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The Icon bar menu

Click Menu over the EasiWriter icon to open the Icon bar menu.

Info

Info displays information about the program including the version number.

Choices

Choose Choices to control the way text files are saved and loaded. This can make it easier to send documents to other applications and the Internet. It also enables draft printing.

It leads to a dialogue where you can control the character(s) that are saved at the end of paragraphs, or treated as end of paragraph on loading. You can:

You can also control the maximum length of lines that are output, when saving Text, RTF or HTML, before a user selected character is inserted.

  1. Click in the Maximum line length option icon.
  2. Edit the line length either in the writable icon or by scrolling.

Lines of complete words will be output that are within the value set. Tabs can be output either as a tab character (ASCII 09) or as eight spaces.

Buttons are provided where you can:

To make a change to the setting permanent, choose Save choices in the icon bar menu.

Smart quotes

If the Smart quotes option is set some keys will produce different characters depending on whether they are pressed once or twice or three times in quick succession.

Key 1 press 2 presses 3 presses
` ' " `
' ' " '
- - - --
(en dash) (em dash)

To make a change to the setting permanent, choose Save choices in the icon bar menu.

See the section Advanced options for details on how to create your own combinations.

Documents

Documents lists the pathnames of all open documents in a submenu. Choosing a document brings its window to the front. A tick indicates that the window for that document contains the active cursor.

Stationery

The Stationery menu shows a list of Stationery pads that have been saved in the Application directory.

See also Advanced Options for setting the default, and EasiWriter$Path for saving Stationery pads in other directories.

If you choose a Stationery pad a new Untitled document will be opened which will be a copy of that stationery pad.

Text documents will be opened into the currently selected Stationery pad.

To add a Stationery pad to the application directory

  1. Create a Stationery pad.
  2. Hold down Shift and Double-click on !EasiWriter to open the Application directory.
  3. Save the Stationery pad in the Application directory.

The name of the pad will automatically appear in the Stationery menu. Choosing a pad starts a new document that is a copy of it.

The Stationery pad chosen becomes the default document until you change it or quit EasiWriter and its name is ticked in the menu.

To open the Stationery pad directory

  1. Open a new document by choosing a new Stationery pad from the Icon bar menu.
  2. Discard it.
  3. Click Adjust on the EasiWriter icon on the Icon bar.
    The directory containing your stationery pads will be opened.
  4. Reset your default stationery pad by choosing it from the Icon bar menu.

Exceptions

Exceptions leads to a submenu where you can open one of two dialogue boxes where the spelling and hyphenation user dictionaries can be edited.

Words can be removed from the exceptions dictionaries by selecting them in the scrollable list and clicking Remove. A pop-up menu allows you to choose the country of the exceptions dictionary.

Spelling

Words are normally entered into the exceptions dictionary during spell checking. However they can also be added by typing into the Spelling Exceptions writable icon and clicking Add.

Hyphenation

Words can be added to the hyphenation dictionary with a dash to show where to hyphenate or without to show that the word should not be hyphenated.

Default units

Default units leads to a submenu where you can change the units of measurement used by the current document.

Save choices

To make a change to the settings permanent, choose Save choices. This will save the settings in the Choices dialogue plus Smart quotes and default stationery.

Quit

Quit removes EasiWriter from the computer's memory prompting you to save any changed documents before doing so.


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