On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! > > First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert->Label on every one. > At least for this you can easily define a custom shortcut. See the docs (Customization and Functions, I think).
> But even worse, the label defaults to the first three words, and often the > first word is "The". Is there a way to have the label default to the first > five words? > I have no idea, but this might be hardcoded. You have always the option to change it in the sources and rebuild it for you needs. Otherwise perhaps file a bug report. Cheers Liviu > Or, perhaps give us a way to highlight the entire title and have > that govern the label? Right now highlighting is no different from putting the > cursor at the start, except that highlighting increases the risk of erasing > the highlighted text. > > I think that label insertion is common enough that it should be a fast > process, and people's priorities differ enough that the default number of > words should be changeable. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail