[Promotion-technology] Fwd: EdSharp 2.1 released

[David Andrews]

>
>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
>
>Version 2.1
>Released September 1, 2007
>
>This version primarily seeks to implement some ideas I gathered about
>writing HTML.  The new pasting capability is tailored for either HTML or
>text -- the latter snippet type being applicapable to templates and prose
>generally.  HTML support already included checking syntax with the Tidy
>utility, as well as converting between Markdown and HTML.  Fixes and
>improvements are documented below.
>
>Jamal
>
>Fixed Section Break (Control+Enter) and Replace (Control+R) commands not
>handling tokens correctly.
>
>Improved compatibility with Dragon voice dictation software.  Made EdSharp
>change the current directory to that of a file opened by the user.
>
>The Open Previous setting determines whether files open at the end of the
>previous EdSharp session are automatically opened at the start of the next
>one.  The default is No in this version, but it was Yes in version 2.0
>when this setting was reserved but not actually implemented.  Since
>upgrading EdSharp generally does not replace installed settings, your
>setting may be Yes inadvertently.  If you would prefer that EdSharp not
>open files automatically in this way, you can press Alt+Shift+C for
>Configuration Options, then Alt+O for the OpenPrevious edit box and N for
>its value.  Alternatively, create a fresh configuration file by pressing
>Alt+Shift+M for Manual Options, Alt+Shift+D to delete the EdSharp.ini
>file, Y to confirm, and Alt+F4 to close EdSharp.  The next time you load
>EdSharp a custom configuration file will be created with default values.
>
>This version increases word processing functionality by adding bullet
>justification in addition to left, center, or right (Alt+Shift+J).
>Superscript and subscript support is also added.  Press Alt+Shift+6 (think
>of a caret symbol) to change the virtical alignment of text.  Press
>Control+6 to go to the next change in baseline, or Control+Shift+6 for the
>previous one.  The Query Styles command (Alt+Slash) says current styles
>(bold, italic and/or underline), as well as justification and baseline
>alignment.
>
>The Web Download command, Alt+Shift+W, lets you pick one or more files to
>download from a page whose address you specify.  If Internet Explorer is
>open, EdSharp uses the value in its address bar as the default.  Each item
>of the resulting checked listbox shows both the clickable text of the url
>and its target file name.  Press Spacebar to toggle the checked state of
>an item.  After picking files, you are prompted for the target folder on
>disk.  If a file with the same name already exists, a unique name is
>created by adding a numeric suffix, e.g., page_01.htm, page_02.htm, etc.
>
>A listbox control of the .NET Framework does not support multiple letter
>navigation, so each letter typed jumps to the next item starting with that
>letter.  To make navigation more flexible and efficient, particularly in a
>listbox with many items, EdSharp adds the following features to a list
>based dialog.  Control+J prompts for text within an item, going to the
>first match if a new search, or the next match if the previous value is
>accepted.  Alt+J goes to the next match without prompting for a value.  In
>a checked listbox, such as the Web Download dialog, Control+A checks all
>items, Control+Shift+A unchecks them, and Shift+Space reads which are
>checked.  The item with focus when the dialog is closed (but not canceled)
>becomes the current item the next time that the same list dialog is
>invoked.  The Jump value of that dialog is also remembered.
>
>New commands support development of web pages.  Press Control+Shift+Period
>(think of the > symbol) to go to the closing tag of an HTML element, or
>Control+Shift+Comma for the opening one.  A documentation section
>describes the snippet capability as follows.
>
>Pasting Snippets
>Press Alt+S to save all or selected text to a file that may be
>conveniently pasted into other documents.  You may give the file any name,
>except that it should have a .txt extension.  It is saved in a subfolder
>of the EdSharp data folder.  Each programming compiler or interpreter may
>have its own set of snippets.  The subfolder name is the same as the
>current value of the Pick Compiler command, Control+Shift+F5.  If no
>compiler has been chosen, the name "Default" is used.  Press Alt+V to pick
>one of the available snippets and paste it into the current document.  You
>can manage snippet files with the View Snippet Folder command,
>Alt+Shift+V, which opens Windows Explorer in the subfolder containing
>snippet files.
>
>A snippet may be either literal or an interpreted type.  A literal snippet
>is pasted completely.  An interpreted type is seperated into an initial
>header line and remaining lines as its body.  The header line contains
>keywords, in lower case, that control how EdSharp processes the snippet.
>At present, two interpreted types are defined:  html and text.  The type
>keyword must be the first word on the header line, and thus the first word
>of the snippet file.
>
>The first body line of an HTML snippet is the name of an HTML tag.
>Subsequent body lines are attributes of the tag.  An optional default
>value can follow the attribute name, seperated by an equals sign (=).
>Here is an example for the anchor tag:
>
>html phrase
>a
> href=
> name=
> target=
> class=
> title=
> src=
>
>The "phrase" keyword tells EdSharp that the tag may be embedded in a
>paragraph, rather than creating a block with line breaks before and after.
>Another keyword, "empty," would tell EdSharp not to add a closing tag like
></a> when pasting (e.g., for the <br> tag).
>
>EdSharp pastes only those attributes that have values greater then zero in
>length as part of the opening tag.  To include an attribute with
>essentially no value, enter a space character for it in the dialog.  If
>text is selected when pressing Alt+V, it is surrounded by the opening and
>closing tags, and the cursor is placed afterward.  If there is no
>selection, the cursor is placed between the opening and closing tags.
>
>Over 100 HTML snippets are distributed with EdSharp, including common
>attributes used by the tags.  Snippet files may be modified or added.
>Upgrading EdSharp does not overwrite snippet files with the same names.
>
>With the text type of snippet, EdSharp pastes the whole body after making
>possible substitutions controlled by a keyword called "form."  This lets
>you embed variables or constants in the body.  A variable has surrounding
>percent signs and an equals sign between the name and default value.  For
>example, the variable %City=%Silver Spring% means a variable named City
>with a default value of Silver Spring.  EdSharp creates a dialog that
>prompts for the value of each variable it finds in the snippet body.  It
>then replaces the variable references with the values entered.
>
>Certain constants are also defined:  %Date% for the current date, %Time%
>for the time, %UserName% for the Windows user name, %UserFirstName% for
>the first part of that name, and %UserLastName% for the second part, if
>any.  Date and Time formats may be customized as EdSharp configuration
>options, using the DateTime formatting syntax of the .NET Framework,
>explained at
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo(VS.80).aspx
>
>If a snippet header contains the "caret" keyword, EdSharp looks for a
>double caret sequence (^^) in the body, and positions the cursor (think of
>blinking caret) in that location after pasting.  An example text type
>snippet is called Letter.txt, located in the Default snippet folder.  Its
>content is as follows:
>
>text form caret
>%Date%
>
>Dear %Customer=%:
>
>Thank you for your purchase of %Product=Super Widget%.  ^^
>
>Sincerely,
>%UserName%
>
>EdSharp notices that this is a text type snippet because of the first word
>of the file.  It finds two other keywords on the header line:  form and
>caret.  It creates a dialog with two edit boxes, prompting for the
>Customer and Product -- defaulting to Super Widget.  It substitutes the
>values entered, as well as date and user name constants.  After pasting,
>the cursor is positioned after the first sentence.
>
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