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GALAXY
Reference Guide
Copyright (C) 1989 by Omniverse Software Corp.
All Rights Reserved
Omniverse Software Corp.
P.O. Box 1570
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(206) 385-1133
Toll Free Order Line: 1-800-365-7627
LICENSE AGREEMENT
The GALAXY Word Processing Program is protected by United States
Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. All rights
are reserved. Non-registered users of GALAXY are licensed only to
use the program on a trial basis for the sole purpose of
determining whether or not it meets their requirements. All
other use requires registration.
Any other use of non-registered copies of GALAXY by any person,
business, corporation, government organization, or any other
entity is strictly forbidden and is a violation of this license
agreement.
Registration permits a user a license to use GALAXY on a single
computer.
All users are granted a limited license to copy GALAXY Version
2.43 for the trial use of others, with the following additional
conditions:
GALAXY must be distributed in unmodified, complete
form, including this Reference Guide and License
Agreement.
GALAXY may not be distributed in conjunction with any
other product, without written permission from
OmniVerse.
No fee, other than a bonafide disk duplicating fee not
to exceed $6.00, may be charged for GALAXY.
WARRANTY
OMNIVERSE makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied,
including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability
and/or fitness for a particular purpose. OMNIVERSE shall not be
liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special or
consequential arising from a failure of this program to operate
in the manner desired by the user. OMNIVERSE shall not be liable
for any damage to data or property which may be caused directly
or indirectly by use of the program.
IN NO EVENT WILL OMNIVERSE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING
ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE
THE PROGRAM, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
The License Agreement and Warranty shall be construed,
interpreted and governed by the laws of the state of Washington.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction...........................5
Getting Started........................6
Setting Up GALAXY......................7
Starting GALAXY........................8
Using the Pulldown Menus..............10
Managing Files........................12
The Directory Command.................15
Entering Text.........................16
Reformatting Text.....................18
Cursor Movement.......................19
Formatting Your Text..................21
Entering Printer Codes................22
Using Block Commands..................23
Windows...............................24
Macros................................26
Appendix A:
Wordstar Files........................28
Appendix B:
Printer Description Files.............29
Appendix C:
Headers and Footers...................30
Appendix D:
Command Reference.....................31
Appendix E:
Using a Mouse with GALAXY.............53
Appendix F:
Quick Commands........................54
Appendix G:
Wordstar Commands.....................55
Appendix H:
Registration..........................56
Index.................................58
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 5
INTRODUCTION
GALAXY is a fast, RAM-based word processor that offers a wealth
of features designed to make the program powerful yet extremely
easy to learn and use. GALAXY offers users a choice of using
menus or quick keyboard commands for all of the major program
functions. With GALAXY you're never stuck with a cumbersome menu
system for commands you already know, and you're never stuck with
a confusing command based system for commands you use less often.
GALAXY has a very short learning curve. GALAXY's logical, easy
to use, easy to learn commands are the result of considerable
research into how people really use word processors. If you have
experience using any full-featured word processing program,
you'll be up and running with GALAXY in no time. If you're brand
new to computer word processing or to IBM compatible computers,
you'll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you'll be able to
learn all the advanced features of GALAXY.
We believe GALAXY is among the very best word processors at any
price. Omniverse is also determined to be a leader in Customer
Support. We offer free telephone support and a 24-hour Bulletin
Board for online support at any time. We also listen to our
users. Many suggestions from earlier versions of GALAXY have been
incorporated into this latest release.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 6
GETTING STARTED
GALAXY requires an IBM PC or close compatible with 192K, one disk
drive, a color/graphics or monochrome card and monitor, and a
printer. Before you start using GALAXY, you should be familiar
with your computer. You need to know how to load DOS, how to make
a copy of a diskette, and how to load and run a program.
The GALAXY Program Disk
Your GALAXY program disk includes the following files:
G243.ARC Archived program and support files.
ARCE.COM Used to extract files from GALAXY.ARC
INSTALL.EXE Installation program.
You should make a backup copy of your GALAXY program disk, and
store the original in a safe place. Never use your original
GALAXY program disk as your working copy.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 7
SETTING UP GALAXY
1. With your computer turned off, open the door
to Drive A, and insert your DOS disk.
2. Close the door to Drive A and turn on your
computer.
3. If DOS asks you for the date, enter the date in the
following format: mm-dd-yy, or mm/dd/yy, and then
press Enter.
4. If DOS asks you for the time, enter the time
in the following format: 8:30 or 20:30, and then
press Enter.
5. When A> appears on the screen, remove the DOS
disk from Drive A and insert your working copy of
the GALAXY Program Disk, and close the disk drive
door.
6. Type INSTALL and then press Enter.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 8
STARTING GALAXY
Floppy Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type A: and
press Enter if you don't see the DOS prompt, A>.
2. Insert your copy of the GALAXY program disk in
Drive A. Type GALAXY and then press Enter.
Hard Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type cd and then
type the name of the directory you copied your
GALAXY files to with INSTALL. For example, if the
directory is called Text, you would type cd Text.
Then press Enter.
2. Type GALAXY and then press Enter.
3. On a Hard Disk System, you can use the DOS Path
command to start GALAXY from any DOS prompt. For
more information on the DOS Path command, consult
your DOS manual.
The GALAXY opening screen will appear after the program is
loaded. Please read the opening screen. A window will open at
the bottom of the screen that asks you for the name of a file to
edit. You can enter a filename here, or simply press the Enter
or Esc key to continue.
If you enter a filename to edit, GALAXY will load the file into
the computer's memory, and the GALAXY editing screen will then be
displayed. If the filename that you enter is not found on disk,
the message "File is new. Continue? <Y/N>" will be displayed. If
you enter Y, a file with the name you gave will be created. More
information on loading and saving files can be found in the
chapter entitled Managing Files.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 9
The top two lines of your screen are used to display status
information. Two keys to remember are:
F1: HELP
F10: MENU
The next chapter explains the use of the Pulldown Menus,
activated by pressing the F10 key. The F1 key takes you directly
to the Help Menu.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 10
THE PULLDOWN MENUS
To Activate Menus: Press the F10 key.
To Leave The Menu Bar: Press the ESC key.
GALAXY offers a complete Pulldown Menu system for entering
commands. These menus allow you to use the full power of GALAXY
almost immediately, without having to memorize keyboard commands.
To activate the menus, press F10. The Menu Bar will appear at
the top of the screen, and the first heading, File, will be
highlighted. You can press the left or right arrow keys to move
the highlight to any of the other menu headings. Pressing Enter
will "pull down" the menu of commands underneath the highlighted
heading. A list of GALAXY commands associated with that menu
heading will be shown.
