In this part, CreaText's most important menus are explained. Basic functions like the Edit menu are not explained because you should know these from the allday use of the Mac.
Creates a new document. In the shown dialog you can setup many HTML parameters, e.g. Background-Color.<BR>
See also <A href="new" target="_self">New document</A>
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<B>Save a copy as...</B></TD><TD></TD>
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With this menu entry you can save a copy of the current document which will <U>not</U> become the current document. You can save this copy in Mac, DOS/Win or UNIX format.
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<B>Set window size...</B></TD><TD> </TD>
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Sets the size for main windows to the size (width x height) of the current main window.
The Text services submenu offers some nice functions for text editing.
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<LI>Titlecase selection</LI><BR>
<I>Sets the current selection's case to Titlecase, that means "apple" becomes "Apple"</I><BR>
<LI>Uppercase selection</LI><BR>
<I>Sets the current selection's case to Uppercase, that means "apple" becomes "APPLE"</I><BR>
<LI>Lowercase selection</LI><BR>
<I>Sets the current selection's case to Lowercase, that means "APPLE" becomes "apple"</I><BR>
<LI>Exchange left to letters</LI><BR>
<I>This is a little handy functions which exchanges the two letters left to the current selection mark's position.
For example: You want to write "Apple", but you accidentally write "Appel", just use this function and you have "Apple"<BR>
If you have selected some text in the main window, you can see that this menu entry becomes 'Reverse selection'. If you have the word "Apple" selected it gets transformed into "elppA".</I>
Shows a statistical overview of the current document.
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<TD width="250"><B>XHTML mode</B></TD><TD> </TD>
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When you select this menu entry, you can toggle between HTML and XHTML mode. If you check it and so activate XHTML mode, all dialogs produce XHTML code.<BR>
XHTML code means that all Tags are lowercase and that Tags that have no End-Tag will look like this example: <<FONT color="blue">br/</FONT>>.
<TD colspan="2">Shows the preferences dialog in which you can customize the application's appearance and behavior. See also <A HREF="prefs" target="_self">Preferences</A>
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These entries have the same functions like the buttons in the main window, they show the current document in one of the available browsers. Note: The document has to be saved.
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<TD width="250"><B>Change Tags to uppercase/lowercase</B></TD><TD> </TD>
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This function changes all Tags in the current document to upper- respective lowercase. Comments and Tag attributes are not affected.
This option lets you remove a file's Resource Fork. It may be good to have a backup of the files whose Resource Fork you want to remove for the case that something goes wrong.
Shows a dialog which lets you select a picture file. Then, you can create a preview (so called Thumbnail) of this picture file with the desired values for width and height.<BR>
The disadvantage of this dialog is that is can only process one file and not multiple files. If you want to make thumbnails from many pictures, you should download a specialized tool.
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From this menu you can access most of the HTML commands with easy to use dialogs.
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<I>xyz DTD</I><BR>
Puts the respective Document Type Definition (Strict, Frame, Transitional) on the top of the current document.
