Saving a Selection

JPh1 · Post by **JPh1** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 8:54 am

When revising a document, it's useful to assign to a Selection the parts of the text one might keep for a new version. The fragments are still embedded in the whole text and the blue hatching makes it easy to work with.

For a long document it can take some time to carve such a selection using Include and Exclude. It would therefore be useful to have the option to save the result.

One workaround is to create a new style for the Selected text, but it would be more natural to keep the Selection. Besides, the nice hatching is not a style formatting option, as far as I can see.

Post by **Robert** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:32 am

When you have locked various fragments of text, you can reselect any or all of the locked items within the Control Board Selection panel with Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click, or Ctrl+A as you would in the document window.
When the locked items of interest are selected within the Control Board Selection panel, you can use the “Reselect locked fragment” button on the bottom toolbar of this same Selection panel. The locked fragments will be reselected within the document window.

You can then save the current document selection to a new document

(Save selection as… Ctrl+Shift+F12)

Alternatively, you can append the current document selection to the Clippy Bank

(Append to Clippy Bank)

HTH
Cheers
Robert

JPh1 · Post by **JPh1** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:19 am

Thanks but the point was that when exiting AWP the locked Selection is lost.

When starting a new session it would be nice instead to find the document in the exact same state it was before exiting, Selection included.

Rather than a temporary editing tool, a Selection could be seen as a more permanent collection of fragments that track a particular component of the text, such as a story line for instance. In that context, having several Selections, with different hatching colors, would not be a bad thing either.

Post by **Robert** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:09 am

You can append your choice of locked selections to the Clippy Bank. Anything appended to the Clippy Bank is kept until you delete it yourself.

You can also reselect your choice of locked selections and apply any suitable highlight color. This is document formatting and would be kept in the saved document.

You could create several preset formats in the Format Palette with specific highlight colors, and apply each format to the appropriate text fragments. This would be kept in the saved document.

All the fragments with distinctive highlight color can be reselected through Ctrl+F. And saved to a different document.

JPh1 · Post by **JPh1** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:12 pm

Selected fragments appended to the bank are saved as a block of text. When the document is reopened, and the locked Selection is lost, the location of those fragments in the text they came from is also lost. You can't go back and revisit that selection in the original context, add or remove fragments, etc. Same thing if the selected fragments are added to the Clip library.

Post by **Robert** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:39 pm

What you actually need is the Track Changes feature. This isn’t yet available in Atlantis.

Until then, you could perfectly well use highlight colors to mark text appropriately.

You could also apply the strikeout format to text meant for removal.

JPh1 · Post by **JPh1** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:41 pm

What I was trying to emulate if the equivalent of Scrivener Collections which do not alter the original text (http://www.simplyscrivener.com/tag/collections/).