Messages

Figure 15.10. The Author's Messages preferences panel

The Author's Messages preferences panel

Delete tag action

Specifies the default behavior when you delete the start or end marker of an element. You can choose between:

  • Always ask

  • Always join

  • Always unwrap

You can read more about this in Editing the XML markup section.

When opening a map

Specified the default behavior when try to open a map. You can choose between:

  • Always open in the DITA Map Manager

  • Always open as XML

  • Always ask

Show author page warning

When checked, a warning dialog will be displayed when switching to Author mode. The warning reminds you that the whitespaces from the text content are evaluated according to the value of the CSS white-space property associated to the enclosing elements.