Advanced library mode is set up with the %%L" setup directive (note uppercase). This directive enables you to specify the folder that WintextCom uses for the library, which by default is "library" in the WintextCom home folder. To enable advanced library mode, follow the library folder specification with one or two oblique strokes, followed optionally by a second folder specification that designates an alternative base folder to be used by Library Manager the first time it is invoked after WintextCom starts up.

Designating a Library Manager startup folder that is separate from the WintextCom Library itself can be convenient if you want to use the main library for additional types of document, such as zips and PDF's, while reserving a secondary folder for files specifically intended to be read with the WintextCom Reader or user-defined Document Reader, which in general are plain text. You can enable advanced library mode without specifying a secondary folder, but you cannot have a secondary folder without also enabling advanced mode.

If there is only one oblique stroke between the regular library specification and the secondary specification, or at the end of the directive if you do not want a secondary folder, general browsing is enabled but Library Manager still only shows files with a ".txt" extension. Use a second oblique stroke to display all files. You can access non-text-based files from within Library Manager by pressing Control+Shift+Backspace to open them in their associated program. Displaying all files will become more useful in the future when more formats are made directly readable with the WintextCom Reader.

If the secondary path is specified without drive and full path specification, it is taken to be relative to the library folder. It does not have to be part of the library, however, you can specify a full path to use a folder in a completely different location. The secondary folder must pre-exist, it is not automatically created.

For example, the default setting is:

"%Llibrary".

To enable general browsing and associate a folder called "__texts" branching off the library, use:

"%Llibrary/__texts".

Do not enter the quotes. If one or both of the required folders includes spaces, enclose everything in double quotes starting after the directive, "%L".

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Setting up Advanced Library Mode