To enter characters that are not directly available from the keyboard, Amaya uses the standard services provided by the Operating System. An optional multi-key support is also provided for Motif and Windows versions.
Amaya provides a mechanism for assigning keyboard shortcuts to characters that are not directly available from the keyboard. Some of them are pre-defined:
The input methods for Unix and Mac OS X are presented below.
If a character is unavailable on the keyboard, you can insert the character by pressing the special Compose key followed by a sequence of two other keys. See the table below for the keys used to insert various characters. Note that in Amaya you can change the order of the two keys.
If your keyboard does not contain a Compose key, you can attach
it to an existing key such as Alt-Gr with the following
xmodmap command:
keycode 113 = Multi_key
You can place this command in the $HOME/.Xmodmap file, and
Amaya will apply it when you will launch your X server.
| Name | Code | First key | Second key | Output |
| AElig | 198 | <Shift> A | <Shift> E | Æ |
| Aacute | 193 | <Shift> A | quote | Á |
| Acirc | 194 | <Shift> A | circumflex | Â |
| Agrave | 192 | <Shift> A | backquote | À |
| Aring | 197 | <Shift> A | star | Å |
| Atilde | 195 | <Shift> A | tilde | Ã |
| Auml | 196 | <Shift> A | double quote | Ä |
| Ccedil | 199 | <Shift> C | comma | Ç |
| Eth | 222 | - | D | Ð |
| Eacute | 201 | <Shift> E | quote | É |
| Ecirc | 202 | <Shift> E | circonflex | Ê |
| Egrave | 200 | <Shift> E | backquote | È |
| Euml | 203 | <Shift> E | double quote | Ë |
| Iacute | 205 | <Shift> I | quote | Í |
| Icirc | 206 | <Shift> I | circumflex | Î |
| Igrave | 204 | <Shift> I | backquote | Ì |
| Iuml | 207 | <Shift> I | double quote | Ï |
| Ntilde | 209 | <Shift> N | tilde | Ñ |
| Oacute | 211 | <Shift> O | quote | Ó |
| Ocirc | 212 | <Shift> O | circumflex | Ô |
| Ograve | 210 | <Shift> O | backquote | Ò |
| Oslash | 216 | <Shift> O | slash | Ø |
| Otilde | 213 | <Shift> O | tilde | Õ |
| Ouml | 214 | <Shift> O | double quote | Ö |
| Thorn | 222 | <Shift> T | <Shift> H | Þ |
| Uacute | 205 | <Shift> U | quote | Ú |
| Ucirc | 206 | <Shift> U | circumflex | Û |
| Ugrave | 204 | <Shift> U | backquote | Ù |
| Uuml | 207 | <Shift> U | double quote | Ü |
| Yacute | 221 | <Shift> Y | quote | Ý |
| aelig | 230 | a | e | æ |
| aacute | 225 | a | quote | á |
| acirc | 226 | a | circumflex | â |
| agrave | 224 | a | backquote | à |
| aring | 229 | a | star | å |
| atilde | 227 | a | tilde | ã |
| auml | 228 | a | double quote | ä |
| brvbar | 166 | bar (pipe) | bar | ¦ |
| ccedil | 231 | c | comma | ç |
| cent | 162 | c | slash | ¢ |
| copy | 169 | c | o | © |
| current | 164 | x | o | ¤ |
| deg | 176 | ^ | 0 (zero) | ° |
| eacute | 233 | e | quote | é |
| ecirc | 234 | e | circumflex | ê |
| egrave | 232 | e | backquote | è |
| euml | 235 | e | double quote | ë |
| eth | 240 | - | d | ð |
| frac12 | 189 | / | 2 | ½ |
| frac14 | 188 | / | 4 | ¼ |
| frac34 | 190 | / | 3 | ¾ |
| hyphen | 173 | - (minus) | - | |
| iacute | 237 | i | quote | í |
| icirc | 238 | i | circumflex | î |
| igrave | 236 | i | backquote | ì |
| iexcl | 161 | ! | ! | ¡ |
| iquest | 191 | ? | ? | ¿ |
| laquo | 171 | < | < | « |
| macr | 175 | - (minus) | circumflex | ¯ |
| micro | 181 | / | u | µ |
| middot | 183 | . | circumflex | · |
| nbsp | 160 | <Ctrl> space | (none) | |
| not | 172 | - (minus) | comma | ¬ |
| ntilde | 241 | n | tilde | ñ |
| oacute | 243 | o | quote | ó |
| ocirc | 244 | o | circumflex | ô |
| ograve | 242 | o | backquote | ò |
| oslash | 248 | o | slash | ø |
| otilde | 245 | o | tilde | õ |
| ouml | 246 | o | double quote | ö |
| ordf | 170 | a | _ (underscore) | ª |
| ordm | 186 | o | _ (underscore) | º |
| para | 182 | <Shift> P | ! | ¶ |
| plusmn | 177 | + | - (minus) | ± |
| pound | 163 | l | - (minus) | £ |
| raquo | 187 | > | > | » |
| reg | 174 | <Shift> R | <Shift> O | ® |
| sec | 167 | s | ! | § |
| sup1 | 185 | s | 1 | ¹ |
| sup2 | 178 | s | 2 | ² |
| sup3 | 179 | s | 3 | ³ |
| szlig | 223 | s | s | ß |
| thorn | 254 | t | h | þ |
| uacute | 250 | u | quote | ú |
| ucirc | 251 | u | circumflex | û |
| ugrave | 249 | u | backquote | ù |
| uuml | 252 | u | double quote | ü |
| yacute | 253 | y | quote | ý |
| yen | 165 | y | - (minus) | ¥ |
| yuml | 255 | y | double quote | ÿ |
With an international US keyboard (qwerty), accented characters are entered with the Alt key (aka Option key) as follows:
As required by the HTML specification, Amaya removes insignificant white-space characters when it loads a document. This applies to (X)HTML, MathML, and SVG documents, as well as MathML and SVG elements included in a (X)HTML document,
The following are considered as insignificant white-space characters:
#xD and #xA)#x9)To preserve all characters for some elements, use the
xml:space attribute or the pre element (only in
(X)HTML documents). The possible values for the xml:space
attribute are default and preserve.
default means that an applications' default white-space
treatment is acceptable for these elements. In Amaya, the default
treatment removes the insignificant white-space characters for all
supported DTDs (see above). preserve indicates that applications must preserve all the
characters, except the first one that immediately follows the end tag of
the element where it is specified, if that element is an end of line.The xml:space attribute applies to all elements within the
element where it is specified, unless it is overridden with another instance
of xml:space.
In an XHTML DTD, the pre element causes the same behavior as
the xml:space attribute with the value preserve.