Keyboard Shortcuts

Everything in Inkwell can be done with the mouse, but these shortcuts save a lot of round-trips to the toolbar.

Mod means Ctrl on Windows and Linux, Cmd on a Mac.

Formatting

Shortcut	Effect
Mod-B	Bold
Mod-I	Italic
Mod-U	Underline
Ctrl-Alt-1	Section heading
Ctrl-Alt-2	Subsection heading
Ctrl-Alt-3	Subsubsection heading

Heading levels nest, so a level is only available where it makes sense — you cannot make a Subsection without a Section above it. If a shortcut appears to do nothing, check the style dropdown: the level you asked for is probably greyed out.

Inserting

Shortcut	Effect
Ctrl-4	Inline math
Ctrl-Alt-F	Footnote
Mod-Enter or Shift-Enter	Line break within a paragraph

Editing

Shortcut	Effect
Mod-Z	Undo
Mod-Y or Mod-Shift-Z	Redo
Mod-F	Open Search
Mod-Shift-F	Clear the current search

Tab

Tab and Shift-Tab do whichever is appropriate to where you are:

• In a table, move to the next or previous cell.
• In a list, indent or outdent the item.

Inside a table, Arrow Up and Arrow Down move between rows.

Typing shortcuts

Some things are easier to type than to insert. Inkwell rewrites these as you go:

Type this	Get this
--	An em dash —
...	An ellipsis …
" and '	Curly quotes, opening or closing to match the context
# at the start of a line	Section heading
## / ###	Subsection / Subsubsection heading
$x^2$	Inline math
\[	A display-math paragraph, with the cursor in it

If a substitution is not what you wanted, Mod-Z immediately afterwards reverts just the substitution and leaves what you typed.

Cross-references

Typing one of these words followed by a space opens a reference picker, so you can point at a chapter, heading, equation, figure, or table and let Inkwell keep the number correct:

• Chapter
• Section
• Equation
• Figure
• Table

Choose from the list with the arrow keys and Enter. The reference updates itself if things move around later, which is why it is worth using instead of typing the number.