Document splitting and merging
Split Document
If your document is too long, you can split it into two chapters.
Operation
To split a document, just right-click in the editor and select Split at Cursor, as shown in the following figure:
You can also select a piece of text and right-click. At this time, you can Split with Selection as Title, as shown in the following figure:
When the chapter is divided, the document will be divided into two parts from the cursor (or the beginning of the selected content), the former part will remain in the original document, and the latter part (including the selected content) will be the content of the new document, the title of the new document will be the selected content.
Cursor Position
When dividing an article, sometimes you may need to know the position of the cursor, such as how many characters are in front of the cursor and how many characters are in the whole article, so as to control the length of the new chapter when dividing. Then the function of displaying the cursor position will be useful.
The cursor position is hidden by default and can be opened in the word count panel at the bottom left of the editor, as shown in the following figure:
After turning on Show cursor position, you can see something like Paragraph: 361 / 636 Position: 23,457 / 36,211 in the editor status bar section. The Paragraph represents the paragraph number / total number of paragraphs where the cursor is currently located, including empty paragraphs (empty lines); the Position represents number of characters before the cursor / total number of characters.
Merge Documents
You can also merge two or more documents into a single one as needed.
To merge documents, just select the documents you want to merge in the directory tree on the left panel, then right-click and select Merge Documents, as shown in the following figure:
Merging documents does the following:
- Merge the contents of the selected documents and save them into the first document in the list of selected documents;
- Merge the comments of the selected documents and save them into the comments of the first document in the list of selected documents;
- Move the selected documents except the first document to the trashcan.
By default, when documents are merged, two newlines are added between the two chapters before and after for clearer display. You can set how many line breaks you need in the options settings, as shown in the following image:
If you set the number of blank lines to 0, then when merging documents, the documents will be joined together without adding blank lines.