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TEI P5 Author Mode Actions

A variety of actions are available for TEI P5 documents that can be found in TEI P5 menu, toolbar, contextual menu, and the Content Completion Assistant.

TEI P5 Toolbar Actions

The following default actions are available on the TEI P5 toolbar when editing in Author mode (by default, they are also available in the TEI P5 menu and some of them are in various submenus of the contextual menu):

Bold
Changes the style of the selected text to bold by surrounding it with the <hi> tag and setting the @rend attribute to bold. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.
Italic
Changes the style of the selected text to italic by surrounding it with the <hi> tag and setting the @rend attribute to italic. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.
Underline
Changes the style of the selected text to underline by surrounding it with the <hi> tag and setting the @rend attribute to ul. You can use this action on multiple non-contiguous selections.
Insert Section
Inserts a new section or subsection, depending on the current context. For example, if the current context is div1, then a div2 is inserted. By default, this action also inserts a paragraph element as a child node.

TEI 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 TEI P5 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:

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
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.

TEI P5 Drag/Drop Actions

Dragging a file from the ProjectProject Explorer view and dropping it into a TEI P5 document that is edited in Author mode, creates a link to the dragged file (the <ptr> element with the @target 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 TEI P5 document inserts a graphic element (the <graphic> element with the @url attribute) at the drop location, similar to the Insert Image toolbar action.

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