Re: Re: Screenplay formatter?

Hi Dale -

Two comments at this point:

1)  From your initial post --
   "If you instead of hitting Enter a second time you hit the Tab key it
assumes you want a Character Name.  It takes you to the Center of the
page and assumes upper case.  Typing henry will give you HENRY. Enter
again and it takes you to a Dialogue line, centered and directly
below the Character Name."

I've studied the issue of automatic centering of text, both during  
input and after input, quite thoroughly now, and am regrettably  
confident in saying that it is not possible in standard Palm text  
fields such as the memo field, using pedit or anything else.  The only  
way is to approximate centering by moving the word or string with  
spacebar, tab, backspace.  This is an inherent difference between text  
editors (pedit, Memos, standard Palm text field, .txt) which derive  
location from counting characters and don't deal with the concept of  
"center of the line" because the line is a variable item, and word  
processors such as WordSmith.  I've tried a gazillion ways to trick  
it, no-can-do.

2) from you and Jose -
Quoting fjmancho <[email protected]>:
>> Is there any way to select Tekei from the keyboard in the DA, or will I
> have to touch the
>> screen with the stylus?
>
> The best thing is to launch Teikei with pTools or pEdit pScripts (For
> pScripting issues, read John's advice below: You will learn how to do it).
> There are many ways to do it directly from the Keyboard.
>
> This pScript might help you
>
> {Teikei::/&daLaunch[@@Teikei DA@@]}
>
> You must respect the space between Teikei and DA (again, follow John's
> advice to operate with pScripts).
>
> If, as I have seen bellow, you have decided to work with pEdit (I don't
> have it yet, I am a pTools user) you must be able to do that easly.

   This would facilitate things for you right away, and you can run  
the pScript using pedit alone, don't need pToolSet, so let me give you  
a quick tutorial on how to do it so that with a couple of key presses  
on your keyboard you can open TeikeiDA.

A)  Open pedit (are you using peditPro?), menu/Op/preferences/general,  
and put a check in the "escape character is" box. The default  
character is the back apostrophe, ` .  On your keyboard find a  
character that is easy to key but that you will rarely if ever use in  
the ordinary flow of text input.  Depending on your keyboard it may be  
the default `, or you may choose some other.  Put that in for your  
escape character (referred to as ESC) using the little scroll arrows.
B)  Test what you've just done by -  with your keyboard hooked up,  
return to pedit Edit or List view, and enter your ESC character  
followed by the "&" character, that is, if your ESC is the `, you  
would enter  `&  .  You should then see the pedit pScript activation  
dialog appear.  Dismiss it by keying a period character, "."  .
C)  Now do ESC M (escape char followed by capital M) and your  
pScriptPad will open.  A couple of lines down from the top put in the  
pScript that Jose gave you

{Teikei::/&daLaunch[@@Teikei DA@@]}

This is programming code, so it must be exactly as written to work.   
There are no spaces between any of the characters except between  
Teikei and DA.
Close pScriptPad (tap the OK button, or key in ESC o).

D)  Open a pedit memo (edit view).  Do ESC &  to open the pScript  
dialog.  Type in an upper case T (first letter of Teikei, the name of  
your pScript, you have only one pScript so no ambiguity) and then type  
either a colon ":", or the letter "d" for "do it", and your pScript  
will open Teikei for you.  Voila.

     ~ John

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