Plucker Desktop ships with an integrated HTML editor to write Plucker documents. Plucker supports a large portion of the HTML 3.2 specification, and adds some tag parameters that make sense in a handheld offline viewer.
Most of the editor dialog's real estate consists of two tabs, named "Edit" and "Preview". Clicking the preview tab gives a rough preview of the HTML, clicking edit returns to editing the page.
Power user tip: The preview tab is not as powerful as the Handheld viewer's HTML display, so there will be some differences in the preview tab and the output on the handheld. For example, horizontal rule alignments won't appear in the preview tab, but will show up in the viewer.
Press the OK button to commit your changes or the Cancel to exit without saving changes.
Users may customize the editor behavior in certain ways. These are set in the Preference dialog's HTML editor section .
Depending on which toolbar was selected in the advanced options, either a basic or an advanced toolbar will be shown. The basic toolbar has a single button named Insert new hyperlink... and the advanced toolbar has a full compliment of tags supported by Plucker. Clicking on a toolbutton will insert a tag.
Beginner tip: Hovering the mouse over the toolbuttons will give a description of each button's function, as well as the text that it will insert.
Power user tip: For most of the formatting tags (bold, italic, etc) you can select some text and then click the appropriate toolbar button, and the start and close tags will be properly inserted on either end of the selected text.
Some toolbuttons (such as a line break's <br> will insert the tag directly, because the tag doesn't take any parameters. Other toolbuttons (such as an image's <img> tag) will popup a dialog asking for some parameters, which it will then use to generate the tag text and insert it. Toolbuttons that will pop up a dialog are marked with a small black arrow in the upper-left of the button image.
The following is a reference to all the fields in the Editor's popup dialogs. These can all be accessed by pressing their respective "Help" button:
Insert Hyperlink Dialog
Insert Email Dialog
Insert Bookmark Dialog
Insert Popup Dialog
Insert Image Dialog
Insert Horizontal Rule Dialog
Insert Span Dialog
Insert Font Dialog
Insert Table Dialog
Insert Table Cell Dialog
Insert Ordered List Dialog
Insert Unordered List Dialog
Insert Body Dialog