XStandard Toolbar

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Most of the visual formatting tasks you'll complete in the editor will be through the XStandard editor toolbar. This topics provides a brief overview of the formatting options you'll find in this toolbar. To learn more about using the XStandard editor, you can read the XStandard Online User's Guide.

You can switch the available toolbar buttons by selecting one of the following options from the pop up menu that appears when you click on the Toolbars button above the editor window.

  • Default
  • Alternate
  • Symbols

The content of each toolbard is detailed below.

The default toolbar

The toolbar that sits right above the editor can be used to apply the most common typographic attributes, set some widely used tags and insert tables and images.

  Description
wysiwyg This button is used to open the editor in a larger window.
strong Bold
emphasis Italic
underline Underline
subscript Subscript
superscript Superscript
align-left Laign Left
align-center Align Center
align-right Align Right
indent Indent
This button identifies content as a quotation.
bullets This button creates an unordered list of bulleted items.
numbering This button creates an ordered list of sequentially numbered items.
data table This button is used to graphically specify table dimensions for a data table.
hyperlink Create an hyperlink with the selected text
image The image button is used to insert an image in a topic
wysiwyg This button toggles the view between XML source and WYSIWYG modes
preview This presents the editor's contents as IE would display them.
Open a new window to the XStandard Online User's | Guide

The aternate toolbar

The alternate toolbar introduces the following buttons.

  Description
layout table This creates a table used for visual layout rather than for presenting data. Please use it thoughtfully.
layout table This button creates a table used for presenting tabular data.
layout table This button is used to graphically specify table dimensions for a layout table.
line This button inserts a text box. By default, this button creates the markup: <div class="textbox"><h5>{heading}</h5><p>{text}</p></div>.
line This button inserts a line.
screen-reader This displays content managed through the editor as a screen reader would process it - in linear fashion. This feature gives authors opportunities to optimize content for accessibility.

You can customize which buttons appear on which toolbar by editing the topico.ini.xml file. Learn more about XStandard buttons here.

The symbols toolbar

The symbols toolbar give you access to commonly used symbols.

  Description
copyright Copyright Symbol - © -
euro Euro Symbol - ? -
pound Pound Symbol - £ -
registered-trade-mark Registered Symbol - ® -
trade-mark Trademark Symbol - T -
yen Yen Symbol - ¥ -

You can also use the Symbol button to define other symbols you'd like to be able to insert easily.

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