Once the Menu Bar is activated, the menus can also be pulled down
by pressing the capitalized letter of any menu heading, whether
or not that heading is highlighted. This method automatically
pulls down the menu without pressing the Enter key.
The commands in a Pulldown Menu can be executed in the same way,
either by highlighting your choice using the up or down arrow key
or by typing the capitalized letter in each selection.
Once any menu is pulled down, the right or left arrow keys will
display the pulled down menu to the right or left of the current
menu. Pressing the Esc key causes the Pulldown Menu to
disappear. The next press of the Esc key will cause you to exit
from the Menu Bar and return to the text window.
When you become more familiar with GALAXY you may find it easier
to enter commands directly from the keyboard. Most of the menu
commands have a corresponding quick command listed next to them.
The quick commands are not active while you are in the menu
system, but they will help you learn how to bypass the menu
system and issue commands directly from the text window. The
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 11
quick keys that perform commands you use often will be easy to
learn, allowing you extremely fast editing. For example,
Alt-R for Right margin
Alt-C to Center text
F2 to Save a file
But GALAXY doesn't force you to memorize every command. Press
the F1 key for help with the quick commands you use less often,
or press the F10 key to use the Pulldown Menus.
Detailed information on each of the Menu Commands is contained in
the Command Reference section of this manual.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 12
MANAGING FILES
The Logged Drive or Directory
Unless you specify a different drive or directory, GALAXY will
always attempt to load and save files from either the current
directory, or the default directory specified in the Defaults
Menu.
If you have a computer with two floppy disks, you would probably
want to configure GALAXY to always use the B: drive for text
files.
To set a default logged drive or directory:
Press F10 to activate the Pulldown Menus.
Press D, or use the right arrow key to move
to the Defaults Menu. If you use the arrow
key, when Defaults is highlighted, press
Enter.
Press D, or use the down arrow key to move
to the "Default directory" command. If you
use the arrow key, when "Default directory"
is highlighted, press Enter.
Type in the drive or directory to be used
for saving and loading GALAXY documents.
Choose "saVe parameter file" to record the
logged drive in your parameter file.
To temporarily change the logged drive or directory:
Press F10 to activate the Pulldown Menus.
Press F, or use the right arrow key to move
to the File Menu. If you use the arrow key,
when File is highlighted, press Enter.
Press L, or use the down arrow key to move
to the "set Logged dir" command. If you use
the arrow key, when "set Logged dir" is
highlighted, press Enter.
Type in the drive or directory to be used
for saving and loading GALAXY documents.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 13
LOADING FILES
GALAXY can retrieve a file from any disk or subdirectory of your
disk. When you first start GALAXY, or when you choose Open from
the File Menu, or use the F3 command, a window appears near the
bottom of the screen asking you for the name of the file you wish
to edit.
For example, to open the file "Anyfile.Doc" which is on the
logged drive or directory, just type the complete file name like
this:
Anyfile.Doc Enter
If the file is located on another drive or directory, you can
include that information, too:
C:\Files\Anyfile.Doc Enter
If GALAXY can't find a file with the name you give, the message
"File is new. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Pressing Y will
create a new file with the name you gave and take you to the text
window to begin editing. Pressing N will also take you to the
text window, but no file name will be specified until you use the
"Save" command.
You can automatically open a file to edit when you first start
GALAXY, like this:
GALAXY Anyfile.Doc Enter
If you include the file name to open when you first start GALAXY,
GALAXY will look for that file on the current drive or directory,
or use the drive or directory you include with the file name.
You can also "pick" a file from the Directory display. You can
get to the Directory display in two ways:
1. Press F4, or choose "Directory" from the File Menu.
Enter a wildcard file specification, such as
"*.DOC", "*.*", etc.
2. Enter a wildcard file specification instead of a
file name when opening a file. This can also be
done from the command line when you first start
GALAXY.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 14
SAVING FILES
When you finish working with a document that you want to use
again at a later time, you can save the file on your disk.
You can use the "Save" command from the File Menu, or the F2
command, to store an exact copy of your document on your disk. If
you are saving a new document and haven't entered the name of the
file before, GALAXY will ask you for the name to give the file.
You can also use the "save As" command from the File Menu to save
your file with a new name. This option is useful if you have a
template, or "boilerplate" document that you want to modify and
save without altering the original file.
When you choose the save As command you will be prompted to enter
a new file name, and your original file will not be changed.
With either the Save or save As command, a backup copy of your
original file is created. This file will have the same name as
your original file, but with the extension .BAK. For example,
when you save the file Anyfile.Doc, a backup file called
Anyfile.BAK will also be saved.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 15
THE DIRECTORY COMMAND
You can see a list of the files on your disk by choosing the
Directory command from the File Menu or by using the Quick
Command, F4.
Use the *.* mask to see all the files, or enter a new mask, like
this:
Mask Shows
*.Doc All files with a .Doc extension
B:*.* All files on the B: drive
\Text\*.* All files in the Text subdirectory
GALAXY will look for the files in the current directory, unless
you add a drive or directory in the mask.
You can also "pick" a file from the Directory display. Just
highlight the file you want to load, and press Enter.
You can also get to the Directory display by entering a wildcard
file specification instead of a file name when opening a file.
This can also be done from the command line when you first start
GALAXY. For example, if you type "GALAXY *.DOC" from the DOS
prompt, the program will display the directory of all files with
an extension of "DOC". Highlight the one you wish to load, and
press Enter.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 16
ENTERING TEXT
A word processor lets you enter text much like you do with a
typewriter, with several important differences.
Word Wrap
When the text you are typing reaches the right margin, GALAXY
automatically "wraps" the next word down to the beginning of the
next line. You don't need to press Enter at the end of a line
unless you want to start a new paragraph. You can turn Word wrap
on or off from the Defaults Menu.
After a line is "wrapped", the text will be positioned on the
next line at the left margin. If Autoindent is active, the text
will be lined up with the line above it.
Insert and Overtype
Pressing the Ins key toggles GALAXY between Insert and Overtype
modes. With Insert on, whatever you type is inserted at the
point where the cursor is, pushing other text to the left or the
right.
In overtype mode, as the name implies, new text you type in
replaces existing text.
GALAXY shows you which mode you are in by the size of the cursor
block. A large cursor signifies Insert mode, a small cursor,
Overtype mode.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 17
Automatic and Fixed Tabs
If you specify a tab size of 0 from the Defaults menu, tab stops
will be calculated automatically. When you press the Tab key,
GALAXY is smart enough to automatically line the cursor up
underneath the first non-blank character in the line above.
All you need to do to set up automatic tab stops is type in the
first line of your text. On the next line, every time you press
the Tab key, the cursor will line up with the next non-blank
character in the line above it.
