Quanta Plus User Manual

Christopher Hornbaker (chrishornbaker earthlink.net)

Fabrice Mous (fabrice kde.nl)

Robert Nickel (robert artnickel.com)

András Mantia (amantia kde.org)

Developer: Eric Laffoon
Developer: András Mantia
Developer up to 2.0: Dmitry Poplavsky
Developer up to 2.0: Alexander Yackovlev

Revision 3.4.90 (2005-08-24)

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Quanta Plus is a Web IDE that strives to be neutral and transparent to all markup languages, while supporting popular web-based scripting languages, CSS, and other emerging W3C® recommendations.

Table of Contents

1. What is Quanta Plus?

Quanta Plus: Where It Was And Where It Is Going

2. The Fundamentals of Quanta Plus

The Workspace

The Multi-Document Interface

The Editor Window
The Toolviews
The Informational Tabs
The Toolbars

3. Working With...

Toolbars

Projects

New Projects
Configuring Projects
Using Projects
Project Views

Templates

Template Types
Template Scopes
Creating Templates
Using Templates With Projects
Managing Templates

Visual Page Layout

VPL Modes
VPL Editing

4. The Menubar

The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Bookmarks Menu
The Project Menu
The Toolbars Menu
The DTD Menu
The Tags Menu
The Plugins Menu
The Tools Menu
The Window Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu

5. Configuring Quanta Plus

Configuring Quanta
Configuring Actions
Configuring Plugins

6. Advanced Features

XML Tools

KDE Documentation Tools
XML Validation
XSL Processing

Using Plugins

What is a Plugin?
Understanding the Edit Plugin Dialog

Team Development

Event Actions

Annotations

Debugging in Quanta Plus

Using the PHP Debugger
Using KXsldbg, the XSL Debugger

7. Extending Quanta Plus

Document Type Editing Package (DTEP)

Packaging
TagXML
description.rc

User Defined Actions

Creating actions
Text actions
Tag actions
Script actions

Creating Toolbars

From Scratch to Complete

Creating Your Own Documentation

Sharing Resources

Getting Resources

Converting a DTD to a DTEP

8. Questions and Answers

9. Credits and License

A. Installation

Acquiring Quanta Plus

Building the Source

Considerations When Building

Glossary

List of Examples

6.1. Annotation example in XML
6.2. Annotation example in PHP
6.3. Make a note to a team member with the nickname eric
6.4. Inform the team leader
6.5. Inform the PHP subproject leader