The Stop and Resume submenu of the Command Menu addresses the need to handle expansions with fill-ins.
At the first Stop
command the remaining part of the expansion is put on hold while you
fill in specific text or numbers. To resume the remaining part of the
expansion, you use the Resume
command for which you can create your own short form. Each time the
expansion encounters a Stop
command, the remaining part of the expansion is put on hold.
For
example, we can define the following Phrase Entry:
When expanding this Phrase Entry, Instant Text will stop at each Stop command, enabling you to fill in birth place, age, etc.
Each time you want to
resume with the remaining expansion, you will need to use a Resume command. For that purpose, you create your own glossary entry that resumes any pending expansions. For example:
Each time you want to resume the expansion where it stopped, you expand this rrr entry.
Let us now give a step by step description of how to use these two glossary entries in our example:
First you type wbi;
Instant Text expands "was born in " and stops at that point.
You type "Boston " and then rrr; to resume the expansion.
Instant Text expands "and aged " and stops at that point.
You type "28 " and then rrr; to resume the expansion.
Instant Text expands "at the time of the events under consideration, her " and stops at that point.
You type "second " and then rrr; to resume the expansion.
Instant Text expands "pregnancy. ".
At that point you are done. You have used the Stop and Resume commands to produce:
"was born in Boston and aged 28 at the time of the events under consideration, her second pregnancy. "