Used to alter the way the text is laid-out before display.
| Strip CR | Removes those pesky DOS crs from the file. |
| Dehyphen | Removes hyphens from e-texts which have been formatted to fit on different sized displays by hyphenating words which no longer appear at the end of the line. |
| Single Space | Collapses multiple blank paragraphs into a single linefeed. Very useful for some "Plucks" from web-pages which have plenty of white sace and which have probably been designed for large screen devices. |
| Unindent | Removes leading spaces from the beginning of paragraphs. |
| Re-paragraph | Removes/adds line breaks as necessary to make the text look nice on the display. Very useful for Project Gutenberg texts. |
| Double Space | Adds an extra linefeed between paragraphs. |
| Indent+ | Increases the number of extra leading spaces inserted before paragraphs. |
| Indent- | Decreases the number of extra leading spaces inserted before paragraphs. |
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| Maps some of the more commonly used characters which are missing from the standard fonts onto ones which are in the fonts. For example, a dash in the text is mapped to - and a long dash in the text is mapped to --. Left and right oriented quotation marks are mapped to the straight up and down type. |
| Embolden | Forces all text to be in bold. In bad lighting conditions you may be able to see bold text more clearly than plain text. If so then this option forces the text to be emboldened regardless of its original style. Note that not all fonts support bold text. If you want to use this option make sure to select a text which supports bold text. |
| Full Justify | Forces left justified text to be fully justified. Probably not a good thing with larger font sizes on narrow screens but looks quite nice with small fonts - expecially in landscape mode. |
| Paragraph Leading |
Sets the amount of extra space to be inserted between paragraphs. It
is measured in nominal points but this value gets zoomed when you zoom
in and out so is only really in points when the base font size is 10.
(Leading is named after the blocks of lead inserted by typesetters to increase line spacing before computers took over, so it's pronounced lead as in "lead-shielding" rather than lead as in "take me to your leader"). Plucker docs do their own leading so you should probably set this to zero for most Plucker docs. Four or five is quite nice with plain texts like (for example) Doc files from Fictionwise. |
| Line Leading | Like paragraph leading but inserted between every line. A value of 2 is quite good with Helvetica but good fonts don't need any extra leading. |
| Set Margin | Sets the size of the margin left on each side of the document. The right hand margin can be used to jump to random positions in the document. If it is set to six or more a progress bar is shown in the right hand margin. The current page is shown as a variable sized blob of magenta on a fixed size yellow background superimposed on a cyan background. (It isn't as bad as it sounds 8^) ). The magenta blob shows the extent of the currrent page and will often entirely obliterate the yellow background, but for large documents the magenta blob gets too small to see - in which case the yellow, fixed size blob lets you know where you are. |
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For e-texts from fictionwise I don't need any of these enabled but
usually add some leading and margins. For
Project Gutenberg e-texts I enable Strip CR, Re-paragraph and either 3 lots
of indent+ and/or double space (and the same leading and margins as
for fictionwise docs).
Plucker is a much richer format and I turn off everything except for the margins. | |