The Preferences dialog lets you assign colors to the highlights, modify settings for highlighting items, redefine colors and select or delete comparisons.

The Settings tab allows you to set the font size for the display and control how Editomat chooses text to be highlighted by the Long Sentence, Repeated Word, and Pattern analyses. These values can be modified with the Up/Down buttons, or by typing a new value into the field.

The options supported in this tab are:

Font Size

The default size for text in the main window when Editomat starts.

Long Sentence

How many words a sentence can have before it counts as "long"

Skip words shorter than

Will not count words shorter than this when compiling the Word Usage report.

Repeat Distance

How close together words must be to count as repeating.

Pattern List

The list of patterns to search for when doing a pattern test.
Add new patterns by typing the new pattern into the list.
Each pattern is separated from others by a space.
Patterns with multiple words must be grouped with double-quotes or curly braces.
If the pattern includes a double-quote, escape that double quote with a back-slash.

The Colors tab allows you to assign colors to be used to highlight the results of the analyses.

Clicking a colored square will drop down a menu of colors to select from.

The options supported in this tab are:

First Repeating Word

The color to highlight items that match the first of a repeating word set.

Last Repeating Word

The color to highlight items that match the last of a repeating word set.

Long Sentence

The color to highlight long sentences.

Weak Words

The color to highlight weak words.

First - Tenth Pattern

The color to highlight items that match the given pattern.

The Palette tab allows you to set what colors will be used. These are the colors you can choose from in the menu created on the Colors tab.

Editomat steps through these colors when you left-click to highlight words in the sentence and word usage analyses.

The Compare tab lists the works that have been analyzed for comparison to your work. By default, every work you have added to the comparison list is selected for comparison.

You can deselect works by unsetting the checkbox before that title.

You can remove works with a Right-Click, Alt-Left-Click or Command-Left-Click, and selecting the Delete option in the dropdown.

Read the documentation on the Adding your own works for comparisons option for instructions on adding new text to be compared.

The Action Buttons at the bottom of the dialog will allow you to:

Accept

Use these values for this editing session.

Save

Save the values you select for future use

Restore Defaults

Remove any saved changes you've made and return to the initial values.

Cancel

Do not modify any values.