CMP HTML Quoter Amanuensis  CMP HTML Quoter Amanuensis

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This view this page, you should have a recent Java installed, preferably 32-bit JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.7.0_02.
Sorry, you need Java 1.5 or later to run this Applet.

If, Quoter, the above Quoter Transformations signed Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) does not work…

  1. Often problems can be fixed simply by clicking the reload button on your browser.
  2. Make sure you have both JavaScript and Java enabled in your browser.
  3. This signed Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) needs 32-bit (not 64-bit) Java 1.5 or later. For best results use the latest 1.7.0_02. If you have both 32 and 64-bit JVMs installed, in the Java Control Panel, configure your 32-bit java.exe as the user JVM and your 64-bit java.exe as the system JVM. You also need a recent browser.
  4. It works under any operating system that supports Java e.g. W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W7-32/W7-64/Linux/OSX
  5. You should see the Applet hybrid above looking much like this screenshot. If you don’t, the following hints should help you get it working:
  6. For this Applet hybrid to work, you must click grant/accept to give it permission to allow copy/paste and to configure your look & feel.. If you refuse to grant permission, the program may crash with an inscrutable stack dump on the console complaining about AccessController.checkPermission.
  7. Optionally, you may permanently install the Canadian Mind Products code-signing certificate so you don’t have to grant each time.
  8. If the above Applet hybrid appears to freeze-up, click Alt-Esc repeatedly to check for any buried permission dialog box.
  9. If you have certificate troubles, check the installed certificates and remove or update any obsolete or suspected defective certificates. The only certificate used by this program is mindprodcert2012dsa.cer.
  10. Especially if this Applet hybrid has worked before, try clearing the browser cache and rebooting.
  11. To ensure your Java is up to date, check with Wassup. First, download it and run it as an application independent of your browser, then run it online as an Applet to add the complication of your browser.
  12. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, check the Java console for error messages.
  13. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, you might have better luck with the downloadable version available below.
  14. If you are using Mac OS X and would like an improved Look and Feel, download the QuaQua look & feel from randelshofer.ch/quaqua. UnZip the contained quaqua.jar and install it in ~/Library/Java/Extensions or one of the other ext dirs.
  15. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9, try another browser. Seriously. Microsoft has taken great pains, over and over, to screw up Java and every other multi-platform standardisation.
  16. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9, you must click to allow blocked content permission for Active X to run. This also gives permission to Java to run. Click the Information bar, and then click Allow blocked content. Unfortunately, this also allows dangerous ActiveX code to run. However, you must do this in order to get access to perfectly-safe Java Applets running in a sandbox. This is part of Microsoft’s war on Java. Don’t put up with it! Use a different browser.
  17. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, makes sure the Java Plug-In SSV helper add-in is installed and enabled. If it is not, try reinstalling the Java JRE.
  18. If you have Windows 7 64-bit and Internet Explorer 64-bit, in theory you can use 64-bit Java, but I never been able to get it to work.
  19. Try upgrading to a more recent version of your browser, or try a different browser e.g. Firefox, SeaMoney, Safari or Avant.
  20. If you still can’t get the program working click HELP for more detail.
  21. If you can’t get the above Applet hybrid working after trying the advice above and from the HELP button below, have bugs to report or ideas to improve the program or its documentation, please send me an email atemail Roedy Green.
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This Applet converts raw text with the following possible cleanups:
  1. Flow text by stripping out newline chararacters and replacing them with spaces. This is useful for preparing text to paste into web comment boxes.
  2. Convert awkward characters to entities for HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), e.g. & ⇒ & or accented characters like é to é
  3. Convert awkward characters to entities references for XML (extensible Markup Language).
  4. Quote for Java Strings. e.g. C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt ⇒ "C:\\MyDir\\MyFile.txt"
  5. Convert to a CSV (Comma Separated Value) field with commas and spaces in quotes, and quotes doubled.
  6. Convert to Java char [] literals, e.g. c:\ -> new char { 'c', ':', '\\' }
  7. Strip HTML tags such as <p> <span giving you the raw text.
  8. Strip XML tags giving you the raw text.
  9. Convert HTML entities back to awkward characters.
  10. Convert XML entity references back to awkward characters.
  11. Encode an entity using %xx e.g. space to %20.
  12. Decode an entity using %xx e.g. %20 back to space.
  13. Remove control characters.
  14. Collapse multiple spaces into one.
  15. Collapse multiple blank lines onto one.
  16. Remove embedded control characters.
  17. Collapse runs of spaces into a single space.
  18. Collapse multiple blank lines into a single blank line.
  19. Align space or comma delimited text in columns
  20. Align Java source in columns (considers "\"", '\'', /* comment */, //… in column delimiter rules).
  21. Convert to UPPER case, lower case or Book Title case
  22. Converting raw multiline clipboards into search or replace regex expressions for Java Regexes, Funduc Search and Replace utility or Microedge SlickEdit Unix-style regexes, with the option of following by converting them to Java string literals or CSV fields.
  23. Composing regex sub-expressions to compactly select a particular set of characters from the following possible printable characters:
    space !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
    €‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹Œ‘’“”•–—˜™š›œŸ ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬­®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
  24. Trim leading, trailing or both spaces. Can be combined with any other transformation.

Just paste the raw text into the upper window, click Convert then copy the converted cooked text from the lower window.

You can probably best understand the Applet by typing sample text in the upper window, and looking what happens to it when you select various options.

If you want to cascade several transformations to the same piece of text, click Swap to put the output back into the input box and hit Convert.

The amanuensis is also available with Java source to download. When you run Quoter Amanuensis as an application, it is even more automatic. You don’t need to do any manual pasting and copying. Just click Convert to convert the current contents of the clipboard. The cooked HTML replaces the old the raw text clipboard contents. This automatic feature is not available in the Applet version because the Applet sandbox considers it a security risk.

PackageVersionReleasedLicenceLanguageNotes 
quoter
Quoter Amanuensis		 5.1 2012-01-13 free Java
more info ❘ precis ❘ screenshot ❘ browse source repository
for the current version of Quoter Amanuensis.
Converts text with 23 possible cleanups, including preparation of HTML and Java, aligning in columns, character set conversion, case converting, removing excess white space, removing blank lines, preparing regex expressions…
download 1,938K zip for Quoter Amanuensis Java source, compiled class files, jar and documentation to run on your own machine either as an application or an Applet.

First install the most recent Java.

To install, extract the zip download with WinZip, (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ — ticking off the use folder names option.

To check out the corresponding source from the Subversion repository, use the TortoiseSVN repo-browser to
access quoter source in repository with [Tortoise] Subversion client on wush.net/svn/mindprod/com/mindprod/quoter/.

After you have installed the jar, you can run it as an application. Type:

java -jar J:\com\mindprod\quoter\quoter.jar

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

download ASP PAD XML program description for the current version of Quoter Amanuensis.

download 39.1MB JET installer exe for Quoter Amanuensis Windows only hybrid Applet run as a 32-bit JET-compiled *.exe application without using a browser. Does not include source or documentation.
Quoter Amanuensis is free.
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