Editing Overview
Editing concepts are quite simple to learn, if you're not already familiar with them.
One basic concept is highlighting or selection. Using the mouse or keyboard, you select an area of text and/or tags, which marks it for an operation. The selected area is highlighted using inverse text (background and foreground colors are reversed from normal).
Many editing operations, such as changing case of text, cut, copy, paste and delete, work only on the selected area.
In Arbortext Editor, some editing functions apply specifically to the SGML document structure, such as cutting and pasting a document component. Arbortext Editor enforces the SGML document structure by controlling whether text or tags may be cut or inserted at a particular location. For example, to cut a list you need to highlight both the list text and the list tags surrounding the text. You can only paste it in a location that allows the list component. The SGML document type may contain structural rules that prohibit moving, deleting, or inserting components. This differs from word processing applications which usually treat a list as formatted text that you can paste anywhere, rather than as a structural unit.
Examples of structural editing include:
• Selecting content by its component structure — its element tags.
• Displaying or hiding specific elements and their contents.
• Inserting non-keyboard symbols, such as ♠ (spades), or predefined strings of text, such as a company name, as entity components.
• Inserting specialized components for processing format and linking parts of the document, such as electronic bookmarks, hyperlinks, and marked sections to be included or ignored.