Click on menu and icon to get info.
Apple Menu - Provides UniText application information.
Font Menu - Lists all the fonts available to
UniText.
The current selection's font is checked. If one of the Chinese/Japanese/Korean
fonts is selected and custom input method is enabled in the Preference
dialog, UniText will load and switch to the corresponding custom input
methods.
Format Menu - Add a splash of color or emphasize
important points with styles.
Special Menu - Provides character/encoding
services.
Multimedia Menu - Add some multimedia
flavors into your UniText document
You must have the Sound Manager for sound recording, Speech Manager
for Text-To-Speech, QuickTime for embedding movie, and QuickDraw 3D (PowerMac
only) for embedding 3D model.
Windows Menu - Provides window services for
all opened documents.
Import - Apply text encoding conversion on read-in text files
Each of these corresponds to a language encoding filter, or converter.
Selecting any of the sub-menu item brings up the standard dialog for opening
a document. After the file is read, a designated text filter for
converting language code set is applied. The default font is used.
Each of these corresponds to a language encoding filter, or converter. Selecting any of the sub-menu item brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The text of the front most window will then be applied with a designated language encoding converter, and then saved in a plain text file. The front most window will then be closed.
Size Menu - Change the selected text to designated font size.
The size sub-menu lists a selection of common font sizes. The
current selection's font size is checked. Use smaller to decrement the
current selection's font size by one point. If the selection contains
varying text sizes, then each of the various text sizes is reduced by one.
The command keys are a useful shortcut for easily adjusting font size.
Use Larger to increment the current selection's font size by one point.
If you wish to change quickly to an odd font size, use Others... command
to select any point size between 1 and 256. Simply enter the desired
value in the font size box (or use the arrow buttons).
The sample text is redrawn as its size changes.
The "Others..." command will bring to the color chooser dialog:
Full justification will flush-align both the left and right margins in the display and the printout. Default justification will set document alignment to match your system's usual convention. Left justification (default Roman) is recommended for fastest performance and is required for use of real tab spacing (Preferences dialog).
About UniText...
"About UniText" provides user information and copyright information.
If you are registering UniText, you will also need to launch the about
dialog.
New
This opens a new blank document window.
Open
Use this command to pick the a supported document you wish to open.
Close
This closes the active window. You will be prompted to save any
changes you may have made.
Save
This saves any changes you have made to the file in the active window.
UniText displays a standard Save As dialog if the document has not yet
been saved to disk.
Save As...
This brings up the standard dialog for creation of a new text file
on your disk.
Revert
This undo all the changes you made to the document and reload the document
from the last saved document.
Convert to 1-Byte Text
This only work for Elegance truetype fonts.
For CJK text using Elegance truetype fonts, the 2-byte CJK text can be
converted into 1-byte text/font, and saved as Microsoft Word document.
These 1-byte text/font CJK document can then be imported into any popular
page layout program for further layout. High quality PDF with CJK font
embedded can be generated from these 1-byte text/fonts. For more detailed
information, user is referred to High Resolution
CJK PDF Content Creation section.
Page Setup
This displays the standard Page Setup dialog allowing you to set specific
options for your printer. The front most window will be repagenated
according to the printer description.
Print
This displays the standard Print dialog for the printer you have selected
in the Chooser.
Preferences
The Preferences dialog allows you to preset many of the features and
store your preferred settings in a Preferences file in the Preferences
folder. The preference dialog contains many sections. For detailed discussion,
user is referred to the Preferences Setting
Overview.
Quit
This closes the UniText application. You will be prompted to
save any altered or unsaved documents before UniText quits.
Import simplified Chinese
from HZ encoded Chinese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a HZ->GB text filter is applied. The Beijing font is
used.
Import simplified
Chinese from Big5 encoded Chinese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a Big5->GB text filter is applied. The Beijing font is
used.
Import Traditional
Chinese from HZ encoded Chinese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a HZ->Big5 text filter is applied. The Taipei font is
used.
Import Traditional
Chinese from GB encoded Chinese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a GB->Big5 text filter is applied. The Taipei font is
used.
Import Japanese from EUC encoded
Japanese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a EUC->Shift-JIS text filter is applied. The Tokyo/Osaka
font is used.
Import Japanese from JIS encoded
Japanese text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a JIS->Shift-JIS text filter is applied. The Tokyo/Osaka
font is used.
Import Korean from ISO2202
encoded Korean text
This brings up the standard dialog for opening a document. After
the file is read, a ISO2202->Wansung text filter is applied. The Seoul
font is used.