For normal fixed tab stops, just specify a tab size in the
Defaults menu. The ruler line at the top of each window will
show you your selected tab stops.
Automatic Indent
In a manner similar to automatic tabs, if Auto indent is active,
when you press the Enter key, or when a line "wraps", GALAXY will
automatically indent the new line to line up with the line above
it. This feature can be toggled on or off from the Defaults
Menu.
You can use Auto indent to create "hanging indent" paragraphs and
to easily set temporary margins while you're editing. Simply use
the space bar or cursor keys to move the start of your text line
to the desired position. From that point on, Auto indent will
align the starting text of new lines in that paragraph to match
the line above.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 18
REFORMATTING
If you change margins, you can reformat a paragraph to the new
settings by using the Reformat (Control-B) command. When you
issue this command, the text will be realigned to fit within the
current margins. The reformatting will start at the current line
and continue until the end of the paragraph. GALAXY considers a
paragraph to end with a blank line.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 19
CURSOR MOVEMENT
You can quickly move around your document using some special
keys:
Arrow Keys
The up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down one line at
a time. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor one space
to the left or right.
Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the left or right arrow
key moves the cursor one word to the left or the right.
Home Key
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
END Key
Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
PgUp Key
Moves the cursor one screen up.
PgDn Key
Moves the cursor one screen down.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 20
Ctrl+PgUp Key
Moves the cursor to the very beginning of the document.
Ctrl+PgDn Key
Moves the cursor to the very end of the document.
Ctrl+Home Key
Moves the cursor to the top left hand corner of the screen.
Ctrl+End Key
Moves the cursor to the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 21
FORMATTING YOUR TEXT
With GALAXY, you can use a variety of tools to format your text
before you print it. You can set top, bottom, left and right
margins, page length, and font size. You can also enter codes to
tell your printer to apply special effects including bold,
underline, or italics.
Setting Margins
From the Print Menu, you can tell GALAXY your preferred settings
for top, bottom, and left and right margins.
Left and Right Margins
To set the left and right margins, press Alt-L or Alt-R, or
choose Left margin or Right margin from the Print Menu. You will
be prompted to enter a column number for each margin setting.
With a standard 10 character per inch font size, you can print a
maximum of of 85 characters on each line of an 8.5 by 11 inch
paper. Another way of stating this is that there are a maximum
of 85 columns on each line. But this would leave no margins on
either side.
If you wanted to leave a margin of one inch on each side of your
page, you would enter 11 for the left margin, and 75 for the
right margin.
Top and Bottom Margins
To set the top and bottom margins, choose Top margin or Bottom
margin from the Print Menu. You will be prompted to tell GALAXY
the number of lines for each margin setting.
GALAXY measures top and bottom margins in lines. Most printers
will print 6 lines per inch, so a standard 8.5 by 11 inch paper
will have a maximum of 66 lines.
If you wanted to leave a margin of one inch on the top and bottom
of each page, you would enter 6 lines for the top margin and 6
lines for the bottom margin.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 22
ENTERING PRINTER CODES
You can tell GALAXY to apply a special printing attribute, such
as bold, italic, or underline, to any part or all of your text.
You tell GALAXY where to apply the special attributes by placing
a print code at the beginning and end of the text you wish to
mark.
GALAXY supports the following print codes:
Alt-B Bold Print
Alt-D Double strike Print
Alt-I Italics Print
Alt-U Underline Print
Alt-T Superscript Print
Alt-V Subscript Print
Alt-F1 User Installed Patch
Alt-F2 User Installed Patch
To use any of these print attributes, enter the code at the point
where you wish the attribute to start, and again where you want
it to stop.
As an example, to highlight the word computer with bold print in
the following example of text, press Alt-B before and after the
word. A highlighted B will be inserted into the text to show you
where bold print will begin and end:
The BcomputerB has revolutionized the workplace.
If you wanted to highlight the word revolutionized in italic
print, you would follow the same procedure, but you would press
Alt-I before and after the word:
The computer has IrevolutionizedI the workplace.
You can use the MAKEPRD program to customize any of the printer
codes for your printer. You can also change printer drivers at
any time by choosing "Set printer" from the Print menu.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 23
USING BLOCK COMMANDS
Marking a Block
GALAXY lets you define a section of your text as a block. Once
defined, the marked block of text can be copied, moved, deleted,
or written out as a disk file. Blocks of text are displayed in
yellow on a color monitor, or as high intensity video on a
monochrome monitor.
The easiest way to mark a block is with the F7 and F8 keys.
Position the cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to
mark, and press the F7 key. Now move the cursor to the end of
the text you wish to mark. You can use arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn,
or even Ctrl+PgUp or Ctrl+PgDn to move to the end of your block.
Position the cursor just past the point you want to mark and
press the F8 key. GALAXY will highlight all the text from the
point where you pressed the F7 key, to just to the left or above
where your cursor is when you press the F8 key.
You can also use the Wordstar (tm) Ctrl-KB and Ctrl-KK commands
to mark the beginning and end of a block. Move the cursor to the
beginning of the block you wish to mark and press and hold down
the Ctrl key while you press the K key. Then press the B key.
Next, move the cursor to the end of the text you wish to mark,
and press and hold down the Ctrl key while you press the K key.
Then press the K key.
Or you can select "Begin" and "End" from the Block Menu.
The Block Copy command will make a copy of the marked block, and
insert it at the current cursor position. Block Move is similar,
but the marked block "moves"; it disappears from its original
position, and is inserted at the current cursor position.
The Block "Read" command will insert an entire disk file into
your document at the point where the cursor is. Block write will
make a new file of just the marked block of text. You will be
prompted for a file name to use for the saved block.
Block commands also work with GALAXY Windows, so you can cut and
paste between two documents easily.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 24
WINDOWS
Text Windows
GALAXY allows you to open a second text window onscreen to work
on two documents at the same time.
To open a Window, select "Open" or "Switch" from the Window Menu.
A prompt will appear to ask you "How many lines?" to give to the
new window. When you have one text window on screen, there are
23 text lines displayed. A second window will take lines from
this window, insert a ruler bar, and ask you if you wish to open
another file.
Enter a number between 1 and 21 for the number of lines for your
new window. The new window will appear below the current window.
Your original document in the first window is still available for
editing. To switch windows press Alt-W. The cursor will jump back
to the top window, and the file name in the Status Line will
change back to the original file name. You can also use the
PullDown Menu to switch windows.
You can choose "Zoom" from the Window menu, or press Alt-Z, to
zoom either window up to full screen. With Zoom, you can have a
small (as small as one text line) window with text you
occasionally need to refer to, which you can expand to full
screen whenever you need to. When either window is zoomed to
full screen, you switch back and forth between windows with Alt-W
or "Switch" just as you do with two onscreen windows. To
"unzoom" a window, just press Alt-Z again, or choose "Zoom" again
from the Window menu.
