In this section of the manual, we'll cover the SCRIBBLE! command menus one item at a time. You will find this a useful place to look as you run across menu items that you do not understand.
For the most part, this portion of the manual makes the assumption that you are familiar with text entry and editing, as well as how to engage functions on the menus. If you are NOT, you will want to review the SCRIBBLE! Tutorial and Overview sections found earlier in this manual.
This menu controls items that are concerned with the overall document (or "project"). Loading and saving files is done here, as well as your multiple window management.
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Project
Archive
Document
General
The first command on the Project menu is Archive. This command is used to load and save your documents. To use the command, you must also select whether you want to operate on document files or general text files.
When you select Documents, the only files displayed will be those which have the pattern ".doc" in their filenames. This a convenient method of filtering out extra files on a crowded disk. If you select Documents and then store a file, the pattern ".doc" will be added for you automatically.
Generally files, on the other hand, simply display all files in the directory. And the General option will not add any patterns to the filename during storage to disk. This is the only difference between the two commands. Carriage return and line feed translations are handled on the Default menu (see Default Format).
When you make the selection of Documents or General files, SCRIBBLE! will activate the disk drive for several moments, collecting the list of files on the disk, and then display the Archive Requester. (This is a large screen with filenames listed on it and a sequence of command icons at the bottom.) If your
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current window is not full-sized, or close to it, you will not be able to see this requester. In these cases, you expand the current window.
So then, when this Archive Requester appears, you will be looking at a list of files from the current default drive and directory. One of the filenames displayed will be highlighted with a reverse video bar. This is the file that will be operated on when you select one of the action icons at the bottom of the requester (i.e. this is the file that will be loaded, replaced, erased, etc.). You may change which file this is by using the mouse to select a different filename.
If the file or files you want to access are located on another disk drive, you need to use the Dir icon to select this drive. (This would also be true in the case of files located in another directory.) Select the Dir icon and a small requester will appear asking you which drive/directory you want to display. Select the input area (the open bar where the cursor appears). You may then enter, via the keyboard, the name of the drive and/or directory you want to display. Press RETURN when done to continue. SCRIBBLE! will read the new directory and display any files found.
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The complete list of commands is:
Command Function
Resume Return to the editor
Get Load selected file and return to the program
Replace Replace selected file with current document
Store Prompt for filename and store current document to
disk
Delete Erase selected file from the disk
Up Display previous page of entries (if any)
Dn Display next page of entries (if any)
The Delete and Replace commands will prompt you to verify that you are sure you want to continue. Replace will permanently overwrite the contents of the selected file with the current document and Delete removes the selected file from the disk permanently (no Trashcan here!).
Get and Store load and save documents, respectively. Get automatically returns to the editor after loading the selected file. Store prompts you for a new filename and an optional comment, and then writes the current document to disk using this information.
Up and Dn are used to page the display forward and backward if you have a larger number of files than one screen can display. Resume returns to the editor area (this is not needed after Get).
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Project
Status
This command displays certain "vital statistics" about your document. These appear in a requester, centered in the window. When you are finished with this, select the OK box to make the requester disappear. This command can also be invoked by holding down the right Amiga Key and typing S.
The information provided is:
* Page Length. This is the length of your physical page. How many lines are actually printed on the page will be controlled by the top and bottom margins. Standard 11 inch paper with a normal 6 line per inch height will give you 66 lines on each page.
* Page Offset. This value is the number of spaces that will be printed to the left of each line during printout. Optionally, you can make this a different value for odd numbered pages and even number pages (which gives the effect of a right/left offset for output that is to be printed up double sided.
* Top Margin. This value represents the number of lines SCRIBBLE! will skip at the top of each page. The default value is 6.
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* Bottom Margin. This value represents the number of lines SCRIBBLE! will skip at the bottom of each page. The default value is 6. The number of actual lines usable on each page is expressed as Page Length - (Top Margin + Bottom Margin). Any headers or footers will come out of this usable lines per page.
