Before the Menus — Writing-Environment Tools

A major theme in How to Write in eWriter is that the best way to learn to write is to write. The best way to learn to write and ewrite in eWriter is to open a new writing window and to begin writing. When you come to something that doesn't seem to work normally (as it would in notepad, for instance) or something you wonder about — look to the menus. In the beginning, and if your question has to do with actual writing, start with Edit menu and Text menu.

Ewriter isn’t just a textwriter or htmlwriter, however. It’s a full-featured integrated writing enviroment. I explain elsewhere what that means. Here, it means you won’t really want to just start writing. You wouldn’t in any case because you would feel a familiar Windows text editor around you. You would get your new writing window, or open a file you were already working on. You’d start writing, and looking to menus, in that environment.I’ll sketch some series of enviroment-wide capabilities after I get you started at setting up your work area:

How to get eWriter ready

Advanced writing-window handling

An ewriter’s extended typing

(Shifted) paradigm tools

Tagsets — an ewriter’s extensible punctuation

Massaging text into etext