Last modified: Sun Sep 1 22:16:47 CEST 2002 by Carsten Thönges
1.1 Boxquotes
1.2 Footnotes
1.3 Alternative Quoting I (| replaces
>)
1.4 Alternative Quoting II (> in
each row)
1.5 Rot13 encryption
1.6 Alternating upper and lower case
1.7 Number of days until/since the "great
occasion"
This text summarizes some of my quick templates for the mail client The Bat!. Please take into account that some quick templates could only work with specific TB! Versions. Unfortunately some quick templates do not work with TB!-Version 1.53 or earlier. Of course, you use these at your own risk.
I want to express my gratitude to Januk Aggarwal, Silviu Cojocaru and Andreas Wosgien for their contributions of great ideas improving the templates and thanks to Matthias Appel who showed me recursive quick templates in the first place.
If you have comments, notes, additions or suggestions for improvement etc., please send a mail to Carsten Thönges.
These quick templates enable you to insert boxquotes like this
,----- [ RFC 2822 ]| [...]| Messages are divided into lines of characters. A line is a
series of| characters that is delimited with the two characters
carriage-return| and line-feed; that is, the carriage return (CR) character
(ASCII| value 13) followed immediately by the line feed (LF)
character (ASCII| value 10). (The carriage-return/line-feed pair is usually
written in| this document as "CRLF".)| [...]`----- |
effortlessly into the TB! editor.
| bq | Copy thext onto the clipboard and execute the quick template bq in the editor (bq Ctrl+Space). The contents of the clipboard will be inserted as boxqoute. |
| bqf | Executing the quick template bqf in the editor will insert the the file currently in the clipboard as boxquote. |
You can assign keyboard shortcuts to these quick templates directly in The Bat!
| bq | boxquote from clipboard |
| bqf | boxquote from file |
| bq2 | (required by bq and bqf) |
These quick templates enable you to generate footnotes in the TB! editor. Thereby footnotes will be inserted above the "cut mark" or "signature delimiter" - if existant - and will automatically number in consecutive order. If the quick template does not find a signature delimiter, the footnotes will be inserted below the text.
,----- [ before ]| This text (FN:first footnote#) displays the| application (FN:second footnote#) of footnotes (FN:third
footnote#)| using quick templates (FN:fourth footnote#).|| --| Cheers, Carsten`----- |
becomes
,----- [ afterwards (the paragraph has been formatted with
Alt+L) ]| This text[1] displays the application[2] of
footnotes[3]| using quick templates [4].|| [1] first footnote| [2] second footnote| [3] third footnote| [4] fourth footnote| --| Cheers, Carsten`----- |
While creating a mail using the quick template afn (afn Ctrl + Space) you can quickly insert a "FN:#" and put in the footnote text.
After completion of the mail, the entire text must be copied onto the clipboard and then the quick template fn must be executed
The fastest way to accomplish this is: Ctrl+A Ctrl+X fn Ctrl+Space. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to these quick templates directly in The Bat!
The now partially staggered paragraphs should be now formatted with ALT+L.
| fn | Generating footnotes |
| afn | quick insertion of footnote tags |
| fn2 | (required by fn) |
In a reply template %QUOTES is simply replaced by %QUINCLUDE="nq". The original text of the mail will be quoted with | before each line. Quotestyles are ignored.
Something like this:
* Hans M. writes:| Is it possible to use another quoting prefix than
">"?| A "|" for example?Yes, of course. |
You can use any other symbol (character) as a quote symbol. For that purpose the nq2 quick template must be adjusted accordingly (replace the "|"s).
Insert %QINCLUDE="nq" instead of %QUOTES into the reply template.
| nq | Alternative quoting |
| nq2 | (required by nq) |
In a reply template %QUOTES is simply replaced by %QUINCLUDE="qoute bl". Blank lines will also be preceded by > Quotestyles are taken into account!
Something like this:
* Hans M. writes:> Isn't it possible within The Bat! to quote every line
of an> original mail, even blank lines?>> Can it be done somehow?Yes, of course. |
Insert %QINCLUDE="quote_bl" instead of %QUOTES into the reply template.
| quote_bl | Alternative quoting |
| quote2 | (required by quote_bl) |
This quicktemplate is suited for Rot13-encoding of text in the TB!-Editior. Thereby the contents of the clipboard will be encoded Rot13 and inserted into the mailtext.
Copy any (short!) text into the clipboard and execute quick template r13 (r13 Ctrl+Space).
| r13 | Rot13 encryption |
| r13_r | (required by r13) |
A rather useless quick template, which will only come to operation when replying to creators of mails with continuous use of lower case justifying this by their individuality ,-)
,----- [ vorher ]| please do also respect my individual way of
creating| mails...`----- |
becomes
,----- [ nachher ]| pLeAsE Do aLsO ReSpEcT My iNdIvIdUaL WaY Of
cReAtInG| mAiLs...`----- |
Copy any (short!) text into the clipboard and execute quick template mix (mix Ctrl+Space).
| mix | alternate upper and lower case |
| mix_r | (required by mix) |
These quick templates make it possible to indicate a kind of daily countdown - i.e. the difference of days until or since a certain date in ones own mails.
For example you want to count the number of days until the world championship, Christmas, birthday etc in ones one signature?
,-----| [...]| --| Best regards, Carsten Thönges|| Only 256 days until christmas.`----- |
or
,-----| [...]| Our Baby $NAME_OF_CHILD is already 124 days
old.`----- |
The quick template datediff is the start for calculation of dates. It is recommended to create a quick template for each occasion with the following structure:
,----- [ days_xmas ]| %Comment="20021224"%-| Only %Qinclude="datediff" days until christmas.`----- |
It is important to pass on the target date in the first line to %Comment. The date must be exactly in the following format: YYYYMMDD (4-digit year, 2-digit month, 2-digit day, if necessary with leading zeros). Date can be both in the future and the past.
The main template finally contains:
,-----| --| Best regards, Carsten Thönges|| %QInclude="days_xmas"`----- |
| datediff | Calculation of date differences |
| datediff_r | (required by datediff) |
| datediff_addmonth | (required by datediff) |
| datediff_days | (required by datediff) |
| days_xmas | Example: number of days until christmas 2002 |
Last modified: Sun Sep 1 22:16:47 CEST 2002
by
Carsten
Thönges