Creating and Inserting a Text Entity
For this exercise, use the Arbortext XML DocBook document you modified in the previous exercise.
Entities are blocks of content that you want to be able to use repeatedly. Documents that contain entities are automatically updated when the content of the entity is changed. You can create file entities or text entities, depending on the amount of content you would like to reuse. Entities can be displayed in a document using either an icon with the name of the entity, or with the contents of the entity expanded.
There are several menus and options, such as the Entities menu, that are only available if you have elected to display full menus. To display full menus, choose > , select the Window tab, and click the check box next to Full Menus. Click OK to exit from the Preferences dialog box.
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DITA documents reuse content in a different way. Refer to the Working with DITA Topics for information on DITA references. |
Follow these steps to create and insert a text entity:
1. Select a range of text.
2. Choose > .
The Create Text Entity from Selection dialog box opens.
3. In the Name field, type mytext and click OK to close the dialog box.
4. Place your cursor within a para tag and choose > .
The Text Entities dialog box opens.
5. Select the mytext text entity.
6. Click Insert, then click Close to close the dialog box.
The text entity is inserted as an icon.
7. Choose > to view the expanded content of the entity.
For more information, refer to the
Text Entities Overview and
File Entities Overview topics in the
Arbortext Editor help.
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