Edith Manual           Kurzels           11th June 1994


KURZELS were introduced in Tom Quellenberg's  Shareware
Text Editor QED,  and have since been adopted in  other
ATARI based packages.

A KURZEL consists of an abbreviation and a body.   When
the abbreviation is typed in a text window, followed by
ESCAPE, it is  expanded into  the  full body.   If  the
special character ~ appears in the body, this is  where
the cursor will be placed afterwards.

EXAMPLES

1. Business.

   kurzel:  us
   body:    Johnson, Blake and Hammersmith Ltd.

   No need  to remember  your company's  name.   Simply
   type 'us' followed  by ESCAPE  to insert  your  name
   into the text.

2. The C programming language.

   kurzel:  main
   body:    void main(int argc, const char* argv[])

   kurzel:  itoa
   body:    itoa(~, s, 10)

   Here a kurzel serves to remember things a programmer
   should not need to worry about.

3. The LaTeX document formatting language.

   kurzel:  ds
   body:    \documentstyle[din_a4, times, epsf]{~}

   Instead of having to type the whole LaTeX header

      \documentstyle[din_a4, times, epsf]{article}

   the user will only have to type

      ds <ESCAPE> article



EDITING KURZELS is easy.  Select an abbreviation  using
the  mouse  and  the  scroll  bar,   or  create  a  new
abbreviation using the  ADD KURZEL  button.  Then  type
the body in the field at the bottom of the dialog.


** An abbreviation can be at most 8 characters long.

** Click on the  SORT button after  adding a number  of
   kurzels.  The  abbreviations  will  then  be  sorted
   alphabetically.  It is then wise to save the kurzels
   to a file by clicking  the SAVE button and typing  a
   file name.  The kurzels in the file DEFAULT.KRZ will
   be automatically installed  the next  time EDITH  is
   started.

** The ESCAPE key also serves to removes blanks left to
   the  cursor.   See  the  printed  manual  for   more
   information.

** A number  of  kurzel files  has  automatically  been
   installed into  the Edith  system directory,   among
   which one for LaTeX and  one for HP Deskjet  control
   codes.


Edith Manual           Kurzels           11th June 1994