Embedding special characters

By using the Insert/Special menu pictured above, it is possible to embed certain characters in the expanded text (but only when the cursor is blinking in the large right-hand pane, not in the cell in the Clipping column). These are:

%| - a special syntax to tell TypeIt4Me where to position the cursor after expansion
Example: b could be defined as <b>%|</b>%- and would expand to <b></b> with the cursor placed between the html tags, ready for you to type the text to be tagged as bold in a web page you are editing.
Notice the use of %| to move the cursor left between the begin/end html tags and the use of %- at the end of the expanded text to tell TypeIt4Me NOT to add the trigger after expanding the abbreviation or else it would come out as <b> </b>, with a space (or whatever your chosen trigger) just after the <b> tag.

%< - a special syntax to move the cursor one position to the LEFT
%^- a special syntax to move the cursor UP one position
%>- a special syntax to move the cursor one position to the RIGHT
%v- a special syntax to move the cursor DOWN one position

a special symbol to represent a backspace (e.g. if you define g to type <backspace>ing you'll be able to stick the ing ending to any previously typed verb, saving you a keystroke)
a special symbol to represent a TAB that will be typed separately from the rest of the clipping (very useful to create clippings that fill two or more tab-separated fields or cells)
a special symbol to represent a Carriage Return (also called Enter) that will be typed separately from the rest of the clipping (very useful to "press" the Send, OK or Login button when filling in forms)

a special symbol to tell TypeIt4Me to insert the current contents of the Clipboard at that position

%- a special syntax to tell TypeIt4Me NOT to append the trigger that caused the abbreviation to expand
%+ a special syntax to tell TypeIt4Me that it MUST append the trigger that caused the abbreviation to expand

The two above settings are useful to override the general choice of Append/Don't Append Trigger on an abbreviation by abbreviation basis.

Also note that in order to get one % sign to appear in the expanded text, you need to insert two (%%) in the clipping.

Finally, using the Clippings submenu, you can embed other clippings to appear (expanded of course) within the expanded text.