set newlist=doctype_dir1 [;doctype_dirn]

This command specifies a list of paths to custom document type directories, which are used to populate the Document Type list in the New Document dialog box. It also enables you to remove a document type or a description of a document type from the list.

doctype_dir can be specified in the following formats:

Each document type is included in a category in the New Document dialog box. When a document type is included in the set newlist list, Arbortext Editor determines the document type’s category. If the category has already been included, the document type is added to the end of that category list. If the category is included for the first time, then the category is added to the end of the category list and the document type is its first entry. The following rules are used to determine a document type’s category:

Use %D in the path to include the document types that are distributed with Arbortext Editor (Arbortext-path\doctypes). If you don't want to include the distributed document types, omit %D. You can specify document type directories before or after %D.

The order in which the document types appear in the list is determined by their order in the set newlist command. When you use %D, the distributed document types are listed in the following order in the New Document dialog box:

For example, if you want to add the corpmemo document type before the distributed document types and the mydoctype document type after the distributed document types in the Document Type list, set newlist to the following value:

Note that the category in which these document types appear in the New Document dialog box is controlled by the category placement rules covered earlier.

You can also use the set newlist command to remove a distributed document type from the Document Type list. To do this, add a caret (^) before the document type that you want to remove.

For example, to remove the Arbortext XML DocBook V4.0 document type, set newlist to the following value:

Further, you can use the set newlist command to remove one or more descriptions of a document type from the Document Type list. Document type descriptions are defined in the DCF file associated with the document type. To remove descriptions, add a caret (^) before the document type with the description you want remove. Follow this with a pipe character (|) and the name of the description. You can add as many descriptions as you want, as long as a pipe character separates each description name. If the name of the description has a pipe character in its name, precede the pipe character in the name with another pipe character to escape the character in the description name.

For example, assume the corpmemo document type had two associated descriptions named hrmemo and execmemo. Set the newlist command to the following value: to remove those descriptions from the Document Type list:

Note that in addition to using the set newlist command, you can also use the New List Configuration dialog box to control the contents of the New Document dialog box. You invoke the New List Configuration dialog box from the Advanced preferences dialog box.

The newlist option is automatically updated in your preferences file after you close a Arbortext Editor session in which you've changed the list of document types.

You can use the append_newlist_path ACL function to update the document type paths that appear in the Document Type list in the New Document dialog box.