View Menu Introduction
The View menu contains commands for customizing the appearance of the Edit window. You can also display generated text, text entities, and file entities as readable text or markup icons.
You can set
View preferences by navigating to > and choosing the
View category. The
View menu contains the following options:
• Collapse Element Content and Expand Element Content— Collapses (or expands) the content of the element containing the cursor. It also collapses the content of expanded entity tags, and SGML comments.
• Collapse Topic Content and Expand Topic Content— Collapses (or expands) the content of the DITA topic containing the cursor.
This choice is only available when you are editing a DITA topic.
• Collapse Topicref Content and Expand Topicref Content— Collapses (or expands) the content of the selected DITA topic reference or the topic reference containing the cursor.
This choice is only available when you are editing a DITA map. Note that specializations of topic reference use the name of the specialized topic reference. For example, in a DITA BookMap this menu choice would be Collapse Chapter Content.
• Collapse division Content and Expand division Content — Collapses the structure of the parent (named by division) division element of the element containing the cursor. If the cursor is in a collapsed division, this menu choice expands that division.
• Collapse/Expand Divisions — Displays the Collapse/Expand Divisions dialog box, allowing you to select the division to use to expand or collapse the document's contents.
• Edit View — Toggles the display of the Edit view.
• Document Map — Toggles the display of the Document Map.
• Column View — Toggles the display of the Column view.
This choice is only available when
Column view has been configured in the document type configuration (
.dcf) file.
• Synchronize Views — Synchronizes the views in the panes of the Arbortext Editor window. The pane without focus is synchronized to the pane with the focus.
• Expand Attributes — Displays all attributes associated with each element in the Document Map and Column view.
This choice is only available when you are editing a DITA topic or map.
• Toolbars — This submenu contains the following options:
◦ Edit — Hides and displays the
toolbar containing edit functions.
◦ Markup — Hides and displays the
toolbar containing functions that manipulate markup.
◦ Table — Hides and displays the
toolbar containing table manipulation functions.
◦ Application — Hides and displays the
toolbar containing functions specific to the Arbortext XML DocBook document type.
◦ DITA Map — Hides and displays the
toolbar containing functions that move elements around in a DITA map.
This choice is only available when you are editing a DITA map.
• Font Size — this submenu contains the following options:
◦ The Increase command increases the size of the font in the pane with the focus. Font size in percent is shown in the status bar. The limit is 500 percent of the default size.
◦ The Decrease command decreases the size of the font in the pane with the focus. Font size in percent is shown in the status bar. The limit is 40 percent of the default size.
• Tables — Controls the display of tables.
◦ Table Rulers — Displays the Row Ruler, Column Ruler, and Table Icon.
◦ Table Markup — When checked, the table structure is hidden while the tags that define it are displayed. If the current tag display is set to full (View→Full Tags) or partial (View→Partial Tags), you will see the tags that define the tables structure. If View→ Table Markup is checked and the current tag display is set to View→No Tags, only the content of the table will display, not the tags.
When unchecked, the tags that define the table structure are not displayed (regardless of the current tag display) and graphical representations of tables appear in the Edit view.
◦ Cell Tag Display
▪ Inherit — Follows the convention set by the Edit pane.
▪ Full Tags — Displays all tags and tag names.
▪ Partial Tags — Displays the tags as icons.
▪ No Tags — Suppresses the display of tags.
• Full Tags — Displays all tags and tag names.
• Partial Tags — Displays the tags as icons.
• No Tags — Suppresses the display of tags.
• Text Entities — This menu item toggles the display of text entity reference icons. If the
Text Entity menu item is checked, all text entities will be expanded and their text displayed. If it is unchecked, only the reference icons are displayed.
• File Entities — This menu item toggles the display of text entity reference icons. If the
File Entity menu item is checked, all text entities will be expanded and their text displayed. If it is unchecked, only the reference icons are displayed.
• Included Object — This menu item toggles the display of included objects. If the
Included Object menu item is not checked, the included object containing the cursor will be displayed as markup, including the URI and fallback markup. If it is checked, all included objects will be displayed as they appear in their original file.
• Content References — When this menu item is checked, the content from the reference is included as content in the document. If the menu item is unchecked, the content is not displayed.
This choice is only available when you are editing a DITA topic or map.
• Graphics — Controls the display of graphics. When checked, the graphics in the current document appear in the Edit window. When unchecked, the graphics are replaced by small graphic icons. To change the default state of this setting, navigate to > , and choose the View category. Check or clear the box next to Graphics as Icons.
• Reload Graphic — Refreshes the displayed version of the graphic in the element at the cursor location. This allows you to update the display of a graphic that has changed since it was last loaded.
• Generated Text — Choose > to control display of generated text. This submenu includes the following commands:
◦ Show — Displays generated text. If this option is not checked, generated text is hidden. This option is on by default. Unless you are actively checking generated text, we recommend you hide generated text until it is needed.
◦ Update — Manually updates generated text. Forces Arbortext Editor to refresh all generated text in the current document.
◦ Full Auto-Updates — Updates the generated text in the current document, including tables of contents, indices, and cross references. This setting works best with small documents without indices.
◦ Partial Auto-Updates — Updates the generated text in the current document, but does not update FOSI Time Independent Variables (TIVs). The most common examples of TIVs are tables of contents, indices and cross references. Other generated text, such as bullets for bulleted lists, and numbers for numbered lists or numbered sections, are updated. (Partial Auto-Updates is the default setting.)
◦ No Auto-Updates — Generated text does not automatically update. Updates to generated text must be done manually.
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Full and Partial generated text update modes will decrease the performance of printing. If you are printing large documents, set the Generated Text mode to No Auto-Updates.
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• Change Tracking — Choose > to control the display of proposed changes to a document. This submenu includes the following commands:
◦ Changes with highlighting — proposed changes are displayed in the document.
To review proposed changes, open > > .
Each user's proposed changes to the document may be identified by the user's color. Additions are underlined, and deletions display in strikethrough font. Refer to
Using Change Tracking for more information.
◦ Changes applied — proposed changes are applied in the document.
◦ Original — proposed changes are not shown in the document. This view is read-only, and displays the baseline document, which will include any previously accepted changes. The set rochange command option is disabled in this view.
