DITA Storm browser-based DITA XML Editor
by Inmedius Inc.
 

Basic Content Editing

Cursor movement:

  • Basic cursor movement: Up / Down / Left / Right
  • Word cursor movement: Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right
  • Line movement: Home / End
  • Page scrolling: Page Up / Page Down

Selection Handling:

  • Mouse selection
  • Shift-selection: Shift+Up / Shift+Down / Shift+Right / Shift+Left
  • Shift-word selection: Ctrl+Left+Shift / Ctrl+Right+Shfit
  • Shift-line selection: Shift+Home / Shift+End

Undo:

  • Undo operation: Ctrl+Z

Selected Text Element Creation:

  • Select text, apply element (e.g. note, paragraph, bold, quote...)
Tip: Element creation can be can be attached to Ctrl+* keyboard shortcut. See attribute ctrlShortcut in XML configuraiton section.

Shortcut Element Creation:

  • Bold: Select text, Ctrl+B
  • Italic: Select text, Ctrl+I
  • Underline: Select text, Ctrl+U
  • Teletype: Select text, Ctrl+T
  • Create new paragraph: Enter in the context of paragraph
  • Create new list item: Enter in the context of the list item

Handling keyboard 'Enter' key:

  • In preformatted text (pre, codeblock) 'Enter' creates a new line.
  • In list items (li) editor behaves similarly to the regular word processors ('enter' in the middle of the list item text it splits list item in two).
  • Similarly in the paragraph editor splits paragraph contents in two.
  • In all other cases editor attempts to create a new paragraph even if it involves breaking current element in two.

Leaving current context. You can quickly leave current editing context (element) using one of the following options:

  • Click on 'Next Element' button on the toolbar.
  • Press Ctrl+Enter
  • Press Esc

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