Quanta Plus User Manual

Christopher Hornbaker <chrishornbaker@earthlink.net>

Fabrice Mous <fabrice@kde.nl>

Robert Nickel <robert@artnickel.com>

Developer: Eric Laffoon
Developer: András Mantia
Developer up to 2.0: Dmitry Poplavsky
Developer up to 2.0: Alexander Yackovlev
Revision 3.1.92 (2003-10-18)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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. Introduction
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 Quick Info Trees
The Toolbars
3. Working With...
Toolbars
Projects
New Projects
Using Projects
Templates
Template Types
Template Scopes
Creating Templates
Using Templates With Projects
Managing Template Behavior
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 Tags Menu
The DTD Menu
The Plugins Menu
The Tools Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
5. Advanced Features
XML Tools
KDE Documentation Tools
XML Validation
XSL Processing
Using Plugins
What is a Plugin?
Understanding the Edit Plugin Dialog
Debugging in Quanta Plus
Using the PHP Debugger
Using KXsldbg, the XSL Debugger
6. Extending Quanta Plus
Document Type Editing Package (DTEP)
Packaging
TagXML
description.rc
Creating Toolbars
From Scratch to Complete
Creating Your Own Documentation
7. Questions and Answers
8. Credits and License
A. Installation
Acquiring Quanta Plus
Building the Source
Considerations When Building
Glossary