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