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It will not change your text, but will highlight areas that you may want to examine and consider reworking.
The main window is an editable view of your document.
You can load a text document directly into the main text window with the
File/Load menu option, or you can cut/paste into the main window from
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Or, you can cut/paste from a word processor like Word or OpenOffice into the main Editomat screen.
Or you can attach Editomat to a document that is currently open in MS Word.
To load a .txt file:
When Editomat is attached to a word document, the Editomat text window vanishes and only the button bar remains. Editomat buttons will now highlight sections of the Word document and the contents of the Word document are used to generate reports.
When you attached Editomat to a word document, all the normal MS Word features
like copy/paste, undo and global search and replace function as normal.
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The bleach bottle will remove the highlights, giving you a clean screen for your next analysis.
That's why they invented the thesaurus.
Editomat includes the Moby Thesaurus (http://moby-thesaurus.org), one of the largest word collections available.
Double-click on a word, and Editomat will try to find entries in the thesaurus
with potential synonyms.
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The Settings tab allows you to set the font size for the display and
control how Editomat chooses text
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You probably want longer sentences when your hero is relaxing between crisis points and considering how they got where they are and what to do next.
By default, only words longer than three characters are counted. This skips "the", "and"
"a", and other common words that you probably can't change. The minimum size can
be set in the
General Preferences dialog.
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Editomat knows about 35,000 words that are classified by their part of speech (noun, verb, etc). This report shows which words are used in your text, grouped into the part of speech - nouns, verbs, etc, and sorted by number of times used.
This can be used to find overused words.
Editomat may not know the words you need. If you are writing in the speculative fiction, cyber-adventure, or military genres there will be nouns and verbs specific to your needs you'll need to add.
You may even want to add a complete set of words for your genre.
Left-Click on this graph will give you a list of the words found at that position in your
The default comparisons are one Literary Classic, and three successful
modern novels, one Science Fiction, one Romantic Fantasy and one
Memoir.
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To start Editomat, just double click the icon.
On Windows you can drag a .txt file over the Editomat icon to start Editomat and open the file.
If you attach Editomat to an MS Word document, you will edit the document in word, and can use MS Word's Save features.
If you Import your text from word and edit it in Editomat's main text
window, you can either Export the revised document back into Word,
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If you have unsaved edits in the current text, you'll be prompted before the data
is overwritten.
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Words like very, immediately and that get overused until they lose their meaning.
Clicking the Weak analysis Action Button will find and highlight the weak words.
Sometimes a word will be stuck in your head and you'll use it frequently without realizing it. Even worse, you may use a word that has different meanings in close proximity to each other, confusing a casual reader.
This report highlights words that are repeated within a short distance
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This feature highlights letters that match a pattern. The patterns include common spelling, word misuse, and word overuse patterns that are worth checking.
It highlights the phrases that match the tests with colors defined for Patterns
in the
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The report provides Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid scores to reflect how easily read your
text is. An adult book has adult content. It need not be written such that
it's hard to comprehend without an advanced degree. A light romance
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This can be used to find overused words, or to see if you are using the jargon your readers will expect.
You can
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Editomat may not know the words you need. If you are writing in the speculative fiction, cyber-adventure, or military genres there will be nouns and verbs specific to your needs you'll need to add.
You can extend the words that Editomat knows (and can use to categorize your
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Along with common keypad keys, Editomat supports a subset of the emacs control keys.
These keys are supported: