The applet converts text with many possible cleanups, including preparation of HTML and Java, aligning in columns, character set conversion, case converting, removing excess white space, removing blank lines, preparing regex expressions. Just paste the raw text into the upper window, click Convert then copy the converted cooked text from the lower window. When you run Quoter Amanuensis as an application, it is even more automatic. Just click Convert to convert the current contents of the clipboard. It will help you write HTML, especially HTML that talks about HTML or Java. It can be useful for creating JavaDOC that mentions the tags needed to run the program or that quotes Java source which makes common use of < > and &.