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Is there any chance that the Reading Notes window is due for any type of updating? Being able to Left/Center/Right text would be nice, as would being able to insert Ordered and Unordered lists, left/right blockquoting, etc.

And .. is there a way to get links to work in the Reading Notes window to open web pages in your browser.

Right now I'm using Microsoft Works Word Processor and copying and pasting what I write into the Reading Notes window and then saving this with the .reading extension.

My intension is to try and write a some tarot lessons/tutorials using the Reading Notes window and incorperating all the goodies in Orphalese. So it would also be nice to be able to link the lessons/tutorials, i.e. link lesson #1 to lesson #2, lesson #2 back to lesson #1 or to lesson #3, and so on. It would also be nice to be able to create a Contents link page so you can go to any lesson you wanted to by simply clicking on it.

But I'm still at the early stages of finding out all of what the Orphalese program can do so I might find ways to circumvent many of these issues.

Thanks for your time Richard. You remind a lot of a guy name Chami who came up with the HTML-Kit text editor I use to write my web pages with, [g]. ........ [ http://www.chami.com/ ]

Don S.
[ http://www.nodntap.net/tarot/whats_new.shtml ]

Hi Don,

Thanks for the suggestions. The Reading Notes window, at least the text part, is basically a control which comes out of the box with Visual Studio, the software suite I use to edit the Orphalese Tarot. As you have probably found out by cutting and pasting, it can handle all the usual RTF phenomena like right-aligned text, hyperlinks, tables etc.

The trouble is that to access all that functionality directly I would have to do quite a bit of programming, and it would be a bit like re-inventing the wheel: trying to wire it all in to create a fully fledged word processor program. It might be more productive if I made it so that the Reading Notes window could import a .doc or a .rtf file, as well as being able to export to these formats. What do you think?

As far as the hyperlinks goes, I just had a play with that and it is very easy to get the links working so they launch Internet Explorer with the required URL. It might be harder to make it launch the default browser, but I don't think that is a big deal because anyone using .NET will already have IE installed, even if it is not their browser of choice. I will try and get these modifications in to the 6.2 beta.

I had a look at chami.com and it looks interesting - I will have to check it out properly later on!

Best,

Richard