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Auto
Spell-Check
Check spelling
as you type, in Hebrew and English. Misspelled words are marked
with a red squiggly line. Click the right mouse button over a misspelled
word, and a menu of spelling suggestions and other options pops
up. This menu includes an "Ignore All Occurrences" command,
which is like the button in the spell-checking dialog. This command
now takes effect for as long as the document remains open. So you
won’t see that word flagged, not in your next spell-checking
session, and not by the auto-spell check feature. Spell-checking
now defaults to accepting all words of Tanach, and accepting both
'chaser' and 'malei' spellings.
Macros
DavkaWriter’s new
macro editor simplifies complex and repetitive tasks, and provides
you with the ability to automate many different aspects of word
processing, from simple tasks to complex processes. Some useful
sample macros are provided, and users can share macros with each
other for even greater productivity. You don’t have to be Einstein
to use it either -- our extensive tutorials and guides will teach
you all you need to know!
Table
of Contents
Divide your document into
chapters, each with its own title in Hebrew or English. Then, with
the press of a button, create a table of contents listing all the
chapters in the document, and the pages they start on. Using multiple
levels, you can create a table of contents for parts, chapters,
and sections. Choose from a variety of impressive styles for the
table-of-contents layout, or customize your own.
Go
To...
Instantly jump to any
chapter in your document, either by clicking on the page number
in the table of contents, or by using the "Go To" dialog
box.
Titles
in Headers
Add a chapter title into
your header, and it will automatically update to reflect the current
chapter in your document. That way, with just one header, you can
have the title of the current chapter appear correctly on every
page in your document. No longer will you have to examine each header
to make sure you've got it right. You can do this for multiple levels,
so that the header of every page can contain several updating items,
such as the parsha and the perek, or the chapter and the author,
in addition to the page number and other text you place in the header.
New
Text Box Tools
Would you like to lay out a whole document with several texts, each
in its own section of the page, flowing from page to page, for hundreds
of pages, always occupying the same spot on each page? With the
new program it is easy. Just set up the positions of all your texts
on the first page, using text boxes. Then, with the replicate text
boxes command, DavkaWriter will reproduce those boxes for as many
pages as you want, all pre-linked together. Just drop your text
in and you're done! In a single step, remove many text boxes that
are chained together, using the remove multiple boxes command.
QuickMarks
When you’re working
on a large file and want to mark a spot in the file for quick referral,
insert a QuickMark. The place will be set and you can get back to
the selected location in a flash! (As before, the program continues
to support regular bookmarks for long-term use; quickmarks are for
the short term.)
Library
Search
When you need to search
one of DavkaWriter’s text libraries, such as Tanach, Mishnah
or Siddur, or one of the libraries included with DavkaWriter Dimensions
II or other packages, Find in Files can search the library for you.
It provides a drop-down list of all text libraries installed. It’s
almost like having a mini-Judaic Classics Library within DavkaWriter!
New
Table Features
A new Table Menu provides convenient access to all table commands.
It also provides some new commands: Convert table to text, Insert
multiple rows, Select whole cell, and Select whole table. Also,
the command "Insert row" is now divided into 2 commands
"Insert Row Above" and "Insert Row Below"; the
command "Insert column" is now divided into 2 commands:
"Insert Column To Left" and "Insert Column to Right".
When TABBING through cells of a table, and you get to the end, and
the TAB key creates a new row, it now moves instantly into the new
row, so you needn’t hit TAB twice.
H
with dot
Ideal for writing in scholarly
journals, DavkaWriter Platinum 6 enables easy addition of a dot
underneath the English letter ‘h’ to signify the Hebrew
letter ‘het’.
Thesaurus
The English Thesaurus
has been enhanced with 10,000 new definitions, usage examples for
most words, and pronunciation guides.
Unicode
DavkaWriter can now copy
text as unicode (both plain UTF-16 unicode text, and rtf with unicode),
and export to unicode formats (UTF-16 unicode text files, and rtf
with unicode). This allows sharing formatted Hebrew text in many
unicode-aware programs.
Navigation
The New Navigate Menu
is a convenient place to find all the bookmark, hyperlink, and chapter/table-of-contents
commands. Plus, it adds some commands not previously available in
a menu: Next Page, Previous Page, Forward, and Back. Next Page and
Previous Page are good for high-speed visual scanning of a document’s
contents. Forward and Back are useful when you’re following
hyperlinks.
Miscellaneous
Enhancements
- When inserting
an image, or opening a file, the dialog box remembers whether
you viewed the files as a list, icons, small icons, details, etc..
(Only in Windows XP and later.) Also, the Browse buttons in the
Hyperlink editing dialog, in the Insert-Document dialog, and in
the Mail Merge dialog have this new ability.
- "Export
to pdf" now works for booklets.
- New option
to save files automatically as their original DavkaWriter versions.
This way, you can work on files from someone with an older version
of DavkaWriter, and he can still open them after you are done.
It also can inform you if you’ve added a document element
that is not supported by your friend’s version.
Export to older DavkaWriter version now warns you if it had to
omit document elements.
- New command
"Save Selection As" enables extracting a portion of
your
document into a new file.
- User’s
latest choices in the "Go To" dialog - whether to go
to a page, a bookmark, or a chapter, and whether to sort bookmarks
by position or name -- are now saved between program sessions.
- Importing
of Wordperfect files now handles shin, sin, oh-vov, oo- vov, and
it gets the paragraph breaks right, and it cleans up a lot of
stray formatting codes, and gets other nikud right. The result
is much neater and more complete.
- "Find/Replace"
can now search for text independently of the language. Such as
searching for paragraph breaks, spaces, tabs, punctuation, etc..
- New option
"Match All Underlines" makes text in several different
fonts or sizes use underlining that is of uniform position and
thickness, for a more professional looking result.
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