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                    PART 2--EXPLORING WRITER'S HEAVEN--A TUTORIAL


               Writer's Heaven is easy to learn, because it is based on an
          "intuitive" command-key layout. This section will let you quickly
          get the "feel" of the program and begin using it, while Part 3
          will add details.

               GETTING READY

               -- If you have not already done so, create a Writer's Heaven
          workdisk or hard disk directory according to the directions in
          Part 1 of this document.

               -- Now make a copy of an existing text file (for instance,
          the STORY document on the PC-Write program disk) to experiment
          with. Call it to the screen for editing with your Writer's Heaven
          workdisk or hard disk directory. With a workdisk in drive A and
          the text file in drive B, the command would be
                              A>ED B:FILENAME (RETURN)
          followed by ESCAPE to display the file.

               If you have a monochrome or single-color CRT monitor, the
          first difference due to Writer's Heaven you are likely to notice
          is that it reverses the video on your screen so that you are
          reading dark on light. YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO TURN DOWN THE
          BRIGHTNESS ON YOUR MONITOR. Reverse video is much more attractive
          and easy on your eyes than is the normal display. (See under
          ADDITIONAL FEATURES in Part 3 for a fuller discussion of reverse
          video, including instructions on how to remove it if you don't
          like it.)

               -- I recommend that you leave PC-Write's automatic
          reformatting function turned off. (See A NOTE ON AUTOMATIC
          REFORMATTING in Part 1.) To reformat during the following
          session, use the Writer's Heaven enhanced reformatting command,
          Alt-H. This command reformats the entire paragraph, both above
          and below the cursor.

               All Writer's Heaven commands are executed on the main
          portion of the keyboard--the "typewriter keys." No command
          requires moving either hand away from its place on the keyboard--
          though some require stretching.
               In the remainder of this discussion, "main row" is the name
          given to the row of keys on which the hands normally rest in
          standard typing position; the "high row" is the row of letter
          keys just above the main row; and the "low row" is the row of
          letter and punctuation keys just below the main row. The topmost
          row of keys, containing the numeral keys, is not specially
          employed by Writer's Heaven 1.1.



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   | |[ S ]  [ D ]  [ F ] ||   |  |   | |[ J ]  [ K ]  [ L ] ||   |  |   |
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               EXPLORING THE UNIT KEYS

               You are now ready to explore the first of three kinds of
          command keys used by Writer's Heaven. This first group, forming
          the foundation of Writer's Heaven, is the UNIT KEYS.

               -- Using normal PC-Write command keys, move the cursor to
          a portion of text in the center of the screen.

               -- Position your hands on the main row of the keyboard, in
          normal typing position. Without shifting your other fingers,
          press the Control key with your left little finger, and keep it
          down.

               -- Now press first the key under your left index finger
          (Ctrl-F), then the key under your right index finger (Ctrl-J).
          You will see the cursor first move by one character to the left,
          then by one character to the right. These are the CHARACTER KEYS.

               -- Next--with the Control key still down--press first the
          key under your left middle finger (Ctrl-D), then the key under
          your right middle finger (Ctrl-K). The cursor will move forward
          and backward by one word. These are the WORD KEYS.

               -- Next press the LINE KEYS, under your ring fingers (Ctrl-S
          and Ctrl-L). These will take you to the left margin and to the
          end of the line of text, respectively.

               -- The SENTENCE KEYS are on the high row just above the
          CHARACTER KEYS, and are pressed by the index fingers again
          (Ctrl-R and Ctrl-U). They move the cursor forward and back by
          sentence.

               -- The PARAGRAPH KEYS, above the WORD KEYS, move the cursor
          by paragraph (Ctrl-E and Ctrl-I).

               Notice that the layout of these UNIT KEYS is directional:
          left-hand keys move the cursor "left and up," while right-hand
          keys move the cursor "right and down." Also notice that the two
          sets of keys are mirror images of each other. (Directionality and
          mirroring are two unique features that make Writer's Heaven such
          an effective yet simple editing tool.)



