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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