Hi Radu,
Thank you also for this reply (on the DITA Users List).
Regards,
Frank
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Am 07.12.2022 um 08:10 schrieb Radu Coravu via groups.io:
Hi Frank,
Here are some answers to your remarks, if you need more help about how
Oxygen works you can contact us directly:
* It seems that a DITA map loads all the referenced submaps and
displays all of these maps in a single window panel (as if this
was a single file). In FM I see only the references and open the
submaps as separate files by double-clicking on them.
In Oxygen a DITA Map can be opened both in the DITA Maps Manager view
and in the main editing area where it can be edited in either the
Author or the Text editing modes.
I will assume you are referring to opening a DITA Map in the Author
visual editing mode. In the Oxygen Preferences->"DITA / Maps" page you
have a checkbox named "Expand references to other maps when opening a
map in the Author mode".
* I feel lost in these maps. There are lots of big fonts, frames,
colored backgrounds, icons... Can I customize the appearance? For
example, by defining CSS-like styles for the DITA elements
displayed on the screen?
Yes, sure. The visual editing is CSS based. We have a CSS inspector
view which can be used to debug what CSS styles apply to render a
certain element in a certain way:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/author-css-inspector-view.html
and you can contribute your own CSS for customizing the editing aspects:
https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/customizeDITACSS.html
* The Outline view is a bit similar to FM's Structure View. But I
am used to setting the cursor into the Structure View to
precisely define the point where to insert an element. This does
not work in oXygen.
Different applications have different features. Oxygen has a tooltip
window showing the context which appears when moving the caret in the
content, it also has various tags display modes which may be useful to
properly place the cursor. Maybe you can use those instead of the Outline.
* I'd like to see text and images without any tags in one window
panel and the DITA structure with elements and attributes in a
separate panel. I know I can switch off tags and use the Outline
view, but I am not sure if this really gives me full control over
everything...
The Oxygen Outline is mostly intended to show the structure of the
content and allow you to select elements.
* How does oXygen visualize conditionalized content
(included/excluded via a ditaval file)?
Here's a link to the Oxygen user guide:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/dita-profiling-conditional-text.html
with some videos/webinars referenced at the end.
* Can I define a fixed page size in oXygen? I'd like to set a page
width (height is not important) to make sure that images fit on
the page and that table columns are not too narrow (in PDF
deliverables). Setting an image resolution is also important.
By default Oxygen shows a US-letter outline around an edited DITA
topic. But this does not impose maximum width constraints, in a way in
this regard Oxygen behaves more like a web browser, not like a PDF
renderer.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Radu
Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor
On 12/6/22 18:42, Frank Dissinger wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any passionate long-term structured FrameMaker users who
have changed to oXygen as a DITA editor? Has anybody tried to set up
the oXygen authoring environment as close as possible to FrameMaker's
WYSIWYG view? Or at least in a way that makes the switch as painless
as possible for a FrameMaker user?
I've been using FrameMaker V11+DITA-FMx as a DITA editor for many
years -- until recently also as a PDF transformation engine, which I
have now replaced with MiramoPDF. I have used oXygen for a few years
only and mostly as a transformation engine. With FM I am stuck with
an old DITA implementation and the DITA-FMx plug-in is not developed
any further. This is why I would like to use oXygen as a DITA editor
instead. But I find it very hard to make the switch: The way DITA
maps, topics, tags, structures... are presented is so different and I
haven't the time to learn oXygen properly and in full detail. It's
such a powerful tool with tons of features. So I thought there may be
someone who can help me getting started -- at least with setting up
the user interface and authoring environment.
A few examples of things I am struggling with right away when I look
at how oXygen presents my DITA files:
* It seems that a DITA map loads all the referenced submaps and
displays all of these maps in a single window panel (as if this
was a single file). In FM I see only the references and open the
submaps as separate files by double-clicking on them.
* I feel lost in these maps. There are lots of big fonts, frames,
colored backgrounds, icons... Can I customize the appearance? For
example, by defining CSS-like styles for the DITA elements
displayed on the screen?
* The Outline view is a bit similar to FM's Structure View. But I
am used to setting the cursor into the Structure View to
precisely define the point where to insert an element. This does
not work in oXygen.
* I'd like to see text and images without any tags in one window
panel and the DITA structure with elements and attributes in a
separate panel. I know I can switch off tags and use the Outline
view, but I am not sure if this really gives me full control over
everything...
* How does oXygen visualize conditionalized content
(included/excluded via a ditaval file)?
* Can I define a fixed page size in oXygen? I'd like to set a page
width (height is not important) to make sure that images fit on
the page and that table columns are not too narrow (in PDF
deliverables). Setting an image resolution is also important.
* ...
Regards,
Frank
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