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<p>Hi Chris,</p>
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<p>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. <br>
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<li><i>Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will
allow you to change the element from one type to another.</i></li>
</ul>
<p>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.<br>
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<li><i>We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that
helps writers visualize page width, as a guide to table and
figure sizing.</i></li>
</ul>
<p>Would you mind sharing this style with me?</p>
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<p>Thank you.<br>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
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<p>Frank<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">Am 07.12.2022 um 13:24 schrieb Chris
Papademetrious:<br>
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Hi Frank,<br>
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If you are not using the DITA Perspective in Oxygen, I suggest
enabling it:<br>
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<a
href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-author/topics/dita-perspective.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-author/topics/dita-perspective.html</a><br>
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It applies a collection of settings that are useful for DITA
editing.<br>
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Some more random thoughts:<br>
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<ul>
<li>We also find the tag-based map view in an editing window to
be somewhat overwhelming. We primarily edit maps in the
following views:
<ul>
<li>DITA Maps Manager - adding and restructuring content</li>
<li>Editor window, Text view - fine-timing map attributes or
element structures</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>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!!
<ul>
<li>I can provide details on how to configure this.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Oxygen has a lot of clever shortcuts for element operations
in the editor. For example,
<ul>
<li>Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will
allow you to change the element from one type to another.</li>
<li>Placing the cursor just after the opening tag and
pressing Backspace will unwrap the tag but keep its
content.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>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 <span style="font-family:
courier_newregular, courier;"><note></span> element
when the cursor is somewhere inside its content).</li>
<li>We use shared CSS that configures the Oxygen editor, PDF
output, and WebHelp output to all share a common style.
<ul>
<li>As we also come from a FrameMaker background, our
writers wanted Oxygen's editing window to be as close to
the PDF as possible.</li>
<li>We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that
helps writers visualize page width, as a guide to table
and figure sizing.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
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Feel free to ask for more details on any aspect of this!<br>
<br>
- Chris<br>
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