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

[Frank Dissinger]

Hi Stefan,


Thank you for your input and the userful links. I am climbing up the 
learnign curve...


Regards,


Frank


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Am 04.01.2023 um 06:33 schrieb Stefan Jung:
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> Maybe you should not try to make Oxygen so FrameMaker-ish. I'm in a 
> similar transition phase and my "unstructured" FrameMaker writers get 
> used to the Oxygen way if working very fast.
>
> I'd recommend using the keyboard more and the mouse less. You can 
> navigate with your arrow keys, also between elements. You can press 
> Enter, to insert an element. You do not need to move, for example, 
> after a step element to insert a new one. This is not necessary. 
> Oxygen is smart enough to determine where you probably want to insert 
> the element and Oxygen will not allow you to create invalid XML 
> structures in Author mode. Use ALT+Enter to edit attributes.
>
> You don't need to place your caret between elements in outline view, 
> because it allows you to add elements after and element (here you 
> still think in FrameMaker UI).
>
> Please read 
> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/24.1/ug-editor/topics/text-navigate-document-content.html 
>
> and https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/general_tips_and_tricks.html and 
> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/24.1/ug-editor/topics/common-shortcut-keys.html 
>
>
> BR
> Stefan
>
> Gesendet mit OX Mail
>
> Frank Dissinger <frank.dissinger at cgs-oris.com 
> <http://frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com>> hat am January 4, 2023 um 5:45 
> AM geschrieben:
>
>     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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