[oXygen-user] Going from FrameMaker to oXygen -- Print-ready/Outline view issues

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Frank,


About this specific request:


> So I thought maybe I could perhaps quickly toggle the "Print-ready" 
> style on and off to see the tags and better find the correct cursor 
> position. Can I create a keyboard shortcut for doing this?
>
>
We do not yet have a means to set a certain keyboard shortcut for 
applying a CSS layer, we have an internal issue for this, I added your 
contact details to it and I'm pasting the issue ID below for future 
reference:


     EXM-22482 Assign hot keys for the alternate styles (CSS API)


There are other ways in which someone could for example create a custom 
Author action which sets a certain pseudo class on an element and then 
the CSS selectors can use that pseudo class to enable or disable certain 
properties. For example with the "custom.css" file I'm attaching I added 
a button directly in the Author visual editor and when the button is 
clicked, a certain CSS pseudo class is set on the root element and the 
tags are shown or hidden based on it.


Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 1/3/23 19:36, Frank Dissinger wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> This is my first posting to this list.
>
>
> I am in the process of switching from FrameMaker V11 + DITA-FMx to 
> oXygen V25 as my DITA editing tool. I have been using oXyen for quite 
> a while as a transformation engine, but not as an editor. So in this 
> respect I am still at the bottom of the learning curve.
>
>
> I'd like to set up the Author mode in a way which comes close to what 
> I was used in FrameMaker. I mainly worked in WYSIWYG view and with the 
> Structure View, Elements and Attributes windows.
>
>
> I have spent some effort on making oXygen's "Print-ready" view for the 
> Editor window (in Author mode) look as WYSIWYG-ish as possible, with 
> custom CSS styles that give me visual clues to the underlying XML 
> structure. I then thought that I could use oXygen's Outline view in a 
> similar way as FM's Structure View, but I feel quite lost in this window.
>
>   * It does not allow me to position the cursor between the elements
>   * It shows only a single attribute, not all attributes that are set
>   * It shows only the attribute value, not the name
>   * ...
>
> I therefore find it hard to see the XML structure in the Outline view 
> and to place the cursor precisely when I want to insert new elements.
>
>
> So I thought maybe I could perhaps quickly toggle the "Print-ready" 
> style on and off to see the tags and better find the correct cursor 
> position. Can I create a keyboard shortcut for doing this?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Frank
>
>
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