About Keyboard Shortcuts

It is useful to invoke menu commands directly from the keyboard. The Thot toolkit enables you accomplish this using an application keyboard shortcuts file. This file defines a list of associations between an invoked command and a keyboard sequence.

The syntax used to define an association is:

Directive = KeySeq ':' IdentCommand ;
 KeysSeq = KeySet [ ',' KeySet ] ;
 KeySet = [ Modifier ] [ 'Shift' ] Key ;
 Key = '<Key>' KeyValue / '<Key>' SpecialKey ;
 Modifier = 'Ctrl' / 'Alt' / 'Meta' ;
 KeyValue = 'a' / 'b' / ... ;
 SpecialKey = 'Escape' / 'Delete' / 'Space' / 'BackSpace' /
              'Enter' / 'Up' / 'Down' / 'Left' / 'Right' /
              'Home' / 'End' / 'F1' / ... / 'L1' / ... / 'R1' / ... ;
 IdentCommand = 'TtcInsertChar(' Char ')' / NAME '()' ;
 Char = KeyValue / OctalValue / Entity ;
OctalValue = '\' NUMBER ;
Entity = DecEntity / HexaEntity ;
DecEntity = '&' '#' NUMBER ';' ;
HexaEntity = '&' '#' 'x' HEXADECIMAL ';' ;

To view an example, see the standard files amaya.keyboard (for Unix platforms) and amaya.kb (for Windows platforms), which are located in the Amaya/config directory.

The list of available commands is:

• Moving commands:
  • Move character by character: TtcNextChar, TtcPreviousChar
  • Move word by word: TtcNextWord, TtcPreviousWord
  • Move to then beginning/end of the current line: TtcStartOfLine, TtcEndOfLine
  • Move line by line:TtcNextLine,TtcPreviousLine
  • Move element by element: TtcNextElement,TtcPreviousElement, TtcChildElement, TtcParentElement
  • Scroll from page to page: TtcPageDown, TtcPageUp,TtcPageTop,TtcPageEnd
  • Scroll one line up or one line down: TtcLineUp, TtcLineDown
• Selection extension commands:
  • Select character by character: TtcNextSelChar, TtcPreviousSelChar
  • Select word by word: TtcNextSelWord, TtcPreviousSelWord
  • Select to then beginning/end of the current line: cStartOfLineTtcSelStartOfLine, TtcSelEndOfLine
  • Select line by line:TtcNextSelLine,TtcPreviousSelLine
• Follow a link or activate an HTML form element (menu, button, etc.): DoAction.
• Skip to the next (or the first if there is selection) link or HTML form element in the document: NextLinkOrFormElement.
• Skip to the previous link or HTML form element in the document: PreviousLinkOrFormElement.
• In File menu: New, NewTemplate, NewCss, OpenDoc, OpenDocInNewWindow, OpenDocInNewTab, Reload, GotoPreviousHTML, GotoNextHTML, GoToHome, SaveDocument, SaveDocumentAs, Synchronize, SetupAndPrint, PrintAs, CloseDocument, AmayaClose
• In Edit menu: TtcUndo, TtcRedo, TtcCutSelection, TtcCopySelection, TtcPaste, TtcDeleteSelection, SetBrowserEditor, TtcSearchText, SpellCheck, TransformType, ConfigGeneral, ConfigPublish, ConfigCache, ConfigProxy, ConfigColor, ConfigGeometry, ConfigLanNeg, ConfigProfile, ConfigTemplates.
• In Types menus:
  • XHTML Menu: ChangeTitle, CreateAddress CreateParagraph, CreateImage, CreateHorizontalRule, CreateBlockQuote, CreatePreformatted, CreateAddress, CreateDivision, CreateNOSCRIPT, CreateObject, CreateParameter, CreateIFrame, CreateBreak("\212", MakeBook,CreateAreaRect, CreateAreaCircle, CreateAreaPoly, CreateForm, CreateFileInput, CreateImageInput, CreatePasswordInput, CreateHiddenInput, CreateLabel, CreateFieldset, CreateOptGroup, CreateToggle, CreateRadio, CreateOption, CreateTextInput, CreateTextArea, CreateSubmit, CreateReset, CreateHeading1, CreateHeading2, CreateHeading3, CreateHeading4, CreateHeading5, CreateHeading6, CreateList, CreateNumberedList, CreateDefinitionList, CreateDefinitionTerm, CreateDefinitionDef, CreateObject,CreateParameter
  • Table submenu: CreateTable, CreateCaption, CreateTHead, CreateTBody, CreateTFoot, CreateRow, CreateDataCell, CreateHeadingCell, DeleteColumn
  • In Structure submenu: CreateBase, CreateMeta, CreateLinkInHead, CreateScript, CreateStyle, CreateComment.
  • Information Types submenu: SetOnOffEmphasis, SetOnOffStrong, SetOnOffCite, SetOnOffDefinition, SetOnOffCode, SetOnOffVariable, SetOnOffSample, SetOnOffKeyboard, SetOnOffAbbr, SetOnOffAcronym, SetOnOffINS, SetOnOffDEL.
  • Character Element submenu: SetOnOffItalic, SetOnOffBold, SetOnOffTeletype, SetOnOffBig, SetOnOffSmall, SetOnOffSub, SetOnOffSup, SetOnOffQuotation, SetOnOffBDO.
  • Math submenu: CreateInlineMath, CreateMath, CreateMROOT, CreateMSQRT, CreateMFRAC, CreateMSUBSUP, CreateMSUB, CreateMSUP, CreateMUNDEROVER, CreateMUNDER, CreateMOVER, CreateMROW, CreateMMULTISCRIPTS, CreateMTABLE
• In Links menu: LinkToPreviousTarget, CreateOrChangeLink, CreateTarget, DeleteAnchor, MakeID.
• In Views menu: ShowButtons, ShowAddress, ShowMapAreas, ShowTargets, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ShowStructure, ShowAlternate, ShowLinks, ShowToC, ShowSource, ShowLogFile.
• In Style menu: TtcChangeCharacters, TtcChangeColors, TtcChangeFormat, ChangeBackgroundImage, CreateClass, ApplyClass, LinkCSS, OpenCSS, DisableCSS, EnableCSS, RemoveCSS, DoLeftAlign, DoRightAlign, DoCenter, DoJustify.
• In Annotations Menu:AnnotateSelection, AnnotateDocument, LoadAnnotations, PostAnnotation, DeleteAnnotation, FilterAnnot, ConfigAnnot.
• In Help Menu: HelpAmaya, HelpAtW3C, HelpBrowsing, HelpSelecting, HelpSearching, HelpViews, HelpCreating, HelpLinks, HelpChanging, HelpTables, HelpMath, HelpSVG, HelpImageMaps, HelpStyleSheets, HelpAttributes, HelpPublishing, HelpPrinting, HelpNumbering, HelpMakeBook, HelpAnnotation, HelpConfigure, HelpShortCuts, HelpAccess.