DITA Storm Reference

Cursor Movement

• Basic cursor movement: Up / Down / Left / Right
• Word cursor movement: Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right
• Line movement: Home / End
• Page scrolling: Page Up / Page Down

Selection Handling

• Mouse selection
• Shift-selection: Shift+Up / Shift+Down / Shift+Right / Shift+Left
• Shift-word selection: Ctrl+Left+Shift / Ctrl+Right+Shfit
• Shift-line selection: Shift+Home / Shift+End

Undo

• Undo operation: Ctrl+Z

Selected Text Element Creation

• Select text, apply element (e.g. note, paragraph, bold, quote...)

Shortcut Element Creation

• Bold: Select text, Ctrl+B
• Italic: Select text, Ctrl+I
• Underline: Select text, Ctrl+U
• Teletype: Select text, Ctrl+T
• Create new paragraph: Enter in the context of paragraph
• Create new list item: Enter in the context of the list item

Handling Deyboard ‘Enter’ Key

• In preformatted text (pre, codeblock) 'Enter' creates a new line.
• In list items (li) editor behaves similarly to the regular word processors (‘enter’ in the middle of the list item text it splits list item in two).
• Similarly in the paragraph editor splits paragraph contents in two.
• In all other cases editor attempts to create a new paragraph even if it involves breaking current element in two.

Leaving Current Context

You can quickly leave current editing context (element) using one of the following options:

• Click on 'Next Element' button on the toolbar.
• Press Ctrl+Enter
• Press Esc