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DocBook 5 Author Mode Actions

A variety of actions are available for DocBook 5 documents in the DocBook5 menu, toolbar, contextual menu, and the Content Completion Assistant.

DocBook 5 Toolbar Actions

The following default actions are available on the DocBook toolbar when editing in Author mode (by default, most of them are also available in the DocBook5 menu and in various submenus of the contextual menu):

DocBook5 Contextual Menu Actions

The following actions are available in the contextual menu when editing in Author mode (most of them are also available in the DocBook5 menu at the top of the interface):

Edit Attributes
Displays an in-place attributes editor that allows you to manage the attributes of an element.
Insert submenu

This submenu includes the following insert actions that are specific to the DocBook framework:

Insert Equation
Opens the XML Fragment Editor that allows you to insert and edit MathML notations.
Insert Paragraph
Inserts a new paragraph element at current cursor position.
Insert Section
Inserts a new section element in the document, depending on the current context.
Insert Entity
Allows you to insert a predefined entity or character entity. Surrogate character entities (range #x10000 to #x10FFFF) are also accepted. Character entities can be entered in one of the following forms:
  • #<decimal value> - e.g. #65
  • &#<decimal value> - e.g. &#65
  • #x<hexadecimal value> - e.g. #x41
  • &#x<hexadecimal value> - e.g. &#x41
Style submenu
This submenu includes the following text styling actions:
Section submenu

The following actions are available in this submenu:

Link submenu

The following actions are available in this submenu:

Table actions

The following table editing actions are available in the contextual menu when it is invoked on a table:

Other Actions submenu
This submenu give you access to all the usual contextual menu actions.
Text submenu

This submenu contains the following actions:

To Lower Case
Converts the selected content to lower case characters.
To Upper Case
Converts the selected content to upper case characters.
Capitalize Sentences
Converts to upper case the first character of every selected sentence.
Capitalize Words
Converts to upper case the first character of every selected word.
Count Words
Counts the number of words and characters (no spaces) in the entire document or in the selection for regular content and read-only content.
Note:
The content marked as deleted with change tracking is ignored when counting words.
Refactoring submenu

Contains a series of actions designed to alter the XML structure of the document:

Review submenu

This submenu includes the following actions:

Track Changes
Enables or disables the Track Changes support for the current document.
Accept Change(s) and Move to Next
Accept All Changes
Reject Change(s) and Move to Next
Reject All Changes
Highlight
Enables the highlighting tool that allows you to mark text in your document.
Colors
Allows you to select the color for highlighting text.
Stop highlighting
Use this action to deactivate the highlighting tool.
Remove highlight(s)
Use this action to remove highlighting from the document.
Manage Reviews
Opens the Review view.
Folding submenu

This submenu includes the following actions:

About Element > Go to Definition

Moves the cursor to the definition of the current element.

Inspect Styles
Opens the CSS Inspector view that allows you to examine the CSS rules that match the currently selected element.
Options
Opens the Author mode preferences page where you can configure various options with regard to the Author editing mode.

DocBook 5 Drag/Drop (or Copy/Paste) Actions

Dragging a file from the ProjectProject Explorer view and dropping it into a DocBook 5 document that is edited in Author mode, creates a link to the dragged file (the <link> DocBook element) at the drop location. Copy and paste actions work the same.

You can also drag images or media files from your system explorer or the ProjectProject Explorer view and drop them into a DocBook 5 document (or copy and paste). This will insert the appropriate element at the drop or paste location (for example, dropping/pasting an image will insert the <imageobject> DocBook element with an <imagedata> child element and a @fileref attribute).

Note: