When you are typing being in the editor mode, Book Designer keeps the last local settings for the text under typing. If you want to come back to the global settings, make a space, type the first letter of a new word starting from which you want to apply global settings, and press "Esc".
If you want to assign the global setting for some text fragment, select it and press "Esc".
Input file formatting
1. Text files formatting and the formatting of files from which the pure text is extracted (p. 2.3).
1.1. Automatic detection of the format type based on the statistic analysis of the text structure.
1.2. Automatic format recovery for badly-formatted files.
1.3. Titles, subtitles, epigraphs and verses search.
2. Three methods of html, doc, rtf, and rb files formatting.
2.1. The original file format is keeping completely.
2.2. The main elements of the original file formatting (titles, paragraphs, images, links) are kept.
2.3. The pure text is extracted from the input file and the book formatting is performed basing on the text structure.
3. Automatic detection of six non-Latin charsets: win-1251, koi8, cp866, iso, alt, and MacCyr.
4. Custom colors for titles, subtitles, epigraphs, verses, etc.
5. Joining of multiple files in a single book (for rb).
1. Automatic loading of not finished books from the page where the reading was interrupted.
2. Exact and approximated (as in Internet Explorer) PageUp, PageDown, LineUp, LineDown operations.
3. Recent books list.
4. Previous/next position navigation.
5. Increase/decrease zoom.
6. Change font type, size, foreground and background color.
7. Bookmarks and links.
8. Citations.
9. Find/replace expressions.
10. Find books.
11. Find titles, subtitles, epigraphs, verses, etc.
12. Auto scroll.
13. Book statistics.
14. Book file info.
15. English and Russian help.
16. ClearType fonts support (for Windows 2000 and higher).
1. Search, assignment and transformation one to another of titles, subtitles, paragraphs, epigraphs, verses, etc.
2. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) editing.
3. Two options of DHTML editing: automatic (by button pressing, as in Word) and manual (direct editing of chosen html-fragments).
4. Changing of font type, size, foreground and background color for both the whole book and for selected fragments as well.
5. Inserting and editing of images.
6. Inserting and editing of bookmarks and links.
7. Inserting and editing of control elements.
8. Find/replace expressions, regular expressions, ASCI codes.
9. Spell check.
10. Export to html, doc and rtf formats.
Features supported for e-books creation
1. Hyphenations.
2. e-book optimization for the chosen device.
3. Bookmarks and links.
4. Images.
In order to activate hot keys, left-click somewhere inside the main Book Designer window.
F1 - help
F2 - search/replace
F3- spell check
F4- bookmarks
F5 - run Citation Editor
F6- fonts
F7- colors
F8- switch between Microsoft/Book Designer scroll
F9- settings menu
F10- run Book Corrector
F11- run Book Browser
F12- run File Converter
Ctrl+F1 - make rb-file
Ctrl+F2 - make lit-file
Ctrl+F3- make Palm or Pocket PC file
Ctrl+F4- make Hiebook file
Ctrl+F5 - make Fiction Book file
Ctrl+F7 - make imp-file (GEB1150/2150, REB1200, only Latin-based languages support)
Ctrl+F8 - make book image (for GEB1150/2150, REB1200, and Hiebook, provides MultiLangual support)
Ctrl+Ins(Ctrl+C) - copy
Shift+Ins (Ctrl+V) - paste
Ctrl+Z - undo
Esc - returns to global font settings.
Book Designer supports two types of font setting: global and local which are assigned through "Fonts"
and "Colors"
menus. These settings include font type, font size, and font color settings. The global settings affect the whole book text, while the local ones affect the selected text fragments only.
When you are typing being in the editor mode, Book Designer keeps the last local settings for the text under typing. If you want to come back to the global settings, make a space, type the first letter of a new word starting from which you want to apply global settings, and press "Esc".
Example. Assume that your global settings are: font: Times New Roman, font size: small, color: blue. Using these settings you have typed "global settings". Then you switched to: font: Impact, font size: medium, color: red and have typed "local settings". Now you want to type "back to global settings" using again the global font settings. To do it, type the first letter "b" of the word "back", press "Esc" and continue your typing. As a result you get:
If you want to assign the global setting for some text fragment, select it and press "Esc".
Alt-F (Esc) - remove font formatting from the selected text
Ctrl+B - convert selected text to bold. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+I- convert selected text to italic. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+U - underline the selected text. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+1 - Ctrl+4 - insert 1-4 non-broken spaces. If a text of some paragraph is fully justified, word separations are chosen automatically. However if you want to keep a separation between some words always the same, put a non-broken space instead of normal space between the corresponding words.
Alt+C - sets current color to selected text (available when the "HTML Colors" window is open).