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CROSSWORD POWER (tm) CROSSWORD PUZZLE PROGRAM Evaluation Version 4.00 Program to create Crossword Puzzles from your words and clues CROSSWORD POWER (tm) is a copyrighted program distributed as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may make 1 copy of this program and documentation for a 21 day evaluation. If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses are also available. All references to SHAREWARE are removed from the registered versions of this program. To order the registered version, use the order blank that can be printed from the pull down menu. Registered owners will receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. This program can only be updated and improved when you support my efforts. for use with IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, and compatibles (320 K) (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1985-1992 WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 Modem Support is available on the Rapid River BBS (715) 435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1) MasterCard & VISA orders accepted (715) 423-8189 Voice Support is only available to registered users. The information contained in the CROSSWORD POWER program and manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by the author or WISCO COMPUTING for its use. The author or WISCO COMPUTING shall not be liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the CROSSWORD POWER program or this manual. Comments on this publication and on CROSSWORD POWER are invited. CROSSWORD POWER, WORDSEARCH POWER, VOCABULARY BINGO POWER, GRADE BOOK POWER, GRADING SKILLS POWER, AND SURVEY POWER are the trademarks of WISCO COMPUTING. The computer hardware, software, and printer names used in this manual are the trade names and/or trademarks of their respective owners. CROSSWORD POWER is a computer software program that combines entertainment and educational value. This program was originally developed for teachers to help students learn vocabulary. This program can be used by anyone who enjoys making and solving crossword puzzles. Puzzles can be created for parties, games, and study aids. Imagine the fun and interaction you can have at family reunions and baby showers with these puzzles. You could even set up your own part-time business making crosswords for business organizations and parties. Businesses and consultants have used this program for training sessions, and advertising promotions. Businesses can use this program for their internal newsletters. Restaurants can use the crossword puzzles for their place mats. ----------------------------------------------------------------- EDITING WORDS, CLUES, AND SETTING INFORMATION The Home key will place the cursor at the beginning of the current edit field. The End key will place the cursor at the end of the current edit field. Alt-D will delete the current edit field. Alt-R will restore the original information. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor within the edit field. Control-left and control-right arrow keys move the cursor to the far left or right sides of the window. The up and down arrow keys move the cursor between edit fields. Alternate-F1 displays foreign language codes, Shift-F1 displays math symbols, and control-F1 displays the Greek characters when editing. The special symbols can be included in your vocabulary words and clues by holding the alternate key down and entering the 3 digit number on the number pad of the IBM keyboard. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 3 CROSSWORD POWER is specifically designed to be simple to understand and easy to use. It requires very little knowledge of computers. No commands need to be memorized. The menus allow easy movement through the program so you can begin producing and printing puzzles in just a few minutes. Help is available by pressing the F1 function key. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible 320K One disk drive (second recommended) or hard drive Blank formatted diskette for puzzle and word list storage Letter Quality, LaserJet II, DeskJet or Graphics Printer PC-DOS or MS-DOS Version 2.1 or greater CAPABILITIES OF CROSSWORD POWER: Puzzle size can be varied from 3 to 17 columns and from 3 to 17 rows. Large squares for puzzle letters (3 1/3 per inch). Puzzles are printed in 10 pitch type. Depending on your printer, clues can be printed in either 10, 12, 15, or condensed (16.66) pitch type. Up to 80 words will be placed automatically in each puzzle. Puzzle words can be up to 17 characters long. Clues can be up to 100 characters long. Words and clues can easily be added, deleted, printed, or changed at any time. Words and clues from previously used word lists can be added automatically to