
content in your maps can be helpful. Oxygen's search capability is
very fast.
Feel free to ask for more details on any aspect of this!
- Chris
*Frank Dissinger*
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