The Thot User's Manual

1 Documents processed by Thot

2 Starting and closing the editor

3 Basic functions for word processing

3.1 Moving through a document

3.2 Selecting text with the mouse

3.3 Moving in the text

3.4 Inserting text

3.5 Non standard characters input

3.6 Deleting text

3.7 Cut, Copy and Paste

3.8 Searching and replacing text

4 Editing the logical structure

4.1 Structural selection

4.1.1 Selecting a logical element

4.1.2 Selecting several elements

4.2 Searching for elements

4.2.1 Searching for specified elements

4.2.2 Compound search

4.2.3 Searching for empty elements

4.2.4 Moving to a specified page

4.3 Creating new elements

4.3.1 Insert menu

4.3.2 Return key

4.3.3 Typing text

4.4 Deleting elements

4.5 Cutting, Copying and Pasting elements

4.6 ``Live'' copy: the Include command

4.7 Splitting a structure element

4.8 Changing the type of an element

4.9 Other transformations

5 References

5.1 Creating a reference

5.2 Displaying a reference

5.3 Modifying a reference

5.4 Navigating with references

5.5 Searching for empty references

6 Attributes

6.1 Language attribute

6.2 Applying attributes

6.3 Consulting, modifying and removing attributes

6.4 Searching for attributes

7 Creating, opening and saving documents

7.1 Creating a new document

7.2 Opening an existing document

7.3 Importing a document

7.4 Closing a document

7.5 Saving a document

7.6 Document files

7.7 Copying, renaming and moving documents

7.8 Exporting documents

7.9 Document and schema directories

7.9.1 Environment parameters

7.9.2 Environment menu

8 Graphical presentation of documents

8.1 Presentation elements

8.2 Changing presentation schema

8.3 Specific presentation

8.3.1 Changing the aspect of the text

8.3.2 Changing the aspect of graphical elements

8.3.3 Changing color

8.3.4 Changing format

8.3.5 Changing element position or dimension

8.3.6 Returning to standard presentation

8.4 Style sheets

8.4.1 Style sheets syntax

8.4.2 Use of style sheets

8.4.3 Edition of style sheets

8.5 Pagination

8.5.1 Automatic pagination

8.5.2 Manual pagination

9 Views

9.1 Opening and closing views

9.2 Navigating within the document

10 Adapting display

10.1 Changing size (Zoom)

10.2 Changing visibility

10.3 Contracting and expanding elements

11 Printing documents

12 Editing Paragraphs

13 Editing documents of type Sheet

13.1 Structure

13.2 Presentation

14 Editing documents of type Slides

14.1 Structure

14.2 Presentation

15 Editing documents of type Bibliography

15.1 Structure

15.2 Presentation

16 Editing external objects

17 Images

18 Editing graphics

18.1 Structured graphics

18.1.1 Example

18.1.2 Creating graphical elements

18.1.3 Element dimensions

18.1.4 Relative positions of elements

18.1.5 Overlays

18.1.6 Entering and modifying curves and broken lines

18.2 Trees

18.2.1 Logical structure of trees

18.2.2 Graphical aspect of trees

19 Editing tables

20 Editing mathematical formulae

21 Spelling checker

22 Index tables

22.1 Loading the indexing tool

22.2 Views for indexes

22.3 Defining options

22.4 Indexing a document fragment

22.5 Creating references in an index table

22.6 Making index tables

23 Parameterizing the editor

23.1 .thotrc registry file

23.1.1 Dialogue language

23.1.2 Fonts

23.1.3 Colors and position of the primary window

23.1.4 Keyboard mapping

23.1.5 Working files and directories

23.1.6 Other Parameters

23.2 .conf files

23.2.1 Content of a .conf file

23.2.2 Open section

23.2.3 Geometry section

23.2.4 Presentation section

23.2.5 Options section

23.3 .lang files

23.3.1 Content of a .language file

23.3.2 Presentation section

23.3.3 Export section

23.3.4 Import section

23.3.5 Translation section

23.4 Typing conventions

23.5 Spelling checker

23.5.1 Dictionaries

23.5.2 Parameter files of the checker

24 Creating new document and element types

24.1 Structure schemas

24.2 Presentation schemas

24.3 Translation schemas

25 Troubleshooting

25.1 Problems when starting the editor or opening a document

25.2 Editing problems

25.3 Printing problems

25.4 Problems when saving a document

26 Functional limits

References