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GALAXY Version 2.43
Update Documentation
Spelling Checker
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Press ^K^L, or select Spell check from the Block menu to begin
checking 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
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Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for
now.
Ignore for this document
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Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for
the rest of the spelling check. Useful for proper names,
etc.
List soundalike words
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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
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You will be prompted to type in the correct spelling. After
you have retyped the word, GALAXY will check the spelling
again.
Add to dictionary
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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 35,000
words, compressed.
Mouse support
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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 the 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.
Print options
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You can now designate a starting and stopping range of pages to
print. Default setting is to start with Page 1 and stop with Page
1000. To print a single page, enter the same page number for both
the start and stop page. Note: if the top and bottom margin are
set to zero GALAXY does not keep track of pages, and the entire
document will print.
You can specify LPT1, LPT2, or FILE as the device to print to.
For FILE, you will be asked the name of the file to print to. If
you name an existing file you will be asked to confirm overwriting
the file.
Other changes
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Reformat and word wrap now compensate for any print formatting
characters in the line.
Home key positions cursor at Left margin, not column 1.
Alt-F3 will convert a WordStar file to ASCII. Although GALAXY can
read, edit, and save a WordStar file with no problems, the search
and spell check routines only work on ASCII files.
Corrected problem finding GALAXY.INI and GALAXY.MSG support files
when a default data directory was set.
Omniverse Software Corp. address and telephone change.