Authoring Modes

There are two modes for editing documents in Serna:

WYSIWYG mode . Authoring in this mode is very close to working with a conventional word processor. A document is rendered very close to its published view. XSL stylesheets do their best to represent a document conveniently without markup tags, but sometimes the author may need to display markup.
Text mode . This mode is for plain text editing. It is convenient for specific XML source code editing (e.g. manually fixing invalid XML documents). Authoring is not recommended in Text mode.

You can switch between the modes:

To switch between WYSIWYG mode and Text mode, choose Tools > Switch to Text Mode/Switch to WYSIWYG Mode or press F6.

Note:
When you switch between WYSIWYG mode and Text mode, the authoring (undo/redo) history gets lost.
To switch between Tag WYSIWYG mode and Tagless WYSIWYG mode, choose View > Show Markup/Hide Markup or click the Show/Hide Markup button on the Status bar.