[oXygen-user] Going from FrameMaker to oXygen

[Frank Dissinger]

Hi Chris,


Thank you again for your reply (on the DITA Users List). I haven't had 
the time to read it in full detail and try out some of the suggestions 
until now.

  * /Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will allow you to
    change the element from one type to another./

How would you select just the opening tag? If I do that in Author mode, 
the opening and closing tag with everything in between gets selected. 
When I then press Enter, I can surround the tag with another. In Text 
mode, the tag gets deleted when I press Enter.

  * /We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that helps
    writers visualize page width, as a guide to table and figure sizing./

Would you mind sharing this style with me?


Thank you.


Best regards,


Frank

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Am 07.12.2022 um 13:24 schrieb Chris Papademetrious:
> Hi Frank,
>
> If you are not using the DITA Perspective in Oxygen, I suggest 
> enabling it:
>
> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-author/topics/dita-perspective.html
>
> It applies a collection of settings that are useful for DITA editing.
>
> Some more random thoughts:
>
>   * We also find the tag-based map view in an editing window to be
>     somewhat overwhelming. We primarily edit maps in the following views:
>       o DITA Maps Manager - adding and restructuring content
>       o Editor window, Text view - fine-timing map attributes or
>         element structures
>   * Use keyboard shortcuts in the DITA Maps Manager - cursor keys to
>     move around and expand/collapse, and type the names of files to
>     auto-move to that matching file.
>   * When you select a topic editing window, if a map referencing that
>     topic is open in the DITA Maps Manager, it will scroll to that
>     topic's map entry.
>       o This is useful when you have multiple topic editing tabs open
>         and you want to quickly see the map context of each one while
>         editing.
>   * We bind a Ctrl-` (backtick) hotkey to toggling full tags on/off,
>     which makes it effortless to switch them on and off during
>     editing. This is a huge help!!
>       o I can provide details on how to configure this.
>   * Oxygen has a lot of clever shortcuts for element operations in the
>     editor. For example,
>       o Selecting just the opening tag and pressing Enter will allow
>         you to change the element from one type to another.
>       o Placing the cursor just after the opening tag and pressing
>         Backspace will unwrap the tag but keep its content.
>       o Using Tab/Shift-tab at the beginning of list items can change
>         their list level, including the element structure work needed
>         to make it happen.
>   * In editing windows, there is an element ancestry shown at the top
>     for the current cursor position. This can be useful, especially
>     when tags are hidden and you want to select some containing
>     element (like an entire <note> element when the cursor is
>     somewhere inside its content).
>   * We use shared CSS that configures the Oxygen editor, PDF output,
>     and WebHelp output to all share a common style.
>       o As we also come from a FrameMaker background, our writers
>         wanted Oxygen's editing window to be as close to the PDF as
>         possible.
>       o We have a "Show Page Width" alternative CSS style that helps
>         writers visualize page width, as a guide to table and figure
>         sizing.
>   * Using Find in Files and XPath/XQuery Builder to quickly find
>     content in your maps can be helpful. Oxygen's search capability is
>     very fast.
>
>
> Feel free to ask for more details on any aspect of this!
>
>  - Chris

*Frank Dissinger*

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