Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.1.4 is a maintenance release including minor changes and fixes, plus a few extra features. Please read on for details.

Customizable status bar

A new "Find/Replace" dialog

New footnote/endnote-related commands

Customizable status bar

As you know, Atlantis displays various bits of information about the active document on a narrow strip located at the bottom of the document window:

Up to now, you could display or hide this "status" bar by toggling the "View | Status Bar" main menu command.

This new Atlantis 1.6.1.4 version offers you more: you can now choose which bits of information Atlantis will display on the status bar. Simply click "Tools | Status Bar..." to bring up a dialog where you can customize the status bar display:

Check or uncheck items depending on whether you want them displayed or not.

Important! If you enable both "Characters without spaces" (or "Characters with spaces"), and "Words", you get "live" character and word count for the active document. The word count will automatically be updated as you add new text to the current document:

Note. There is an alternative way to customize the Atlantis status bar. Right-clicking any empty space on the status bar brings up a context menu:

You can use this menu to hide the status bar, but also to customize which bits of information you want displayed on it. Choose "Customize" from this menu to bring up the "Status Bar" dialog (see screen capture above).

A new "Find/Replace" dialog

Atlantis 1.6.1.4 has a new redesigned "Find/Replace" dialog with extra features.

By default, when you choose the "Edit | Find..." menu command of Atlantis, or press Ctrl+F, the basic version of the "Find/Replace" dialog gets displayed:

It has a very compact and clean design, and offers only a few basic options.

But this new version of the "Find/Replace" dialog has a "More" button:

Clicking it displays an advanced version of the "Find/Replace" dialog with additional options:

Of course, in this advanced "Find/Replace" dialog the "Less" button takes you back to the basic version of the dialog.

Options available in the advanced version of the "Find/Replace" dialog:

* A separate panel shows options already available in older versions of Atlantis:

Accordingly, the procedure to change these options is now slightly different:

1. If necessary, press the "More" button to switch to the advanced version of the "Find/Replace" dialog.

2. Modify these options as required.

3. If desired, click the "Less" button to switch back to the basic version of the "Find/Replace" dialog.
 
Note that these options are automatically saved and will be systematically used by Atlantis until you change them again.

* Right under the "Find" box, you will also notice a new "Format" check box:

Check this option to search for text with specific formatting. A small toolbar with format buttons will automatically be displayed next to the "Format" check box:

These buttons allow you to specify which specific formatting you want to search for.

Tip. You can search for ANY text having the specified formatting. This is done by specifying a format pattern to search for, and leaving the "Find" box blank:

On the other hand, if you want to search for a string of text bearing some specific formatting, you must type that string in the "Find" box, check the "Format" box, and specify the target formatting, using the dedicated buttons:

So when the "Format" box is checked, Atlantis searches for text that has the formatting specified through the format buttons located next to it:

Of course, initially these buttons bear no formatting. This is indicated through their popup hints:

Etc.

You will click these toolbar buttons to specify:

1. a font format pattern including bold, italic, font face, font color, etc,

2. a highlighting color,

3. a language,

4. a paragraph format pattern including alignment, indents, spacing between paragraphs, etc,

5. any style present in the document.

When a format pattern has been defined, placing the mouse pointer over any of these toolbar buttons displays information about the search pattern.

Let’s take an example.

Let’s suppose that you clicked the leftmost button in the Find/Replace dialog to specify a font format.

Let’s suppose that you chose to look for text with "bold effect" and "blue font color":

Let’s suppose that you OK’d out of the "Font Format" dialog.

The same leftmost toolbar button will show a popup hint with the font format pattern that you specified:

You can choose as many formatting attributes as you want, either through a single formatting button, or through all 5 buttons concurrently.

Now you might want to define another search format pattern. Here is how to proceed:

1. First, uncheck the "Format" box option to reset the search format pattern. This will clear any previously defined format pattern.

2. Check the "Format" box again and specify a new format pattern from scratch.
 
Note that the "Format" box option is automatically unchecked when you click the "Less" button in the "Find/Replace" dialog. This means that any previously defined format pattern is cleared whenever you close the advanced panel of the Find/Replace dialog.
Also note that the "Format" box is always initially unchecked whenever you restart Atlantis. This means that no search format pattern is defined when Atlantis starts.