Export HZ from Simplified
Chinese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a GB->HZ language
encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export Big5 from Simplified
Chinese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a GB->Big5 language
encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export HZ from Traditional
Chinese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a Big5->HZ language
encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export GB from Traditional
Chinese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a Big5->GB language
encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export EUC from Japanese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a Shift-JIS->EUC
language encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export JIS from Japanese
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a Shift-JIS->JIS
language encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Export ISO2202 from Korean
This brings up the standard dialog for saving a document. The
text of the front most window will then be applied with a Wansung->ISO2202
language encoding converter, and result saved in a plain text.
Undo
This reverses your most recent editing action or style change.
After you undo something, it can usually be redone if desired.
Cut
This removes the current selection to the clipboard, making it available
for pasting into other locations or other documents. The clipboard
holds the text as well as its style information, making styled selections
available to other programs.
Copy
This makes a copy of the current text/sound/picture selection and places
it in the clipboard. Sometimes it is convenient to move plain text
(without any associated attributes, such as font, size or style).
Paste
This moves a copy of the text/sound/picture in the clipboard to the
current insertion point, deleting anything that may be selected.
Clear
This clears the current selection.
Select All
This selects the entire document.
Paste Date
The current date is pasted at the insertion point.
Paste Time
The current time is pasted at the insertion point.
Insert Page Break
If you want to make sure that chapter headings always appear at the
top of the page, use this command to insert a formfeed character.
All subsequent text will print starting at the top of a new page.
The formfeed character shows up as a little non-printing box. The page
break also controls the page breaking in Graphics export.
The Page Break (form feed) is not supported with GX printing.
HyperLink/Bookmark...
A command for HTML generation. For selected text, this command bring
up a URL modification dialog. You can input desired URL link. This converts
the selected text as URL object. URL object is useful in HTML export, it
is directly converted into a URL link in html format.
Block Format
This brings up a block format dialog. A block of text will be formatted
with requested characters.
Show Clipboard
This is not yet implemented yet.
Find/Replace
The Find/Replace dialog allows you to locate any given text string
and optionally specify a replacement string.
The Find button hilites the first occurrence of the desired string.
(You may then use the Find Again or Replace Again menu commands.)
The Replace All button replaces all occurrences of the find string with
the replacement string, then reports how many replacements were made.
Perhaps you want to search for non-printing characters in order to manually clean up a passage of downloaded text. The small buttons labeled CR (carriage return), Tab, FF (formfeed/page break) and LF (linefeed) give you easy access to four commonly encountered invisible characters.
All searches start at the current cursor position, unless you select the Search from Beginning option. The Cases Sensitive option forces UniText to look for exact matches. Turn this switch off if you wish case to be ignored. (To properly find and replace words with foreign language characters/diacriticals, you must leave this switch on.)
The wildcard button inserts a placeholder character (^?) into either the find or the replace text field. Likewise, the placeholder for CR is ^c, LF ^l, Tab ^t and FF ^f.
Find Again
This option becomes available once a match has been found. It
allows you to continue searching for the next match.
Replace Again
This replaces the hilited word with the replacement string (from the
Find/Replace dialog) and continues searching for the next match.
Enter Selection
If you see a word in the document and wish to find its next occurrence,
select the word and use this command to instantly copy the selection into
the Find/Replace dialog. Then use the Find Again command.
These commands change the case for selected characters. If someone sends you a file that is ALL CAPS, select the offending text and use this command to fix it. You can change all the selected text to uppercase, lowercase, word case or sentence case. Word case capitalizes the first letter of each word and sentence case capitalizes the first letter of each sentence. A rarely used command "toggle case" is also provided.
LF's->CR's (UNIX->Mac)
Use this command to quickly convert a downloaded UNIX file into Mac
format. UNIX systems use a single linefeed character (without a carriage
return) to terminate paragraphs. All linefeeds are converted to carriage
returns.
CR's->LF's (Mac->UNIX)
This is handy if you wish to upload a Mac file to a UNIX system.
This command converts all carriage returns in the active document into
linefeeds.
Strip Line Feeds
Sometimes you download a file with funny boxes in front of each line.
These boxes are actually linefeed characters that are inserted by MS-DOS
systems. (They generally follow each carriage return to signify line
endings.) Macs don't use linefeeds. Use this command to remove
all these useless characters from the document.
Strip Catridge Return
Sometimes you download a DOS or Windows file with funny boxed in front
of each line. These boxes are actually linefeed characters followed by
a carriage return. Use this command to remove all CR characters from
the MS-DOS document before uploading to Unix.
Strip Double Spaces
If you use the YA-NewsWatcher 2.1.5 with Chinese code-set enhancement
to read HZ coded Chinese, you will find all escape squence ~{ and ~} will
be replaced by double spaces. Use this command to reformat such downloaded
files.
