Selecting
Many commands in Amaya act on the current selection. You can make a
selection using the keyboard or the mouse, as described below.
No matter how you make the current selection, Amaya displays the type of
the first selected element at the bottom of the window, preceded by the types
of the enclosing elements in the structure. This may be helpful when the
document structure is complex.
For example, selecting a word in this sentence means that the status bar
reads
html/body/div/p
meaning that the thing selected is some text within a p
element, which is within a div
element in the body
of the html
document.
Selecting this structure element (for example click on
the word structure, then press F2 gives
html/body/div/p/strong
Selecting with the Mouse
- To set the insertion point, click with the left mouse button.
- To select some text, drag across a region: hold down the left mouse
button, move the mouse, and release the button when the desired text is
selected.
- To select an entire word, double-click on any character of a word.
- To select a whole element such as a list item, click its bullet or
number.
- To extend the selection, click with the left mouse button while holding
down the
Shift
key.
- To select a structure element, click within the element you want and
then select the desired structure level via the keyboard as described
below
Selecting with the path of the status bar
- To set the insertion point, click with the left mouse button.
- Click on a path element to select an ancestor (and everything in
them).
In previous example, when cliking on the div element, the enclosing
division is selected
html/body/div/p/strong
- When the selection is changed this way, the path is not updated and the
user may adjust the final selection on any enclosing or child
element.
Selecting with the Keyboard
Selecting a structure element
- Press the F2 key to select the parent element in the
document structure. Press that key several times to select ancestors (and
everything in them) up the structure towards the root.
- Press Shift F2 to select the first child of the current
element.
- Press F4 to select the next element at the same level
(sibling), or at the level of the parent element if there is no next
sibling at the current level.
- Press Shift-F4 to select the previous element at the same
level (sibling), or at the level of the parent element if there is no
previous sibling at the current level.
Moving the insertion point
- To move the insertion point locally, use the four arrow keys. If there
is no insertion point, one is set at the top left corner of the
window.
- To move the insertion point to the beginning or the end of the line,
use keys Home and End respectively.
- To move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous ou next
word, use keys Control-Left et Control-Right.
Extending/shrinking the selection
- To extend or shrink the current selection, use the Shift key together
with the arrow keys (Shift-Left, Shift-Right,
Shift-Up, Shift-Down).
- To extend the selection to the current word, use Alt-Enter.
If the current selection is within a link, this command activates the link instead of
selecting the word.
- To extend the current selection to the beginning of the previous word
or to the end of the next word, use Shift-Control-Left and
Shift-Control-Right.
Moving across the document
- To scroll the document one line up or down, use Control-Up
and Control-Down.
- To skip to the befinning or the end of the document, use
Control-Home and Control-End.
Selecting Images
Use the following procedures to select an image, or to move the cursor to
left or right of an image
To select an entire image:
- Click and drag anywhere within the image, and then release the mouse
button. Be sure not to drag outside the image before releasing the
mouse.
- Use the copy, cut, and paste commands to move or duplicate the image
element along with all its attributes.
To place the cursor to the left or right of the
image:
- Click the left part of an image to move the cursor to the left edge of
that image. This enables you to type text before the image.
- Click the right part of an image to move the cursor to the right side
of that image. This enables you to type text after the image.
Note: When using the arrow keys,
the cursor moves from one side of the image, to the image itself (selecting
it), and then to the other side.
Selecting in the Structure View
The structure view is especially convenient for
quickly selecting large elements or groups of elements within a document.
To select an element:
- There are three ways to select a large element like a complex table or
a long list with a single click: Click the blue label that represents the
element, click the name of any of its attributes, or click the blue
vertical line associated with that element.
To select a text character or text string:
- Click a text character in the Structure view to select only that
character. To select a text string, click and drag across the text.
To select an attribute value:
- In Structure view, attribute values that can be edited from the
keyboard are displayed in purple. Click and drag across the attribute
value to select it. You cannot extend this type of text selection outside
the attribute value, but you can edit the value.