Instant Text by Textware Solutions

A quick way to change the number of lines you see

With certain applications you want more or less lines to suggest expansions and continuations.

Add the following entry into the Prime glossary:

{ToggleFocus}{Wrap}
{Ctrl R}{Wrap}

Assuming you assign the short form lm - the quick way is to type lm;1 to get 1 line,
lm;9 to get 9 lines

Click on View Prime Glossary... in the Glossary Menu to open the Prime glossary in the Glossary Viewer and then on Add.

Whatever glossary you are using in the Glossary list, the Prime glossary entries can be pulled up anytime.

FAQ page for Instant Text 9
is now available at:

Instant Text FAQ The license agreement entitles you to use the software on a single computer. As a courtesy our present policy is to grant one additional free activation for your laptop or your backup computer, provided you are the only user.

Did you see the post at:

Add Glossary Entry Window Trick to Edit Short Form to "All Words" In this post I will show you an undocumented trick that you can use in the Add Glossary Entry window to edit the Short Form so that it contains all words.

Creating your own short form rules

Rules are fine, but they are only good when they are simple and limited in number.
Once you have found your best rules and found their application gets your words and/or phrases faster up to the top, you can convert an existing glossary to these rules:
You open it in the Glossary Viewer,
go to the Tools menu,
and click on "Convert Short Forms...".

Let's have a look at the Glossary Viewer's Options menu

The first 2 menu items allow you to change the font of the viewed glossary and the default colors for 4 categories of glossaries.

The 3rd menu item, Short Form Rules..., opens a window where you can define your own short form rules you want Instant Text to apply when you add 1 word, 2, 3, or 4 words.

As you know, the default short form for 1 word being the whole word just means you can type a shortcut being any subset of the word left to right starting with the first letter. By typing 3 or 4 relevant letters the word comes to the top of the expansion table.

Where the short form rule comes in handy is for 2 words. Instant Text by default assigns the initials. For 2 word phrases you end up having a lot of 2 letter short forms. So if you have a system to make the shortcut a little bit longer, such as "abab" or "abaz" or the whole string, Instant Text from then on will assign your rule to the 2 word phrases you will be adding to your glossaries. It should make it easier to pull them up to the top of the expansion table.

In the Short Form Rules window, once you have clicked on the tab "2 Words", click on the top numbers to select the starting letters and on the lower row numbers to choose the ending letters. Or all numbers. You will see what effect your chosen rule will have on the short form next to Short and you can test your rule on one of your 2 word phrases. If you choose the whole string you can use the separator scroll box to add a hyphen or an underscore between the 2 words.