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Entering Characters

To enter ISO-Latin characters that are not directly available from the keyboard, Amaya uses the standard support provided by the Operating System. An optional multi-key support is also provided for Motif versions and Windows versions.

Amaya provides a mechanism for assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to characters that are not directly available from the keyboard. Some of them are pre-defined:

See the description of the standard input method: Standard multi-key for Unix and Mac OS X versions.

About Unix Standard Multi-key Support

If an ISO-Latin character is unavailable on the standard keyboard, you can insert the character by pressing the special Compose key followed by a sequence of two other keys. See the table below for the keys used to insert various ISO-Latin characters. Note that in Amaya, you can switch the position of the first key and the second one.

If your keyboard doesn't contain the Compose key, you can attach it to an existing key such as Alt-Gr with the following xmodmap command:

keycode 113 = Multi_key

You can place this command in the $HOME/.Xmodmap file (in Unix), and Amaya will apply it when you will launch your X server.

Nom Code Première/Seconde touche Seconde/Première Touche Sortie
AElig 198 <Shift> A <Shift> E Æ
Aacute 193 <Shift> A quote Á
Acirc 194 <Shift> A circumflex Â
Agrave 192 <Shift> A backquote À
Aring 197 <Shift> A star Å
Atilde 195 <Shift> A tilde Ã
Auml 196 <Shift> A double quote Ä
Ccedil 199 <Shift> C comma Ç
Eth 222 - D Ð
Eacute 201 <Shift> E quote É
Ecirc 202 <Shift> E circonflex Ê
Egrave 200 <Shift> E backquote È
Euml 203 <Shift> E double quote Ë
Iacute 205 <Shift> I quote Í
Icirc 206 <Shift> I circumflex Î
Igrave 204 <Shift> I backquote Ì
Iuml 207 <Shift> I double quote Ï
Ntilde 209 <Shift> N tilde Ñ
Oacute 211 <Shift> O quote Ó
Ocirc 212 <Shift> O circumflex Ô
Ograve 210 <Shift> O backquote Ò
Oslash 216 <Shift> O slash Ø
Otilde 213 <Shift> O tilde Õ
Ouml 214 <Shift> O double quote Ö
Thorn 222 <Shift> T <Shift> H Þ
Uacute 205 <Shift> U quote Ú
Ucirc 206 <Shift> U circumflex Û
Ugrave 204 <Shift> U backquote Ù
Uuml 207 <Shift> U double quote Ü
Yacute 221 <Shift> Y quote Ý
aelig 230 a e æ
aacute 225 a quote á
acirc 226 a circumflex â
agrave 224 a backquote à
aring 229 a star å
atilde 227 a tilde ã
auml 228 a double quote ä
brvbar 166 bar (pipe) bar ¦
ccedil 231 c comma ç
cent 162 c slash ¢
copy 169 c o ©
current 164 x o ¤
deg 176 accent circonflexe 0 (zéro) °
eacute 233 e quote é
ecirc 234 e circumflex ê
egrave 232 e backquote è
euml 235 e double quote ë
eth 240 - d ð
frac12 189 / 2 ½
frac14 188 / 4 ¼
frac34 190 / 3 ¾
hyphen 173 - (moins) - ­
iacute 237 i quote í
icirc 238 i circumflex î
igrave 236 i backquote ì
iexcl 161 ! (exclam) ! ¡
iquest 191 ? (question) ? ¿
laquo 171 < (inférieur) < «
macr 175 - (moins) circumflex ¯
micro 181 / u µ
middot 183 . circumflex ·
nbsp 160 <Ctrl> space (none)  
not 172 - (moins) comma ¬
ntilde 241 n tilde ñ
oacute 243 o quote ó
ocirc 244 o circumflex ô
ograve 242 o backquote ò
oslash 248 o slash ø
otilde 245 o tilde õ
ouml 246 o double quote ö
ordf 170 a _ (underscore) ª
ordm 186 o _ (underscore) º
para 182 <Shift> P ! (exclam)
plusmn 177 + - (minus) ±
pound 163 l - (minus) £
raquo 187 > (supérieur) > »
reg 174 <Shift> R <Shift> O ®
sec 167 s ! (exclam) §
sup1 185 s 1 ¹
sup2 178 s 2 ²
sup3 179 s 3 ³
szlig 223 s s ß
thorn 254 t h þ
uacute 250 u quote ú
ucirc 251 u circumflex û
ugrave 249 u backquote ù
uuml 252 u double quote ü
yacute 253 y quote ý
yen 165 y - (minus) ¥
yuml 255 y double quote ÿ

How to type accented charaters on Mac OS X

With an international US keyboard, entering accented characters is done with the Option key (aka Alt key) as follow:

About White Space Handling

Amaya removes insignificant white-space characters when it loads a document unless they must be explicitly preserved. This is true for XHTML, MathML, and SVG documents, as well as MathML or SVG elements included in a HTML document,

The following are considered as insignificant white-space characters:

To preserve all the characters for some elements, use the xml:space attribute or the PRE element (only valid for XHTML documents). The possible values for the xml:space attribute are default and preserve.

You apply the xml:space attribute to all elements within the content of the element where it is specified, unless it is overriden with another instance of the xml:space attribute.

In an XHTML DTD, the PRE element causes the same behavior as the xml:space attribute with the value preserve.

Amaya applies white space handling when it loads a document, not during editing. A consequence is that if you type insignificant white-space characters, they will be visible and saved but will be removed the next time the document is loaded. For example, the following source code:

<p>Amaya removes the <strong> insignificant white-space </strong>when it loads ...</p>

displays as follows during editing:

Amaya removes the insignificant white-space when it loads...

The text will be saved with that syntax. However, the next time the document is loaded, the text will display as:

Amaya removes theinsignificant white-spacewhen it loads...

because the leading and trailing spaces of the element <strong> are considered to be insignificant and are removed.

The correct source code would be:

<p>Amaya removes the <strong>insignificant white-space</strong> when it loads ...</p>