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Text within a paragraph, heading, or other block element can be marked up in a variety of ways, for example to emphasise it, or to highlight text that should be entered by a user into a computer. Most of these inline elements are described in this page, although links, which are inline elements, are described separately.
The dfn
element is used to mark an inline definition (a word which is
given as a defining instance)
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of inline definitions.
Quotations which are inline can be marked using the information type
"quotation" - the HTML element q.
This element is selected from the Character elements submenu
of the XHTML menu, or with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl i
Ctrl q. It is possible to give a URI source for the quotation, using
the cite attribute.
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of inline quotations. The HTML specification states that inline quotation should be rendered with the appropriate punctuation marks for the language being represented.
Elements are provided to mark computer code, such as
statement:do-something, with separate markup for
variables, as well as user input and program
output - the elements code,
var,
kbd
and samp.
These elements are found in the Information types submenu of
the XHTML menu, and there are keyboard shortcuts for all of
them - Ctrl i followed by Ctrl t for code, Ctrl
v for variables, Ctrl k for user input and Ctrl m
for sample output.
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of these elements.
Acronyms and abbreviations should be marked as such, using the abbr
and acronym
elements available in the Information types submenu of the
XHTML menu. There is also the shortcut Ctrl i Ctrl
y for acronym. This allows recognition for different types of systems.
The title attribute can also be used to specify the expansion of
the acronym. Select the text to be marked, for example W3C, select the
XHTML menu, the information types submenu, and the option
acronym. Then select the entire element (F2 key on Windows),
open the Attributes menu, select title, enter
World Wide Web Consortium, and apply it.
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of acronyms or abbreviations.
The del and ins
elements are available in the Information types submenu of
the XHTML menu to mark text which ought to be
deleted or which has already been inserted.
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of insertions and deletions.
HTML has elements to define two levels of emphasis:
Both types of emphasis can be applied from the toolbar using the 
and 
buttons, or from the
Information types submenu of the XHTML
menu. There are also standard keyboard shortcuts - Ctrl i Ctrl e
for emphasis (because the default rendering is often italicised text) and
Ctrl i Ctrl s for strong emphasis (becuase the default rendering
is often bold text). If there is a current selection, the emphaisis is
applied to that, otherwise the appropriate element is created, as a child of
the current element.
The emphasis elements are toggled in Amaya - to remove an emphasis select
the element and reapply the appropriate emphasis. For example place the
cursor somewhere in a STRONG element, use the F2
key to select the element, and then use
the keyboard shortcut, menu item, or the button - the STRONG element will be removed.
Style sheets can be used to change the presentation of both types of emphasis.
The span element in conjunction with a id (style or class) attribute offers a generic mechanism for adding structure to a document. This element is generated by Amaya when the user applies an attribute to a piece of text. It's removed when the attribute is deleted.