Editing Actions

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The Review toolbar contains actions to assist you with review tasks. On the desktop version, some of these actions are also available in the contextual menu. These actions include:

Toggle Change Tracking

Toggles change tracking mode on or off.

Accept Change

Available on changes when Change Tracking is enabled. It accepts the tracked change located at the cursor position. For an insert change, it means keeping the inserted text and for a delete change, it means removing the content from the document.

Reject Change

Available on changes when Change Tracking is enabled. Rejects the tracked change located at the cursor position. For an insert change, it means removing the inserted text and for a delete change, it means preserving the original content from the document.

Add comment

Allows you to insert a comment on a selected fragment of text. After you add a comment, the content where the comment was added is highlighted in the document and you can see the comment by hovering over the highlighted content or in the Review view.

Edit Comment

Opens the Edit Comment dialog box that allows you to edit the selected comment.

Remove Comment

Removes a selected comment.

Previous Marker

Navigates to the previous change or comment.

Next Marker

Navigates to the next change or comment.

Track Changes Visualization Modes Drop-Down Menu

This drop-down menu includes specialized actions that allow you to switch between the following visualization modes:

• View All Changes/Comments - This mode is active by default. When you use this mode, all tracked changes are represented.
• View Final - This mode offers a preview of the document as if all tracked changes (both inserted and deleted) were accepted.
• View Original - This mode offers a preview of the document as if all tracked changes (both inserted and deleted) were rejected. If you attempt to edit the document in this mode, the view mode will switch to View All Changes/Comments.

Depending on the type of document you are editing, the toolbar and contextual menu contains a series of actions defined at framework level. On the desktop version, many of these actions are also available in the contextual menu. Oxygen XML Web Author includes built-in actions for DITA, DITA Map, DocBook, TEI, and XHTML document types. These actions include:

Styling actions

Most common styling actions, such as Bold, Italic, Underline.

Insert actions

Actions that allows you to insert a variety of framework-specific objects, such as images, equations, tables, paragraphs, links (for example, cross references, file references, or web links in DITA), topic references (DITA map), reusable content references (DITA), relationship tables (DITA map), and others.

List actions

Actions that allow you to create ordered and unordered lists, and add new items in them.

Table actions

Actions that allow you to create a table and manage its structure (insert and delete rows and columns).

Insert Special Character

Opens a dialog box that allows you to select from a large variety of special characters to insert at the current cursor position. The various types of characters include symbols, emoticons, punctuation, and many more.

Choose DITA Map

For DITA documents, the toolbar includes a Choose DITA Map button that opens a dialog box where you can enter a URL for the DITA Map that you want to be associated with the current document.

In a desktop web browser, the contextual menu also offers numerous editing actions, along with framework-specific actions. They include the following:

Copy (Ctrl + C (Command + C on OS X))

Copies the selected content to the clipboard. You can then use the Ctrl + V (Command + V on OS X) keyboard shortcut to paste the content (or use the Paste Special action from the contextual menu).

Paste Special

Opens a dialog box that allows you to choose how to paste copied content. You have to use the Ctrl + V (Command + V on OS X) keyboard shortcut (or select Paste from the contextual menu) to paste the copied content into the preview window in this Paste Special dialog box and then you can choose to paste it into your document with one of the following choices:

• Smart Paste - Oxygen XML Web Author will paste the copied content while trying to preserve its structure and if the current location is invalid, Oxygen XML Web Author will attempt to find a possible solution.
• Paste as Text - The copied content will be pasted as text content.
• Paste as XML - Copied content that is considered to be valid XML will be pasted with its XML structure preserved.

Cut (Ctrl + X (Command + X on OS X))

Removes the selected content and copies it to the clipboard. You can then use the Ctrl + V (Command + V on OS X) keyboard shortcut to paste the content (or use the Paste Special action from the contextual menu).

Undo

This action is available after you make a change.

Redo

This action is available when you use the Undo action.

Insert Element

Inserts an element at current position.

Rename Element

Renames the current element.

Surround With

Allows you to choose a tag to enclose the selected content.

Accept Change

Available on changes when Change Tracking is enabled. It accepts the tracked change located at the cursor position. For an insert change, it means keeping the inserted text and for a delete change, it means removing the content from the document.

Reject Change

Available on changes when Change Tracking is enabled. Rejects the tracked change located at the cursor position. For an insert change, it means removing the inserted text and for a delete change, it means preserving the original content from the document.

Remove Comment

Removes a selected comment.

Reply

Opens a dialog box that allows you to add a reply to a comment or tracked change. After a reply is added, it is displayed with an indentation in the tooltip when hovering over the comment or change, and in the Review view.

Edit Comment

Opens the Edit Comment dialog box that allows you to edit the selected comment.

Add comment

Allows you to insert a comment on a selected fragment of text. After you add a comment, the content where the comment was added is highlighted in the document and you can see the comment by hovering over the highlighted content or in the Review view.

Spelling Errors

For spelling errors, the contextual menu includes a list of suggestions that you can select from to replace the word and an Ignore All option that instructs Oxygen XML Web Author to ignore all occurrences of the reported spelling error in the current document.

In a desktop web browser, the contextual menu also offers some editing actions that are specific to the type of document you are working with. Many of these actions are the same actions that are found on the Framework-Specific Toolbar. However, some of the frameworks include additional actions. They include the following:

Generate IDs (DITA, DocBook, TEI)

Oxygen XML Web Author generates unique IDs for the current element (or elements), depending on how the action is invoked:

• When invoked on a single selection, an ID is generated for the selected element at the cursor position.
• When invoked on a block of selected content, IDs are generated for all top-level elements and elements from the list in the ID Options dialog box that are found in the current selection.

Note: The Generate IDs action does not overwrite existing ID values. It only affects elements that do not already have an id attribute.

About Element > Browse DITA Style Guide (DITA only)

Opens the DITA Style Guide Best Practices for Authors in a preview window and displays a topic that is relevant to the element at the cursor position. You can use the Open in new tab button at the bottom of the preview window to open the guide in a separate browser tab.