Most people working on the LEMDO project in Oxygen prefer to have their texts formatted
so that they are contained within the editing window rather than running off the side
of their screen (i.e., they prefer to have lines wrap). There are three ways to make
lines wrap in Oxygen XML editor: 1) Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Y (or Cmd+Shift+Y
on Mac); 2) Navigate to the Document tab in the toolbar, select Edit, and click Toggle Line Wrap (Ctrl+Shift+Y); or 3) Set a permanent preference for line wrap in Oxygen’s settings following these
instructions:
Go to Options at the top of your Oxygen window, then Preferences.
In the window that pops up, select Appearance.
Click Text.
Check the box next to Line wrap.
Click OK.
For example, see the General Introduction of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay:
If you click Toggle Line Wrap (or Ctrl+Shift+Y), the texts formats itself so you can read it without scrolling
to the right:
Practice: Alter Layout
Oxygen is highly configurable; you can easily change the layout to suit your working
methods and preferences. It also means it is very complicated and full of features
and panels whose purpose is not obvious.
If you have a big screen, you can use the default Oxygen layout, which looks like
this:
The Project panel shows all of the files in lemdo-all.xpr. If you accidentally close this panel
and want it back, navigate to Project in the toolbar and click Show Project View. You can pin the Project panel by clicking the small pin icon on Windows and Linux computers or the yellow
minimize button on Mac computers.
Beside the Project panel is the Outline panel, which shows the file that you are currently editing as a tree, expanding downwards
and to the right, like a traditional file manager.
In the middle is the editing area. This screenshot shows one file open (learn_oxygen.xml, the file you are currently reading), but you can have multiple files open at the
same time.
On the right are the Attributes and Elements panels. Like the Outline panel, these are dynamic; they will change as you move your cursor from one place
to another in the document. The Attributes panel shows you the list of attributes which are available for the element where
your cursor is currently located. Similarly, the Elements panel shows you the list of elements which are allowed in the current cursor position.
Generally, new encoders to not need either of these two panels to be open.
If you are working on a smaller screen, the default layout for Oxygen can often be
too much—you end up with not enough space to actually work on your files. Feel free
to close the panels you do not need to see at the moment:
Note that you can re-open panels by navigating to Window in the toolbar and clicking Show View.
Also note that even without the Attributes and Elements panels, you can still see information about elements and attributes while you are
editing. If you type an open bracket in your document, Oxygen recognizes that you
have started to type an element. It will show you a list of all the elements available
at that position:
Similarly, if you put your cursor inside an opening tag, after the end of the element
name, and type a space, Oxygen will give you information about all the attributes
available:
Practice: Alter Appearance
You can alter the appearance of Oxygen by navigating to Options in the toolbar and clicking on Preferences. From here, navigate to Appearance to change Oxygen’s theme:
Those spending a lot of time editing files in Oxygen may prefer the Graphite theme to reduce eye strain:
Prosopography
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
Joey Takeda
Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020
after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.
Mahayla Galliford
Project manager, 2025-present; research assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford
(she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of Victoria
in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and
civic water pageantry. Mahayla continues her studies through UVic’s English MA program
and her SSHRC-funded thesis project focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscripts,
specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s dramatic entertainments, in collaboration with LEMDO.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media
Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities
projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the
Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020.
He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.
Navarra Houldin
Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual
remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major
in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary
research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They
are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice
Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was women’s
writing in the modernist period.
Tracey El Hajj
Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence
at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships
between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021,
Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in
the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Orgography
LEMDO Team (LEMD1)
The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project
director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators,
encoders, and remediating editors.
Metadata
Authority title
Alter Oxygen’s Appearance
Type of text
Documentation
Publisher
University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
Encoding description
Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines
Document status
prgGenerated
Funder(s)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
License/availability
This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following
conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author and LEMDO in any subsequent use
of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except
in quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial
uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of the editor and LEMDO.
This license allows for pedagogical use of the documentation in the classroom.
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