Content editor

User guide

1. Take a look

1.1. User interface

The editor offers all the functions necessary for structured writing: it allows you to manipulate information and not formatting or layout:

  • As a writer, you associate semantics to groups of words.

    Therefore, you don’t work on a document as it’ll be published.

  • The stylesheet of each publication takes advantage of the semantics to apply the expected formatting.

[Tip]Data processing

Structuring content also allows treating information for other goals than formatting, like compiling names of products mentioned in a document.

Calenco editor has several areas:

We believe that you don't have to know the code in detail to produce your documentation. Nevertheless, documents delivered with Calenco are conform to the DocBook XML standard.

The editor guides you at each step ensuring this conformity.

When inserting elements, the editor proposes you options with the following icons. Click on the icon corresponding to your need:

Table 1. Insert options

The element is inserted at this place.

[Tip]

A tool tip shows the level of structure where the element will be inserted.

The inserted element encompasses the current element.

The inserted element overwrites the current element.

The element is inserted at this position in the text.


1.2. To manipulate elements

Structured documents are made of elements nested in one another. Those elements are represented under different aspects:

  • the element in the Context,

  • vertical bar, on the left of the element in the area for editing,

  • a tree item in the navigation tab on the left.

You can select these elements by clicking on their representation to perform the desired actions.