Last updated: 06 March 2002

This is a simple  guide to help you setup and use Murasu Insert-Text Editor (called iEdit) version 3.0.

This version of iEdit requires Murasu Anjal2000 Second Edition. Current users of Anjal2000 may want to look at the Anjal2000 Second Edition page to find out what is new in Anjal2000-SE.

iEdit is a "Plug-In" for Murasu Anjal. It will be included in the setup if you had downloaded and installed "Murasu Anjal2000 and Plug-Ins" package. It will also be included if you had installed Anjal2000 from the CD-ROM.

If you do not have the Plug-Ins installed, you may want to download the package from the Murasu Download Center at http://www.murasu.com/downloads.

This document will be constantly updated. For the latest updates and user guides on other Murasu software tools, please visit the Quick Start Pages at http://www.murasu.com/help/quickstart.

This guide has 5 sections:

Insert text is a feature of Murasu Anjal2000 that allows you to insert commonly used lines or paragraphs quickly into your documents or email messages. Each of these lines or paragraphs can be given a name and retrieved through the "+Murasu" menu. The figure below shows three items in the Murasu Inset-Text menu. These items can be edited with iEdit, and more items can be added with the Murasu Insert-Text Editor. Insert-text can be in English or Tamil.

The "+Murasu" Menu can also be invoked from the applications System menu. For more details on the, read the Quick Start Guide on the Murasu menu. The example below shows the menu is Microsoft Front Page:

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The figure below shows the Insert-Text Editor. The editor can be started by selecting the "Edit" item, which is the first item, in the Insert-Text menu. It can also be started from the minimised Murasu Anjal icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Place the mouse cursor on the icon; click the right button and select "Insert Text Editor".
 

 
The editor is very easy to use. There are 4 buttons on the top panel New Item, Delete Item, Save, Help.

Click on New Item to add an item called "New Item" to the list.  When you select this item, the same name will appear in the Title edit box on the top panel.  You can edit the Title so that it has relevance to the text that you will be inserting. The title can be in Tamil. However, you may not see it in Tamil when it is added to the "+Murasu" menu. In the case above, the third item (thodarpu mukavari) is in Tamil. You may not see this item in Tamil in your +Murasu menu later on. For this reason, it may be best to leave the titles in English or use Romanised Tamil.

Using the editor on the right of the list, type the text you want inserted.  Here you may have English and Tamil text. 

Keep adding as many items as you want.  The maximum number allowed is 99.

Once you have completed your list, click on the diskette icon to save your work.

While editing, you may use the cross icon to delete an entry in the list.  Note that deleting an entry in the list will delete the text associated with it as well. When you click on the delete icon, the item will be marked for deletion. All entries that are marked will be deleted from the list when you save your work.

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Once you have edited and saved your work as outlined in section 2, Murasu Anjal will add your new entries to the +Murasu menu. If you had started an application "before" you edited the menu entries (for example Notepad or MS Word), just quit and restart that application. You need not quit and restart Murasu Anjal.

 
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When a paragraph is composed in a certain character set and is viewed with a different character set, we will see meaningless sequence of characters. For example, if the text is in TSCII and if we are viewing with the TAB_InaiMathi font, or vice-versa, we will not see the text correctly.

Fortunately, Murasu Anjal provides a way to convert these text from one format to another. To do this, you must first decide which format you want your text in. Let's take for example you want your text in TSCII format.

Checking the format

If your text does not appear correctly in iEdit, you can check which format your text is in. Select a portion of the text (the more you select the more accurate the results). While the text is selected, pull down the "+Murasu" menu and select "Check Encoding". Murasu Anjal will check the text and display a message stating the format the message is in.  If it says that the text is in TSCII, and you are not seeing it correctly, then you should set your encoding to TSCII.

Check the bottom right corner of your iEdit Window. The character set you have chosen will be displayed. If it's not TSCII, pull down the "+Murasu" menu again, select "Set Encoding" and pick "TSCII 1.7 Tamil".  This will set the font to TSCu_InaiMathi and your Tamil text will appear as it should.

Converting the Text

Let's assume that in the example above, the text was checked and found to be in TAB. If you want to retain the text in TAB and view it correctly, see that your encoding is set to TAB as well (see the 'Checking the format' paragraph above).

However, if you want to convert the text that is in TAB to TSCII, select the entire text first; pull down the "+Murasu" menu; select "Convert Selection" and pick "To TSCII 1.7".

This will convert the entire text to TSCII format. Just ensure that you have also set the encoding to TSCII to read the converted text.

Other formats

iEdit will work with Murasu Anjal to automatically detect and convert Tamil text that are in Anjal, TSCII, TAB, Murasu, Vikatan, Lippi and Kanian formats. You may use the steps above to convert from these formats. However, the font will only be set by iEdit for the formats listed in Section 4. (Note that we have used "format" and "encoding" interchangeably. For our purpose, we can assume both these words to mean the same).

If you have text in other formats, they can also be converted with the help of Murasu Anjal. It requires an additional step and these actions can be performed through the "+Murasu" menu. You may want to refer to the user guides on Murasu Anjal2000 and the "+Murasu" menu. These documents are listed in the Quick Start Guides page in Murasu.Com.
 

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