2. The DocBook tool bar

The DocBook tool bar starts with a number of “text style” toggles. These toggles emulate the behavior of the Bold, Italic, Underline, etc, toggles found in the tool bars of almost all word-processors. More information about text style toggles in About “text style” toggles in XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help.

Figure 1. Toggles found at the beginning of the DocBook tool bar

Toggles found at the beginning of the DocBook tool bar

In the above screenshot, the caret is inside an emphasis element and the user clicked the arrow button next to a “italic text style” toggle.

Toggle emphasis

“Toggle” element emphasis. Next to this toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing additional checkboxes for the following elements: firstterm, citetitle, replaceable, trademark, trademark[registered].

Toggle emphasis[bold]

“Toggle” element emphasis[bold]. Next to this toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing additional checkboxes for the following elements: abbrev, guilabel, guibutton, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, guimenu, keycap, keysym.

Toggle literal

“Toggle” element literal. Next to this toggle is found an arrow button displaying a menu containing additional checkboxes for the following elements: filename, sgmltag[element], sgmltag[attribute], sgmltag[attvalue].

Toggle link

“Toggle” element link.

Toggle ulink

“Toggle” element ulink.

Add para

Add a para element after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add list item

Add a listitem or varlistitem element after current list item. For this command to work, suffice to click anywhere inside an itemizedlist, orderedlist or variablelist element.

Add itemizedlist

Add an itemizedlist element after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add orderedlist

Add an orderedlist element after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add variablelist

Add an variablelist element after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add programlisting

Displays a menu which allows to add several styles of elements containing preformatted text after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add table

Displays a menu which allows to add several styles of tables after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add image

Displays a menu which allows to add several styles of figures and images after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.

Add section

Displays a menu which allows to add chapter or section elements after node selection or after caret at a location where it is valid to do so.