Authors:

Irène Vatton, Vincent Quint, José Kahan, Kim Cramer, Kim Nylander, Kathy Rosen, Michael Spinella, and Lori Caldwell LeDoux

Contributors:

Charles McCathieNevile, John Russell, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Laurent Carcone, Bartolomé Sintes

This manual presents the user interface of Amaya. The user interface on your computer could be a little different, depending on your system and its configuration. This is not a complete user manual. Its purpose is only to help you to discover the main features of the software.

Many commands in Amaya are the same as those provided by common word processors and editors. They are not presented here. Only specific aspects of Amaya are described.

• Browsing
  • Activating a link
  • Access keys
  • Target anchors
  • Moving backward and forward
  • Reloading a page
• Using forms
  • Simple menus
  • Menus with multiple selections
• Viewing documents
  • Opening a View
  • Closing a view
• Selecting
  • Selecting with the mouse
  • Selecting in the status bar
  • Selecting with the keyboard
  • Selecting images
  • Selecting in the structure view
• Creating and opening documents
  • Creating a new document
  • Opening a document
• Creating elements
  • Editing modes
  • Buttons and menus
  • Insertion point
  • Hidden elements submenu
  • Generated elements
  • The Enter (or Return) key
    • Exiting anchors, inline elements, etc.
    • Creating nested structures
  • The Delete and Backspace keys
  • Changing the document title
  • Insert time stamp
• Editing attributes
  • Editing attributes through the Attributes tool
  • Editing attributes in the structure view
  • Copying attributes
• Entering characters
  • About Unix standard multi-key support
  • How to type accented characters on Mac OS X
  • About white space handling
• Editing with templates
  • What is a template?
  • Selecting templates
  • Creating an instance document
  • Visualizing template elements
  • Editing an instance document
    • Editing in a repeat element
    • Editing in an option element
    • Editing in a use element
    • Editing in a bag element
• Restructuring documents
  • Changing type
  • The transform command
    • Available transformations
    • Using the transform command
  • Inserting a division
  • Merging elements
• Creating and changing links and anchors
  • Creating a target anchor
  • Creating a target element
  • Creating an external link
  • Creating an Internal Link
  • Copying a target location
  • Changing a link
  • Removing a link or a target anchor
• Editing tables
  • Creating a new table
  • Adding a new column
  • Removing, copying, pasting a column
  • Adding a new row
  • Removing, copying, pasting a row
  • Extending a cell
  • Adding a new table body (tbody)
  • Adding something after a table
• Using image and maps
  • Adding an image
  • Replacing an image
  • About alternative text and long descriptions
  • Using client-side image maps
• Editing mathematics
  • Creating mathematical formulae
    • New formula
    • The Math submenu
    • The Math palette
    • Entering Math constructs using the keyboard
  • Advanced editing features
    • Entering Math characters
    • The row construct
    • Spacing
    • Special characters
    • Changing the structure
    • Viewing structure in MathML
    • Linking in MathML
  • More about MathML
    • Browsers compatibility
    • Known issues
• Editing SVG graphics
• Editing XML documents
  • Loading XML documents
  • Using style in XML
  • Editing XML documents
• Styling documents
  • Applying/Removing a theme
  • Applying specific style
  • Associating a class to an element
  • Using HTML style elements
    • Information type elements
    • Character elements
    • Removing information type or character elements
  • Using the style editor
  • About linking external and user style sheets
    • Handling external CSS style sheets
  • Showing applied style
  • Creating a generic style for an element or a class
• Searching and replacing text
• Checking spelling
  • The personal dictionary
  • The spell check dialog
  • Running the spell checker
• Saving and publishing documents
  • The save command
  • The save all command
  • The save as command
  • Saving and characters encoding (charset)
  • Saving documents as text
• Cooperating through WebDAV
  • About WebDAV
  • WebDAV support in Amaya
  • Sharing documents
  • WebDAV options
  • Compiling Amaya with WebDAV
    • At libwww folder:
    • At Amaya folder:
• Printing documents
  • Using the Print command
  • Using the Setup and print command
    • On Windows platforms
    • On Linux platforms
  • About controlling printing with CSS
• Numbering sections
• Generating a table of contents
• Assembling large document collections
• Annotating documents
  • What is an annotation?
  • Local and remote annotations
    • Remote annotations
  • Creating an annotation
  • Saving an annotation
  • Deleting an annotation
  • Loading and presenting annotations
  • Annotations in the Links window
  • Replying to annotations / discussion thread
    • Known issues: incomplete thread
  • Configuring annotation icons
    • User-definable icons by Annotation type (aka "dynamic icons")
  • Known issues with annotations and modified documents
    • Orphan annotations
    • Misleading annotations
    • What can you do to avoid this?
• Configuring Amaya
  • One or more instances of Amaya
  • Configuration directory and file conventions
    • The config directory
    • The AmayaHome directory
    • The AmayaTemp directory
  • Preferences
    • General preferences
      • Profile
      • Panel bar position
      • Font and language options
      • Home page
      • Check boxes
      • Access keys
    • Browsing preferences
      • Check boxes
      • Opening location
      • Current screen type
      • Language negotiation preferences
    • Publishing preferences
      • Charset for new documents
      • Check boxes
      • Fixed line length
      • Default name for URLs finishing in '/'
      • Allow automatic PUT redirections on these domains
    • Cache preferences
      • Check boxes
      • Cache directory
      • Cache size
      • Cache entry size limit
      • Flush cache
    • Passwords preferences
      • Remember passwords for sites
      • Remove all
      • Sites
    • Proxy preferences
      • Proxy domain list
    • Color preferences
    • Window geometry preferences
    • Configuring annotation settings
    • Annotation user
    • Annotation post server
    • Annotation servers
      • Check boxes
• Changing keyboard shortcuts
• Accessibility
  • Accessibility features
  • Producing accessible content
• An introduction to HTML
  • Information types in HTML
  • HTML document structure
  • Heading elements
  • List elements
  • About the author
  • Inline elements, quotations, sample input, output and computer code, etc
  • Character style elements in HTML (what NOT to do and how it should be done...)
  • HTML elements

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