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               Also notice that Writer's Heaven moves the cursor to a
          unit's beginning point. If the cursor is initially somewhere
          within a unit, the left-hand UNIT KEY will move the cursor to the
          beginning of that same unit.
               The UNIT KEYS are used with any of several other keys in
          what is called a "command matrix"--the third distinctive feature
          of Writer's Heaven. You have just explored the cursor movement
          commands assigned to these keys with Control. The same UNIT KEYS
          are used with Alt to delete.

               -- Try all the UNIT KEYS once again, but this time let your
          left little finger hold down Alt instead of Control. (You
          may have to stretch and tilt your hand to reach some of the left-
          hand UNIT KEYS, but try not to move your hand out of position.)
          This time you will see the units deleted, left and right.
          (WARNING: Because of present limitations in PC-Write's definition
          of a sentence, the DELETE SENTENCE macros are buggy!)
               Reformat the paragraphs as needed with Alt-H.

               Notice that deletions too operate to the beginnings of
          units. If the cursor begins in the middle of the unit, the
          deletion occurs between the cursor and the previous or next
          beginning of such a unit.
               In Writer's Heaven, Alt is used exclusively for
          deletion and reformatting.
               Later, you will explore a transposition function using the
          UNIT KEYS.



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     _ _    _ _    _ _    ___    ___    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _
   ||   |  |   |  |   | |( T )  ( Y ) ||   |  |   |  |   | ||   |  |   |  |   |
   ||_ _|  |_ _|  |_ _| |(___)  (___) ||_ _|  |_ _|  |_ _| ||_ _|  |_ _|  |_ _|
  _ \  _ _    _ _    ___ \  ___    ___ \  ___    _ _    _ _ \  _ _    _ _
   | ||   |  |   |  ( F ) |( G )  ( H ) |( J )  |   |  |   | ||   |  |   |
  _| ||_ _|  |_ _|  (___) |(___)  (___) |(___)  |_ _|  |_ _| ||_ _|  |_ _|
   _ _\   ___    ___    ___\   ___    ___\   ___    _ _    _ _\   _ _
  |   |  ( X )  ( C )  ( V )  ( B )  ( N )  ( M )  |   |  |   |  |   |
  |_ _|  (___)  (___)  (___)  (___)  (___)  (___)  |_ _|  |_ _|  |_ _|


               EXPLORING THE SCREEN KEYS

               The second group of Writer's Heaven command keys is the
          SCREEN KEYS. These are simple cursor movement command keys, used
          with Control. They include several sub-groups.
               The first subgroup is the CURSOR KEYS, which duplicate the
          arrow keys to the right of the main keyboard. In Writer's Heaven,
          these form an upside-down "T" in the center of the keyboard. The
          CURSOR KEYS for right and left movement are actually the CHARACTER
          KEYS doing double duty.

               -- With your hands again in normal typing position, and your
          left little finger on Control, press in succession Ctrl-Y,
          Ctrl-H, Ctrl-F, and Ctrl-J. These commands will take you
          respectively up, down, left, and right.

               The second subgroup is the SCROLL KEYS, forming a vertical
          pair, also in the center of the keyboard.

               -- Press and hold down Ctrl-G; next, Ctrl-T. These will
          scroll the screen down and up.

               The BIG JUMP KEYS are located on the low row. The first two
          pairs described below, like the UNIT KEYS, are directional and
          mirrored.

               -- Press Ctrl-B, then Ctrl-N, to move to the beginning then
          end of the document.

               -- Press Ctrl-V, then Ctrl-M, to move backward and forward
          by screen.

               The remaining left-hand low-row keys are BOOKMARK (Ctrl-C;
          described in Part 3) and GO BACK (Ctrl-X). The GO BACK KEY is
          used if you accidentally jump to another part of the document. It
          usually can return you to your original position.



