Aside from the actions that are available in Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin for any type of document (such as the actions in the various menus and the common sections of the toolbar), a variety of unique actions are also available in the Markdown editor, from the toolbar and contextual menu.
Toolbar Actions
The following default actions are available on the Markdown toolbar when editing Markdown documents:
Header (1st Level)- Inserts an atx-style first-level header at the cursor position.
Header (2st Level)- Inserts an atx-style second-level header at the cursor position.
Header (3rd Level)- Inserts an atx-style third-level header at the cursor position.
Horizontal
Rule- Inserts a horizontal rule at the cursor position.
Bold
(Strong)- Marks the selected text with bold.
Italic
(Emphasis)- Marks the selected text with italics.
Strikethrough- Marks the selected text with a strikethrough.
Code Block- Inserts (or surrounds selected text in) a codeblock.
Blockquote- Inserts a blockquote at the cursor position.
Insert
Link-
Opens the Insert Link dialog box that allows you to define a link to insert at the cursor position.
Figure 1. Insert Link Dialog Box
Insert
Image-
Opens the Insert Image dialog box that allows you to define an image to insert at the cursor position. You can type the URL of the image you want to insert or use browsing actions in the
Browse drop-down menu.Figure 2. Insert Link Dialog Box
Insert Ordered
List- Inserts an ordered list at the cursor position. Three child list items are also automatically inserted by default. You can also use this action to convert selected content to an ordered list.
Insert Unordered
List- Inserts an unordered list at the cursor position. Three child list items are also automatically inserted by default. You can also use this action to convert selected content to an unordered list.
Insert Task
List- Inserts a task list at the cursor position. Three child list items are also automatically inserted by default. You can also use this action to convert selected content to a task list.
Insert Table- Inserts a table at the cursor position.
Tags Display
Mode drop-down menu-
Allows you to control the amount of markup that is displayed in the Preview pane and offers the following choices:
Full Tags with
Attributes- Displays full tag names with attributes for both block and inline elements.Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin
Full Tags- Displays full tag names without attributes for both block elements and inline elements.
Block
Tags- Displays full tag names for block elements and simple tags without names for inline elements.
Block Tags
without Element Names- Displays tags for block elements but without element names for a more compact version of Block Tags mode. You can still see the element names by hovering over the tags.
Inline
Tags- Displays full tag names for inline elements, while block elements are not displayed.
Partial
Tags- Displays simple tags without names for inline elements, while block elements are not displayed.
No Tags- No tags are displayed. This is the most compact mode and is as close as possible to a word-processor view.
- Configure Tags Display Mode
- Use this option to go to the Author preferences page where you can configure the Tags Display Mode options.
Contextual Menu Actions
The following default actions are available in the contextual menu when editing Markdown documents:
Cut,
Copy, 
Paste- Use these actions to execute the typical editing actions on the currently selected content.
- Show/Hide Preview
- A toggle action that shows or hides the Preview pane.
- Export as DITA Topic
- Converts the current Markdown document into a DITA topic.
- Export as XDITA Topic
- Converts the current Markdown document into a Lightweight DITA XML topic.
- Export as HTML
- Converts the current Markdown document into an XHTML document.
- Print (Available in the Preview pane)
- Opens a page setup dialog box that allows you to configure printing options for the current document.