You can mark a block of text in one window, use Alt-W to switch
windows, and then copy or move the block to the other window.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 25
DOS Windows
To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the
Window Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The
screen will clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return
to GALAXY, just type "Exit".
The "Run a program" command from the Window Menu lets you enter a
program name to run. You can include parameters to the program
as well. For example, you could enter "Format B:" to format a
disk on your B: drive.
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 26
MACROS
A macro is a sequence of up to 255 keystrokes, either commands or
text, that you record as you type. The macro can then be
"played" by pressing one key.
You could define a macro that would type in your name and address
as it appears underneath your letterhead. Or you could define a
macro that would format a diskette in Drive A:. Any action that
you can perform from the keyboard in GALAXY can be done from a
macro. Up to ten macros can be saved in a file and loaded again
whenever you like.
To begin recording keystrokes for a macro, press Alt-M. A
highlighted message on the status line will remind you that your
keystrokes are being recorded. When you're done, press Alt-M
again to stop recording. GALAXY will then prompt you for a number
between 0 and 9. This number, plus the ALT key, will be used to
play back the macro in the future. GALAXY will also ask you to
give a name to the new macro. The name you use will appear on
the Macro menu next to the number for that macro.
When you first start GALAXY, GALAXY will try to find a macro file
named GALAXY.MAC. GALAXY will first look in the current
directory, and then will search the DOS path.
If a macro is attached to ALT-0, that macro will be automatically
executed when the program starts.
Macros can also call other macros. The only restriction on
nested macros is that the typeahead buffer can only hold 512
characters and will generate an error message if it overflows.
The macros in the sample macro file were recorded with the
following keystrokes:
ALT-0: (not defined)
ALT-1: {F3} Y {ESC} {F3} GALAXY.DOC {Enter}
The 'Y' and ESC after the first F3 are to handle
the message 'Abandon changes <Y/N>' if the current
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 27
file has been changed. Macros will play back the
same keystrokes every time you use them, so it's up
to you to anticipate the possible conditions that
may be encountered.
ALT-2: ^KG Format a: {Enter}
The 'Run a program' command was used instead of
Alt-S because GALAXY cannot continue a macro from
the DOS prompt. However, when returning from an
exit to DOS with Alt-S, a macro would continue as
soon as GALAXY regained control from DOS.
When you use 'Run a program' in a macro, the 'Press
any key to return to GALAXY' message will not be
displayed if there are more keystrokes pending after
the command.
ALT-3: ^KG Chkdsk {Enter}
ALT-4: {BACKSPACE}{LEFTARROW}{ALT-F10}{RIGHTARROW}
This macro uses GALAXY's undelete backspace command
to create a command that transposes two characters.
ALT-5: ^KW PRN Y {Enter}
This macro prints a block by writing the block to
'PRN' instead of to a file.
ALT-6: {HOME}{SPACE}{SPACE}{SPACE}{HOME}{DOWNARROW}
If INSERT is on, this macro will shift the current
line to the right three columns.
ALT-7: {HOME}{DEL}{DEL}{DEL}{HOME}{DOWNARROW}
If INSERT is on, this macro will shift the current
line to the left three columns.
ALT-8: (not defined)
ALT-9: (not defined)
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 28
APPENDIX A
Wordstar Files
GALAXY can handle Wordstar files with almost no exceptions. The
major difference is that GALAXY ignores the Wordstar "dot"
commands. They will be displayed onscreen unchanged, but will be
ignored during printing.
Wordstar sets the high bit in many characters, including
justified spaces, the last character of every word, and the end
of lines and paragraphs.
Since GALAXY can display any ASCII character onscreen a Wordstar
file will appear garbled. This can be adjusted with the Alt-G,
or Graphics toggle. The Graphics toggle simply strips the high
bit from the displayed characters. The actual character is not
changed, and will be saved to disk in its original state. The
GALAXY "Print" command will likewise strip the high bit of any
character during printing, so that Wordstar files may be printed
without any translation if the Graphics toggle is OFF.
To display the IBM extended character set, such as the lines used
for drawing boxes, and the foreign characters, simply toggle the
Graphics ON. Your preferred setting can be saved in the pulldown
Defaults menu.
To save a file in Wordstar format, with "soft" carriage returns,
set the "Format WS" choice to ON from the Defaults Menu. If this
toggle is OFF, all files will be saved as straight ASCII files.
Even with this toggle ON, GALAXY will only use "soft" carriage
returns on lines that were either word wrapped, reformatted, or
were "soft" in the original file.
GALAXY can convert a WordStar file to straight ASCII. The
command for this is Alt-F3. Although GALAXY can read, edit, and
save WordStar files with no conversion, the searching and spell
checking routines need ASCII text to work properly.
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APPENDIX B
Printer Description Files
GALAXY is supplied with Printer Description (PRD) files, which
are used to send the proper codes to the printer to enable
Italic, Bold, Underline, etc. To change the default PRD file,
choose the "Set printer" command in the Print Menu.
If the GALAXY Program Disk does not contain a PRD file for your
printer, you can use MAKEPRD.COM, to easily create custom PRD
files to address any function of any printer.
Printer codes are entered just as in LOTUS 123, e.g.; 027\083.
The string of control codes that your printer needs to start or
stop a certain print attribute are entered as decimal numbers,
separated with backslashes. Up to 16 different printer control
code strings can be stored in a GALAXY PRD file. Fonts,
attributes, margins, tabs, even complex laser printer codes can
be used to format your document with ease.
MAKEPRD is easy to use. First, locate the printer control codes
in your printer manual.
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APPENDIX C
Headers and Footers
A header or footer is text that appears at the top or bottom of
every page of a printout.
Headers are lines marked by placing the cursor in column one of
the line and pressing ALT-H. The highlighted H that appears must
be in column one of the line or GALAXY will not recognize the
line as a header.
When the file is printed, GALAXY will ignore the line marked as a
header until the next page. At that time up to three header
lines will be substituted for three lines of the top margin. If
your top margin is not large enough to accommodate the number of
header lines you have marked, it will print as many as will fit.
Whenever you define a new header line or lines, any previous
group of header lines will be replaced by the new lines.
You can insert the current page number in the header line by
placing the # character in the text of any of the header lines.
You can also use any other print attributes, such as bold or
italics, in a header line.
Footers work exactly the same as header lines but are printed in
the bottom margin area. Like headers, lines formatted as footers,
with the ALT-F character in column one, will be ignored when they
are first encountered and then printed out on all subsequent
bottom margins. You can have a maximum of three footer lines
defined at any time.
Whenever you define a new group of footer lines, any previous
footer lines will be replaced by the new lines.
