Colors and Styles Preferences

Oxygen XML Editor 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 central area of the page contains a table that lists two categories of profiling styles:

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 different profiling attribute value sets)
- all the styles set for the profiling attributes defined in a subject scheme map

Adding a profiling style

To add profiling styles use one of the following actions:

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 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 either to keep the existing styles or replace them with the imported ones.
Automatic styling: For every profiling attribute value that has no style defined, applies one of the following color or style: background, foreground, text decoration (underline, overline, double-underline) or text style (bold, italic).
New: Opens the Add Profiling Style dialog 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.

To modify an already defined style use one of the following actions:

double click the style in the styles table to open the Edit Profiling Style dialog
select the style in the styles table and press Edit to open the Edit Profiling Style dialog

To reset a style from the Defined attributes values category to its default (no color or decoration), select it and click the Clear style button.

To delete a style from the Other category, select it and click the Delete button.