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<chapter id="using-quanta-3-2">
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<chapterinfo>
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<title>Working With...</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Robert</firstname>
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<surname>Nickel</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>robert@artnickel.com</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Christopher</firstname>
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<surname>Hornbaker</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>chrishornbaker@earthlink.net</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Fabrice</firstname>
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<surname>Mous</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>fabrice@kde.nl</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>
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</chapterinfo>
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<title>Working With...</title>
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<para>
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This chapter describes the parts of &quantaplus; that you will be
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interacting with mostly. These not only make your more productive, but
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they also allow you to customize &quantaplus; to your work-flow.
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</para>
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<sect1 id="toolbars-howto-3-2">
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<title>Toolbars</title>
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<para>
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As previously mentioned, toolbars in &quantaplus; are primarily managed
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through the <guimenu>Toolbars</guimenu> menu. Usability and creation are
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somewhat different. The creation of toolbars is discussed in a later
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section entitled <quote><link linkend="creating-toolbars-3-2">Creating
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Toolbars</link>.</quote>
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</para>
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<para>
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Using toolbars is quite simple. When you click on an icon for a desired
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element or action, one of three possibilities occur: the element is
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inserted (optionally with a closing element); or an element dialog is
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activated, allowing you to fill in the attributes in a dialog box; or,
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lastly, an action is activated and does something nifty for your current
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file or project. If you find yourself doing tedious and redundant typing
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for a particular element, that is not in &quantaplus;, then you can add it.
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See <xref linkend="dtep-intro-3-2" /> for more information.
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</para>
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<para>
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A tag dialog looks just like the following:
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="taginputex.png" format="PNG" />
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>An example of a tag dialog.</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</para>
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<para>
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The above image is the dialog for the anchor tag. If you know &XHTML;,
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then you should have noticed that all the attributes that you can use, in
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an anchor element, are available. Notice the tabs above for
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<guilabel>Main</guilabel>, <guilabel>Core and i18n</guilabel>,
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<guilabel>Events</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Focus</guilabel>, they hold
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all of the other attributes, according to their purpose, available to the
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anchor element. All you need do is: fill in the blanks for the attributes
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you want in your anchor, omit the attributes you do not want, and click OK.
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You now have a well formed anchor set down at the current cursor position.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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&quanta-projects;
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<sect1 id="templates-3-2">
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<title>Templates</title>
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<para>
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Templates are basically skeleton documents, code snippets and files to
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link to. &quantaplus; uses templates fundamentally as a standard file
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system with enhanced organization and interfacing. You can copy, move or
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link any repository currently on your system into the templates tree.
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Think of &quantaplus; templates as having roughly the limitations to your
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imagination that your file system has.
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</para>
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<para>
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Templates exist in nested folders. There is no limit to how deep you
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can nest them however within any given folder &quantaplus; expects a
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consistent action for the base template type described below. Additionally
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templates allow for pre and post text to be concatenated to non document
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type templates. This facilitates tag creation. The next update after the
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introduction is scheduled to add the ability to pass variables to the text
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such as image size information to assist in tag creation.
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</para>
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<para>
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Our goal with templates is to extend them to include multi file <quote>
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concept</quote> templates useful for things like placing an order or
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creating an about section, Ideally this will be a tool for making your
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work more productive and dynamic. An eventual goal is to have a structural
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template design mode to deal with site layout and structure which you
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could use to design and interactively update your sites. If you would like
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to be involved, check out our
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<ulink url="http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main1.php?contfile=needs">help
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wanted</ulink> page.
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</para>
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<important>
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<para>
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Some of the templates that ship with &quantaplus; have conditions for
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their usage. Please read carefully the usage statement of conditions at
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the top of each template before you use it.
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</para>
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</important>
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<sect2 id="template-types-3-2">
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<title>Template Types</title>
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<para>
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Currently templates are limited to being one of the following types of
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objects:
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</para>
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<simplelist>
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<member>Document</member>
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<member>Text to insert in a document</member>
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<member>A file to link to form a document</member>
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</simplelist>
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<para>
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Documents can be any type of document. Generally you would want to nest
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more specific or diverse documents in subfolders. Here you can make a
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basic framework for what you do and deliver it to your work in an
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organized fashion and realize much better efficiency. Text insertion could
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be anything from a snippet of code to a script or whatever you might wish
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to use. This overlaps the ability to insert text blocks as an action which
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can be triggered from the toolbar. Linked files can be binary, &PHP; class
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libraries or whatever you like.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="template-scope-3-2">
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<title>Template Scopes</title>
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<para>
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Templates are accessible based upon their established
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<link linkend="quanta-workspaces-3-2">workspace</link> in &quantaplus;
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="creating-templates-3-2">
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<title>Creating Templates</title>
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<para>
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Create a document structure that you love (&XML;, &HTML;, DocBook, &etc;.)
