InCopy and InDesign both make use of an expandable/collapsible pane that displays the structure of your document. Viewing the Structure of an InCopy DocumentSure, most of us look at the printed page and see form. It jumps out at us: the huge type for the headline, the smaller type for the body text, the pictures. How could we miss it? And for designers, the people who lay out these pages, in many ways, it's how they view the world: form. But don't miss the structure. It might be subtle in the printed page, but it's there. To view and manipulate the XML structure in your InCopy documents, you utilize InCopy's Structure pane. From the Structure pane you can create or delete elements, rearrange them, or associate them with items on the page. To open the Structure pane of your InCopy document choose View > Structure (Command-Option-1/Control-Alt-1). Tagged framesWhen working with XML, it is very helpful to see at a glance which frames are associated with XML elements. Before even looking at the Structure pane, enable View > Structure > Show Tagged Frames. Now any frame that's tagged will appear in Layout view in the same background color as its tag. You can also tell InCopy to show tag markers (View > Structure > Show Tag Markers) to see which text is associated with a particular XML element. Viewing text snippetsIn the Structure pane you'll see the XML elements associated with your InCopy file and be able to organize and rearrange them. Ultimately, the Structure pane is the best way both to understand how an InCopy document is structured and to maintain control over that structure. Want to know which piece of text is associated with which XML element in your Structure pane? From the Structure pane flyout menu, choose Show Text Snippets; now the first few words of any text associated with an element in your structure will appear to its right in the Structure pane (Figure 7.13). To turn off the snippets, choose Hide Text Snippets from the Structure pane flyout menu. Figure 7.13. Toggle the option to Show or Hide Text Snippets to reveal or hide a short sample of tagged text in the Structure pane.Controlling XML from the Structure paneThe Structure pane is one-stop-shopping for organizing the structure of your InCopy document. What follows is a brief list of tools available from the Structure pane:
Tip Many of the commands in the Tags palette menu are also available in the Structure pane flyout menu. |