The Format menu contains commands that allow you to control the formatting of the document, for example the number of columns, position of headings, date formats, borders and style attributes of text and graphics.
The Change... command is used to apply changes to the formatting attributes specific to the type of the currently selected structure. It leads to a dialogue box where the following attributes can be set.
The Document, Chapter and Section format dialogue boxes are almost identical:
They allow you to:
The List Format dialogue box is where you set the properties of a list.
The Table dialogue box is where you set the properties of a table.
The Figure Format dialogue box is where you control the position of a figures caption.
The Picture Format dialogue box lets you control the scale and cropping of a picture.
You can:
This command is used either to apply formatting changes made to the current selection to all the other structures using the same style, or to create a new style.
You can also access the Save Style changes dialogue by clicking Adjust on the Style indicator button.
This command changes name depending on which type of structure is selected. It leads to a submenu containing the list of styles defined for that type. Choosing a style from the list will cause the selection to be reformatted in accordance with that style definition.
Each structure type has a default style which appears at the top of the list. User defined styles are appended below it.
This menu can also be opened by clicking Menu on the Style indicator button.
The Auto hyphenation command turns hyphenation on, or off, for the paragraph containing the caret. To hyphenate the entire document choose Document from the Select menu then choose Auto hyphenation. When hyphenation is on, a tick will appear to the left of the menu item.
The last word of a paragraph will not be hyphenated.
EasiWriter can hyphenate in most of the European languages. Use the Country command from the Text menu to choose the language to be used by the hyphenation routines on individual words, phrases, sentences, structures or the entire document. German words containing 'ck' will be hyphenated as 'k-k'.
For example the German for printer - Drucker becomes Drucker the first 'c' changing to a 'k'.
Lets you change the space before and after the selected structure.
Where appropriate it also lets you adjust the spacing
between lines of text.
Normally EasiWriter adjusts the height of lines to accommodate the tallest
item in the line, for example a picture or some text in a larger size than
the paragraph text.
Space before Chapters and Sections is suppressed at the top of pages on all but the first page. Similarly Space after is ignored at the bottoms of pages.
Note: Space before a Chapter or Section heading is included as space within the Chapter or Section and would not be suppressed.
The Borders command leads to a dialogue box.
The Alignment command allows you to choose between Left, Centre, Right and Full justification - equivalent to clicking the justification icons on the ruler.
There is another command Force full which behaves like 'Full justify', except that the last line of the paragraph, or line breaks forced using Shift-Return, are also justified. Normally this is not good typographic practice, but there are some cases where it can be useful.
For example, forcing justification of the last line can be useful when you are using a figure to include a diagram, or other illustration, within fully justified text. This text at the side of the
picture is actually a section of two paragraphs and no heading, within a figure caption.
The caption is placed at the right of the diagram by selecting the figure,
and using the Change command.
picture is actually a section of two paragraphs and no heading, within a figure caption.
The caption is placed at the right of the diagram by selecting the figure, and using the Change command.
In this example there are four paragraphs, the first (ending 'side of the') has forced full justification, so that it appears to flow round the diagram.
As a tool bar short-cut, Force full justification can be applied by clicking on the Full (rightmost) justification button with Adjust.
The Tab command leads to a submenu offering the following choices:
Info leads to a dialogue box where you can:
Allows you to add a new tab to the ruler.
Enables you to move the selected tab or tabs. Note: the selection does not have to be contiguous.
Allows you to remove the selected tab(s) from the ruler.
Leads to a submenu with the following choices:
Starts a new page at the end of the paragraph containing the caret.
Note: Start new page can also be included as a property of a Chapter or Section style.
Starts a new column at the end of the paragraph containing the caret.
Inserts an empty structure that can be stretched vertically using the mouse. The minimum size is four points.
Inserts an empty structure that automatically extends itself to the bottom of the page. This can be used to force vertical rules to extend to the full extent of the page.
If the start of the selection is in a chapter or structure within a chapter it leads to a dialogue box where you can set the start page number for the chapter. If the selection is at the document level it starts the numbering sequence for the document.
The Set date format dialogue box allows you to choose the format that EasiWriter will use to display dates and times that have been inserted into the document using the Insert command from the Structure menu. In addition to the built in date formats, you can create your own by mixing date fields with text.
For example:
%WE the %ZDY%ST of %MO = Monday the 2nd of February
Name | Value | Example |
%se | seconds | 59 |
%mi | minutes | 05 |
%12 | hours in 12 hour format | 07 |
%24 | hours in 24 hour format | 23 |
%am or %pm | 'AM' or 'PM' | am |
%we | weekday in full | Thursday |
%w3 | weekday, in three characters | Thu |
%wn | weekday, as a number | 5 |
%dy | day of the month | 01 |
%st | 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th' | st |
%mo | month in full | September |
%m3 | month in three characters | Sep |
%mn | month as number | 09 |
%ce | century | 19 |
%yr | year within century | 97 |
%wk | week of the year, Mon to Sun | 52 |
%dn | day of the year | 366 |
%tz | time zone | BST |
%% | insert a % | |
To remove leading zeros, prefix the code with a 'Z' i.e. | ||
%zdy | day of the month (suppress zero) | 1 |
Plain text can also be included in the variable string; for example:
%we the %sy%st of %mo3 %ce%yr
would display in the form: Wednesday the 22nd of January 2000
To avoid the problem of changing the date in, for
example, a letter when you open it at a later date Always update date
and time works in a special ways
If you start a new document from a stationery pad the date will be updated
when you create the document after which it will not be changed. This does
not apply to dates in Headers and footers.