Specific actions are:
Bold - Changes the style of the
selected text to bold by surrounding it with b tag.
Italic - Changes the style of
the selected text to italic by surrounding it with i
tag.
Underline - Changes the
style of the selected text to underline by surrounding it with
u tag. Note:
Bold, Italic, and
Underline are toggle actions.
For all of the above actions, if there is no selection, then a new specific tag will
be inserted. These actions are available in any document context.
Headings - Groups actions
for inserting h1, h2, h3,
h4, h5, h6 elements.
Insert Paragraph -
Inserts a new paragraph depending on the current context. If current context is a
paragraph context (one of the ancestors of the element at caret position is
p) then a new paragraph will be inserted after the paragraph at caret.
Otherwise a new paragraph is inserted at caret position.
Insert Graphic -
Inserts a graphic object at the caret position. This is done by inserting an
img element regardless of the current context. The following graphical
formats are supported: GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, SVG.
Insert Ordered
List - Inserts an ordered list (ol element) with one list
item (li child element).
Insert Unordered
List - Inserts an unordered list (ul element) with one list
item (li child element).
Insert Definition
List - Inserts a definition list (dl element) with one list
item (a dt child element and a dd child element).
Insert List Item -
Inserts a new list item for in any of the above two list types.
Insert Table - Opens a
dialog that allows you to configure the table to be inserted. The dialog allows the user
to configure the number of rows and columns of the table, if the header and footer will be
generated and how the table will be framed.
Insert Row -
Inserts a new table row with empty cells. The action is available when the caret position
is inside a table.
Insert
Column - Inserts a new table column with empty cells after the current
column. The action is available when the caret position is inside a table.
Insert Cell -
Inserts a new empty cell depending on the current context. If the caret is positioned
between two cells, a new one will be inserted at caret's position. If the caret is inside
a cell, then the new one will be created after the current cell.
Delete Column -
Deletes the table column where the caret is located.
Delete Row -
Deletes the table row where the caret is located.
Join Row Cells
- Joins the content of the selected cells. The operation is available if the selected
cells are from the same row and they have the same row span. The action is also available
when the selection is missing, but the caret is positioned between two cells.
Join Cell Above -
Joins the content of cell from current caret position with that of the cell above it. Note
that this action works only if both cells have the same column span.
Join Cell Below -
Joins the content of cell from current caret position with that of the cell below it. Note
that this action works only if both cells have the same column span.
Split Cell To The
Left - Splits the cell from current caret position in two, inserting a new
empty table cell to the left. Note that this action works only if the current cell spans
over more than one column. The column span of the source cell will be decreased with
one.
Split Cell To The
Right - Splits the cell from current caret position in two, inserting a new
empty table cell to the right. Note that this action works only if the current cell spans
over more than one column. The column span of the source cell will be decreased with
one.
Split Cell Above -
Splits the cell from current caret position in two, inserting a new empty table cell
above. Note that this action works only if the current cell spans over more than one row.
The row span of the source cell will be decreased with one.
Split Cell Below -
Splits the cell from current caret position in two, inserting a new empty table cell
below. Note that this action works only if the current cell spans over more than one row.
The row span of the source cell will be decreased with one.
All actions described above are available in the contextual menu, the
XHTML submenu of the main menu and in the Author custom
actions toolbar.
A drag and drop with a file from the
Project view or from the DITA Maps
Manager view to a DITA topic document that is edited in Author mode
will create a link to the dragged file (the xref DITA element with the
href attribute) at the drop location. A drag and drop with an image
file from the default file system application (Windows Explorer on Windows, Finder on Mac OS
X, etc) will insert an image element (the image DITA element with the
href attribute) with the location of the dragged file at the drop location,
like the Insert Graphic toolbar action.