[oXygen-user] Entering Paragraphs in DITA Content

[Dan Caprioara]

We linked the "split x" action to the first item in the list so you get 
a similar behavior to the word processing applications - but one must 
press ENTER twice.  If the element is displayed as a block, then 
splitting it results in a "new line". As you can see, this is a very 
generic action and does not depend on the type of the edited document.

One workaround is to bind the DITA insert paragraph action to another 
shortcut, for instance META-ENTER (on Mac). This can be done from:
Options/Preferences/Document Type Association (Developer role) /DITA 
(Edit)/Author/Actions/paragraph.

Regards,
Dan


Eliot Kimber wrote:
> Eliot Kimber wrote:
>> I'm using OxygenXML for some heads-down authoring of DITA-based content.
>>
>> I had gotten used to being able to do enter/enter to get a <p> 
>> element in body content.
>>
>> However, after I entered a few <pre> elements, pre started coming to 
>> the top of the list, which broke my conditioning.
>>
>> I think it's important that double enter always result in paragraph, 
>> as that's the way most people are conditioned, both by word 
>> processors and by other XML editors.
>
> I just realized the problem is only when the insertion point is in a 
> context in which <p> is allowed--if you're in a <p> then the normal 
> "split x" option is the first item.
>
> But this is still a problem because the "split x" behavior continues 
> to reinforce the enter-enter behavior.
>
> This issue may be more pronounced for me in my current case where I'm 
> creating a more or less narrative document consisting of nested 
> topics, so I creating a number of new topics, meaning new, empty topic 
> bodies, where I still expect enter-enter to always give me a 
> paragraph. But it will also occur when you're switching from a non-p 
> element to p, such as creating a list and then creating paragraphs 
> following the list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>