Configuring editing preferences

Use the Edit section of the Preferences dialog box to configure various settings and behaviors that apply whenever you work in Edit mode.

General settings

Load most recent documents at startup

If this check box is selected, the documents that are still open when you next quit Namo WebEditor will be automatically opened again when you next start it. If it is deselected, Namo WebEditor will open with a new, blank document.

Display actual fonts in font menu

If this check box is selected, the Font menu in the Home menu will display font names in the actual font faces they correspond to.

Lock Insert key

If this check box is selected, pressing the Insert key on the keyboard will have no effect. If it is deselected, pressing the Insert key will toggle insert/overwrite mode. (See “Inserting text“.)

Automatic link creation

If this check box is selected, Namo WebEditor will automatically create a hyperlink when you type certain kinds of URLs in Edit mode. This feature works with the following kinds of URLs:

URLs that start with “www” and have at least two dots
URLs that start with “http://”, “https://”, “ftp://”, “file://”, “gopher://”, “nntp://”, or “wais://”.
e-mail addresses, such as “jason@namo.com”

Note that the link will not be created until you press either the space bar or the Enter key after the URL.

Copy attributes from adjacent text when typing

If this check box is selected, when you insert text immediately (without any intervening spaces) to the left or the right of existing text to which character-level formatting has been applied, the new text will “pick up” the formatting from the existing text. If it is deselected, the new text will have the default character formatting of the paragraph. Note that text you insert in the middle of character-formatted text always picks up the existing formatting.

Clip art folder

This setting specifies the location of the folder containing Namo WebEditor’s clip art library. If no location is specified, Namo WebEditor will look in the default location, which is a subfolder of the Namo WebEditor installation folder. However, if you chose not to install the clip art library when you installed Namo WebEditor, this folder will be empty. In that case, you can specify the location of the clip art folder on the Namo WebEditor installation CD-ROM (if you have one).

Mode settings

Open documents in

Select the default mode in which to open documents. If you select Same mode as current document, Namo WebEditor will open the next document in whatever mode you are using to edit the document that is active at the time you open or create the new document.

Top pane in simultaneous mode

This setting determines whether the Edit pane or the HTML pane will be on top when Edit & HTML mode is active.

Spell check settings

Check spelling as you type

If this check box is selected, Namo WebEditor will highlight misspelled words with wavy red underlines as you type in Edit mode.

Hide spelling errors

This option is only available if Check spelling as you type is enabled. If this check box is selected, Namo WebEditor will still check your spelling as you type in Edit mode, but misspelled words will not be highlighted.

Spelling dictionary 1

Select the primary language for spell checking.

Spelling dictionary 2

Select the secondary language for spell checking.

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