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Highlt Page

The usage of Highlightning depends on the used file type. E.g. in Write&Set/Wordstar/Hypermake files, dot commands and printer characters are shown highlighted. The left checkbox window (double clicking and not single-clicking changes the checkbox state), the Wordstar, Hypermake and Write&Set syntax is supported. On the right window, you can enable and disable HTML syntax. Do you miss other highlightning functionality?

Independent from the syntax of the text you write, one highlightning feature is useful anyway: the checkbox rightmost column shows type of line (outside the listboxes) let you distinguish Soft Return lines from Hard Return lines. This is very useful if you use the word wrapping functionality. Lightblue shows Soft Return lines, darkgreen shows Hard Return lines.

Note that two different Color settings are accessible for the whole editor (press ^OM).

The Syntax highlightning enabled checkbox disables all highlightning functionality in the two listboxes. The Softreturn / Hardreturn (rightmost column shows type of line) function is independent from this main checkbox setting.

The first two Wordstar highlightning functions (Toggles, Highlightning toggles) are dependent on the Toggle characters defined below (toggle chars). The toggles itself are shown red and between two toggle characters, the text is shown blue. You can also define special characters which are simply shown colored (special chars). If you enter normal letters here, the function is related to the corresponding Ctrl key, e.g. to enter ^B (Wordstar bold print), simply enter a B capital letter.

If you use nested IF conditions, it is highly recommended to turn on the If cond. level background setting. It highlights the background dependent on the nested if conditions level and helps you to remember closing the if condition (.IF) with an end command (.END). WSformat and Hypermake do support if conditions. Alternatively to the "if level highlightning", you can open the "if condition dialog" (^OK) and select "if conditions". The non-acitvated text background turns to gray color.

Since WSedit 0.99d, Underlined, Bold and Italic can be shown Underlined, Bold and Italic instead of colored text. But some fonts have problems in showing these attributes. If your favourite font does not show these attributes or shows it in an horrible manner, you can turn back to colored normal font at the end of the left checkbox list.

The command Ctrl-OD hides the printer characters, a second Ctrl-OD shows them again. You can edit the text while the printer chars are not shown. But they rest at the same place, so it is better to make only few changes while the printer characters are not visible.