Converts text with many 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....
converts raw text with the following possible cleanups:
0. Flow text by removing newline characters. This is useful for preparing
   text to paste into web comment boxes.
1  Convert awkward characters to entities for HTML, e.g.  & -> & or
   accented characters like é to é
2. Quote for Java Strings. e.g. C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt -> "C:\\MyDir\\MyFile.txt"
   and convert Java literals back to Strings.
3. Convert to a CSV field with commas and spaces in quotes, and quotes doubled.
4. Convert to Java char [] literals, e.g. c:\ -> new char { 'c', ':', '\\' }
5. Strip HTML tags such as <p> <span giving you the raw text.
6. Strip XML tags giving you the raw text.
7. Convert HTML entities back to awkward characters.
8. Convert XML entity references back to awkward characters.
9. Encode an entity using URLEncoding %xx e.g. space to %20.
10. Decode an entity using URLDecoding %xx e.g. %20 back to space.
12. Collapse multiple spaces into one.
13. Collapse multiple blank lines onto one.
14. Remove embedded control characters.
15. Collapse runs of spaces into a single space.
16. Collapse multiple blank lines into a single blank line.
17. Align space or comma delimited text in columns
18. Align Java source in columns (considers "\"", '\'', /* comment */,
    //... in column delimiter rules).
19. Convert to UPPER case, lower case or Book Title case.
20. 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.  Composing regex sub-expressions
    to compactly select a particular set of characters.
21. Trim leading, trailing or both spaces. Can be combined with any other transformation.
It will help you write HTML, especially HTML that talks
about HTML or Java. It can be useful for creating JavaDOC
that mentions the tags needed to run the program or that
quotes Java source which makes common use of < > and &.
It takes raw text and converts HTML's reserved characters
such as & < > and " and converts them to their cooked enitity forms
&amp; &lt; &gt; and &quot;. It also converts accented and
special characters to their cooked forms, e.g. the copyright
symbol to &copy; and the e' character to &eacute; Just paste
the raw text into the upper window, click Convert then copy
the converted cooked text from the lower window.
When you run the 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.
For example, Quoter will take a clipboard that looks like
this:
special characters:
< > & " ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª «
¬ ­ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ ÷ ×
accented characters like:
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ.
and converts it to this:
special characters:
&lt; &gt; &amp; &quot; &iexcl; &cent; &pound; &curren; &yen;
&brvbar; &sect; &uml; &copy; &ordf; &laquo;
&not; &shy; &reg; &macr; &deg; &plusmn; &sup2; &sup3;
&acute; &micro; &para; &middot; &cedil; &sup1; &ordm;
&raquo; &frac14; &frac12; &frac34; &iquest; &divide; &times;
accented characters like:
&Agrave; &Aacute; &Acirc; &Atilde; &Auml; &Aring; &AElig;
&Ccedil; &Egrave; &Eacute; &Ecirc; &Euml; &Igrave; &Iacute;
&Icirc; &Iuml; &ETH; &Ntilde; &Ograve; &Oacute; &Ocirc;
&Otilde; &Ouml; &Oslash; &Ugrave; &Uacute; &Ucirc; &Uuml;
&Yacute; &THORN; &szlig;
&agrave; &aacute; &acirc; &atilde; &auml; &aring; &aelig;
&ccedil; &egrave; &eacute; &ecirc; &euml; &igrave; &iacute;
&icirc; &iuml; &eth; &ntilde; &ograve; &oacute; &ocirc;
&otilde; &ouml; &oslash; &ugrave; &uacute; &ucirc; &uuml;
&yacute; &thorn; &yuml;.
Quoter is also useful when you are writing Java programs
that write Java or C++ programs. For example, when you
select Java instead of HTML as the target it will take a
clipboard containing template code like this:
  if ( myString.compareTo("\n ABC") > 0 )
    test++;
it will convert it to:
   "if ( myString.compareTo(\"\\n ABC\") > 0 )\n"
    + "  test++;\n"
It is also useful any time you cut and paste material for
String literals from some other source, e.g. in preparing
filenames. For example, it will convert:
   C:\myDir\Myprog.exe
to
  "C:\\myDir\\Myprog.exe"
Watch out!  Quoter translates &nbsp; to 0xA0, a non-printing
space, not ordinary 0X20 space.
If there are other transformations you would find useful,
please just ask.
Why the 99 logo?  It represents a double quote character.
Quoter among other things "quotes" (in the sense of escapes)
regexes and Java strings using \.