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

Wed Jan 4 05:16:16 CST 2023

Hi, Frank –

I’m very interested in knowing what you are looking for, as Radu and I provided very different information!

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
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From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces at oxygenxml.com> On Behalf Of Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 1:55 AM
To: oxygen-user at oxygenxml.com
Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Going from FrameMaker to oXygen -- Print-ready/Outline view issues

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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