When a DITA topic (of any kind) is opened in XMLmind XML Editor, buttons which are specific to this kind of document are automatically added to the tool bar. This reference contains a description of such buttons.
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“Toggle” element i. Next to this
toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing
additional checkboxes for the following elements: term,
cite, tm, tm[reg].
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“Toggle” element b. Next to this
toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing
additional checkboxes for the following elements: keyword,
uicontrol, option.
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“Toggle” element tt. Next to this
toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing
additional checkboxes for the following elements: filepath,
varname, cmdname, apiname.
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“Toggle” element
xref.
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Add a p after node selection or after caret at
a location where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to do
so.
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Add a list item of the right type after current list
item. For this command to work, suffice to click anywhere inside an
sl, ul, ol, dl,
choices, substeps, steps,
steps-unordered.
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Add an ul after node selection or after caret
at a location where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to
do so (see note).
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Add an ol after node selection or after caret
at a location where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to
do so (see note).
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Add a dl after node selection or after caret at
a location where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to do
so (see note).
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Displays a menu which allows to add a pre,
lines, screen, codeblock or a
msgblock after node selection or after caret at a location
where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to do so (see
note).
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Displays a menu which allows to add a
simpletable or a table after node selection or
after caret at a location where it is valid to do so and where it
makes sense to do so (see note).
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Displays a menu which allows to
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Displays a menu which allows to insert a “media
object” at caret position.
Last menu item allows to insert an
<?onclick?> processing-instruction at caret position
or, if an <?onclick?> processing-instruction is
selected, to edit it.
More information about the above
“media objects” in Section 6.
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Add a section after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so and where it makes sense to do so (see note). | ||
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Use the Web browser to display the documentation of the
element explicitly or implicitly selected. (Contributed by Mark
Fletcher.)
Requires to be connected to the Internet
because the reference manual of DITA elements
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When a DITA topic (of any kind) is opened in XMLmind XML Editor, additional keyboard shortcuts and additional drag and drop facilities which are specific to this kind of document are automatically made available to the user. This reference contains a description of such user input/command bindings.
Keyboard shortcut | Description |
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Enter |
Insert a newline character if possible. Otherwise, if
caret is at the beginning of a paragraph, list item or a few other
kinds of block, insert same block before. Otherwise, if caret is at
the end of a block, insert same block after. Otherwise, split
block.
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Del |
Delete selection if any. Otherwise, if caret is at the
end of a paragraph, list item or a few other kinds of block, join
with following block. Otherwise, delete character following
caret.
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BackSpace |
Delete selection if any. Otherwise, if caret is at the
beginning of a paragraph, list item or a few other kinds of block,
join with preceding block. Otherwise, delete character preceding
caret.
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Ctrl-Enter |
Add same block after the paragraph, list item or a few
other kinds of block which is the ancestor of selected
node.
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Ctrl+Shift-Enter |
Add same block before the paragraph, list item or a few
other kinds of block which is the ancestor of selected
node.
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Ctrl-F1 | Browse the DITA reference manual found on the OASIS Web site |
Drop an object.
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If the drop occurs above an element having an
href attribute other than an image (e.g. an
xref), the dropped string is considered to be an URL and is
used to change the value of the href attribute.
Note
that this kind of drop attempts to relativize the dropped URL
against the location of the drop site. For example, if you drop
"file://home/john/doc/topic1.dita" onto an xref
contained in file
"file://home/john/doc/ref/reference2.dita", its
href is set to "../topic1.dita".
Elsewhere,
normal behaviour which is:
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Drag one of the “handles” displayed around
an image. (The “handles” are displayed after clicking on
the image.)
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Resize the image, but always preserve its aspect
ratio.
Pressing Ctrl (Cmd on the Mac) while
dragging the handle allows to distort the image.
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Drag a separator found between two table
columns.
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Resize the table column. More precisely this gives an
appropriate proportional width (e.g.
<colspec colwidth="3*">) to all table
columns.
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(1) | or explicitly select a cell or an element having a cell ancestor |
(2) | Unlike all
the other add-ons, the RenderX XEP XSL-FO processor plug-in is
not self-contained. You'll need to download, install and
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