Opening a Document in WYSIWYG Mode

When opening a document in WYSIWYG mode, Serna does its best to determine the document type and open the document with an appropriate document template applying appropriate XML metadata, such as encoding, XSL Stylesheet and XML Schema.

However, you can open a document with manually specified parameters.
Note:

All DITA documents are opened by default with the DITA V1.1 template. To open a DITA 1.0 document with a DITA 1.0 template, follow the instructions.

To open an existing document in WYSIWYG mode, do the following:

  1. Call up the Open Document Dialog.

    To call up the Open Document Dialog, choose Document > Open... , or click the Open Document button on the toolbar, or press Ctrl-O.

  2. Select the document to open.

    In the Open Document Dialog, do the following:

    1. If necessary, filter files by type.

      Figure 1. Open Document Dialog.



      Note:

      You can configure the list of offered file types. For instructions, see Specifying File Types For Opening In Serna.

    2. Browse for the document.
  3. Click the Open button.

    Serna will guess the document type and open the document.

    Note: Serna may fail to guess the document type either because it is not supported or because you are opening some older version of a supported document type, e.g. Docbook V4.2. See Opening a Document When No Template Was Found.
Related tasks
Opening a Document as Plain Text
Opening a Recent Document
Opening a Document from the Command Line