The convert menu may be confusing and dangerous without first becoming familiar with its purposes, and how each item works. Therefore, I’m writing up this help file to help you understand, but if you can read Python, I strongly recommend just looking at what the source code does, for the present. If you don’t know Python, or if you don’t want to interpret the source code, contact the developer for an explanation of the functionality. The item that begs explanation most is probably ‘Numbers to password text’. This allows you to select numbers written out in your text editor and enter a password. The password text is used to create a new counting system, and the numbers are converted to this new system.

The first set of menu items pertains to counting systems, such as Roman numerals, and the system used to count columns in most spreadsheet software. Some of these items also pertain to creating your own counting systems and to using custom counting systems to encode or decode text.

Although you may have other purposes for some of them, the second and third sets of menu items are used for formatting plain text e-books (such as you might find at Project Gutenberg) in certain ways, including as HTML that might be suitable for such as Kindle Direct Publishing (for those who want to take the HTML approach, rather than the traditional method). If you actually happen to want to publish such with Kindle Direct Publishing, know that you may have to provide annotations or illustrations, unless their policy has changed since I last checked. Also, realize that you will have to convert things in the right order, or it may be messed up (and not necessarily obviously so). These methods are not optimized to work with every kind of book, nor with every book of a particular type. They should work with very many novels, however.