GUIGUTS

Moving Around in the File

Overview The Interface Explored File Open/Save/Include Navigating in the File Scrolling Cursor Moves Bookmarks Go to Line Go to Page Step Thru Blocks Step Thru Markup Editing Text Search and Replace Apply Fixup Remove EOL spaces Fix Page Separators Apply Word Frequency Apply Gutcheck Apply Spellcheck Fix Sidenotes Fix Poetry Line Numbers Rewrapping Fix Footnotes Fix ASCII Tables Adjust Page Markers Generate HTML Alphabets and Codes   Install: Windows Install: Mac OS X Install: Linux First-Time Setup   PP Workflow Checklist Hotkey Reference Regex Reference Topical Index

Scrolling the Text

You scroll the text in the window using the Page Up and Page Down keys; or by dragging or clicking in the vertical and horizontal scroll bars.

When running Guiguts under X-windows (Mac or Linux) you can scroll the file rapidly by control-dragging. Hold down the control key, then drag steadily up or downward in the text area.

In Windows you can use the middle button of a three-button mouse in either of two ways. You can drag the text up and down by holding the middle button and dragging in the text window. Use middle-drag to reposition the text by a few lines. You can also use middle-scrolling in the manner of the Firefox browser: middle-click (don't drag) to open a scroll indicator. The move the mouse pointer up or down (without holding any buttons) and the text will scroll in the same direction. If middle-scrolling is too fast or too choppy for your taste, use the Scroll Update Speed dialog in the Prefs menu to adjust the interval at which Guiguts checks for pointer movement.

Moving the Cursor

You move the cursor through the file with keys that should, for the most part, be familiar. The arrow, page, home and end keys move small distances:

left arrow	prior character
right arrow	next character
up arrow	line above
down arrow	line below
home	left end of line
end	right end of line
page up	move up the file by one window-height
page down	move down the file by one window-height

Hold down the control key to modify the effects of these keys:

ctl-left arrow	prior word
ctl-right arrow	next word
ctl-up arrow	previous paragraph
ctl-down arrow	next paragraph
ctl-home	top of file
ctl-end	end of file
ctl-page up	shift the display left to show the left margin
ctl-page down	shift the display right to show the rightmost letter

All of these keys clear the selection, if there is one.

Using Bookmarks

The Bookmarks menu gives you the tools to set up to five bookmarks in the file, and return to them with a single keystroke.

Bookmarks are stored in the .bin file and are lost if that file is lost; see this page.

With a little practice you will find it most convenient to set and use bookmarks from the keyboard. The bookmarks are numbered from 1 to 5, and control-n jumps the insertion point directly to bookmark n. Use control-shift-n to set bookmark n to the current position.

Many proofers develop a work habit of setting certain bookmarks in every project. For example you might always set bookmark 1 to the top of the Table of Contents. Since Guiguts does not remember the cursor position when opening a saved file, you might always set bookmark 5 at the last place you were editing before you save the file.

Navigating with the Search Menu

Goto Line

Select Search->Goto Line to open a small dialog for going to a particular line:

You can also get this dialog by clicking in the first field of the status bar. The line you specify is displayed at the middle of the window with the cursor at the left end of the line.

Goto Page

Select Search->Goto Page to open a small dialog for going to the text of a particular page image.

Goto Page is only available when the file has page-separator data. When it does, the Page number field is visible in the status bar, and you can open this dialog by clicking in that field. The first line of text from the page image you specify is displayed in the middle of the window with the cursor at the left end of the line.

Stepping Through Block Markups

The Search menu has ten selections that allow you to step through block markups. For example, Search->Find Next /*..*/ moves the cursor ahead to the next block marked off with /* and */.

When you select one of these Find Next (or Previous) searches and there is no next (previous) block, the cursor does not move. However, if you select that search again, the search wraps around to the top (or end) of the file.

Tear off the Search menu to make these searches readily available.

Stepping Through Proofer Markups

You can use the Search & Replace dialog to step through proofreader markups. For example, set the search text to [I (case insensitive, not whole word, not regex, start at beginning). Click Search or press Enter repeatedly to step through all [Illustration: markups in sequence. Use [F to step through all footnotes, [S for all sidenotes, or [G for Greek transliterations.

Set the search text to \[[^FIS] (literal left-bracket followed by the class of neither-F-nor-I-nor-S; case insensitive, not whole word, regex) and step through all left-bracket markups that are not notes or illustrations. This would include proofer notes marked with [* and transliterations, as well as most footnote anchors.

In a similar way you can set the search text to </?i> (either "<i>" or "</i>; case-insensitive, not whole word, regex) and step through all italic markups. You could use </?[bi]> to step through all bold and italic markups. A search for *\s+* (asterisk, one or more whitespaces, asterisk) steps through thought-breaks.

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