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View Preferences
The View category in the Preferences dialog box sets the following screen display options:
Show — Controls display of preferences common to all of the Arbortext Editor views. Choose any of the following you want displayed on the screen:
Context Tracking — Displays element structure in the status bar for the cursor location (for example: report(body(chapter).
Newlines — When text is part of an element with quadding set to asis in the stylesheet, newlines (carriage returns) are displayed as a hooked arrow. If this option is not enabled, the text appears on a new line but the newline character is omitted.
Spaces and Tabs — Displays a character to represent each space or tab in text content:
Spaces: a dot raised above the baseline
No break spaces: the degree/ring character (°)
Tabs: a right arrow (→)
Synchronized Views — Automatically synchronizes the views displayed in the Arbortext Editor window.
Font Scaling at — Increases or decreases the screen display size of text and tags, subject to the availability of fonts.
Percent — Sets the display size for text and tags. You can not scale less than 10% or more than 1000%
Edit View — Controls display of preferences specific to the Edit view. Choose any of the following you want displayed on the screen:
Attributes — Displays attributes after the tag name in the Edit window.
Comments — Displays comments marked by _comment tags.
Full Justification — Displays text in the Edit window as fully justified (left and right). The setting does not affect the justification of text inside table cells.
Hidden Content — Controls display of hidden document text (text that is defined as such in a stylesheet). For example, when generated text displays endnote text at the end of a chapter, this option hides the endnote text embedded in the paragraph to reference it. You can browse a document to see where generated text is placed during formatting.
Indented Divisions — Displays divisions indented from the left margin of the Edit view according to division level (for example, indenting sections more than chapters).
Object Boundaries — Displays object boundaries around objects such as file entities and XML inclusions that are included in the current document.
Tag Prompts — Displays a tag with no content as a gray box with the tag name on it, when tag display is off (View > No Tags).
Graphics as Icons — Displays a graphic as an icon. This setting improves editing performance in documents that contain many large graphics.
Equations as Icons — Displays an equation as an icon. This setting improves editing performance in documents that contain many equations.
Document Map — Controls display of preferences specific to the Document Map. Choose any of the following you want displayed on the screen:
Text — Determines how element text is displayed in the Document Map. Select one of the following options:
None — Suppresses the display of text in the Document Map.
Line — Displays text in the Document Map in a single line that does not wrap.
Wrap — Displays text in the Document Map that wraps when the end of a line is reached.
End Tags — Determines how element end tags are displayed in the Document Map. Select one of the following options:
Full — Displays end tag names and icons.
Partial — Displays end tag icons.
None — Suppresses the display of end tags.