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APPENDIX D
Command Reference
In this section, detailed information about each of the GALAXY
commands is presented.
The Command Reference follows the same format as the Pulldown
Menus. Each menu choice is explained, and the equivalent Quick
Command or WordStar Command is listed as well.
The symbol ^ is used to indicate a Control key combination. For
example, to enter "^K" from your keyboard, depress the key marked
"Ctrl", and while that key is depressed, press the "K" key.
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FILE MENU
These commands are used to manage files, including opening,
closing, saving, copying, etc.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Open F3
Use this menu choice to read a disk file into a GALAXY
window for editing. The file that you open will
replace the file currently being edited. If you have
made changes in the file you are editing, you will be
prompted to save the current file before opening the
new file.
If you enter a file name to open without a drive or
directory included in the name GALAXY will look for
that file in the currently logged directory, if you
have specified one, or in the default (current)
directory.
If you enter a wild card file specification (*.*,
*.DOC, etc.) GALAXY will take you to the Directory
display and allow you to pick a file from a list that
matches the specification.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Close None
This menu choice will clear the current file being
edited from memory, after prompting you to save any
changes.
You will then be prompted to open a new file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Save F2, ^KD
This menu choice will save the file currently being
edited. If you have never specified a file name, you
will be asked at this time to give the file a name.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
save As ^F2
This menu choice will prompt you for a file name to
use when saving the file you are currently editing. You
can include a disk drive and directory with the file
name and GALAXY will store the file in that location.
After using save As, GALAXY will show the name you
specified as the default file name on the top command
line of the screen. The file with the original name
that you were editing still exists on disk unchanged.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Directory F4
This menu choice will show you a list of files on
disk. You can enter a mask using the same ? and *
wildcard characters that DOS allows.
GALAXY will also show you free disk space and memory
free following the directory listing. The disk space
shown is the free space in the logged drive.
You can pick a file to edit by highlighting its name
and pressing Enter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
set Logged dir None
This menu choice allows you to designate a default
drive or directory to be used when saving and
retrieving files.
You can change this menu option at any time, but it
will not remain in effect in future editing sessions.
To permanently define a default drive or directory to
be used when saving and retrieving files, use the
"Default directory" command from the Defaults Menu.
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Even if you have specified a default drive or
directory with this option, you can override it at any
time simply by including the drive or directory in the
file name when you are saving or opening a file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
copY None
This menu choice works just like the DOS copy command,
except that wildcard characters are not allowed. If
you attempt to overwrite an existing file, you will be
first asked to confirm that the existing file can be
destroyed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Rename None
This menu choice works just like the DOS rename
command, except that wildcard characters are not
allowed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Erase None
This menu choice works just like the DOS delete
command, except that wildcard characters are not
allowed. The file you specify will be erased from disk
permanently. You will be asked to confirm this action
before it takes place.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Quit Alt-X
This menu choice closes the current window, after
prompting you to save any changes you may have made.
If two editing windows are opened, the full screen is
returned to the other window. If only one window is
open, the program terminates.
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PRINT MENU
Menu Choice Alternatives
Print F9
This menu choice allows you to begin printing a disk
file. All editing tasks can continue while the
printing takes place in the background.
Remember, GALAXY prints the version of the file you
specify from the disk. If you want to print the file
you are currently editing, remember to save it first.
Menu Choice Alternatives
First page None
This menu choice prompts you for the page number of
the first page you wish to print. To print a single
page, enter the same page number for First page and
Last page.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Last page None
This menu choice prompts you for the page number of
the last page you wish to print. To print a single
page, enter the same page number for First page and
Last page. Menu Choice Alternatives
Menu Choice Alternatives
Device None
Indicate where to send print output. Most printers are
attached to LPT1. If you choose FILE, you will be
prompted to enter the name of a file to print to.
Menu Choice Alternatives
priNter pause None
This menu choice toggles a printer pause on or off.
When pause is on, printing will pause after completing
each page. This will allow you to change paper in a
single sheet printer. If your printer uses continuous
form paper, printer pause should be off.
Printer pause is disabled if the top and bottom
margins are set to 0.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Double spacing None
This menu choice toggles double spacing of your
printout on or off. Top and bottom margins will still
print out single spaced, but the body of each page will
be double spaced.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Top Margin None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines
to use as the default top margin setting.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you
specify here will be inserted at the top of each page.
This is also the area where headers will be printed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Bottom Margin None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines
to use as the default bottom margin setting.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you
specify here will be inserted at the bottom of each
page. This is also the area where headers will be
printed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Page Length None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines
to use as the default page length during printing.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you
specify here, minus the top and bottom margin lines,
will be printed on each page.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Left Margin Alt-L, ^OL
This menu choice prompts you for a column number to
use as the default left margin setting.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Right Margin Alt-R, ^OR
This menu choice prompts you for a column number to
use as the default right margin setting.
Menu Choice Alternatives
repaGinate ^F9
This menu choice is used to place pagebreaks in your
file. The repagination process will begin at the top
of the file, and will prompt you for each page break.
GALAXY will suggest each page break according to the
current top and bottom margin settings and the page
length setting. It will also prompt you for placement
of a pagebreak at any existing pagebreaks. You may
override the suggested location by using the up or down
arrow keys, moving the cursor to your preferred page
break location. The limits of your placement will be:
you can move upward in the file as far as the previous
page break; you can move downward as far as the current
page margins will allow.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Set printer None
This menu choice will prompt you for the name of the
Printer Description File to use.
Be sure to enter the complete name of the PRD file,
including the drive and path. If no drive or path are
specified, GALAXY will assume that the PRD file will be
found in the current directory.
Menu Choice Alternatives
saVe parameter file None
This menu choice will save all of the current settings
of both the Print Menu and the Defaults Menu into a
parameter file.
When you first start the program, GALAXY will try to
load a parameter file named GALAXY.INI. GALAXY will
look first in the current directory, and then will
search the DOS PATH to try to find the default
parameter file.
You can load a new parameter file at any time by
choosing the Read parameter file command from the
Defaults Menu.
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WINDOW MENU
These commands are used to open, close, switch, or zoom text
windows. With GALAXY you can open a second window of 1 to 21
lines. You can use any GALAXY commands in either window,
including copying or moving a block between windows, loading a
second file, etc.
Closing a window in GALAXY when there are two windows open
returns the full screen to the other window. If only one window
is open, closing that window is the same as exiting the program.
To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the
Window Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The
screen will clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return
to GALAXY, just type "Exit".
The "Run a program" command from the Window Menu lets you enter a
program name to run. You can include parameters to the program
as well. For example, you could enter "Format B:" to format a
disk on your B: drive.