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     _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    ___    ___    ___    ___
   |! W !  |   |  |   | ||   |  |   | ||   |  |   |  ! O ! |! P !  ! { !  ! } !
   |!___!  |_ _|  |_ _| ||_ _|  |_ _| ||_ _|  |_ _|  !___! |!___!  !_[_!  !_]_!
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   | ||   |  |   |  |   | ||   |  ! H ! ||   |  |   |  |   | ||   |  |   |
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               EXPLORING THE ACTION KEYS

               The final group of Writer's Heaven command keys is the
          ACTION KEYS. Except for the REFORMAT KEY (Alt-H), the ACTION KEYS
          are high-row keys pressed by the right-hand little finger and the
          ring fingers.
               The ACTION KEYS are actually miscellaneous function keys
          that operate in any of several ways. Some simply duplicate
          operations of the PC-Write function keys, while located more
          conveniently. Others are the first key in a set of "two-key"
          combinations. All such two-key combinations are "sticky," meaning
          the first key is pressed then released before the second key is
          pressed.
               The SYMBOL KEY is pressed as the first key in a set of
          combinations that insert font and other special characters in the
          text. These SYMBOL-key combinations replace their respective
          Alt-key counterpart commands in PC-Write.

               -- With your left-hand little finger on Control, press and
          release the SYMBOL KEY, Ctrl-W. Then press Ctrl-I to insert an
          italic font character.

               -- Continue by successively pressing first the SYMBOL KEY
          then Ctrl-B for a boldface font character; Ctrl-G for the
          guideline font (plus a period); and Ctrl-T for a hard page-break
          symbol.

               The OTHER KEY--located at the letter O key--is used in a set
          of two-key combinations providing alternate functions for many
          command keys. These alternate functions are detailed in Part 3.

               -- Try the OTHER KEY with some right-hand UNIT KEYS. Press
          and release Ctrl-OTHER, then Ctrl-UNIT KEY; or Alt-OTHER, then
          Alt-UNIT KEY.

               The EDIT KEY--located at the P key--combines the functions
          mark, move, copy, delete, and undelete, for block operations. The
          CLEAR KEY--Ctrl-]--removes marking.

               -- Press Ctrl-P (equivalent to PC-Write's F6) to begin
          marking. Move the cursor using one or more UNIT KEYS. Finish
          marking by pressing Ctrl-P again. Move the cursor elsewhere



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          outside the marked area. Press Ctrl-P again to move the marked
          block to the cursor.

               -- Again move the cursor to elsewhere outside the marked
          area. Press and release Ctrl-O (the OTHER KEY) then Ctrl-P to
          insert a copy of the marked block at the cursor. (This
          combination is equivalent to PC-Write's F3.)

               -- Remove the marking with the CLEAR KEY (Ctrl-]).

               -- Again begin marking with Ctrl-P (the EDIT KEY). Move the
          cursor with the UNIT KEYS. Press Alt-P (equivalent to F4) to
          delete the marked area.

               -- Press Alt-OTHER-EDIT (Alt-O then Alt-P). The deleted text
          reappears. Remove the marking with the CLEAR KEY (Ctrl-]).

               The remaining ACTION KEY is the SWAP KEY--Ctrl-[--perhaps
          the most powerful key in Writer's Heaven, with no equivalent in
          PC-Write--or perhaps in any other word processing program. As the
          first key in a set of two-key combinations, the SWAP KEY
          transposes entire units forward or back.

               -- To move a word to the left, place the cursor at the
          beginning of the word following it. Press and release the SWAP
          KEY (Ctrl-[), then the WORD LEFT KEY (Ctrl-D). The word to the
          left of the cursor will move one word to its left, and the cursor
          will move into position to move the same word again. Continue to
          transpose the word to the left by repeating the SWAP-WORD LEFT
          combination. (You will not be able to shift the word to the line
          above if automatic reformatting is on.)

               -- To move a word to the right, place the cursor at the
          beginning of the word. Press and release the SWAP KEY (Ctrl-[),
          then the WORD RIGHT KEY (Ctrl-K). The word the cursor is on will
          move to the right by one word, with the cursor in position to
          transpose the same word again. Continue to transpose the word to
          the right by repeating the SWAP-WORD RIGHT combination. (You will
          not be able to shift the word to the line below if automatic
          reformatting is on.)

               -- Try the same operations using the other UNIT KEYS. To
          move a unit to the left, the cursor must be at the beginning of
          the unit following the unit to be moved. To move a unit to the
          right, the cursor must be at the beginning of the unit to be
          moved. (WARNING: Because of present limitations in PC-Write's
          definition of a sentence, the SWAP SENTENCE macros are buggy!)

               You now know enough about Writer's Heaven to begin using it.
          For technical details and additional commands, turn to Part 3.


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