Amaya user interface Manual de Instruções

Amaya User ManualAuthors:Irène Vatton, Vincent Quint, José Kahan, Kim Cramer, Kim Nylander, Kathy Rosen, MichaelSpinella, and Lori Caldwell LeDouxCont

Moving the insertion point• To move the insertion point locally, use the four arrow keys. If there is no insertion point, one isset at the top left co

There is the div element which is provided to group together a section into a single division - to use itselect the section (including its heading) yo

Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of lists, including changing the style of list bullets orusing an image as a bullet, and changing

Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of acronyms or abbreviations.30.6.5. Insertions and deletionsThe del and ins elements are availabl

sub and supStyle sheets should be used to achieve the presentation effects of these elements. In cases such asmathematical expressions, an appropriate

captiontable captioncitecitationcodecomputer code fragmentcoltable columncolgrouptable column groupdddefinition descriptiondeldeleted textdfninstance

iitalic text style (This effect should be achieved using style sheets or markup that conveys structuralinformation)iframeinline subwindowimgEmbedded i

paramnamed property valueprepreformatted textqshort inline quotationsampsample program output, scripts, etc.scriptscript statementsselectoption select

theadtable header blocktitledocument titletrtable row, containing table cells.ttteletype or monospaced text style (This effect should be achieved usin

s and strikeShould be replaced by the use of del (to identify text to be removed) or by style sheetsuShould be replaced by the use of style sheetsCopy

To select an attribute value:• In the Structure view, attribute values that can be edited from the keyboard are displayed inpurple. Click and drag acr

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5. Creating and opening documents5.1. Creating a new documentAmaya allows you to create both local and remote documents. Three types of documents are

You can also use these steps to create a new local document, by specifying the name of a file thatdoes not exist.Files browserA file browser may be di

6. Creating elements6.1. Editing modesAmaya offers two editing modes:• The XML mode is very efficient for manipulating different types of XML structur

6.4. Hidden elements submenuTo create elements in the document head, use the Insert/Hidden elements submenu. These elements aredisplayed only in the s

6.6.1. Exiting anchors, inline elements, etc.When a paragraph or another block of text is terminated by an anchor or a character string in bold, itali

8. Type the final list item, and then press the Enter key three times to close the original list andstart a new paragraph after the list.The Enter key

7. Editing attributesYou can edit attributes in two ways:• Using the Attributes tool.• Directly in the structure view.7.1. Editing attributes through

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7.2. Editing attributes in the structure viewAll attributes are displayed in the structure view. Attribute values may be displayed in blue or purple.W

Acirc 194 <Shift> A circumflex ÂAgrave 192 <Shift> A backquote ÀAring 197 <Shift> A star ÅAtilde 195 <Shift> A tilde ÃAuml 196

copy 169 c o ©current 164 x o ¤deg 176 ^ 0 (zero) °eacute 233 e quote éecirc 234 e circumflex êegrave 232 e backquote èeuml 235 e double quote ëeth 24

sup1 185 s 1 ¹sup2 178 s 2 ²sup3 179 s 3 ³szlig 223 s s ßthorn 254 t h þuacute 250 u quote úucirc 251 u circumflex ûugrave 249 u backquote ùuuml 252 u

• preserve indicates that applications must preserve all the characters, except the first one thatimmediately follows the end tag of the element where

9. Editing with templates9.1. What is a template?Templates are used to produce multiple documents of the same type. A template is a skeletonrepresenti

◦ The Create a text area entry generates a use element that includes a string. Thecommand asks the user for a label. That label is free and is used fo

enter the URI of remote templates in the input area below the list. Use the buttons on the right side of thelist to remove a template or to change the

listed in the Insert and Append submenus of the contextual menu. The available template componentsare also listed in the Insert and Append submenus of

10. Restructuring documents10.1. Changing typeTo change the type of an existing element, select it and choose the new type in the Insert menu, or in t

1. BrowsingAmaya is mainly an editor with browsing capabilities. It allows you to edit and browse Web documentssimultaneously. Browsing with Amaya is

