April 2001

Entering Your Own Recipes Into NYC

You can enter new recipes using the recipe edit window, but this window is intended primarily for modifications.  Here are faster ways to enter your own recipes into NYC cookbooks:

1.      type recipes into the Screen Import window (Recipes… Screen Import…), identify recipe components, then press Import;

2.      type recipes into the Screen Import window in NYC’s generic text format, then press Import;

3.      scan recipes and save them in a text file using your scanner’s OCR (optical character recognition) feature, touch up the file into NYC generic text format (see generic.txt for examples) using a text editor, then import text file using File… Import Recipes…;

4.      type recipes into a text file using NYC's generic text format, then import text file using File… Import Recipes….

 See previous NYC Tips


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