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MAPINC_EDITORS_UTILS.EXE

The mapinc_editors_utils.exe utility has some common MAPinc editor text manipulation tasks available instantly, in whatever Windows program you may happen to need them in.

Typically, you'll use these when editing an article for archival to MAPinc.

Many of these functions work on selected text. In some cases, an article's title may be selected. In other cases, the body text of an article is selected. The functions then act upon the selected text.

Functions may be accessed using hot keys.

They may also be accessed from the task-tray menu (if it is visible).

You can also use them from the right mouse button context menu. To get the right mouse button context menu, hold the right mouse button for at least 1.5 seconds.

• Functions
  • Ctrl-F1 / Title Case
    some common title tasks - title case with respect to drug policy abbreviations on selected text
  • Ctrl-F2 / Fix Text
    repair selected text
  • Ctrl-F3 / Media Source
    look up the source from the MAPinc source database given the source name in selected text
  • Ctrl-F4 / Subject Case
    like Title Case, but capitalizes connector words
  • Ctrl-F5 / Upper Case
    change selected text to upper case
  • Ctrl-F6 / Bookmarks
    scan selected text, add apropos MAPinc Bookmark: list
  • Ctrl-F7 / Bookmark list
    choose bookmark(s) from a list, insert at current location (Alt-Ctrl-b also)
  • Ctrl-F8 / Lower Case
    selected text to lower case
  • Ctrl-F9 / Invert Case
    upper case characters to lower; lower case to upper in selected text
  • Ctrl-F10 / add new source
    scan selected text, enter pre-filled browser source db edit form

• Installation

• Command Line Options

Ctrl-F1 / Title Case

Some common title tasks - title case with respect to drug policy abbreviations on selected text.

Capitalizes, but not connector words (of to or etc.)

To use, select the title text (perhaps the subject of the email) including the MAPinc Article Descriptors, press Ctrl-F1 (or choose the Title Case menu option.)

Ctrl-F2 / Fix Text

Works on selected text. Latinize, use simple quotes, re-format paragraphs, compress whitespace. Attempt to repair some common problems with the (body) text of emails of hawked articles.

Ctrl-F3 / Media Source Search

Works on selected text, which should be the name of media source, like the name of a newspaper, for example. The selected text ir replaced with the MAPinc publisher's database information in article header format, if that source is found.

You will need to be online to use this function.

Ctrl-F6 / Bookmark Scan

Works on selected text, which should be the entire body of an article. The body text is scanned using the newsbot site and apropos bookmarks are added.

If the "combine fix text" menu option is checked, then the Bookmark Scan function will first do a Fix Text on the text, before scanning for bookmarks. (This saves from having to select the same text twice for Ctrl-F2 fix text and Ctrl-F6 bookmark scan operations. You just do a Ctrl-F6 on the article's body text.)

You will need to be online to use this function.

Ctrl-F7 / Bookmark List

Insert bookmark at current position.

Ctrl-F7 (or, Alt-Ctrl-b) will bring up a list of standard MAPinc article bookmarks. Select one or more (hold the Ctrl key down to select more than one bookmark) and click "add bookmark" to insert the desired bookmarks.

You will need to be online to use this function: when this utility is started, a list of bookmarks is downloaded.

Ctrl-F10 / Add a Source

Select some "Add Source" type text which is already "header" formatted. For example, there's a new source, you see text like this in an email:

   Source: Smallville Times (TX)
   Email: scowl@smvletm.com
   Copyright: 2010 Hangum High, Inc.
   Address: 321 Disforia Lane, Smallville, TX 61636

A browser window will appear with the selected text (the Add to Source information).

You can then press the "scan this text, fill in the fields" button, verify the source is indeed a new source by searching for it (click on the work "Source" when it is filled out). Verify also the form is correctly filled out. Then you may add the new source.

You will need to be online to use this function.

Installation

• Windows Setup/Installer
  
  1. Download the mapinc_editors_utils_xxxxxxxxxx_setup.exe installer.
  2. Install, using the mapinc_editors_utils_xxxxxxxxxx_setup.exe installer. This is the usual Windows way to install programs.

  Once installed, run mapinc_editors_utils.exe.

  You can do this by double-clicking on it from the Windows Explorer from the folder you istalled it into, the C:\Program Files\mapinc_edit_util folder by default. Making a shortcut to mapinc_editors_utils.exe from your Startup folder will start it up each time the machine is booted.

  or,

• UnZip
  

  Download and unzip the mapinc_editors_utils_xxxxxxxxxx.zip into a folder you create somewhere.

  Again, once unzipped, run mapinc_editors_utils.exe.

Note: The source code is included.

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Command line options:

/notray	Don't display a tray icon
/nocombine	Don't combine Fix Text with Bookmark scan (default is to combine).
/?	short help

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