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11. Creating and changing links and anchors11.1. Creating a target anchorA target anchor is a piece of text that is referred to by a link (a source an

Note: If you want to create a link to the last target element you have created, choose Link to previoustarget from the Links menu.11.3. Creating an ex

Note: You can also manually edit the href attribute of the anchor either in the Structure view or in theLinks view, or use the Attributes tool.11.7. R

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12. Editing tablesAmaya does not contain a separate table editor. To Amaya, a table is simply a structure described by the(X)HTML document type defini

Cell 2.1 Cell 2.2 Cell 2.3Cell 3.1 Cell 3.2 Cell 3.3When a whole column is selected, use the usual commands to copy, delete or cut it.Two specific com

• To shrink an horizontally extended cell by one column, select Shrink horizontal extend in theTools/Edit table submenu (Ctrl-t Ctrl-s), or click the

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13. Using image and maps13.1. Adding an imageTo insert an image, choose Image from the Insert menu, click the image button, or use the keyboardshortcu

Access keys overwrite Amaya shortcuts, but not the system shortcuts (shortcuts for menus, for instance).As an example, these Help pages declare the fo

with low-quality connections to request the alternate view, because text is transmitted much faster thanimages.The alternate text should replace the i

14. Editing mathematicsAmaya proposes a Wysiwyg interface where MathML mathematical expressions are handled asstructured components, in the same way a

• The next item, Character (&xxx;), enables you to enter a character that is not available on thekeyboard. It displays a dialog where you have to

▪ mrow: used to group elements. See the section about the row construct▪ mphantom: used to hide a piece of formula, can be used for alignment. Thehidd

▪ reminder, quotient◦ operations▪ elementary operations: plus, minus, times, divide, fraction▪ power, root▪ floor, ceiling◦ complexes▪ abs, arg, conju

2. Type this sequence of 6 characters: x=2a+bUse the Structure or Source view to display the following structure generated by Amaya:<mi>x</mi

14.2.5. Changing the structureYou may want to change the structure of an existing expression, such as appending a superscript, puttingparentheses arou

If the target is an expression in a formula, you must first turn the expression into a target. Select theexpression and choose Create target from the

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15. Editing SVG graphicsAmaya enables you to include vector graphics in web pages, following the Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) specification. The goal

• Clicking the Reload button on the navigation bar.If you have chosen a profile without the navigation feature, or if you are in help pages, this comm

• Fo Bézier curves, you process the same way as polygons except that you need to indicate thedirection of the tangents too.When a line, an arrow, a po

◦ The colored button displays the current color◦ The palette button allows one to select another color15. Editing SVG graphics51

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16. Editing XML documents16.1. Loading XML documentsAmaya can display any well formed XML document and can format it if there is an associated CSSstyl

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17. Styling documentsThe Format menu enables you to change the appearance of your documents using cascading style sheets(CSS)17.1. Applying/Removing a

1. Choose the value in the Apply class tool.2. If you want to select the class applied to another element, you have to select this element, thenclick

Two of these Character elements are also available in the Elements tool:superscript( ), andsubscript().17.4.3. Removing information type or character

@media print {body {font-size: 10pt}}@media screen {body {font-family: Helvetica}}17.6.1. Handling external CSS style sheetsThe Format/Style sheets su

17.8. Creating a generic style for an element or a classWhen a style attribute is associated with an element, you can use that element as a model for

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18. Searching and replacing textYou can search and replace text with the Search dialog by choosing Find from the Edit menu orclicking the Search butto

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19. Checking spellingAmaya provides a multilingual spell checker and selects the appropriate language according to the langattribute. The lang attribu

• Learn: Performs the same action as the Search/Skip button, except that the word consideredincorrect is added to the user's personal dictionary,

20. Saving and publishing documentsYou can save (X)HTML documents either in (X)HTML or as plain text. Other documents (SVG,MathML, XML or CSS) are sav

• all URIs used in the document can be updated to take into account the new location of thedocument and its associated resources.The dialog box contai

The Images, Styles and Scripts tab contains:• The field Where to save images allows you to specify the directory where images and objectshave to be sa

