Menus

THE FILE MENU

This allows plain text files to be loaded, and the current document to be saved as a plain text file. It should eventually support loading and saving of structured text files (ie, as they look on screen, complete with all the blocks and so forth), but right now it doesn't.

THE EDIT MENU

This allows the deletion and undeletion of the current block. A history of 20 blocks is kept which any member of the conference can access. It also allows the local lowering of the current block block all the other blocks so that you can get at a block that would otherwise be hidden. Undo does not work in this version.

THE COLOURS MENU

This allows the current default colour and the colour of the block currently being edited to be set. Colours are primarily to distinguish between different people editing the same document. You cannot set parts of a block to different colours - only the whole block. The colours have been chosen to be fairly dark, so that text is clearly readable.

THE FONTS MENU

This allows the current font style and the style of the block currently being edited to be set. The only options supported and normal, italic, bold and bold-italic in a courier fixed font font. This is to enable documents to be saved as plain text, without the problems that would result from variable width fonts. The different font styles are available to aid disambiguation of different users text. You cannot for instance set part of a block to bold - only the entire block.

THE SHOW MENU

This allows parts of the application interface to be hidden to save screen space.
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