In an earlier post, Douglas Wade reviewed the basics of collapsing and expanding in Arbortext Editor. I would like to add a few thoughts about this feature as it relates to tables.
I recently started working on some SGML files that have large tables. I’m talking really large. I found that the performance of Arbortext Editor slowed considerably whenever I encountered one of these tables.
Then I received a great piece of advice: If you’re not working on tables, collapse them.
You can start by closing all of the tables in your file. Go to the View menu and select Collapse/Expand Divisions. Select the table element and click Collapse.
Now when you need to work on a specific table, expand that table, do whatever you need to do, and collapse it again when you’re done.
