Arbortext Editor has a tag to highlight text. Select Format->Touchup->Font..., which will insert a <_font> tag and display a Font dialog where you can select the highlighting, such as yellow shading, and any other font properties you want. If Touchup is not listed in the Format menu, enter the following at the command line:
set fullmenus=on
Note that you don't have to use the Format menu every time. Instead, you can create a user-defined tag (UDT) based on the Font Touchup tag with the highlighting you chose. You can name this tag "highlight" or "not-final" or any name not already used.
For example, to define a user tag named "highlight":
1. In the Edit window, click after the <_font> tag you inserted and modified and then enter the following at the command line:
dft
2. In the Tag Definition dialog that appears, click on "<font> with local mods," enter "highlight" as the New Tag Name, and click on OK.
To insert a <highlight> user-defined tag:
1. In the Application toolbar, click on the icon for the Insert Markup dialog.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, use the pulldown menu to select User Tags and see that the <highlight> tag you created is listed. Click on the tag name and then on Insert. Anything typed within the <highlight> tag has the formatting you chose.
You can also insert a <highlight> tag using the comand line. For example, enter:
it highlight
In addition, a keymapping can be created to insert the <highlight> tag. For example, enter the folowing at the command line:
map F4 it highlight
Then you can just press F4 to insert the <highlight> tag.
Note that you can create more than one UDT of the <_font> tag with different properties. For example, a "critical" tag could be created with red shading.
A toolbar icon can be added to insert the <highlight> tag. You could have an icon for yellow shading and an icon red shading.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
A user-defined tag is saved with the document. To apply to all documents, a UDT can be added to the documents used for new template and sample documents.
A keymapping entered at the command line ends with the session. However, a keymapping can be included in start-up files so it is always available.