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and click on
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>File</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Save as Template</guimenuitem>
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<guimenuitem>Save as Local/Project Template</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Once this is done, you will notice that (even if it is saved as a Project
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template) the template does <emphasis>not</emphasis> show in the project
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tab view. Look into the templates view to find your template under the
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Project templates tab.
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</para>
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<para>
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Additionally if you look at your options with the &BDS; you will see
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complete file management tools for creating folders or copying and
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pasting templates from one location to another.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="using-templates-with-projects-3-2">
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<title>Using Templates With Projects</title>
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<para>
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Project templates allow you to be more tightly focused. You can create
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headers, footers or go dynamic with &PHP; include files and link them.
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Additionally there are some very cool things we took into consideration
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when using templates in projects.
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</para>
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<para>
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When creating a project you can opt to copy to your local project all the
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existing global and user templates. Legacy project get default templating
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abilities so nothing is lost You can choose where to locate your template
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files so they can be in your server root and easy to upload or you can
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make them secure to link to below server root which is a very cool trick.
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When linking to a file not in the project templates you will be prompted
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to copy the file to the project templates prior to linking. This will prevent
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broken links on upload. You always have control where you place your
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templates so you can choose to move them. However &quantaplus; does not
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track this so you will need to change links.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="managing-templates-3-2">
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<title>Managing Template Behavior</title>
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<para>
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Template structure on the template tab is based on the files found in
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<filename class="directory">
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$<envar>TDEDIR</envar>/share/apps/quanta/templates</filename> and
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<filename class="directory">
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$<envar>HOME</envar>/.trinity/share/apps/quanta/templates</filename>. Each of
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these folders is specified as one of three types of container:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>files/all</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Binaries and such things that get inserted by their &URL; (&cad; images as
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an <sgmltag class="starttag">img src=/src/url</sgmltag>).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>text/all</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Text that you can insert into the current &quantaplus; document, such as
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repetitive blocks.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>template/all</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Document templates which you can create new documents from. These open a
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new window in &quantaplus;.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>
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To set the behavior of each folder, &BDS; click in the template view on
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the folder and choose <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. The
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following dialog will come up:
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="template-rmb.png" format="PNG" />
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>Properties dialog.</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Type</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Drop down box with the three types discussed previously; files, text,
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template. This box will be grayed out if you have the <guilabel>inherit
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parent attribute box</guilabel> checked.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Inherit parent attribute</guilabel> (<sgmltag
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class="starttag">foo</sgmltag>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This is checked by default and is fine for all but the top level
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folders in your templates tree. If the top level folder has this
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checked, it will basically deactivate templates for that folder and all
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that aren't explicitly set below it. If this is not a top level folder,
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then the <sgmltag class="starttag">blah</sgmltag> will say something like
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<literal>text/all</literal>. If it says nothing, then chances are that
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you are on a top level folder.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Use pre/post text</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Enables pre and post text for templates in this folder. This could be a
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common header/footer for all of your templates for a given project and
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then you copy content templates into that folder and have a complete
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page with the custom header/footer as a starting point.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Pre-text</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The actual text to insert before your templates content.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Post-text</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The actual text to insert after your templates content.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="vpl-3-2">
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<sect1info>
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<title><application>Visual Page Layout</application></title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
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<surname>Deschildre</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>nicolasdchd@ifrance.com</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Christopher</firstname>
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<surname>Hornbaker</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>chrishornbaker@earthlink.net</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>
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</sect1info>
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<title><application>Visual Page Layout</application></title>
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<sect2 id="vpl-views-3-2">
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<title>&VPL; Modes</title>
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<para>
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The <application>Visual Page Layout</application> (&VPL;) editor (also known
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as <acronym>WYSIWYG</acronym> (What You See Is What You Get)) allows you
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to edit a &HTML; or &XHTML; document while seeing the changes on-the-fly.
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Just like your favorite wordprocessor, you can click on your document and
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a cursor will appear, thus enabling you to enter text, insert images,
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apply text decorations, &etc;. &VPL;'s aim is to allow you to create great,
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valid web pages without any knowledge of Internet markup languages.
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</para>
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<para>
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&quantaplus; offers two modes: <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel> and
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<guilabel>&VPL; & Source Editor</guilabel>, which are accesible from
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the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu. The first replaces the <guilabel>Source
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Editor</guilabel> with the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>, and the
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second splits the editor window into two parts: the <guilabel>Source
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Editor</guilabel> and the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>.
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</para>
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<para>
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The <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel> works like so: It loads a document
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like a normal &HTML; or &XHTML; page and a cursor appears. Then you can
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edit it, and switching back to <guilabel>Source Editor</guilabel>, you see
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that the changes you made on the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel> have
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been merged in the <guilabel>Source Editor</guilabel>.
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</para>
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<note>
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<para>
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When working in the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel> with a document that
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contains &PHP;, you will see a small green icon representing the &PHP;
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code. You cannot directly edit it with the <guilabel>&VPL;
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Editor</guilabel>. To edit &PHP;, you will still need to use the
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<guilabel>Source Editor</guilabel>. There are no plans to change this
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functionility.
