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Eclipse offers many ways
to insert, change, and modify punctuation in a transcript while editing.
The basic method is to place the cursor on the word immediately following
the target punctuation mark. To
insert a mark, simply press the applicable key on your computer keyboard.
To change an existing mark into another, use the same procedure.
It’s not necessary to delete a punctuation mark to replace it with
another. As an example, to change a
comma into a period, place your cursor on the word after the comma and hit the
period key. The rules of spacing
and capitalization will automatically be followed.
To delete a punctuation mark, you may either hit the backspace key or hit
the key for the existing punctuation mark.
To delete a period, for example, place your cursor on the word following
the existing period and hit the period or backspace key on the keyboard.
The period will disappear, and so will the extra space and the capital
letter associated with it.
To insert unintelligent punctuation marks (marks which do not follow the rules
of spacing or capitalization) place the cursor between the words at the target.
For example, to insert an “unintelligent” colon in the sentence
“There was only one reason she didn’t come: her illness,”
using Standard Keys, hit Control Left or Control Right arrow (depending
on the location of the cursor) to move one character at a time till you land
between the words “come” and “her,” then hit the colon key.
(If you’re using Hyperkeys, use Shift J or L to move one character left
or right, then insert the colon.) You
will have inserted a colon which is followed by a single space and will not
capitalize the next word. To
insert punctuation marks which come in pairs (commas, quotes, single quotes,
braces, brackets, parentheses), use the Mark key (F7 Standard Keys, m Hyperkeys)
to mark the words which will be surrounded by the desired mark, then hit the
mark. For example if in the
sentence “They weren’t coming I believe till Tuesday,” if you want to
place commas around the words “I believe,” you would move your cursor to the
word “I,” hit F7 or m twice, then hit a comma.
The sentence would then read “They weren’t coming, I believe, till
Tuesday.” Eclipse
trick: Sometimes quotes surround
long passages which make marking with F7 or m impracticable.
Insert the opening quote by placing the cursor on the first word of the
quote. Move the cursor to the end
of the quote and place the cursor on the word just following the last word (or
punctuation mark) of the quote. Hold
down the shift key and hit the “ (Shift ‘) key. Each
time you hit the “ key while holding down shift, the quotation mark will
toggle its position. This makes it
easy to get the quotation mark inside colons and semicolons, for example. Finally, Eclipse offers “remote control” over punctuation marks. To change the existing punctuation mark at the end of the sentence in which your cursor is currently placed, Hit Alt P for a period, Alt Q for a question mark, or Alt D for a dash. Eclipse will find the end of the sentence and change the punctuation mark. This method works for any sentence but is particularly useful for the last sentence in a paragraph, since there is no “next word” to place your cursor on to change the last punctuation mark at the end of a paragraph. Until Next Time -- Paul Zuckerman |
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