When saving a document (Save, Save all, or Save As commands), all characters that are available in thecharset of the encoding are just written using t

21. Cooperating through WebDAV21.1. About WebDAVWebDAV (WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol,which al

3. Viewing documentsAmaya can present different views of a document simultaneously. Each tab corresponds to a documentand the document views can be sh

21.4. WebDAV optionsThe following options can be set with the Preferences / WebDAV dialog box. They are also available inthe Amaya registry:User'

• aclocal; autoheader; automake; autoconf21.5.2. At Amaya folder:• autoconf• mkdir LINUX-ELF (or GTK, or obj)• cd LINUX-ELF• ../configure --with-dav .

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22. Printing documentsAmaya can print documents with or without CSS style sheets, on both Linux and Windows platforms.Important: On Linux platforms, A

In addition, you can:• select manual paper feed,• generate a table of contents for the document,• generate a table of links, which creates a number af

23. Numbering sectionsSection headings (h2 to h6 elements) can be automatically numbered to reflect the document structure.The h1 element is supposed

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25. Assembling large document collectionsAmaya enables you to handle document collections. Such a collection may, for example, represent atechnical do

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26. Annotating documents26.1. What is an annotation?Annotations are comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks that can be atta

Show structureCtrl-u Ctrl-sShow alternateCtrl-u Ctrl-aShow linksCtrl-u Ctrl-lShow table of contentsCtrl-u Ctrl-cShow sourceCtrl-u Ctrl-oTip : You can

Amaya supports two kinds of annotations: annotations that apply to a whole document and annotationsthat apply to a specific position or a selection in

26.6. Loading and presenting annotationsThe Tools/Annotations/Load command tells Amaya to load the annotations that are associated with theURL of the

26.9. Configuring annotation icons26.9.1. User-definable icons by Annotation type (aka "dynamic icons")The icon used to mark the location of

26.10. Known issues with annotations and modified documentsWhen you use annotations with live documents (documents whose contents can be modified), yo

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27. Configuring AmayaAmaya uses different configuration files to get initial values for global parameters, dialogs, shortcuts,window size and position

• dictionary.DCT: Amaya provides a multilingual spell checker. By default, the spell checkerworks with two dictionaries: English and French (you can d

If you select the Customizable option, you may:• Re-order the list of panels: You click on the title of the panel and drag it to the right position in

Show targets. Controls whether link targets should be shown in all document main views. Show targetsmay be useful when one wants to create new links.D

27.1.3. Publishing preferencesThe Publishing preferences dialog lets you set preferences for ETAGS and preconditions, whether toverify each PUT comman

4. SelectingMany commands in Amaya act on the current selection. You can make a selection using the keyboard orthe mouse, as described below.No matter

> 27.1.4.1. Check boxesThe options below can be toggled on or off by clicking the check box next to an option name. A mark inthe box indicates that

groucho.marx.edu:1234Declares a proxy called groucho.marx.edu, running at port 1234.> 27.1.6.1. Proxy domain listLists space-separated domains wher

27.1.9. Configuring annotation settings> 27.1.9.1. Annotation userThe author of the annotation. By default, Amaya uses the login name of the user.

28. Changing keyboard shortcutsKeyboard shortcuts are useful to invoke menu commands directly from the keyboard. You canaccomplish this using keyboard

• Skip to the previous link or HTML form element in the document:PreviousLinkOrFormElement.• In File menu:NewXHTML, NewMathML, NewSVG, NewCss, OpenDoc

• In Help Menu:HelpAmaya, HelpAtW3C, HelpBrowsing, HelpSelecting, HelpSearching, HelpViews,HelpCreating, HelpLinks, HelpChanging, HelpTables, HelpMath

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29. AccessibilityThe Amaya user population is extremely diverse. In addition to speaking a variety of languages andoperating on several platforms, the

• Graphs and charts. Summarize the data or use the longdesc attribute. For more information,see Working with graphics.• Scripts, applets, and plug-ins

30. An introduction to HTMLThis section provides a short introduction to the HTML language. It describes HTML elements andexplain how to use them.30.1