When you open a DOS window or run a program, do not load or
unload any memory resident programs such as SideKick. Because of
the way that DOS assigns memory to these type of programs, the
memory being used by GALAXY will be corrupted.
With this exception, you can use DOS to format a disk, run
another program, even load another copy of GALAXY.
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DEFAULTS MENU
These commands are used to set your preferred environment. You
can change the default settings at any time, or permanently save
your preferences.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Insert Insert Key, ^V
This menu choice toggles between Insert and Overtype
mode.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Word Wrap ^OW
This menu choice toggles Word Wrap on or off. With
Word Wrap on, any attempts to type past the right
margin setting will "wrap" down to the following line.
With Word Wrap off, a new line will not start until
you press Enter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Auto indent ^QI
This menu choice toggles Autoindent on or off. With
Autoindent on, a new line will line up automatically
with the text on the line above it, rather than at the
left margin.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Graphics Alt-G ^QG
This menu choice toggles Graphics on or off. With
Graphics on, the IBM extended character set is
displayable. If you are using Wordstar text files, you
will need to have Graphics off.
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The Graphics toggle also strips the high bit of
Wordstar files during printing.
If you are not using Wordstar formatted files, you
should probably leave Graphics on.
Menu Choice Alternatives
EGA 43 lines Alt-E
This menu choice toggles between the EGA 43 line and
the normal 25 line display. If you don't have an EGA
display active, the command is ignored.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Justify Alt-J
This menu choice toggles justification on or off.
With Justify on, every time a line is wrapped or a
paragraph is reformatted, the text will be padded with
spaces to fit exactly within the current left and right
margin settings.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Format WS None
This menu choice toggles Wordstar file formatting on
or off.
A Wordstar file has the high bit set in every word
wrapped line. If you are not converting files for use
with Wordstar, you should probably have this option set
to off.
To convert an ASCII file to Wordstar format, you would
need to reformat each paragraph in the file. The
reformatting will set the wrapped flag in each
paragraph line but the last, which will allow GALAXY to
save the file in Wordstar format using the "soft"
carriage returns for word wrapped lines.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Scroll bar None
You can choose to display a scroll bar on the right
hand side of the screen. With a mouse, you can use the
scroll bar to scroll text up or down. With or without
a mouse, the "elevator" on the scroll bar will show you
your relative position in the file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
tab siZe None
This menu choice prompts you for a tab size. If you
enter 0, automatic tabs will be enabled.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Undo Limit ^OS
This menu choice will prompt you for the number of
deleted lines to save on the Undo stack.
Every time you press Esc GALAXY will restore one line
from the Undo stack back into your text.
Menu Choice Alternatives
teXt color None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for
the color of normal text. Enter a number between 1 and
127 to indicate the color. A chart showing all
available color choices is on the Defaults Menu's Help
screen.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Block color None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for
the color of marked blocks of text. Enter a number
between 1 and 127 to indicate the color. A chart
showing all available color choices is on the Defaults
Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
hiLite menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for
the color of a highlighted menu item. Enter a number
between 1 and 127 to indicate the color. A chart
showing all available color choices is on the Defaults
Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Normal menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for
the color of all other menu items. Enter a number
between 1 and 127 to indicate the color. A chart
showing all available color choices is on the Defaults
Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
fraMe menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for
the color of the menu "frames" or borders. Enter a
number between 1 and 127 to indicate the color. A
chart showing all available color choices is on the
Defaults Menu's Help screen.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Default directory None
Use this menu choice to indicate a default drive or
directory for GALAXY to use when loading and saving
files. For example, if you always wanted to use your
B: drive to store documents, enter "B:" for your
default directory.
Menu Choice Alternatives
saVe parameter file None
This menu choice will save all of the current settings
of both the Print Menu and the Defaults Menu into a
parameter file.
You can give any name you like to this parameter file,
but GALAXY will always try to load a paramter file
named GALAXY.INI when you first start the program.
GALAXY will look first in the current directory, and
then will search the DOS PATH to try to find the
default parameter file.
You can load a new parameter file at any time by
choosing the Read parameter file command from the
Defaults Menu.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read parameter file None
This menu choice will let you load a new parameter
file. The settings on the Defaults and the Print Menu
will be reset to the values found in the new parameter
file.
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SEARCH MENU
The choices listed in this menu are for searching your text for
strings of characters that you specify. You can search for any
character, including control characters, with the exception of
ASCII #13, the Enter key, and ASCII #27, the Escape key.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Find F5 ^QF
The Find command starts searching for the text you
specify at the current cursor position. The search
will proceed to the end of the text, unless you specify
Backwards as an optional search parameter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
find/Replace F6 ^QA
You will be asked to enter a string to search for, as
with the Find command, and also a string to replace the
found text with.
With either the Find or find/Replace command, you will
be asked to enter Options to define the parameters of
either the Find or the find/Replace command:
G: Global search.
Search the entire document, from beginning to
end.
B: Backwards search.
Begin searching at the current cursor
position, and proceed towards the beginning of
the file.
U: Ignore case.
Find all matches of the text specified,
whether or not the capital and lower case
letters are the same. Without this option, the
capitalization must match exactly.
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W: Whole Word.
Will only find complete words (strings of text
beginning and ending with a space or a
punctuation mark). Without this option,
searching for the would successfully match
the, they, there, etc.
N: No Confirm.
With find/Replace, will not stop to ask for
confirmation before making the replacement.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Next ^F5 ^L
Repeats the last Find or find/Replace command, using
the same optional parameters.
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GOTO MENU
These commands are used for quick movement around your document.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Top of file ^PgUp
Places the cursor at the very top of the text window,
at the first line of your file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
End of file ^PgDn
Places the cursor at the very bottom of the text
window, at the last line of your file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Begin block ^QB
Moves the cursor to the beginning of a defined block.
If no block is defined, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
end blocK ^QK
Moves the cursor to the end of a defined block. If no
block is defined, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Line ^ON
Prompts you to enter a line number, and moves the
cursor to that line.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Go marker ^QM
^Q1..9
This command will move the cursor to a previously
defined marker.
You will be prompted to enter the marker number to go
to. You can skip this step by using the ^Q, followed
by a number, command.
If a marker you specify is not defined, an error
message will be displayed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Set marker ^KM
^K1..9
This command will define a marker, which can be used
later for quick movement to a specific place in your
text file using the Go marker command.
You will be prompted to enter the marker number you
wish to define. You can skip this step by using the ^K,
followed by a number, command. For example, to define
marker number 1, without going through the menu, enter
^K1.
Marker positions are effective only in the current
editing session, and are not saved with the file.
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BLOCK MENU
The Block menu groups all the commands for block operations. A
block is a section of your text that is marked with a beginning
and an end so that some editing function can be performed on the
block. Common block tasks are to copy a section of text to
another location in the file, to write a section of text to disk
as a seperate file, or check the spelling of a section of text.
