The Editor preferences panel is opened from menu Editor
→ → +Use these options to configure the visual aspect of the text editor. The same options panel is available in the restricted version of the Preferences dialog.
Use this option to set the background color of the editor.
Use this option to set the background color for the content completion window.
Use this option to set the foreground color for the content completion window.
Use this option to set the background color for the window containing documentation for the content completion elements.
Use this option to set the foreground color for the window containing documentation for the content completion elements.
This option will do a soft wrap of long lines, that is automatically wrap lines in edited documents. When this option is checked line folding will be disabled.
This option enables highlight for the tag matching the one on which the caret is situated.
If checked, it enables folding when a new editor is opened.
If "Enable folding when opening a new editor" is checked, you can specify the minimum number of lines for folding. If you modify this value, you'll notice the changes when you open/reopen the editor.
The Author preferences panel is opened from menu Editor+Author
→ → +Default display mode for element tags presented in Author mode. You can choose between Full Tags with Attributes, Full Tags, Block Tags, Inline Tags, Partial Tags and No Tags.
If checked, the position information tooltip will be displayed. More information about the position information tooltip can be found in the section Position information tooltip. The documentation tooltip can be disabled from the Content Completion Annotations preferences panel.
When checked, placeholders will be displayed for empty elements to make them clearly visible.
If checked, all errors reported during layout creation will be presented in the Errors view.
If checked, a block range indicator will be shown in a stripe located in the left side of the editor.
When checked, comments from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
When checked, processing instructions from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
When checked, doctype sections from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
If unchecked, images larger than 6 megapixels(24MB uncompressed) will not be loaded and displayed in Author mode. Please be aware that this option is unchecked by default because of the large amounts of application memory that images of high resolution can occupy. As a result, an OutOfMemory error could occur which would practically make <oXygen/> unusable without a restart of the entire application.
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 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.
When checked, the references(entities, XInclude, DITA conref, etc) will also display the content of the resources they refer.
If checked a dialog will be shown allowing the user to choose if he wants to open the referred topic in the text or author page when the topic is opened from the DITA Maps Manager.