Guiguts opens one document window. (You cannot edit more than one document at a time.) The title bar of the window reflects the current file. You view, edit, and scroll the file in the window in ways that are familiar to anyone who has used a text editor. You can resize, minimize, or move the window on the desktop using the mouse, using the normal methods of your operating system. If you close the window, Guiguts quits immediately, without any chance to save the changes you might have made in the file.

Guiguts functions are initiated from the menu bar or by clicking in the status bar or toolbar. Some menus can be "torn off" and set on the desktop as palettes.

The Status Bar

The status bar is always at the bottom of the window. Some fields are only displayed when Guiguts has data about the page separators in the document (read about page separators). These fields are invisible until you open a file with page separators and click in its text. If you click in a file and the Page-number field does not show, the file lacks its page separator data, or has lost it.

The fields of the status bar, from left to right, are used as follows:

Display of the line number and column of the character to the right of the insertion point, or the line number and column of the first selected character. Also shows total lines in the document. Left-click in this field to open a go-to-line dialog. Right-click (Mac: ctl-click) to show or hide the display of line numbers down the left edge of the document.
Button that starts and stops automatic highlighting of all words in a list of words, discussed here.
Display of the current page-image number, corresponding to the page image file nnn.png. Left-click to open a jump-to-page dialog. Right-click (Mac: ctl-click) to open the page number adjustment dialog.
Button that opens the page image nnn.png in an image viewer.
Button that opens a report window listing all the first- and second-round proofers, see below. Right-click (Mac: ctl-click) this button to show or hide extra status bar fields that show the proofers for the current page.

Button that toggles between the normal insert mode (letters you type or paste are inserted at the insertion point) and overtype mode (letters you type or paste replace existing text).

Display of the start- and end-point of the current selection, if any, as line.column—line.column. Double-click to open a selection dialog (discussed here). When you have made a columnar selection, this field can reflect the size of the selection as R:rows C:cols. Single-click on the field to switch between the two forms of display.

Display of the decimal and hexadecimal value of the character at the insertion point, or the first character in the selection. Left-click to toggle the display of the name of the character.

The ToolBar

The toolbar provides quick access to some often-used functions. All toolbar functions are also available through menu choices. Using Prefs>Toolbar Prefs you can place the toolbar along any of the four sides of the document window, or hide it completely if you want more document space. From left to right (or top to bottom) the items on the toolbar are as follows:

This small icon is a grab-bar. Position the mouse over it: the cursor changes to a four-armed arrow. Now you can drag the toolbar out of the document window onto the desktop. If you drag the toolbar when it is vertical, the dragged copy changes to horizontal. The toolbar on the desktop remains visible and active, even if the document window is minimized and even if you use Toolbar Prefs to hide the toolbar. It will not vanish until Guiguts terminates.
Button that calls File>Open.
Button that calls File>Save.
Button that calls File>Clear.
Button that calls Edit>Undo.
Button that calls Edit>Redo.
Button that calls Search>Search & Replace, opening the search dialog.
Button that calls Search>Spellcheck, opening the spell-check dialog.
Button that calls Search>Stealth Scannos, opening a file browser to select a scannos data file. ("arid" for "and" is the paradigmatic OCR error, or "scanno.")
Button that calls Fixup>Run Word Frequency Routine, opening the word-frequency report.
Button that calls Fixup>Run Gutcheck, opening the Gutcheck report.
Button that calls Help>Latin-1 Chart, opening the palette of Latin-1 symbols.
Button that calls Help>Greek Transliteration, opening the Greek dialog.
Button that calls Fixup>HTML Fixup, opening the HTML palette.
Button that calls Fixup>ASCII Table Special Effects, opening the table fixup palette.
Button that calls Fixup>Remove End-of-line Spaces.

Tear-Off Menus

All menus except the File menu display a dashed "perforation" line at the top:

This indicates that the menu can be "torn off" by dragging on the "perforation." The torn-off menu is placed on the desktop as an independent palette. The original menu can still be used in the normal way.

Torn-off menus disappear when you close them or when Guiguts terminates. Menu status is not saved; you must tear them off afresh each time Guiguts launches.

Displaying and Contacting Proofers

Clicking the Proofers button in the status bar opens a report window listing all the first- and second-round proofers for this document, as recorded in the page-separator data. The initial display lists the proofers for all page images in numerical order.

Clicking the Name, First Rnd, Second Rnd, or Total button produces a summary display sorted on that column:

To check a proofer's statistics or to send a message, double-click on, or drag over, the name of the proofer to highlight it, or triple-click a line to highlight it. Then click the Send Message button. Guiguts causes your web browser to open the PGDP personal page for that proofer. In that page, click the PM icon to send a private message.

If you click Send Message with a partial name highlighted, or if the highlighted name is ambiguous, you are shown a PGDP page listing all matching names so you can select the desired proofer. If you click Send Message with no name highlighted, the generic private-message window opens and you can specify the addressee.