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- <h1>Creating an Annotation</h1>
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- <p>This version of Amaya supports two kinds of annotations: annotations that
- apply to a whole document and annotations that apply to a specific point or
- selection in a document.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>To annotate an entire document, choose <strong>Annotate
- document</strong> from the <strong>Annotations</strong> menu.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li>To annotate a point, put the insertion point at any place in the
- document and choose <strong>Annotate selection</strong> from the
- <strong>Annotations</strong> menu.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li>To annotate a selection, make a selection in the document and choose
- <strong>Annotate selection</strong> from the <strong>Annotations</strong>
- menu.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>After any of these options are performed, an annotation dialog displays
- the annotation metadata and the body of the annotation.</p>
-
- <p><img src="../../images/annotationwindow.png" alt="annotation window" /></p>
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- <h1>Annotation Metadata</h1>
-
- <p>Currently, the metadata consists of the author's name, title of the
- annotated document, annotation type, creation date, and last modification
- date. Some of the metadata fields have special properties:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>The <strong>Source Document</strong> field is also a link that points
- back to the annotated text. If the user double-clicks it, as when
- following any other link with Amaya, the annotated document will be
- displayed with the annotated text highlighted.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li>The <strong>Annotation Types </strong>field lets you classify the
- annotation and change its type. Double-click on the text "annotation
- type" to see the list of types available.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li>The <strong>Last Modified </strong>field is updated automatically each
- time that an annotation is saved.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Below the header area is the annotation body area. It shows the current
- content and can be edited like any other HTML document.</p>
-
- <h1>Saving an Annotation</h1>
-
- <p>Saving an annotation is the same as saving any other document with Amaya:
- choose <span class="Link"><strong>Save </strong></span>from the
- <strong>File</strong> menu (or use its equivalent shortcut or button).</p>
-
- <p>Local annotations are saved to the annotations directory and remote
- annotations are saved to the annotation post server, where they are stored if
- the user has write access.</p>
-
- <p>To convert a local annotation into a shared one, choose <strong>Post
- Annotation</strong> from the <strong>Annotations</strong> menu to save the
- annotation to the Post server as defined in the <span
- class="Link"><strong>Configuration for Annotations</strong> dialog</span>. If
- this operation is successful, the local annotation will be removed and future
- <strong>Save</strong> operations will go directly to that annotation
- server.</p>
-
- <p>Some commands that can be applied to a document in the Amaya document
- window also can be applied to an annotation document in the Annotation
- window. For example, the body of an annotation can be printed by choosing
- <strong>Print</strong> from the <strong>File</strong> menu, or reloaded by
- choosing <strong>Reload document</strong> from the <strong>File</strong>
- menu.</p>
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- <h2>See Also</h2>
- <ul>
- <li><span class="Link0"><a
- href="configuring_annotation_settings.html">Configuring Annotation
- Settings</a></span></li>
- <li><span class="Link0"><a href="deleting_an_annotation.html">Deleting an
- Annotation</a></span></li>
- <li><span class="Link0"><a
- href="loading_and_presenting_annotations.html">Loading and Presenting
- Annotations</a></span></li>
- <li><span class="Link0"><a href="navigating_annotations.html">Navigating
- Annotations</a></span></li>
- <li><span class="Link0"><a href="moving_annotations.html">Moving
- Annotations</a></span></li>
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