User Guide

Setting Options for Markup Languages 87
3 In the Insert special characters as box, select how characters should be
represented in the code when you insert them from the View > Extended and
Special Characters palette. Following is an example for each option:
• Character entities Insert the ampersand (&) as
&
• Decimal references Insert & as &
• Hexadecimal references Insert & as & (a RGB value)
4 Open the HTML/XHTML pane under the Markup Languages pane and select
from the following options.
5Click Apply.
6Open the Options > Customize dialog box.
7 On the toolbars tab, in the Visible Toolbars list, select the toolbar for every
language that you use. The toolbars are added to the QuickBar, providing you
with a quick way to insert code for those languages.
For more information about displaying toolbars and adding a toolbutton to a
toolbar, see “Customizing toolbars” on page 32.
8 If you script in ActiveX, add the ActiveX toolbutton to a toolbar.
Option Result when selected
Minimize empty tags (e.g.,
<br/>)
If the current document is set or recognized to be an
XHTML document, the buttons on the QuickBar for
empty tags insert minimized empty tags, for example
<br/> and <hr/>.
Enforce required attribute
validation (Tag Editor)
Tag Editors do not insert the tag unless every
required attribute is completed for the tag.
Use <em> tag in place of
<i>
The Italic button on the Font Quickbar inserts
<em></em> instead of <i></i>.
Use <strong> tag in place
of <b>
The Bold button on the Font Quickbar inserts
<strong></strong> instead of <b></b>.
Option Result when selected
Use title of dragged
documents as the link
description
When you drag a file to the editor to insert a link, the
programs checks the file for a title and uses any title
that it finds as the link text.
Align Center or Align Right Specify tags you want to insert when clicking these
toolbuttons on the Common QuickBar.
Use the VTML Tag Dialog
for:
Select tags for which you want to use the Visual Tool
Markup Language (VTML) Tag Editor. For more
information, see “About VTML Tag Editors” on page
76.