On the Windows platform, Arbortext Editor enables you to copy content from other applications and paste the content into your document using matching markup from your document type. You can copy content from Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, web browsers, text editors, and other applications and paste that content into your document. Arbortext Editor uses Arbortext Import/Export technology to map the content from the other application to the markup appropriate for your document. For example, assume you are authoring a DITA document and copy a bullet list in a Microsoft Word document. When you paste that list into your DITA document, it will be pasted with the appropriate ul and li tags.

This chapter provides an overview of this feature and its limitations. It tells you how to disable the feature and how to modify the supported clipboard source types. It also tells you how to use the Arbortext Import MapTemplate Editor included in Arbortext Architect to customize this feature, how to implement the feature for custom document types, and how to customize the Paste Special dialog box.