Massaging text into etext: Often you will start with a text file or produce a text file by exporting from a word processor such as Microsoft Word. From Word you will want to use "Text with line breaks." You bring a text file into eWriter and you wish to build an html or xhtml file. An efficient way to do this is open the text file and, then, open an empty file. Put a template from super-boilerplates (or a .tpt file) into the new file window. Then, you can paste in the text, but first you want to work on the text file using tools that are mainly on our EXT(tended HTML) menu. You will use tools on the Esc Keys and Text menus, too, though some of what you want to do will after moving the text into the html file.

When you are writing your html or xhtml files, you choose which by toggling The Changer at the top of the XML menu. The tools on the Ext menu, however, come in pairs and you will have to choose which you tags you want. As an example, the pair that put a tag to produce a line break (<br> or <br />) at the end of every line including empty lines. The two menu items tell which tag is being inserted by each.

Most of the tools, and many of the other things you do, involve doing a single thing over and over from the top of a file to the bottom. In every instance, clicking on a tool will bring up an info plaque explaining what the tool does and how to prepare the text file for its use. The main thing is to understand what you want to do and to look at the tools available. Here are some things to do to a text file to make text to plug into the body section of a template such as I mentioned at the beginning. These aren’t really in order so I don’t number them.

Ext(ended html) menu

Text menu

Escape Keys menu