Applying profiling colors and styles allows you to customize the Author editing area to mark profiled content so you can instantly spot different variants of the output.
Choosing the right style for a specific profiling attribute is a matter of personal taste,
but you should keep in mind that:
- If the same block of text is profiled with two or more profiling attributes, their associated styles combine. Depending on the styling, this might result in an excessively styled content that may prove difficult to read or work with.
- Profile only differences. There is no need to profile common content, since excessive profiling can visually pollute the document.
- A mnemonic associated with a style will help you spot instantly different types of content.
- Enable the Show Profiling Colors and Styles option from the
Profiling / Conditional Text toolbar drop-down menu. - Go to Profiling Settings from the Profiling / Conditional Text toolbar drop-down menu. This is a
shortcut to the Profiling/Conditional Text options page. Select the
Colors and Styles options page.
- Set a style to a profiling attribute value.
Note that the styling is now applied in the Author editor, the Outline view and DITA Maps Manager view. Also, to help you identify more easily the profiling you want to apply in the current context, the styling is applied in the Edit Profiling Attributes dialog box and in the inline form control that allows you to quickly set the profiling attributes.