Entering and editing text

Basic input keystrokes

Text editing in Wincaps Q4 follows normal Windows text processing conventions including clipboard functions (cut/copy/paste), see Keyboard shortcuts - Wincaps Q4 offline or Keyboard shortcuts - Q-Live for a full list.

There are also a few special text formatting keys such as:

Ctrl R - reformats the subtitle text to fill the current row
Ctrl Down/Up arrows - snakes words from one row to the next
Ctrl M - alters capitalisation by toggling between UPPERCASE, Title Case and lowercase

Wincaps Q4 automatically capitalises the start of each new sentence as you type. The sentence end conditions are described here.

Non-keyboard characters (accents, symbols etc.)

Characters that are not available on the standard keyboard can be entered in several ways:

Copying text to the clipboard from another application and then pasting it into Wincaps Q4
Using Windows regional input settings for the relevant language and the On-Screen Keyboard (a standard Windows tool, typically found under Programs : Accessories : Accessibility on the Windows Start menu)
Using the Windows Character Map (a standard Windows tool, typically found under Programs : Accessories : System Tools on the Windows Start menu)
Using dead keys where they are supported by the keyboard language. For example, on a French keyboard you can create characters that have the circumflex accent by pressing the circumflex dead key ^ followed by the character.

Holding down the Alt key while typing the corresponding three digit ASCII character code on the numeric keypad - for a list of ASCII character codes refer to on-line resources such as:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011331361033.aspx

Useful Symbols:

Alt+1	Smiley Face
Alt+13	Music (Eighth) Note
Alt+14	Double Music Note
Alt+171	½ symbol

Holding down the Alt key while typing the corresponding four digit decimal Unicode character code on the numeric keypad - for a list of Unicode character codes refer to on-line resources such as:

http://unicode.org/charts/

For example, Alt 0189 will enter the ½ symbol (0x00BD in the Unicode Latin-1 Supplement)

Note that not all characters are valid in all cases. For example, if the file has the Teletext personality you are limited to entering characters that are supported by the Teletext character set for the chosen language. If you try to enter an unsupported character, an "Invalid character" message will be displayed in the left of the status bar.

Superscripts and Subscripts

Wincaps Q4 has no superscript/subscript font adjustment attribute (unlike Microsoft Word for instance). Therefore all characters, including superscripts and subscripts, must be inherently supported in the selected TrueType font. Enter the character in the same way as any other non-keyboard character (see above). For instance, use Alt 0178 (Unicode 00B2) for a superscript two.

Shortforms

You can use shortforms to reduce the amount of typing required and to ensure consistent spelling of commonly used words or phrases, including the names of people or places for instance. In some respects this feature is similar to the AutoText facility in Microsoft Word. Just type the abbreviated “shortform” followed by a space, punctuation or the return key and Q4 expands it automatically. Learn more about shortforms here.

House Styles (Wincaps Q4 Pro only)

House Styles are similar to shortforms but are activated when text is entered into the SpeakTitle Window, normally during speech input. Learn more about House Styles here.