Menu item
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Key
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What it does
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New
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F4
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Opens a new file. The caption is New File.
On the first Save, the file is named and
placed on the Recently opened list.
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Open
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F5
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Gets the File Open dialog. One or more (contiguous)
files from a disk may be opened.
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Template
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Shift+F5
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Gets the File open dialog with .tpt files in eWriters
directory listed. One of these files may be opened as a New
File. The file receives a name and is placed in the Open and
Recently opened list. To work on the .tpt (template) file, use
the regular Open procedure.
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Add Direct Open File (5)
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-
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Opens an Input box. you may add up to five files to be listed
on this menu. You may open these without their being added to
the Recently opened list. You may also edit this list in the
Tools/Lists Editor box.
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Remove Direct Open file
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-
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You may remove a Direct Open file from a drop-down list.
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[ Up to five Direct Open pathnames may be menu items
in this location. ]
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Alt+F5, Ctrl+F5
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The first two of the (up to) five direct open files may be key
accessed by the two keys listed.
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Close
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Ctrl+F4
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This closes the topmost writing window.
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Reload
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-
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This reloads the file in the topmost writing window in
the same window. Useful for getting rid of unwanted
chenges.
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Save
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F2
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Save As...
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Shift+F2
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Print
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Ctrl+F2
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Theis prints a straight-forward proof dump. It will be
black on white 10 point Courier New no matter what screen
formatting you have. (See the Text menu.) The file
name will be in the upper left corner. If you have two or
more pages, the page number will be there. If you have a
line of more than 84 characters, you are given options
about printing that line.
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Printer Setup
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-
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Export as .rtf file
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-
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eWriter works on plain text files, but in an .rtf
environment so that you can color tags in html and
xml files and do screen marking, visual aids and other
things. If you want to print, say, an html file with
the tag content colored blue, export as an .rtf file
and print from WordPad, MS Word, or another program
that reads and prints rtf.
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Exit
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Alt+F4
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Closes eWriter.
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[ Up to five Recently Opened files will have their
pathnames added at the bottom of the menu. These may
be directly opened. ]
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Shift+F4
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The first of the five Recently Opened files may be key-accessed
by Shift+F4. The list may be edited in Tools/Liss Editor.
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