Viewing Menu

• File
  • Open Project File
  • Create New Project
  • SaveFileAs
  • Quit
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  • Recently Used Files
• Home
• Edit Page
• (Save Page)
• (Edit)
• (Options)
• (Bookmarks)
• Tools
  • Compile to eBook
  • Webify Entire Project
  • Webify This Page Only
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  • Build Index
  • View Index
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  • Show Tips on StartUp
• Search
  • Find
  • Results
• Help
  • User Guide
  • About WikiWriter
  • Credits

Viewing Menu Details

File > Open Project file

Opens a specific file in a project. WikiWriter comes with some projects already built and ready to run. That's just our way of showing the system works! To view the projects, select the File > Open Project File, browse to a project directory, and select the Home.db file for that directory.

File > Create New Project

Creates a new project. The system will guide you through the process of creating a project directory, then will automatically create the required startup files in that directory. The new project directory can be a sub-directory of the current project. Make sure you are where you want to be, before creating a new project. You can move a project directory to another location later if you wish.

File > Quit

Quits WikiWriter, writes session information into ww3.ini.

Recently used files

Lists Recently used files for easy selection at the bottom of the File menu.

Home

Takes you to the Home page of the project you are viewing.

Edit Page

Places the source file for the page in the editor, and opens the page for editing.

Edit (Disabled during Viewing: see Editing Menu

Options (Disabled during Viewing: see Editing Menu

Bookmarks (Disabled during Viewing: see Editing Menu

Tools > Compile to eBook

Packages a project for distribution as an eBook. The program will ask for a file name and location, then collect all the pages for the current project into that file. The file format is Microsoft HTML Archive (.mht), and is readable by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Your distribution package is a single file, which you can ZIP if you wish (up to 75% compression) for added download convenience.

Tools > Webify Entire Project

Generates a set of HTML files viewable by any browser in a Web, intranet, CDROM, or other HTML-based presentation. WikiWriter will read all the WikiWriter files in the project, adjust the links from wiki-style to HTML, and save each page as an HTML file. A set of HTML files can be converted to ebook or Windows Help format, or Zipped and distributed as-is.

Tools > Webify This Page Only

Creates a single HTML page (for instance, to update just a single page in a webified project). The page will be converted to HTML and placed in the project folder.

Tools > Build Index

Creates or updates an index page. The program will scan all the pages in the current project, extract index entries, and assemble and format the entries on a page saved with the name wwidx.

Tools > View Index

Shows the wwidx page after an index has been built.

Tools > Show Tips on StartUp

Shows tips when WikiWriter starts up. Use this option to re-enable Tips if they have been turned off in the startup Tips dialog.

Search > Find

Searches the entire project. Enter search words separated by spaces into the edit box, and click Search to scan the current project for the target words. The search algorithm looks for each word in the list, in sequence, to determine if the page will listed in the Results list. When it finds the first word in a paragraph, WikiWriter looks for the second word. If it finds all the words in the list in the same paragraph, the page gets added to the Results list. To search for an exact phrase, put the "phrase in quotes", as I just did here.

Boolean NOT: To search for a paragraph that does NOT have a word or phrase, prefix the word or phrase with a tilde(~). City: ~Chicago, will find paragraphs with "City:" that do not also have "Chicago". For phrases with a NOT, put to the tilde inside the quotes. To find "City:" paragraphs that do not have New York, search for City: "~New York".

Search > Results

Shows the results of a search in a link list. Click on Results to see the list, and click on a link on the list to go to that page. To check out the other pages on the list, click the Results option again.

Help > User Guide

Calls up the compiled version of this very file you are reading right now.

The Help and Tutorial files are compiled into ww3.chm. You can always look at the Help project source files with WikiWriter directly to see how Help was written in WikiWriter, if you wish — they're in the Help directory in the WikiWriter installation.

Help > About

Shows the version number, copyright notice, and support access information.

Help > Credits

Gives information about the programs and people who made WikiWriter possible.