The Workspace at a Glance

The Editor is one screen: a header, and three panes that always keep their places.

• Top left — the image. The manuscript, deep-zoomable, with every akṣara of the current edition outlined on it.
• Bottom left — the akṣara pane. All currently outlined akṣara segments.
• Right — the inspector. Whatever you currently have selected.

All three dividers can be dragged.

The three modes

The switch in the middle of the header is the most important control in the Editor. It changes what the bottom and right panes contain — and, with them, what a click on the image means.

Mode	Bottom pane	Right pane	Clicking the image
Akṣaras	The akṣara table, one row per sign	The akṣara editor	Selects one akṣara to edit
Tokens & Lines	The transcription, line by line	The token inspector	Picks akṣaras to build a word from
Sequences	The sequence tree	The sequence inspector	—

The image pane never changes place, but the outlines on it are recoloured to suit the mode. In Tokens & Lines, for instance, they are shaded by how much of each akṣara has already been used by a word.

Switching modes clears the current selection, deliberately — a selected akṣara and a selected token are different kinds of thing. If you have unsaved changes, you are asked before the switch goes through.

The header

Left — the folder icon opens Manage, where texts, editions, images, and collections live. Beside it, the text you have open and, under it in smaller type, the edition.

Right —

Control	What it does
i — Edition properties	Jumps straight to this edition's form in Manage
Share	Opens the edition in the Viewer, or its report
Wrench	Admin menu: lemma administration and ink masks — administrators only
Bell	Notifications
Avatar	Change password, log out

Saving

Nothing in the Editor saves as you type. Each inspector has its own Save and Cancel, and until you press Save the change exists only on screen.

Anything that would throw a draft away — switching mode, switching edition, closing Manage — stops and asks first.