Most WordStar Control-K block commands work exactly as they do in
WordStar.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Begin F7 ^KB
Used to mark the beginning of a block of text. For
block operations, such as copying, deleting, etc. both
the beginning and the end of the block must be defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
End F8 ^KK
Used to mark the end of a block of text. For block
operations, such as copying, deleting, etc. both the
beginning and the end of the block must be defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Copy ^F7 ^KC
After a block is defined, use this command to make a
copy of the entire block. A copy of the entire block
will be inserted at the point where the cursor is
currently located.
This command can be used to "cut and paste" blocks of
text between windows.
If the cursor is within the currently defined block
when this command is issued, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Move ^F8 ^KV
Similar to Block Copy, but the block is deleted from
its current position, and inserted at the point where
the cursor is currently located.
The Block Move command can be used to "cut and paste"
blocks of text between windows.
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If the cursor is within the currently defined block
when this command is issued, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read ^KR
This command will prompt you for a filename to Read
into the current text window.
The file specification can be any legal DOS filename,
including drive designation and path. If just the name
of the file is entered, GALAXY will look for the file
in the Logged directory.
The file will be inserted into the current text window
at the cursor position.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Write ^KW
This command will write the currently defined block to
disk as a separate file. You will be prompted for a
filename, which can include a drive designation or file
path.
If you specify a filename that already exists, you
will be asked to confirm that you want to overwrite
the old file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Delete ^KY
This command will delete the currently defined block,
removing it from the text window.
The GALAXY UNDO command, the ESC key, will restore a
deleted block, line by line, at the point where the
cursor is located when the UNDO command is issued.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Hide ^KH
This command turns off the block highlighting.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Spell check ^KL
This menu choice checks the spelling of your document.
If there is a block marked, the spell check will cover
the marked block only. If no block is marked, checking
will begin at the cursor position.
If you press any key during a spell check, you will be
asked if you wish to abort the spelling check.
When GALAXY encounters a word not in its dictionary,
you will be shown a menu of possible corrective
actions:
Skip once
---------
Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word
for now.
Ignore for this SpellCheck
--------------------------
Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word
for the rest of the spelling check. Useful for proper
names, etc.
List soundalike words
---------------------
Show a menu of possible replacement words for the
unknown word. Highlight the correct word and press
ENTER to correct the misspelled word.
GALAXY uses a technique called soundex to build the
list of replacement words. If the misspelled word is
phonetically close to the correct spelling, GALAXY will
almost always suggest the correct spelling as the first
choice in the list. If you have transposed letters
GALAXY will sometimes be unable to suggest meaningful
alternatives.
When replacing a word in your document, GALAXY will
attempt to match the capitalization as follows: If the
misspelled word is all lower or all upper case, the
replacement word will be all lower or all upper case.
If the misspelled word is mixed upper and lower case,
the replacement word will have its first letter
capitalized, and the rest of the word will be lower
case.
Edit from keyboard
------------------
You will be prompted to type in the correct spelling.
After you have retyped the word, GALAXY will check the
spelling again.
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Add to dictionary
-----------------
If this is a word that will appear often in your
documents (your company's name, for example), you can
add the word to your auxiliary dictionary.
GALAXY uses four dictionaries:
An internal list of 500 common words.
GALAUX.DIC: Your auxiliary dictionary. An ASCII file,
one uppercase word per line, with a leading and
trailing space. Created automatically when you choose
"Add to dictionary" during a spelling check. This
dictionary is held in memory during the spelling check
and will not be loaded if there is less than 20K of
free memory.
GALRAM.DIC: An ASCII file containing approximately
3000 of the most common words in the English language.
This dictionary is held in memory during the spelling
check, and will not be loaded if there is less than 48K
of free memory. The spelling check will operate
correctly with or without the RAM dictionary, but not
as quickly.
GALMAIN.DIC: The main dictionary file, approximately
45,000 words, compressed.
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MACRO MENU
Menu Choice Alternatives
0 .. 9 Alt-0 .. Alt-9
Play the macro if defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Define a macro Alt-M
Begin (or end) recording keystrokes for a macro.
After you define the keystrokes, you will be prompted
for a number and a name for the new macro.
Menu Choice Alternatives
save Macros None
This menu choice lets you save your currently defined
macros in a separate file.
You can load a new macro file at any time by choosing
the Read macros file command from the File Menu.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read macros None
This menu choice lets you read a previously saved
macro file.
When you first start the program, GALAXY will try to
load a macro file named GALAXY.MAC. GALAXY will look
first in the current directory, and then will search
the DOS PATH to try to find the default macro file. If
the default macro file is found, macro 0 will
automatically execute if it is defined.
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APPENDIX E
USING A MOUSE WITH GALAXY
If you have a mouse installed and have run MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS
prior to loading GALAXY, you will see a mouse cursor in the upper
left corner of the screen.
You can enter the pulldown menus by pressing any mouse button on
either the status line or the top ruler line.
There are two ways to use the mouse in the menu system:
In the first method, you "click" (press and release the
mouse button) on line one or line two of the screen. The
menubar appears on screen, in the same manner it does when
you press F10. You then can click on any of the top level
menu items to pull down the submenu. This will happen as if
you pressed the first letter of the main menu item. You can
then click on a submenu item to select it. To leave the
menu system, just click anywhere outside the displayed menu.
In the second method, rather than clicking, you "drag"
(press the mouse button but don't release it) the mouse
cursor to the menu item you want. As the mouse cursor
passes over a menu item, the submenu below it automatically
pulls down. As you drag the mouse cursor down a submenu,
the submenu choice under the mouse cursor will be
highlighted. To select a submenu item, release the mouse
button when the selection you want is highlighted. To leave
the menu system, just release the mouse button anywhere
outside the displayed menu.
Clicking anywhere in the text window will move the cursor to that
position. You can change from one window to another simply by
clicking the mouse in the other window.
In the Defaults menu you can choose whether or not to display a
scroll bar on the right hand side of the text window. The scroll
bar has an "elevator" which shows your relative position in the
file. Dragging the elevator to a new position is similar to
issuing a Go To Line command. For example, if you drag the
elevator to roughly the middle of the scroll bar while editing a
1000 line file, the current line will be changed to approximately
line 500.
Clicking anywhere between the up arrow mark and the elevator is
treated the same as the Page Up command, and clicking anywhere
between the elevator and the down arrow mark is the same as the
Page Down command. Clicking on the up arrow mark or down arrow
mark is treated the same as if you pressed the up or down arrow
key. Leave the mouse button down in any of these cases to scroll
continuously.
