# Amaya User Manual

Version: 3.2 - July 2000

Authors:
  Irène Vatton, Vincent Quint, José Kahan
Contributors:
  Charles McCathieNevile, John Russell

This manual presents the Amaya user interface for Unix platforms. The Windows user interface could be a little different in some cases. It is not a complete user manual. Its purpose is only to help users to discover the main features of the software. This document is organized as a book and you can use the "Make Book" command to build and print the whole manual.

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

# Table of contents

- Starting Amaya
- Editing Web pages with Amaya
  - Browsing with Amaya
    - Activating a link
    - Target anchors
    - Opening documents
    - Moving backward and forward
    - Reloading a page
    - Keyboard control
  - Selecting
    - Selecting by Structure
    - Selecting images
  - Searching and replacing text
  - Displaying Views
    - Opening a view
    - Closing a view
    - Using views
  - Creating new elements
    - Entering ISO-Latin-1 characters
    - Standard multi-key support
    - Optional Multi-key support
    - Buttons and types menu
    - Structure menu
    - The Enter (or Return) key
    - Changing the document Title
  - Creating and changing links and anchors
    - Creating a target anchor
    - Creating a target element
    - Creating a link
    - Removing a link or a target anchor
    - Changing a link
  - Editing the document structure
    - Changing element type
    - Changing the document structure
    - The Transform command
    - Inserting a Division
    - The Back Space and Delete keys
  - Editing tables
    - Creating a new table
    - Adding a new column
    - Adding a new row, a new tbody
    - Removing a column
    - Adding something after a table
  - Editing mathematics
    - Creating a mathematical expression
    - Entering characters
    - Structure editing
    - Math_Structure view
    - Links in MathML
    - Current limitations
  - Creating and using client-side image maps
    - Adding an image
    - Alternative Text and Long Descriptions
    - Using client-side image maps
    - Creating client-side image maps
    - Moving image map areas
    - Resizing image map areas
  - Style Sheets
    - Creating and updating a style attribute
    - Creating, a generic style for an element or a class
    - Managing external CSS style sheets
    - Style through HTML elements
  - Editing attributes
    - Editing attributes through the menu Attributes
    - Copying attributes
    - Editing attributes in the Structure view
  - Spell checking
  - Saving and publishing documents
    - Saving documents in HTML
    - Saving documents as text
  - Printing documents
  - Section numbering
  - Assembling large documents
- Configuring Amaya
  - Conventions
    - The Amaya/Config directory
    - The AmayaHome Directory
    - The AmayaTemp Directory
  - Preferences Menus
  - Keyboard shortcuts

## Starting Amaya

To start Amaya on Unix platform type:

        amaya [-display host] [document]

Parameter [-display host] is optional. It defines the remote host screen where Amaya has to display Web pages. If this parameter is omitted, Amaya displays on the local host screen.

Parameter `[document]` is optional. It is the file name or the URI of the first document Amaya should display when starting. If no parameter is given, a default document is presented. The default document could be your home page (see how to configure your Home Page) or the Amaya Welcome page.

## Editing Web pages with Amaya

Amaya not only allows you to browse documents on the Web, but you can also edit them and save them either locally or on remote Web servers.

We try to make Amaya as robust as possible, nevertheless an Amaya session can fail. If that happens, Amaya tries to save currently modified documents into backup files. When the user restarts a new Amaya session, the reload of backup files is automatically proposed.

Each following section gives a short description of how to use a specific Amaya functionality.

- Browsing with Amaya
- Selecting
- Searching and replacing text
- Displaying Views
- Creating new elements
- Creating and changing links and anchors
- Editing the document structure
- Editing tables
- Editing mathematics
- Creating and using client-side image maps
- Style Sheets
- Editing attributes
- Spell checking
- Saving and publishing documents
- Printing documents
- Section numbering
- Assembling large documents

It is also possible to change the default options (refer to the section that explains how to Configure Amaya).

The page about Accessibility in Amaya describes the accessibility of Amaya itself, and how to use it to produce pages that can be used by people with disabilities as well as people without disabilities.

There is also a brief introduction which explains some of the different types that can be used in Amaya such as headings, lists, and quotations, and how to use them.

- Information types in HTML
- HTML Document Structure
- Headers
- Lists
- About the author
- Inline definitions, quotations, sample code, insertions and deletions, abbreviations, etc
- Style elements (what not to do and how it should be done...)

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