displayed puzzles. Words can also be manually entered into the displayed puzzle at any time. CROSSWORD POWER also supports the optional font cartridge of the EpsonLQ printer. Downloaded fixed-width soft fonts and fixed- width font cartridges for the DeskJet and LaserJet II printers are also supported. If your monitor supports EGA screens, puzzles can also be displayed and captured as a PCX graphic. These graphics can be imported into desk top publishing (and some word processing) programs. A variety of puzzles can be created and printed from each list of words and clues. This option allows teachers to stress the same vocabulary but give different puzzles to their students. This has been a proven effective method for learning vocabulary words. CROSSWORD POWER is not copy protected. Backups of all files can be made using normal disk copying procedures. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 4 GETTING STARTED: If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses are also available. To order CROSSWORD POWER, use the order blank that can be printed from the pull down menu. Registered owners will receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. Modem Support is available on the Rapid River BBS 715-435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1) Voice support is only available to registered users. CROSSWORD POWER can only be updated and improved when you support my programming efforts. Only registered users will receive the upgrade notices and be eligible to purchase the upgrade. A QUICK TUTORIAL: 1. Insert the working copy diskette in drive A:. 2. Enter the word PUZZLE when A:> is displayed. 3. When the program is loaded, the Title Screen will appear. 4. Then the Menu Bar will appear at the top of the screen. 5. Use the right arrow key or left mouse button to go to the Settings Menu. Select Additional Settings. 6. Make the correct settings for your computer and printer. 7. Press Escape to reveal the Menu Bar. 8. Save these settings. 9. Move the cursor to the Wordlist Menu. 10. Move the cursor to Create... Enter a valid MS-DOS name that will be used to store your wordlist on diskette. 11. Then enter the subject of your word list. 12. Enter up to 80 words and related clues. When you are done, use the tab key to move to the bottom of the screen. 13. Press the letter S to Save the words and clues. 14. Move the cursor to the Puzzle Menu. 15. Select Automatic Arrangement to automatically place the puzzle words into the puzzle.. GENERAL INFORMATION: A status line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The starting square, current word list name(s), and the number of words in the current or best puzzle are displayed. When CROSSWORD POWER begins, 0 words will be displayed. The F1 function key can be pressed to reveal Help Screens. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 5 THE WORDLIST MENU: --------------------- New Load First Wordlist Second Wordlist --------------------- Create... Edit Title... Review/Change/Add Print Wordlist Manipulate Wordlist Save Wordlist --------------------- Shell to DOS --------------------- Exit --------------------- NEW: This selection removes all puzzles and word lists from the computer's memory. Since a puzzle no longer exists in the computer's memory, the status line shows 0 words. ABOUT THE WORD LISTS: Each word list can have up to 80 words and related clues. Word lists can be combined to place up to 80 words in each puzzle. Every word list may be reused in new puzzles. This allows the user to review previously learned vocabulary too. All files created by CROSSWORD POWER may be copied and erased using the normal DOS commands. ABOUT THE PUZZLE WORDS (ANSWERS): Words may be up to 17 characters long. Any character except the space, comma, asterisk *, double quote ", vertical bar |, and number sign # can be used in a puzzle word. Even numbers can be used to create math puzzles. ABOUT THE CLUES (DEFINITIONS): Each clue can be up to 100 characters long. Long clues are automatically divided if necessary. Any character except the double quote " and comma can be used in a clue. SECOND WORDLIST: Additional words from other word lists may be added to a displayed puzzle. Up to 80 words can be placed in each CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 6 puzzle. After selecting, an additional word list will be read from the diskette. CROSSWORD POWER will attempt to fit the additional words into the current puzzle. The additional words will be displayed as they are inserted into the puzzle. Duplicate words will not be entered into the puzzle. This selection may be repeated to add words from additional word lists. Pressing the Escape key while the wordlist names are displayed will remove the second wordlist. MANIPULATING THE WORDLIST: Words and clues can