* So with this version of Atlantis you can search for specific text or any text with some formatting. But there is more. You can not only search for formatting in your documents but also format the found text in any desired way.

Let’s take a look at the "Replace" tab of the advanced version of the "Find/Replace" dialog. It also includes a "Format" check box. You will find it right under the "Replace with" box:

Checking this "Replace with" "Format" box also displays a small toolbar next to it:

These "Replace with" format buttons are identical to the ones displayed under the "Find" box. They work in the same way. Use them to specify which formatting Atlantis should apply to the found text.

So you can use the "Find/Replace" dialog to reformat text across whole documents. This can be done in two main ways:

You can leave the "Replace with" box blank and specify a format pattern to apply to the found text:

Any text that Atlantis finds will be reformatted as specified in the "Replace with" format.

Let’s take an example. Let’s suppose that your document contains bold text.

Let’s suppose that you want to add red font color formatting to that bold text.

All you need to do is set up the Find/Replace dialog so that "bold" is specified in the "Find" format pattern, and "red font color" in the "Replace with" format pattern. The newly reformatted text will display in bold red letters.

You can also specify any text in the "Replace with" box. In such cases, any found text will be replaced with the text specified in the "Replace with" box. But the new text will also be formatted with the format pattern currently associated with the "Replace with" box.

The notes regarding the "Format" box under the "Find" box also apply to the "Format" box found under the "Replace with" box. When you click the "Less" button in the Find/Replace dialog, both "Format" check boxes are automatically unchecked, and any formatting they might be associated with is automatically cleared.

* Another new thing in the "Find/Replace" dialog applies to cases when you make a selection in the document window, then bring up the "Find/Replace" dialog. Now Atlantis displays new options at the top of the "Find/Replace" dialog, allowing you to choose whether the current selection or the whole document should be searched:

In most cases Atlantis should automatically suggest the correct scope for your search operations, but you can specify a different search scope with the above new options.

* As you know, each of the "Find" and "Replace with" boxes is associated with a "Add special symbol" button allowing you to add various special items to the search/replace strings:

Previously the "Add special symbol" button associated with the "Find" box only allowed you to search for note reference marks, irrespective of whether these were footnote or endnote marks.

Now you can search for footnote and endnote reference marks separately. There are two new dedicated items in the menu associated with the "Find" box:

* Last new thing about the "Find/Replace" dialog in this version of Atlantis. You can now choose any location for the "Find/Replace" dialog. Its current position will be saved and kept by Atlantis until you relocate it to a different position. This is true even if you restart Atlantis. In older versions of Atlantis, the "Find/Replace" dialog always initially appeared at the bottom of the Atlantis main window.

New footnote/endnote-related commands

This version of Atlantis introduces 6 new note-related commands. The most typical way to use these commands is by assigning hot keys to them through the "Tools | Hot Keys..." command:

You can use these commands to navigate among the document notes and their reference marks. Here is a brief description of all 6 commands:

Go to footnote:

·   switches to the footnote associated with the "nearest footnote reference mark" in the document main text when the caret is within the document main text,

·   switches to the reference mark of the current footnote when the caret is within a footnote.

Go to endnote:

·   switches to the endnote associated with the "nearest endnote reference mark" in the document main text when the caret is within the document main text,

·   switches to the reference mark of the current endnote when the caret is within an endnote.

Previous footnote:

·   places the caret before the previous footnote reference mark when the caret is within the document main text,

·   places the caret at the beginning of the previous footnote when the caret is within a footnote.

Next footnote:

·   places the caret before the next footnote reference mark when the caret is within the document main text,

·   places the caret at the beginning of the next footnote when the caret is within a footnote.

Previous endnote:

·   places the caret before the previous endnote reference mark when the caret is within the document main text,

·   places the caret at the beginning of the previous endnote when the caret is within an endnote.

Next endnote:

·   places the caret before the next endnote reference mark when the caret is within the document main text,

·   places the caret at the beginning of the next endnote when the caret is within an endnote.

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