Extended typing: Most items on most menus have to do with
typing more than one character at a time into the text. A few
tools are available to do this on a grand scale.
- Boilerplates. There are eight of these. Ctrl+TopNumber,
1..8, will print the boilerplate in your text. If nothing is
in the slot Ctrl+TopNum gets an input box. If you want to
change the content, Shift+Ctrl+TopNum gets the box. Ctrl+0
(zero) brings up the list. The list is in a box from which you
may import and export 8-slot cylinders from a
generated bplates.set file. If you get this box from the
Tools menu, the file, if it exists, will be opened.
- Super-boilerplates. Ctrl+Alt+TopNumber, 1..8, opens the
super-boilerplate box. According to the number used a particular
memo will be in the field. If you already have your template in it,
focus is on the key that says Type in Text. European
keyboards have a special Alt key to get U.S. English symbols.
This key sends Ctrl+Alt. To get the eight symbols used here,
the Number Pad must be used.
- Templates. Super-boilerplates can hold up to 32KBytes,
but it makes sense to keep smaller structures used frequently on the
eight keyings. Larger templates should be kept in .tpt files in the
eWriter directory. On the File menu, the item Open Template
will bring up an Open dialog with the .tpt files showing.
Bring in a file and eWriter will name it New File. You give
it a name when you save it.
- Tagsets.The Tagsets menu exists because writing documents
containing xml elements will require tagsets being imported.
Youll use this in writing htmld text, though. You can
add tags not available on the menus. You can add tags with
attributes contained. The tagset menu has Add and Remove
facilities. The list can hold fifteen. The current list is kept in
ewriter.ini. On the Tools menu, you bring up a dialog with an
editable list and buttons for exporting lists to and importing
lists from tslists.set. Tagsets, like boilerplate sets, can
be swapped in as you need them. This is a loaded revolver
cylinder technology.
- Escapes. The escape codes for the 8-bit characters are clumsy
to type and would grind your ewriting to a halt. The Escape
Keys menu has help. The most commonly used escapes are menu
items and have hot keys. The escape form is &#|;, where the
upright line represents the typing point. If you know the number,
Ctrl+G gets this. An em dash is 151. So, Ctrl+G, 151, Right Arrow,
and you go on writing. A setting on the Edit menu enables you
to use Alt+NumPadNumber and get the escape code rather than the
character. If you type don't but instead of the
apostrophe type Ctyrl+N, you will see dont. This
quickly becomes as habitual (when appropriate) as typing in the
apostrophe.
- The Changer. The Changer prepares for writing XMLd
text. More immediately, though, it adapts all the batch typing
for turning out xhtmld rather than htmld text. The
xhtmld text is in a form that older browsers can display.