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</para>
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</note>
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<para>
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The second mode behaves exactly like the first, except that you instantely
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see the impact that your changes have made, either in the <guilabel>Source
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Editor</guilabel> or in the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>, and the
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cursors of the source editor and of the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>
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are synchronized. Pressing <keycap>F9</keycap> loads this mode, but, if
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it is already loaded, it will move the focus from one view to the other,
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while keeping you at the same location of the document.
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</para>
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<para>
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The refresh intervals between the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel> and
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the <guilabel>Source Editor</guilabel> are configurable. Go to
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Configure Quanta...</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>. Select the <guimenu>&VPL; View</guimenu> tab. You can
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choose whether you want to refresh a view only when you click on it or
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automatically. If you choose automatically, then you can choose a refresh
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interval. The general recommendation is: A smaller number for fast
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computers and a bigger number for slower ones.
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</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="vplsourceview.png" format="PNG" />
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>The <guilabel>&VPL; & Source Editor</guilabel> mode.</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="vpl-editing-3-2">
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<title>&VPL; Editing</title>
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<sect3 id="doc-prop-dia-3-2">
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<title>The <guilabel>Document Properties</guilabel> Dialog</title>
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<para>
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Now, let's say you want to edit the title of your web page. How do you do
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it? Simply launch
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Document Properties</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>. This tool allows the edition of <quote>invisible</quote>
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tags when using the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>. The
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<guilabel>Document Properties</guilabel> dialog is also launched when you
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create a new document while in the <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel>. This
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is in order to lessen the amount of hand coding you need to perform. With
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it, you can edit:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Title</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The title of the document.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Meta items</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Meta tags allow you to store informations about the document itself
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&pex; keywords for the Internet search engines. You can add or remove
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<guilabel>Meta items</guilabel> by pressing the two buttons below,
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and edit them by clicking on the list &pex; put <quote>keywords</quote> on
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the <quote>name</quote> column and <quote>keyword1 keyword2</quote> on the
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<quote>content</quote> column.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>CSS Rules</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>CSS Rules</guilabel> are the new way to tell your web browser
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how to present the page. You can add or delete the <guilabel>CSS
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Rules</guilabel> by pressing the buttons below. You can also fill the
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fields like the <guilabel>Meta items</guilabel>. The edition of
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<guilabel>CSS Rules</guilabel> is not yet supported.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Link CSS Stylesheet</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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You can also link an external CSS stylesheet. Simply click on the
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<guilabel>Browse</guilabel> button and select your file.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="vpl-editor-3-2">
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<title>The <guilabel>&VPL; Editor</guilabel></title>
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<para>
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You can use your cursor like you do in a wordprocessor, moving with the
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arrows. It may come that the cursor does not want to go where you want it
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to go (a pesky bug). Selection also works as usual. You can insert text by
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typing and remove text by pressing the &Correction; or delete key.
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</para>
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<para>
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Now we come to tag insertion. You can insert images, applets, text
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decorations such as bold and so on by using the same toolbars you use in
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the source editor. Note that the insertion of tags does not remove previous
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identical tags &pex; if you insert an anchor tag around some text, then you
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must remove any other anchor tag around it.
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</para>
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<note>
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<para>
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Some toolbar items will be disabled, such as the <guilabel>Table
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Wizard</guilabel> or <guilabel>Quick List Wizard</guilabel>. They will
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work later in &VPL;, but, for this release, you should use the
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<guilabel>Tables</guilabel> or <guilabel>Lists</guilabel> toolbars.
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</para>
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</note>
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<para>
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To edit a tag (be it an image, an applet, or whatever), switch to the
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<guilabel>Attribute Tree</guilabel>, accessible via
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>View</guimenu>
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<guisubmenu>Tree views</guisubmenu>
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</menuchoice>. Click on the tag you wish to edit, or, if you cannot access
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it, click on an object contained by it. The <guilabel>Attribute
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Tree</guilabel> will show the current tag name as well as a list of all its
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parents and attributes. Currently &VPL; does not support, say,
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&XHTML;+<acronym>MathML</acronym>, but you will see that you can edit
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namespaces via this view. You can simply click on the
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<guilabel>Value</guilabel> field and modify whatever you want. If you want
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to access a parent of the current tag, then select it and the
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<guilabel>Attribute Tree</guilabel> will load it.
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</para>
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<para>
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To delete a tag, we will use the <guilabel>Attribute Tree</guilabel>. Have
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you noticed the two little red crosses at the top-right corner? The first one
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deletes only the currently selected tag and, if the &HTML;/&XHTML;
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|
specification does not allow some childs of the deleted tag to be child of
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the parent tag of the tag set to be deleted, then they are also deleted,
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|
and so on. The second cross will delete the selected tag as well as all of
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|
its children, so be careful!
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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