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- <td><p><img border="0" alt="W3C" src="../../Icons/WWW/w3c_home" /> <img
- border="0" alt="Amaya" src="../Icons/amaya.gif" /></p>
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- <td><p align="right"><a href="Manual.html" accesskey="t"><img alt=""
- border="0" src="../Icons/up.gif" /></a> <a href="Selecting.html"
- accesskey="n"><img alt="next" border="0" src="../Icons/right.gif"
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- <h2>Browsing versus Editing</h2>
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- <p><strong>Amaya</strong> is mainly an editor with browsing capabilities. When
- used as a browser, it behaves like many other Web browsers, except for <a
- href="#Activating">activating links</a>. In normal operation
- <strong>Amaya</strong> allows you to browse and edit documents simultaneously,
- but you can change this standard behavior for each document window
- independently. The <img src="../Icons/Editor.gif" alt="editor-mode" /> button
- shows up that the window is in editor mode: you can edit the current document
- and browse in this window. By clicking on that button, you switch the window
- to browser mode. The button is then displayed as <img
- src="../Icons/Browser.gif" alt="browser-mode" /> and you can only browse and
- fill in forms. This option is also available from the Edit menu option
- <strong>Editor Mode</strong>, and as a keyboard shortcut (the default is
- <strong>Shift-Control-*</strong>).</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Activating">Activating a link</a></h3>
-
- <p>Links are usually displayed in blue (or underlined on monochrome displays).
- As <strong>Amaya</strong> is an editor, you must double click on a link to
- activate it. A single click just moves the insertion point and displays the
- expanded URI of the link into the status bar of the main view. This behavior
- can be changed as well as many other parameters using a preferences menu. By
- changing the "Double click activates link", you can browse documents with a
- simple-click. In that case, you cannot easily put the insert point within
- anchors: you have to use the drag and/or arrows to move the insert point
- within an anchor. It is also possible to use the keyboard to activate links,
- as well as form controls. The default keyboard command is
- <strong>Alt-Enter</strong>.</p>
-
- <p>The document retrieved by this operation normally <em>replaces</em> the
- current document in the same window, in the same mode (editor or browser ).
- However, if the current document has been modified and has not been saved yet,
- another window is created for the new document, to avoid losing last
- changes.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Access">Access keys</a></h3>
-
- <p>An author could associate an attribute <code>accesskey</code> to a form
- field, an area, or a link. The following elements support the accesskey: AREA,
- BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, and TEXTAREA.This can be crucial to people with
- motoric disabilities but there are other conditions where it could be
- necessary or useful.</p>
-
- <p>When the author associated an attribute accesskey to a link in a document
- (example <code>accesskey="n" or accesskey="N"</code>), the command
- <strong>Alt-accesskey</strong> (in the example Alt-a) will activate that link.
- Pressing <strong>Alt- accesskey</strong> when assigned to a form element will
- give the focus to that element (the following element for LABEL and
- LEGEND).</p>
-
- <p>Access keys overwrite Amaya shortcuts. For example Help pages declare
- access keys: "n" for going to the next page, "p" for going to the previous
- page and "t" for the table of contents. If the user has assigned a shortcut
- Alt-p to an Amaya command, this shortcut won't be accessible when these help
- pages are displayed. By default the modifier key used for access keys is
- <strong>Alt</strong>. The preferences menu
- <code>Special/Preferences/General</code> lets one changes this default
- configuration. The user can use the key <strong>Control</strong> instead of
- <strong>Alt</strong> or can decide to disable the access keys handler.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="L515">Target anchors</a></h3>
-
- <p>Some pieces of text can be displayed with a <a name="target">target icon
- <img src="../Icons/target.gif" alt=" target " /></a>. These icons are not part
- of the document and can be displayed or hidden just by controlling the
- <strong>Show targets</strong> status of the current window, which is an option
- in the <strong>Views</strong> menu. The default keyboard command is
- <strong>Control-v Control-t</strong> in Unix, <strong>Alt-v Alt-l</strong> in
- Windows.</p>
-
- <p>These icons are associated to <em>target elements</em>, i.e. elements with
- an <code>ID</code> attribute, or <em>target anchors</em>, i.e. anchors with a
- <code>name</code> attribute. They identify possible targets for links. These
- icons are intended to make the creation of links easier. As you can quickly
- recognize the possible target of a link, you can <a
- href="Links.html#L245">create links</a> faster.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Opening">Opening documents</a></h3>
-
- <p>You can open local or remote documents in several different ways:</p>
- <dl>
- <dt>File menu</dt>
- <dd>Two entries from the File menu, <strong>Open Document</strong> and
- <strong>Open in New Window</strong>, allow you to open a new document in
- the same window or in a new window respectively. The default keyboard
- commands are respectively <strong>Control-x Contol-f</strong> and
- <strong>Control-x Control-o</strong> in Unix, <strong>Control-o</strong>
- and <strong>Shift-Control-O</strong> in Windows. Both commands bring up
- a dialog box where you can enter either a local file name or an URI. You
- can also select a file from the <strong>Browse</strong> option that
- contains a file browser and helps you to locate local files.
- <p>When the document is correctly specified, click on the
- <strong>Confirm</strong> button. This command could be also used to
- create a new local document.</p>
- </dd>
- <dt>Command line "Open"</dt>
- <dd>This area displays the file name or the URI of the current document.
- You can edit it to specify a different (local or remote) document to be
- displayed in the same window. Press the Enter key when the cursor is in
- this area to actually load the document. This command could be also used
- to create a new local document.</dd>
- <dt>Following links</dt>
- <dd><a href="#L311">Activating a link</a> to get the corresponding
- document.</dd>
- </dl>
-
- <h3><a name="Moving">Moving backward and forward</a></h3>
-
- <p>There are several ways to move backward or forward through the history
- list:</p>
- <dl>
- <dt>File menu</dt>
- <dd>There are entries in the file menu for Forward and Backward. The
- default keyboard shortcuts are <strong>Alt-b</strong> and
- <strong>Alt-f</strong> in Unix, and Alt-left-arrow and Alt-right-arrow
- in Windows</dd>
- <dt>Button bar</dt>
- <dd>Two buttons: <img alt="Back " border="0" src="../Icons/Back.gif"
- align="middle" /> and <img alt="Forward " border="0"
- src="../Icons/Forward.gif" align="middle" /> allow you to go back to the
- previous page or forward to the next one.</dd>
- </dl>
-
- <h3><a name="Reloading">Reloading a page</a></h3>
-
- <p>Documents can be reloaded using the <strong>Reload</strong> option in the
- <strong>File</strong> menu, the shortcut <strong>Alt-r</strong> in Unix and
- <strong>Control-r</strong> in Windows, or the <img src="../Icons/Reload.png"
- alt="reload" /> button on the button bar.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Keyboard">Keyboard control</a></h3>
-
- <p>Amaya provides keyboard control for many functions. Default keyboard
- commands are provided at appropriate places in the documentation.. The help
- section on <a href="Configure.html">Configuring Amaya</a> describes how to
- change the defaults, and the current key bindings are provided next to the
- relevant menu option in all menus.</p>
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