Cleanup CJK Text
Clean up following common CJK text problems found in internet and PC
transfered code:
Go To Line
If you are working with source code or a line-numbered legal document,
use this command to jump to any specified line in the document.
Chinese (GB->Big5)
If you decide to convert a selected text from GB (simp. Chinese) to
Big5 (trad. Chinese), first select the desired text block, and choose this
command. The text font needs to be set to trad. Chinese font afterward
for proper display.
Chinese (Big5->GB)
If you decide to convert a selected text from Big5 (trad. Chinese)
to GB (simp. Chinese), first select the desired text block, and choose
this command. The text font needs to be set to simp. Chinese font afterward
for proper display.
Japanese (EUC->Shift-JIS)
If you decide to convert a selected text from EUC (Jananese) to Shift-JIS
(Jananese), first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The text font needs to be set to a Mac format standard Japanese font afterward
for proper display. The custom HanZi bitmap font can not be used to display
Shift-JIS code.
Japanese (Shift-JIS->EUC)
If you decide to convert a selected text from Shift-JIS (Jananese)
to EUC (Jananese), first select the desired text block, and choose this
command. The text font needs to be set to a custom HanZi bitmap Japanese
font afterward for proper display. The Mac format standard Japanese font
can not be used to display the EUC code.
Unicode
2.0 coded Chinese to extended GB coded Chinese
If you decide to convert a selected text from unicode to GBK (simp.
Chinese), first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The text font needs to be set to simp. Chinese font afterward for proper
display.
Unicode
2.0 coded Chinese to Big5 coded Chinese
If you decide to convert a selected text from unicode to Big5 (trad.
Chinese), first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The text font needs to be set to trad. Chinese font afterward for proper
display.
Unicode
2.0 coded Japanese to Shift-JIS coded Japanese
If you decide to convert a selected text from unicode to Shift-JIS
(Japanese), first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The text font needs to be set to Mac format Japanese font afterward for
proper display.
Unicode
2.0 coded Korean to extended Wansung coded Korean
If you decide to convert a selected text from unicode to extended Wansung
(Korean), first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The text font needs to be set to Korean font afterward for proper display.
Extended GB coded
Chinese to Unicode 2.0
If you decide to convert a selected text from GBK (simp. Chinese) to
unicode, first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The converted text most likely is not readable since unicode font is not
widely available yet. Choose a unicode font if you have one, otherwise,
do not bother with the text display.
Big5 coded Chinese to
Unicode 2.0
If you decide to convert a selected text from Big5 (trad. Chinese)
to unicode, first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The converted text most likely is not readable since unicode font is not
widely available yet. Choose a unicode font if you have one, otherwise,
do not bother with the text display.
Shift-JIS coded
Japanese to Unicode 2.0
If you decide to convert a selected text from Shift-JIS (Japanese)
to unicode, first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The converted text most likely is not readable since unicode font is not
widely available yet. Choose a unicode font if you have one, otherwise,
do not bother with the text display.
Extended
Wansung coded Korean to Unicode 2.0
If you decide to convert a selected text from Extended Wansung (Korean)
to unicode, first select the desired text block, and choose this command.
The converted text most likely is not readable since unicode font is not
widely available yet. Choose a unicode font if you have one, otherwise,
do not bother with the text display.
Insert Sound
Search for the sound resource for any selected files and play and insert
them into your own document.
Read Entire Document
Read out entire document using the selected TTS voice. Requires Speech
Manager presence.
Read From Cursor
Read out document starting from cursor position using the selected
TTS voice. Requires Speech Manager presence.
Read Text Selection
Read out the selected text in the current document using the selected
TTS voice. Requires Speech Manager presence.
Stop Reading
Stop the current active speech and clean up the used resource. Requires
Speech Manager presence.
Read Using Voice ...
Select the desired TTS voice to be used in text speech. Requires Speech
Manager presence.
Insert QuickTime Movie
Bring up a dialog to select QuickTime movie and import it as embedded
object at the current selection.
Insert QuickDraw 3D Model
Bring up a dialog to select QuickDraw 3D model and import it as embedded
object at the current selection. This function is for PowerMac only. The
QuickDraw 3D model objects handling are not optimized for memory for speed
consideration. That means, each object consists of two set of same information.
Many models embedding at same time will certainly take doubled memory.
Switch to Back
Having trouble juggling several documents at once? Use this command
repeatedly to cycle through all open documents.
Zoom
This command make the current active window full screen.
Stack
Use this command to stack all open documents. The window size is small.
Tile
Use this command to tile up all open documents.
Vertical Tile
Use this command to tile up all open documents with document window
height always full screen height.
Document Window Select
Use this command to bring the selected window to the front. User can
also use the command-number key for this purpose.