Typing content

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.
A content file or a configuration file is created in the workspace.
You have browsed to and opened the file in the Workspace view or the Publications view.
You have created an element, for example, a paragraph or an ordered or unordered list.

Your need

You need to put a type on content in your file to be able to style it in a specific way when publishing.

The possibility

Various values can be added to the type attribute for an element to specify that it belongs to a specific type.

A specific type on, for example, a table element allows to style the table differently in a PDF compared to other tables. For example, setting the attribute type to Big is a common way to allow a table span across side margins in a PDF to make the table bigger.

The type attribute can have one or more values. The type attribute is often used in conjunction to the class attribute to specify different types of element of the same class.

Skribenta can be configured to let you select attribute values from a predefined list, which can be specific for a given element.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to set a type on content.

The result

This is the content before setting a type on a paragraph element:

This is the content after setting a type on a paragraph element:

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Overall steps

Open the file, then set a type attribute on an element in the file content.

Time

Less than 1 minute

Procedure

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1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. In your file content, right-click the element that you want to set a type on.

A pop-up list opens.

3. In the pop-up list, select the element icon.

A toolbar opens.

4. On the toolbar, click Attributes > Type.

The Type tab opens.

5. In the Type box, type one or several type names separated by a semicolon, or click the Type arrow and select one or several type names from the list.

6. Click Apply.

The type attribute is set on the element.