The Author preferences panel is opened from menu .
The Oxygen Author Preferences
Panel
- Show caret position tooltip - If checked, the position information
tooltip is 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.
- Show placeholders for empty elements - When checked, placeholders
are displayed for empty elements to make them clearly visible.
- Show Author layout messages - If checked, all errors reported
during layout creation is presented in the Errors view.
- Hide comments - When checked, comments from the documents edited in
Author mode are hidden.
- Hide processing instructions - When checked, processing
instructions from the documents edited in Author mode are hidden.
- Hide doctype - When checked, doctype sections from the documents
edited in Author mode are hidden.
- Show very large images - If
unchecked, images larger than 6 megapixels (24MB uncompressed) are not 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.
- Display referred content (for example entities, XInclude, DITA conref,
etc.) - When checked, the references (entities, XInclude, DITA conref, etc)
also display the content of the resources they refer.
- Highlight elements near caret - Background color of the element or
elements at cursor position.
- Format and indent - Here you can set the method of format and
indent that is applied when a document is saved in Author mode:
- Only the modified content - The save operation formats only the
nodes that were modified in Author mode.
- The entire document - The save operation applies formatting to
the entire document regardless of the nodes that were modified in Author mode. If the
checkbox Apply also the 'Text' page 'Format and Indent' action is
selected, the content of the document is formatted by applying the Format and
Indent action on every switch from the Author editor to the Text editor of
the same document.
- Quick up / down navigation - Speeds up navigation between blocks
when using up / down keys. The cursor stops on the next / previous line.
- Tags display mode - 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
- No Tags
- Tags background color - Allows you to configure the Author tags
background color.
- Tags foreground color - Allows you to configure the Author tags
foreground color.