The Basics

Just double-click the SignatureQuote icon to launch it. You’ll see a window displaying six buttons, labeled Quote 1, Quote 2, Sig 1, Sig 2, Join, and Split.

SignatureQuote buttons change the text in the clipboard when you click them. For most of the buttons, you first copy some text from your application (e-mail, bulletin board, or whatever), click a SignatureQuote button to make a change to what you copied, then paste.

What the Buttons Do

The two Quote buttons quote the text in the clipboard. To use them, just copy, click a button, and paste. Quoting is useful in replies to e-mail messages and bulletin board postings. A common quoting style looks like this:

> The two Quote buttons quote the text in the clipboard. Quoting is
> useful in replies to e-mail messages and bulletin board postings.

The two Sig buttons just insert “canned” text into the clipboard, so you don’t need to copy anything before using them: just click and paste. Most people use them to paste in their “signatures”, but you can use them for any standard text that you want to avoid typing by hand.

Sometimes text has a carriage return at the end of each line; sometimes it has a carriage return only at the end of each paragraph. The Join and Split buttons convert between the two styles. To use them, just copy, click, and paste.

Switching Back and Forth

At times, the SignatureQuote window may be hidden behind other windows. Just move the mouse into a “hot spot” corner of the screen, and SignatureQuote will come to the front. After you’ve clicked a button, your e-mail (or other) program will automatically come to the front again.

Setting Your Preferences

You can change the buttons’ effects, the “hot spot” corners, and the layout of the SignatureQuote window and buttons. Look under the Preferences menu for commands that change SignatureQuote’s behavior.

Creating FKEYs

If you prefer to type instead of clicking buttons with the mouse, you can create FKEYs that do the same things that the SignatureQuote buttons do. FKEYs are invoked by typing special key combinations; they must be installed in your application or system file before you can use them. Look under the FKEYs menu for commands that install and remove FKEYS.

The Startup Items Folder

If you like, you can place SignatureQuote in your Startup Items folder, so that it will open automatically whenever you start your system. If you do this (and in fact, any time you open SignatureQuote within three minutes of the time you start your system), SignatureQuote will bring the Finder to the front automatically.