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- <h2>Selecting</h2>
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- <p>Many commands in <strong>Amaya</strong> act on the current selection. The
- current selection can be provided in different ways.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Selecting with the mouse
- <ul>
- <li>As usual, you can click with the left mouse button for moving the
- insertion point.</li>
- <li><p>To select some text, drag a region - move the mouse with the left
- button pressed down and release it when the desired part is
- selected.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p>You can also extend the selection by clicking with the left
- button combined with the Shift key.</p>
- </li>
- <li>A double click on a character of a word selects the whole word.</li>
- <li><p>You can select a whole element, such as a list item by clicking
- on its bullet or its number.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>Selecting from the keyboard
- <ul>
- <li>The four arrow keys on the keyboard <strong>Left</strong>,
- <strong>Right</strong>, <strong>Up</strong>, and <strong>Down</strong>
- move the insertion point in the four directions. If there is no
- visible selection in the document window, a new selection is generated
- at the top left corner of the window.</li>
- <li>Combining the key Shift with these four arrow keys
- (<strong>Shift-Left</strong>, <strong>Shift-Right</strong>,
- <strong>Shift-Up</strong>, and <strong>Shift-Down</strong>) extends
- the current selection in one of these four directions.</li>
- <li>Keys <strong>Home</strong> and <strong>End</strong> move the
- insertion point to the beginning of the line or the end of the
- line.</li>
- <li>The default keyboard command <strong>Alt-Enter</strong> allows you
- to extend the current selection to the current word. If the selection
- is within a link that command will <a
- href="Browsing.html#Activating">activate the link</a> instead of
- selecting the current word.</li>
- <li>Keys <strong>Control-Left</strong>, <strong>Control-Right</strong>
- move the current selection to the beginning of the previous or of the
- next word.</li>
- <li><strong>Shift-Control-Left</strong>,
- <strong>Shift-Control-Right</strong> extend the current selection to
- the beginning of the previous word or to the end of the next
- word.</li>
- <li><strong>Control-Up</strong> and <strong>Control-Down</strong> allow
- you to scroll the document one line up or one line down.</li>
- <li><strong>Control-Home</strong> and <strong>Control-End</strong> allow
- you to scroll to the beginning and to the end of the document.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Whatever the way you make the current selection, the type of the first
- selected element is displayed at the bottom of the window. It is followed by
- the types of the enclosing elements in the structure. This may be helpful when
- the document structure is complex.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Selecting1">Selecting by Structure</a></h3>
-
- <p>The structure view is especially convenient for quickly selecting large
- elements. Just click on the blue label that represents the element, or on the
- name of any of its attributes, or even on its blue vertical line. A large
- element like a complex table or a long list can be selected with a single
- click.</p>
-
- <p>Clicking on a black character in the Structure view selects only that
- character.</p>
-
- <p>A bold text in the structure view represents the value of an attribute that
- can be edited directly from the keyboard. A selection in such an attribute
- value cannot be extended outside the attribute.</p>
-
- <p>It is also possible to use the Keyboard for selecting by structure in any
- view. Pressing the <strong>Esc</strong> (<strong>F2</strong> on Windows) key
- selects the parent element in the document structure. Pressing the
- <strong>Esc</strong> (<strong>F2</strong> on Windows) key several times allows
- you to select containers (and everything in them) up the structure the
- structure towards the root. It is also possible to select child elements: the
- default shortcut key is <strong>Control-minus</strong> ("-"). To select the
- next or previous element at the same level (or at the level of the parent
- element if there is no next/previous child of the current level) use
- <strong>Control-k</strong> (for next) and <strong>Control-j</strong> (for
- previous).</p>
-
- <h3><a name="Selecting2">Selecting images</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you click on the left hand part of an image, the insertion point is
- moved to the left edge of that image. This allows you to type text before the
- image. If you click on the right hand part of an image, the insertion point is
- moved to the right side of that image. This allows you to type text after the
- image.</p>
-
- <p>When using the arrow keys to move, the cursor will move from one side of
- the image to the image itself (selecting it)and then to the other side</p>
-
- <p>If you want to select the whole image, click anywhere within the image and
- move a bit with the button pressed down. Do not leave the image before
- releasing the button. The whole image is then selected. You can use the copy,
- cut and paste commands to move or duplicate the image element along with all
- its attributes.</p>
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