Since version 0.9 beta of Amaya, all the settings allowing the
configuration of Amaya are stored in a small database called
registry. It's syntax is highly similar to the
WIN.INI file found on most PC setup.
This database is splitted onto 2 different files, one for system wide
setting, which should not be modified by users, and a user specific one.
The system one is called thot.ini and is stored in the
Thot/bin directory (e.g., if Amaya has been
installed in /usr/local/Amaya , the system-wide registry should
be found in /usr/local/Thot/config/thot.ini). The user specific
one, named .thotrc, is stored in the home directory of the user
and will be created automatically if it does not exist at
Amaya startup.
Here is an example of the system-wide thot.ini, it defines where the main ressources needed by amaya and the Thot library are located. It also defines the print command to be used on this system.
[system] [thot_lib] THOTSCH=$(THOTDIR)/schemas:$(THOTDIR)/amaya THOTFONT=$(THOTDIR)/fonts THOTCONFIG= DICOPAR=$(THOTDIR)/dicopar THOTDOC=$(THOTDIR)/doc ; THOTPRINT=lp -c -dprintername -nnbex -trealname ; THOTPRINT=lpr -Pprintername -#nbex -Trealname THOTPRINT=lpr [amaya] THOTSCH=$(THOTDIR)/amaya LANG=en_US
Each application has it's own section defined by it's name between
brackets.Each section contains the variable definition specific to this
application. The section [thot_lib] is common to all applications
using the Thot library and the [system] section contains
variables wich cannot be overwritten by the user's registry. The format
is:
variable=value up to the end of the line
Lines beginning by semicolumns are comments. THOTDIR is an internal
variable specifying the location of the Amaya installation (
/usr/local/Amaya in the previous example). An existing variable
can be used to compute a new one by using the $(variable name) construct.
The system thot.ini file is not expected to be changed by users of Amaya, however, each user has it's own thot.ini file (automatically created if not present), where the user can modify the defaults settings like the user interface language, colors or the home page to load on start-up.