QED's menus
QED has three drop-down menus. As mentioned above, the first is Commands, which offers the menu items Rename, Delete, Info, and About. As already noted, Rename allows you to rename the open document. Delete will remove the open document from the Palm device, at which point it will no longer be available to QED or or AportisDoc, should you have either of those applications installed. Info shows you the name of the file and its size. About provides the version number of the application and the address of the QED web site. As with other Palm device applications, you can access most of the menu commands by making the Grafitti "command" stroke and then entering the letter shown next to the command.

The second menu is Edit, which provides access to the self-explanatory Cut, Copy, Paste, and Undo functions.

QED Options
The third menu, Options, also has an Options menu item. Selecting it brings up the dialog box shown in Figure C. Here you can control page width, whether or not new documents are created in compressed form, the font size (presently two fonts are available, the same two that are used in Memo Pad), the use (or not) of rules (dotted lines as in Memo Pad), and backup options.

FIGURE C

You can control some aspects of your document. And check out those funky Check and X buttons.

Another option, Editable, makes the current document read-only. When documents are opened as read-only, you can scroll through them by tapping on the screen, as you do in Doc. The Fscroll option specifies whether the screen scrolls one entire screen at a time or one line less than an entire screen.

The page width is specified in pixels. QED will wrap text at the specified width. Use the value of 160 (the width of the Palm device screen) for working with conventional documents. Use higher values to change the screen to a left/right scrollable virtual width screen, such as for tabular material and source code. Most of the options set in this area of QED are global (i.e., they set program-wide defaults), but each document remembers its page width.

The Register menu item in the Options menu brings up a dialog box in which you enter a registration number after paying for the software, thus making the nag screens go away.

When you select BookChar from the Options menu, you can specify a bookmark search string (up to four bookmark characters, for example, "chap"). This is a little obtuse, but quite powerful. Here's how it works: if you scan for bookmarks, the letters after "chap" will be used as bookmark names and added to the bookmark list. If, after running this scan, you then change your text, your bookmarks become more and more imprecise, because they are stored as absolute character count offsets from the top of the "file". If you do a Scan Bookmarks operation again, however, the bookmarks markers will be refreshed. The Doc standard bookmark character is the "degree" symbol. Many E-texts come with this character and allow the user to take over these bookmarks.