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**************** OPTIONS MENU HELP FOR TAG! *******************
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The OPTIONS menu allows you to set certain defaults governing
TAG!'s operation. It also provides a quick means of stripping
paragraphs tags from a document, and it provides a DOS shell.
There are four options in this menu.

DEFAULTS: There are three program defaults which can be set
          for TAG!, as follows:

          DIRECTORIES: This choice enables you to specify
               two directories: first, the directory TAG!
               should use to find text files; and, second,
               the directory TAG! should use to find tags
               (that is, style sheets or ASCII tag files).

          NUMBER OF COLUMNS: The choices here are similar
               to those in the Display Menu, in that you
               select one, two or three columns for the Tag
               List. The difference is that this setting
               determines how many columns will be used as
               the default when TAG! is first started.

          COLUMN DISPLAY: These choices determine how the Tag
               List columns work:

               HORIZONTAL causes the Tag List to be alphabetized
                    horizontally across the screen. In a three-
                    column display, the first tag would be in
                    column 1, the second in column 2, the third
                    in column 3, the fourth in column 1, etc.

               VERTICAL causes the Tag List to be alphabetized
                    vertically down each column, and if the 
                    number of tags is too great to fit in a two
                    or three column display, the tags are 
                    displayed so that the top portion of each
                    column is visible, and the bottom of each
                    column is off the screen.

               SNAKING causes Vertical alphabetization, but now
                    the visible tags snake from column to column
                    so that only those alphabetized after the
                    list visible tag in the last column are 
                    hidden from view.

          WINDOWS: This choice controls TAG!'s "exploding"
               windows, which are used for visual appeal. On
               very slow systems, the explosion may be too
               slow, annoying the user. On very fast systems,
               the explosion may be so fast as to be unnoticed.
               You can control window explosion with the 
               choices:

               OFF: Turns window explosion off.

               FAST: Sets window explosion to fastest speed.

               MEDIUM: Sets window explosion to medium speed.

               SLOW: Sets window explosion to slowest speed.

           TAG SEARCH: Set this option to either "Case 
               Sensitive" or "Not Case Sensitive" to control 
               how tags are identified when searching for and 
               replacing tags in the Search Menu. By default, 
               tag name searches are not case sensitive, 
               allowing a single search to replace, say, the
               tags "MYTAG" and "MyTag". Do not change this
               default unless you understand exactly
               what you are doing. Changing the default to
               "Case Sensitive", however, will enable you
               to deliberately distinguish, for example, 
               between tags entered by hand in lower or mixed
               case, and tags written by Ventura in upper case.

               NOTE: The "Tag Search" default does NOT
               affect string searches, which are always
               case sensitive.

               NOTE: When you save your document in TAG!, all
               tags applied in TAG! are written to the file in
               upper case letters, following Ventura's 
               convention. However, while you are tagging a
               document, newly applied tags are held in memory 
               in the form in which they appear in the tag list.
               Therefore case insensitive searches are often 
               necessary to find every instance of a given tag.

DOS SHELL: Choose this option if you need to go to the DOS
           prompt to run another program or a DOS command
           with disrupting your current TAG! session. Return
           to TAG! by typing EXIT at the DOS prompt.

STRIP TAGS: When you choose this option, you will be prompted
            for the name of the file you wish to strip. Enter
            the file name and strike RETURN. TAG! will prompt
            you for confirmation, and then TAG! will rewrite
            the file without any embedded paragraph tags. The
            original file with the old tags is saved with the
            extension TG!. Because the file is saved as a part
            of the Strip Tags function, it is not necessary 
            to save again after stripping is completed.

HELP: Displays the HELP you are now reading. This help file may
      be edited by calling up the file TGOPTMEN.HLP in any ASCII
      editor. Text lines must be 65 characters or less, and each
      line must end in a carriage return. Use spacebars, not
      tabs, to space horizontally within a line. The maximum 
      help file size is 15,000 bytes.
