Using Amaya

Version 1.2
February 1998

This document is a short introduction to the user interface of Amaya. 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 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 URL of the first document Amaya should display when starting. If no parameter is given, a default document is presented.

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.

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

• Browsing with Amaya
• Displaying Views
• Selecting
• Creating and changing links and anchors
• Creating new elements
• Changing element type or the document structure
• Editing tables
• Creating and using client-side image maps
• Style Sheets
• Editing attributes
• Editing mathematics
• Searching and replacing text
• Saving and publishing documents

• Spell checking

• Section numbering

• Assembling large documents

• Printing documents

It is also possible to change default options in the Amaya application. This section describes how to Configure Amaya.