To change the "table of contents" buttons on the left, pull toc.htm into PocketPad or eWriter (or another text editor, though these two are set up for writing HTML punctuated text). Look at the button entries. Pick out the label and the file reference for each button and change these to what you want. To add buttons, copy and paste the full entry for a button and place it under the last one (and above the ending tag for FORM). Make your changes to that copy.
If you make long labels on buttons or add so many that the browser puts in a scrollbar, you'll want to "widen" that frame. Do that in ew_read.htm where the frame sets are defined.
To change the top band, pull in top.htm and add your "personal copy" title page notes, if you wish, below the copyright notice. You can, in fact, take the four files that consitute the "book shell," ew_read, ew_top, ew_toc, and ew_intro, and use them as a "template" for making an ebook. Rename and rework the files, gather your .htm file "papers" or "chapters" or "pages," and build up a book. You might want to build such manuals or reference works for the work (and contexts) in which you are using eWriter. In fact, I've an Author's guide to the eBook in the form of an eBook that you can have at no cost. Email me that you want it and I'll send it by return email assuming you can receive a MIME encoded .zip file. That's acorioso@ccnet.com
Gene Fowler
January, 1998
revised, September, 1998
revised, January, 1999