Colors and Styles Preferences

Oxygen XML Editor plugin lets you set the colors and styles used to display profiling / conditional text in the Author mode editor. To set Colors and Styles preferences, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor ⇒ Edit modes ⇒ Author ⇒ Profiling/Conditional Text ⇒ Colors and Styles.

The preference page includes the following options and sections:

Import from DITAVAL

Allows you to import profiling styles from .ditaval files. You can merge these new profiling styles with the existing ones, or replace them completely. If the imported styles conflict with the existing ones, Oxygen XML Editor plugin displays a dialog box containing two tables: the first one previews the imported styles and the second one previews the already defined styles. You can choose to either keep the existing styles or replace them with the imported ones.

Profiling Colors and Styles Table

You can use buttons below this table to set specific colors and styles for the listed profiling attribute values. The table includes two categories:

• Defined attributes values - Contains the styles for profiling attribute values defined in the Profiling / Conditional Text preferences page. Each profiling attribute value has an associated style. To ease the process of customizing styles, the Defined attributes values category contains by default the list of empty styles. All you have to do is to adjust the colors and decorations, thus skipping the process of manually defining the association rules (document type, attribute name and value). This is the reason why a style from this category can only be reset, not deleted.
• Other - This category contains styles for attribute values that are not marked as profiling values, in the Profiling / Conditional Text preferences page. In this category are listed:
  • All the styles that were defined in other projects (with other profiling attribute value sets).
  • All the styles set for the profiling attributes defined in a subject scheme map.

Automatic styling button

If you click this button, Oxygen XML Editor plugin will apply automatic styling to the profiling attribute values that do not have a style defined.

New button

Opens the Add Profiling Style dialog box that allows you to associate a set of coloring and styling properties to a profiling value.

Note

You can define a default style for a specific attribute by setting the Attribute value field to <ANY>. This style is applied for attribute values that do not have a specific style associated with it.

Edit button

Open the Edit Profiling Style dialog box that allows you to edit the colors or style for an existing profiling value. You can also double-click the value to open this dialog box.

Clear style button

Resets the style for the selected value to its default setting (no color or decoration).

Delete button

Delete the selected style from the Other category.