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APPENDIX F
QUICK COMMANDS
FORMATTING:
Alt-C......Center Line Alt-L......Left Margin
Alt-J......Justify On/Off Alt-R......Right Margin
Ctrl-B.....Reformat Paragraph
PRINT CODES: Insert these codes before and after the text you
wish to format:
Alt-B......Bold Alt-I......Italics
Alt-D......Doublestrike Alt-T......Superscript
Alt-F......Footer Alt-U......Underline
Alt-H......Header Alt-V......Subscript
Alt-F1.....User Patch Ctrl-Enter.Page Break
Alt-F2.....User Patch
CURSOR MOVEMENT:
Ctrl <--...Word Left Ctrl -->...Word Right
Ctrl-PgUp..Top of File Ctrl-PgDn..Bottom of File
Ctrl-Home..Top of Screen Ctrl-End...Bottom of Screen
Tab........Automatic Tabs
WINDOW SELECTON:
Alt-W......Switch Windows Alt-Z......Zoom Windows
Alt-S......Exit to DOS window Alt-X......Close Window, Exit GALAXY
UNDELETE:
ALT-F9.....Undelete Character Alt-F10....Unbackspace Character
ESC........Undelete line
FUNCTION KEYS:
F1.........Help F2.........Save File
F3.........Open File F4.........Directory
F5.........Find F6.........Find and Replace
F7.........Block Begin F8.........Block End
F9.........Print a File F10........Pulldown Menus
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 55
APPENDIX G
WORDSTAR (tm) Commands
^A...Word Left ^B...Reformat Paragraph
^C...Page Down ^D...Character Right
^E...Up Line ^F...Word Right
^G...Delete Character ^H...Destructive Backspace
^I...Tab ^J...Insert Page Break
^K...Block Commands ^L...Repeat Last Find/Replace
^M...Insert Line ^O...Onscreen Commands
^P...Insert Ctrl Character ^Q...Quick Commands
^R...Page Up ^S...Character Left
^T...Delete Word Right ^V...Insert On/Off
^W...Go To Top of File ^X...Line Down
^Y...Delete Line ^Z...Go To Bottom of File
^QA..Find and Replace ^OG..Toggle Graphics
^QB..Go To Top of Block ^OH..Toggle Windows
^QF..Find ^OI..Go To Column
^QI..Toggle AutoIndent ^OK..Change Case
^QJ..Go To Marker (Or ^Q1..9) ^ON..Go To Line
^QK..Go To End of Block ^OO..Open Second Window
^QS..Go To Beginning of Line ^OW..Toggle Word Wrap
^QY..Delete Text To End of Line ^OY..Close Second Window
^KB..Mark Block Begin ^KQ..Abandon File
^KC..Copy Block ^KR..Read Block From Disk
^KD..Save File ^KS..Save File
^KH..Toggle Block Hide ^KV..Move Block
^KK..Mark Block End ^KW..Write Block To Disk
^KL..Spell Check ^KX..Exit GALAXY
^KM..Set Marker (Or ^K1..9) ^KY..Delete Block
( ^ = [Ctrl] )
GALAXY Reference Guide Page 56
APPENDIX H
REGISTRATION
GALAXY is NOT a public domain or free program! It is being
distributed as Shareware. The Association of Shareware
Professionals (ASP) offers the following definition of Shareware:
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software
before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and
continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual
programs differ on details -- some request registration
while others require it, some specify a maximum trial
period. With registration, you get anything from the
simple right to continue using the software to an updated
program with printed manual.
Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial
software, and the copyright holder retains all rights,
with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware
authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial
authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In
both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main
difference is in the method of distribution. The author
specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the
software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group.
For example, some authors require written permission before
a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware.
So, Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of
software. You should find software that suits your needs
and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The
Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because
you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is
low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate
money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you
don't pay for it.
Registration licenses you to use GALAXY Version 2.43. Any
unregistered use other than trial use to determine if GALAXY meets
your needs is a violation of our license agreement and is
forbidden.
Single user registration is available for $59.95 per copy.
Registered users will be sent the most current version of the
program and a printed reference guide. Registration also entitles
you to free telephone support.
The GALAXY license authorizes use of one copy of GALAXY on one
machine at a time. If you have multiple computers, either
standalone, networked, or multi-user, you need to register one
copy of GALAXY for each workstation on which it will be used.
For registration and licensing of more than ten copies, please
contact OmniVerse directly at (206) 228-7627 for details on our
quantity discounts and site licensing arrangements. Discounts of
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INDEX
Arrow keys.......................................19
ASCII......................................28,40,44
Autoindent.................................16,39,55
Backup files...................................6,14
BAK files........................................14
Block commands................................23,48
Boilerplate......................................14
Bold Print.......................................22
Centering text................................11,54
Closing a Window...........................34,38,54
Close file command...............................32
Color selection..................................41
Copy file command................................34
Cursor........................................16,19
Cursor movement..................................19
Default directory..........................12,33,43
Defaults menu...........................12,16,37,39
Directory command.......................13,15,32,33
Directory, default.........................12,33,43
Directory, logged.............................12,33
Doublestrike print...............................22
Dos shell command................................25
EGA 43 line mode.................................40
Erase file command...............................34
Files, managing..................................12
Files, program....................................6
Find command.....................................44
Footers..........................................30
Formatting text..................................21
GOTO menu........................................46
Graphics toggle...............................28,39
Headers..........................................30
Insert mode......................................16
Installing GALAXY.................................7
Italics print....................................22
Justifying text..................................40
Loading document files...........................13
Logged directory...........................12,33,49
Macros........................................26,52
Makeprd program...............................22,29
Margins..........................................21
Menus, pulldown..................................10
Mouse, using with GALAXY.........................53
Next find/replace................................45
Open file command..........................13,15,32
Opening a window..............................24,38
Overtype mode....................................16
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INDEX, continued
Page numbering...................................30
Page breaks......................................35
Page length selection............................37
Paragraphs..............................16,17,18,28
Path.....................................8,26,37,43
Printer codes.................................22,29
Printer pause....................................35
Printing files...................................35
Quit GALAXY command..............................34
Read macros command..............................52
Read parameter command...........................43
Reformatting paragraphs..........................18
Registration.....................................56
Rename file command..............................34
Repaginate command...............................35
Replace command..................................44
Run a program command......................25,27,38
Save macros command..............................52
Save parameter file command...................12,37
Saving files.....................................14
Search command...................................44
Set logged dir command........................12,33
Set printer command..............................37
Spelling check...................................50
Subscripts and superscripts......................22
Tabs.............................................17
Underline print..................................22
UNDO..........................................41,49
WIndows, text....................................24
Wordstar compatibility...........................28
Word wrap........................................16
Zoom window command..............................24
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