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<p>Hi Radu,</p>
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<p>Thank you also for this reply (on the DITA Users List).</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
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<p>Frank<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.12.2022 um 08:10 schrieb Radu
Coravu via groups.io:<br>
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<p>Hi Frank,</p>
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<p>Here are some answers to your remarks, if you need more help
about how Oxygen works you can contact us directly:</p>
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<li>It seems that a DITA map loads all the referenced submaps
and displays all of these maps in a single window panel (as
if this was a single file). In FM I see only the references
and open the submaps as separate files by double-clicking on
them.</li>
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In Oxygen a DITA Map can be opened both in the DITA Maps Manager
view and in the main editing area where it can be edited in either
the Author or the Text editing modes.
<p>I will assume you are referring to opening a DITA Map in the
Author visual editing mode. In the Oxygen Preferences->"DITA
/ Maps" page you have a checkbox named "Expand references to
other maps when opening a map in the Author mode".<br>
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<li>I feel lost in these maps. There are lots of big fonts,
frames, colored backgrounds, icons... Can I customize the
appearance? For example, by defining CSS-like styles for the
DITA elements displayed on the screen?</li>
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Yes, sure. The visual editing is CSS based. We have a CSS
inspector view which can be used to debug what CSS styles apply to
render a certain element in a certain way:
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/author-css-inspector-view.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/author-css-inspector-view.html</a></p>
<p>and you can contribute your own CSS for customizing the editing
aspects:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/customizeDITACSS.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/customizeDITACSS.html</a><br>
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<li>The Outline view is a bit similar to FM's Structure View.
But I am used to setting the cursor into the Structure View
to precisely define the point where to insert an element.
This does not work in oXygen.</li>
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Different applications have different features. Oxygen has a
tooltip window showing the context which appears when moving the
caret in the content, it also has various tags display modes which
may be useful to properly place the cursor. Maybe you can use
those instead of the Outline.<br>
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<li>I'd like to see text and images without any tags in one
window panel and the DITA structure with elements and
attributes in a separate panel. I know I can switch off tags
and use the Outline view, but I am not sure if this really
gives me full control over everything...<br>
</li>
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The Oxygen Outline is mostly intended to show the structure of the
content and allow you to select elements. <br>
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<li>How does oXygen visualize conditionalized content
(included/excluded via a ditaval file)?</li>
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Here's a link to the Oxygen user guide:
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/dita-profiling-conditional-text.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/dita-profiling-conditional-text.html</a></p>
<p>with some videos/webinars referenced at the end.<br>
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<li>Can I define a fixed page size in oXygen? I'd like to set
a page width (height is not important) to make sure that
images fit on the page and that table columns are not too
narrow (in PDF deliverables). Setting an image resolution is
also important.</li>
</ul>
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<p>By default Oxygen shows a US-letter outline around an edited
DITA topic. But this does not impose maximum width constraints,
in a way in this regard Oxygen behaves more like a web browser,
not like a PDF renderer.</p>
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<p>Hope this helps.<br>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Radu</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor</pre>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/22 18:42, Frank Dissinger
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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>Are there any passionate long-term structured FrameMaker
users who have changed to oXygen as a DITA editor? Has anybody
tried to set up the oXygen authoring environment as close as
possible to FrameMaker's WYSIWYG view? Or at least in a way
that makes the switch as painless as possible for a FrameMaker
user?<br>
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<p>I've been using FrameMaker V11+DITA-FMx as a DITA editor for
many years -- until recently also as a PDF transformation
engine, which I have now replaced with MiramoPDF. I have used
oXygen for a few years only and mostly as a transformation
engine. With FM I am stuck with an old DITA implementation and
the DITA-FMx plug-in is not developed any further. This is why
I would like to use oXygen as a DITA editor instead. But I
find it very hard to make the switch: The way DITA maps,
topics, tags, structures... are presented is so different and
I haven't the time to learn oXygen properly and in full
detail. It's such a powerful tool with tons of features. So I
thought there may be someone who can help me getting started
-- at least with setting up the user interface and authoring
environment.</p>
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<p>A few examples of things I am struggling with right away when
I look at how oXygen presents my DITA files:<br>
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<ul>
<li>It seems that a DITA map loads all the referenced submaps
and displays all of these maps in a single window panel (as
if this was a single file). In FM I see only the references
and open the submaps as separate files by double-clicking on
them.</li>
<li>I feel lost in these maps. There are lots of big fonts,
frames, colored backgrounds, icons... Can I customize the
appearance? For example, by defining CSS-like styles for the
DITA elements displayed on the screen?</li>
<li>The Outline view is a bit similar to FM's Structure View.
But I am used to setting the cursor into the Structure View
to precisely define the point where to insert an element.
This does not work in oXygen.</li>
<li>I'd like to see text and images without any tags in one
window panel and the DITA structure with elements and
attributes in a separate panel. I know I can switch off tags
and use the Outline view, but I am not sure if this really
gives me full control over everything...<br>
</li>
<li>How does oXygen visualize conditionalized content
(included/excluded via a ditaval file)?</li>
<li>Can I define a fixed page size in oXygen? I'd like to set
a page width (height is not important) to make sure that
images fit on the page and that table columns are not too
narrow (in PDF deliverables). Setting an image resolution is
also important.</li>
<li>...<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Regards,<br>
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<p>Frank<br>
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