# Amaya User Manual

#### Version 8.8

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

  Documentation update managed by WinWriters

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

This manual presents the Amaya user interface for Unix and Windows platforms. Your user interface could be a little different depending on your system and unique configuration. 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.

## Starting Amaya

To start Amaya on a Unix platform, type:

        amaya [-display host] [-profile browser|display] [document]

The parameter `-display host` is optional. It allows one to define the remote X-Window host screen where Amaya should display Web pages provided this feature is available.

The parameter `-profile browser|display` is optional. It allows one to launch the application in browser mode (`-profile browser`) or in display mode (`-profile display`).

The parameter `[document]` is optional. It is the file name or the URI of the first document Amaya should display when starting. If you omit this parameter, a Amaya displays a default document. The default document could be your home page (see how to configure your Home Page) or the Amaya Welcome page.

# Table of contents

- Browsing with Amaya
  - Working with the Amaya Browser and Editor
  - Opening Documents
  - Activating a Link
  - About Target Anchors
  - About Moving Backward and Forward
  - Reloading a Page
  - About Access Keys
  - Browsing forms
- Selecting
  - Selecting with the Keyboard and Mouse
  - Selecting Images
  - Selecting by Structure
- Viewing Documents in Amaya
  - Working with Document Views
  - Opening a View
  - Closing a View
  - About Synchronized Views
- Editing Documents
  - Creating New documents
- Creating new elements
  - Buttons and Types Menu
  - The Structure Menu
  - The Enter Key
  - Exiting Anchors, Styled Character Strings, etc.
  - Creating Nested Structures
  - Changing the Document Title
- Editing attributes
  - Working with Attributes
  - Editing Attributes Through the Attributes Menu
  - Copying Attributes
  - Editing Attributes in the Structure View
- Entering ISO-Latin and Unicode characters
  - Entering Characters in Amaya
  - About Standard Multikey Support
  - About White Space Handling
- HTML elements
  - Information types in HTML
  - HTML Document Structure
  - Heading elements
  - List elements
  - About the author
  - Inline markup
  - Character style elements in HTML
- Restructuring Documents
  - Changing the Document Structure
  - The Transform Command
  - About Inserting a Division
  - About Merging Elements
  - Using the HTML.trans File
- Linking
  - Creating a Target Anchor
  - Creating a Target Element
  - Creating an External Link
  - Creating an Internal Link
  - Changing a Link
  - Removing a Link or a Target Anchor
- Editing tables
  - Working with Tables
  - Creating a Table
  - Adding Columns
  - Adding Rows
  - Adding a New tbody
  - Removing/Copying/Pasting Columns
- Using Image and Maps
  - Working with Image Maps
  - Adding or replacing an Image
  - Creating Clientside Image Maps
  - Using Clientside Image Maps
  - Moving Image Map Areas
  - Resizing Image Map Areas
  - About Alternative Text and Long Descriptions
- Editing mathematics
  - Working with Math Expressions
  - About Entering Math Constructs Using the Keyboard
  - The Math Palette and the XML > Math Menu
  - About Entering Math Characters
  - Editing Math Expressions
  - Viewing Structure in MathML
  - About Linking in MathML
  - Known Issues with MathML
- Editing graphics
  - Working with Graphics
  - Creating Graphics with the Palette
  - Moving Graphics
  - Painting Graphics
  - Resizing Graphics
  - Manage SVG library
    - Use SVG library
    - Add new model in a library
    - How to change SVG library presentation
- Xml Support
  - Loading XML documents
  - Using Style in XML
  - Editing XML documents
- Style Sheets
  - Working with Styles
  - About Applying Style Using HTML Elements
  - About Linking External and User Style Sheets
  - Creating and Updating a Style Attribute
  - Creating a Generic Style for an Element or a Class
  - Creating HTML Style Elements
  - Handling External CSS
  - Removing Styles
- Searching and replacing text
  - Searching and Replacing Text
- Spell checking
  - Spell Checking
- Saving and publishing documents
  - Saving and Publishing Documents
  - About Saving in HTML
  - Saving Documents as Text
  - The Save Command
  - The Save As Command
- WebDAV Functions in Amaya
- Printing documents
  - Printing Documents
  - Using the Setup and Print Command
  - The Print Command
  - Printing on Windows Platforms
  - Printing on UNIX Platforms
  - About Controlling Printing with CSS
- Section numbering and Generating table of contents
  - Numbering Sections and Generating table of contents
- Assembling large documents
  - Assembling Large Document Collections
- Annotating documents with Amaya
  - What is an Annotation?
  - About Reading Annotations
  - About Local Annotations
  - About Remote Annotations
  - The Annotations Menu
  - Configuring Annotation Settings
  - Creating an Annotation
  - Deleting an Annotation
  - Loading and Presenting Annotations
  - Navigating Annotations
  - Moving Annotations
  - Replying to Annotations and Discussion Threads
  - Configuring Annotation Icons
  - Annotation Issues
- Bookmark support in Amaya
- Configuring Amaya
  - Configuring Amaya
  - About Configuration Directory and File Conventions
  - Menu Preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
  - About Keyboard Shortcuts
- Accessibility in Amaya
  - Accessibility in Amaya
  - About Amaya's Accessibility Features
  - About Producing Accessible Content

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