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JATS Author Mode Actions

A variety of actions are available for JATS documents that can be found in JATS menu, toolbar, contextual menu, and the Content Completion Assistant.

JATS Toolbar Actions

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

Paragraph Level Drop-Down Menu




Boxed Text: Inserts or wraps content in a box with a shaded background.
Code: Inserts or wraps content in a <code> element.
Display Quote: Inserts or wraps content in a <disp-quote> element.
Figure: Inserts a <fig> element with a <title> (inside a <caption> element). This action opens a dialog box that allows you to enter the text for the title for the figure.
Graphic Figure: Inserts a <fig> element with a <title> (inside a <caption> element), and a <graphic> element. A dialog box is displayed that allows you to enter the title for the figure, followed by a dialog box that allows you to select the URL of the graphic to be inserted.

Bold

Surrounds the selected text with a <bold> tag. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.

Italic

Surrounds the selected text with an <italic> tag. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.

Underline

Surrounds the selected text with an <underline> tag. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.

Monospace

Inserts or wraps content with a <monospace> element.

Insert MathML

Opens the XML Fragment Editor that allows you to insert and edit MathML notations.

JATS 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 JATS 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.

Boxed Text

Inserts or wraps content in a box with a shaded background.

Insert submenu

This submenu includes the following insert actions:

Figure

Inserts a <fig> element with a <title> (inside a <caption> element). This action opens a dialog box that allows you to enter the text for the title for the figure.

Graphic Figure

Inserts a <fig> element with a <title> (inside a <caption> element), and a <graphic> element. A dialog box is displayed that allows you to enter the title for the figure, followed by a dialog box that allows you to select the URL of the graphic to be inserted.

Display Quote

Inserts or wraps content in a <disp-quote> element.

Insert Paragraph

Inserts a new paragraph element at current cursor position.

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:

Monospace: Inserts or wraps content with a <monospace> element.

List > Insert Unordered List

Inserts an unordered list at the cursor position. A child list item is also automatically inserted by default. You can also use this action to convert selected paragraphs or other types of lists to an unordered list.

List > Insert Ordered List

Inserts an ordered list at the cursor position. A child list item is also automatically inserted by default. You can also use this action to convert selected paragraphs or other types of lists to an ordered list.

Code

Inserts or wraps content in a <code> element.

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.

JATS Drag/Drop Actions

Dragging a file from the ProjectProject Explorer view and dropping it into a JATS document that is edited in Author mode, creates a link to the dragged file (the <ext-link> element with the @xlink:href attribute) at the drop location. Dragging an image file from the default file system application (Windows Explorer on Windows or Finder on macOS, for example) and dropping it into a JATS document inserts an image element (the <inline-graphic> element with the @xlink:href attribute) at the drop location, similar to the Insert Image toolbar action.

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