- From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:58:04 -0800
- To: "Amaya mailing list" <www-amaya@w3.org>
Oh. Oh. Oh. (I'm pressing my enter key!) Chaals, thanks ever so much. This imformation is perfect. It works as advertised (now that I have read the ad!). I'm delighted. It's just rather unusual (as is a number of things about Amaya - but it's a wonderful program, I do have to say). Thank you so much for helping me. Tom > > Hi Tom, > > You can create the list before you start typing the text - it saves > doing the selection step. For example, if you are writing a paragraph, > and do ctrl-h-l it will create a new list item where you can begin > typing "one". > > And then, press return twice at the end of each list item - the first > time creates a new paragraph in the same list item and the second one > makes it a new item instead. > > In general the enter key successively starts new elements. If, for > example, you are in a dt in a dl in a div in another div, enter will > offer, depending on how often in a row you hit it > > 1. A new dt > 2. A new dd > 3. A new p inside the same div, but outside the dl > 4. A new p outside the first div but inside the second > 5. A new p outside both divs > > (or something like that...) > > cheers > > Chaals > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:48:28 +0100, Tom Cloyd > <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com> wrote: > >> >> I'm struggling to understand how to easily create a list in Amaya. It's >> behavior is beyond comprehension, for me, and there appears to be no >> useful documentation, which is baffling. >> >> Here's what I'm doing: >> >> * I type a word in Amaya - "one" >> * I press F2 to select the line >> * I press Ctrl+h+l to create list element >> * I press Enter, to get a new, empty list element, but I get a >> paragraph instead! >> >> There seems to be no way out of this. Entering another word - "two" - >> selecting and trying to convert this to a list element creates a >> hierarchical list, which is plain wrong. >> >> So, this -- >> >> <ul> >> <li>one >> <p>two</p> >> </li> >> </ul> >> >> gets converted to -- >> >> <ul> >> <li><p>one</p> >> <ul> >> <li>two</li> >> </ul> >> </li> >> </ul> >> >> This is wrong, AND a mess. >> >> Can someone please explain this to me, and tell me if there's a simple >> way to create lists in Amaya that doesn't involved hand editing the >> source? >> >> Whatever it's doing, it's simply not usable when there's no >> documatation that easily locatable. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> -- Tom >> >> ================================================ >> Tom Cloyd >> Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. >> << TC.BestMindHealth.com / BestMindHealth.com >> >> << tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com >> >> ================================================ > > > -- ================================================ Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC Private practice Psychotherapist Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 << TC.BestMindHealth.com / BestMindHealth.com >> << tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com >> ================================================
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