be automatically changed to upper and lower case letters, be sorted by length, alphabetized, and randomized. The F1 function key can be pressed to provide more information about editing the puzzle words and clues. Alternate-F1 displays foreign language codes, Shift-F1 displays math symbols, Control- F1 displays Greek characters when editing. ABOUT WORD AND CLUE FORMATTING: Puzzle words can be changed back and forth between capital and lower case letters. It is easier to work with all capital letters. However, sometimes lower case letters are necessary. For example, in chemistry, CO means Carbon Monoxide and Co means Cobalt. This program treats capital letters and lower case letters as two different letters. This means that words will not intersect at a common letter if one is a capital letter and the other is lower case letter. ABOUT SORTING, ALPHABETIZING, AND RANDOMIZING WORD ORDER: The word list order is used to determine which words are placed in a puzzle first. Changing the order of the words allows different puzzles to be created. HINTS: Placing the longest words into a puzzle first does not guarantee that more total words will be placed into a puzzle. Each time a word list is randomized, the order of the puzzle words and clues is changed. Different puzzles can be used by teachers to stress the same vocabulary words but wanting to give students different puzzles. The different puzzles allow verbal interaction to learn the puzzle words and clues. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 7 THE PUZZLE MENU: ------------------------- Automatic Arrangement Unused Words Displayed ------------------------- Load Unfinished Puzzle Self-Designed Puzzle Edit Unfinished Title Edit Puzzle Letters Edit Unfinished Clues ------------------------- Save Unfinished Puzzle ------------------------- AUTOMATIC ARRANGEMENT: When selected, a single crossword puzzle is created using your word list(s), puzzle size, and starting square. UNUSED WORDS DISPLAYED: This option allows you to display and print words from the word list that were not inserted into the puzzle. SELF-DESIGNED PUZZLE: You can design a complete puzzle from a blank grid. This puzzle is saved as an unfinished puzzle. The unfinished puzzle is loaded and saved from this menu. EDITING PUZZLE LETTERS: This selection lets you type puzzle words directly into the puzzle. You can also erase puzzle words with this selection. After making this selection, the flashing cursor will be located in the upper left corner of the puzzle. The HOME key can be used to return to this corner. Use the four arrow directional keys to move to the puzzle letter you want to enter or change. When the cursor is at the location to be changed, enter the new letter. If you make a mistake, and/or wish to delete a puzzle letter, you should enter a question mark (?) for the new letter. A blank space will replace the old letter. After pressing the END key to leave the Editing mode, asterisks will be entered at the beginning and end of each puzzle word. You should save these puzzle words. Do not put more than 80 words in the puzzle. EDITING UNFINISHED CLUES: This selection allows you to enter or revise clues in unfinished puzzles and puzzles created by automatic arrangement. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 8 THE OUTPUT MENU: ------------------------- Student Puzzle Printed Teacher Puzzle Printed Clues Only Printed ------------------------- Student Puzzle to Disk Teacher Puzzle to Disk ------------------------- Both Student & Teacher ------------------------- EGA Puzzle Display PCX Puzzle to Disk ------------------------- STUDENT PUZZLE PRINTED: The student copy of the puzzle will be printed when this option is selected. The boxes will be automatically numbered. The puzzle clues will also be automatically numbered, arranged and printed below the puzzle. TEACHER PUZZLE PRINTED: The teacher copy (answer key) will be printed when this option is selected. The puzzle words will be placed in the puzzle. The puzzle clues will be automatically numbered, arranged and printed below the puzzle. PRINTING THE PUZZLE CLUES: Only the puzzle clues will be printed using the arrangement determined by the Settings Menu. SAVING PUZZLES TO DISK: At times you may want to create a puzzle for importing to another program. These selections allow you to save the puzzles to disk as ASCII files. BOTH STUDENT & TEACHER: The teacher puzzle (answer key) will be printed with each student puzzle when this selection is made. EGA & PCX GRAPHICS PUZZLE DISPLAY: If your monitor can display EGA screens (SCREEN 9), then the puzzle can be graphically displayed. The displayed puzzle may be screen captured or saved as a PCX graphics and imported into most desk top publishing and some word processing programs. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 9 THE SETTINGS MENU: --------------------- Additional Settings Save All Settings --------------------- Select Printer Font --------------------- Additional Settings Starting Square: 1 Col. 1 Row Total Puzzle Size: 15 Col. 15 Rows Clue Pitch (10,12,15, or 17) Chars.: 10 Drive Containing Word Lists & Puz.: C:\XWORD\ Puzzle Heading - Line 1, Left Side: EARTH SCIENCE Puzzle Heading - Line 1, Right Side: EVALUATION SHAREWARE Puzzle Heading - Line 2, Right Side: NAME__________________ Puzzle Clue Arrangement: SIDE BY SIDE Automatically Capitalize the Letters: YES Printer to Print Puzzle & Clues: EPSONLQ-C ASCII Number to fill Unused Squares: 35 Set Printer to Letter Quality: YES Clue Lines Per Page ( 6 or 8): 6 Length of Paper in Inches: 11 STARTING SQUARE: If your starting square is within your puzzle size, the starting square will be changed. Your first word will be placed horizontally in your starting row before trying to find intersecting words. When attempting to find the best puzzle, the best starting square should be Column 1, Row 1. PUZZLE SIZE: Puzzle size may be varied from 3 to 17 columns wide and from 3 to 17 rows high. A typical puzzle with clues will usually fit on the normal size 8 1/2" by 11" paper. Puzzles are automatically sized before printing. This eliminates all outside rows and columns that do not contain letters. ABOUT CLUE PITCH: The DeskJet/LaserJet and EpsonLQ printers support all pitches. DeskJet/LaserJet printers may require downloading of 12 and 15 pitch fixed-width fonts for proper printing. Some supported fonts in the EpsonLQ font module are only supplied in 10 pitch. The EpsonFX printers support 10, 12, and 17 pitch. All printers support 10 pitch. All printers except the EpsonMX support 12 pitch. The 17 pitch selection is actually condensed (16.67) pitch. Proportional spaced fonts are not supported. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 10 ABOUT THE PRINTER: The following printers can be used by CROSSWORD POWER: EpsonMX Diablo 630 IBM Proprinter EpsonRX Okidata Panasonic KX-P1091i EpsonFX Toshiba P1351 H-P DeskJet, DeskJet Plus EpsonLQ NEC 3550 H-P LaserJet II, IIP, III Many of these printers support either a solid black, checkers pattern, or your character to fill in the unused puzzle squares. Additional printers may also be supported. Across and down clues will be automatically balanced and formatted below each puzzle grid. Clues can be printed with either 10 or 12 characters per inch. The EpsonLQ, DeskJet family, and LaserJet II printers also support 15 and 16.66 (condensed) characters per inch. The EpsonLQ optional font module is supported giving the user six additional fonts. The LaserJet II and DeskJet printers have built in fixed-width Courier 10 and 16.67 pitch fonts. Printing 12 and 15 pitch clues require downloaded fixed width fonts or fixed width font cartridges. Included on the distribution disk are two batch files for downloading Courier 12 and 15 pitch soft fonts to the printers. To download these fonts to the DeskJet family printers type DJCFONTS at the DOS command line. To download these fonts to the LaserJet II and later printers, type LJCFONTS at the DOS command line. Then run CROSSWORD POWER. Puzzles are always printed in 10 pitch/12 point fonts. Other typefaces and font sizes can be used for the clues. The puzzle and clues will be printed in the same typeface. Other typefaces should use the PC-8 character set which include the line draw characters. If the printer can not find a font, it will make a substitution. The puzzle size can be manipulated if it is captured as an EGA graphic file and imported into a desktop publishing program or Word Perfect version 5.1. User Defined Printers can also be used. Consult your printer manual to find the proper codes for these features: 1. Master Reset 5. 12 Pitch On 9. Doublestrike OFF 2. 6 Lines per Inch 6. Underline ON 10. Unidirection ON 3. 8 Lines per Inch 7. Underline OFF 11. Unidirection OFF 4. 10 Pitch On 8. Doublestrike ON Paper length can be selected at either 11, 14, or 99 inches. Ninety-nine is used for continuous paper. The paper advances about 2 inches after using the continuous paper setting. CROSSWORD POWER MANUAL Page 11 THE MULTIPLE MENU: --------------------------- Find Best Single Puzzle Find & Print Best Single --------------------------- THE BEST SINGLE PUZZLE: The program will search through different word arrangements to find the best single puzzle. If Find & Print Best Single is selected, the best puzzle will be printed automatically after the search is completed. If the Escape key is pressed during the search for the best puzzle, the program will return to the pull down menus. Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. 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