* Line Length. This value describes the number of characters per line. SCRIBBLE! allows your video line length to be a different size than your printed line length, but this is NOT advised because it will not display line breaks correctly.
* Justification. This indicates whether you are displaying you text with smooth margins on the left AND right (Flush), or just the left (Ragged).
* Characters used. This indicator will tell you the number of characters in the current document.
* Characters free. This indicator tells you how many characters are free in the currently active SCRIBBLE! window. SCRIBBLE! windows are variable in size, with 64K being the norm and 200K as the effective maximum.
* Word Count. This informs you of the number of words in your document. (A word is one or more characters surrounded by spaces.)
* Page Count. This tells you the number of pages in your document. This can be inaccurate, if you make use of the HI (hanging indent) or CP (conditional page) formatting commands.
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Project
Erase
This command erases the document in the currently active window. You will be prompted for verification before it proceeds.
*** CAUTION ***
THERE IS NO WAY TO RECOVER TEXT ONCE YOU HAVE RESPONDED "YES" TO THE VERIFICATION REQUESTER. MAKE CERTAIN YOU SAVE ALL TEXT, FIRST.
Project
Open
This command opens another SCRIBBLE! editing window. When you select this command, SCRIBBLE! will pop a requester that asks you who much memory you wish to allocate to this window. If the suggested value is sufficient, you may simply select OK with the mouse. If it's not, edit the value and press RETURN. If you do not allocate enough memory to hold whatever document you wish to edit in that window SCRIBBLE! will not be able to load it from disk. And if you allocate too much memory to the windows or to operate the program correctly (remember that requesters take a lot of memory to display). This command can also be invoked by holding down the right Amiga key and typing the letter "O".
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Once the requester is answered, the new edit window will appear. It will appear exactly like the original edit window did when it first appeared. The new edit window will completely overlay the previous window. How you use thee windows depends upon which method you choose to implement for managing them. There are two, "Paged" and "Tiled". Both of these are covered in detail under the "Advanced Editing" section of the SCRIBBLE Tutorial.
To cover it in brief, paged mode is when you keep all of the edit windows full sized and just "page" through them one at a time. This is done with the F5 function key. Each time you press it, the next SCRIBBLE! window will be brought to the foreground. Each window has a title bar at the top that identifies the project (document) for that window. If the text in the window is new, and has never been stored on disk, the project will be labelled "Untitled". Once you have the window you want to edit displayed in the foreground, examine the lettering on the title bar. If it is "ghosted" (outlined with dots instead of solid), then you need to select that window by clicking the left mouse button while the pointer is anywhere inside the edit window. You'll see the lettering on the title bar become solid, which tells you that this is now the "active" window.
On the other hand, tiled mode uses the window sizing gadget in the lower right hand corner of the edit window to make the open window smaller, so that you can see other windows at the same time. As long as no single window is completely covered by another,
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you can switch between windows simply by moving the mouse into the desired window and clicking the left button.
Which method you use is up to you. Both of them provide the same "cut and paste" method of data transfer between windows. The paged mode lets each of the windows display more text, and the tiled mode windows. Each has their advantages.
Project
Close
This command is the exact opposite of Project Open. It will remove (or "close") an active edit window. This will, of course, erase any text that is in that window, so please be sure to store the windows contents to disk before you close down the window.
When you do select Project Close, SCRIBBLE! will prompt you to make sure this is what you meant to do. If you respond "Yes", the window will be closed immediately. If you attempt to close the only edit window that you have open, a special case ensues.
Closing your first (or only) edit window is how you re-size that window. When you run SCRIBBLE!, it automatically gives you a 16K edit window. If you decide that this is not the size you want, you can use Project Close to change it. The steps are simple. Tell SCRIBBLE! you want to close the window. When it
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asks for verification, respond Yes. Immediately following that, you will see a requester that is asking how much memory to allocate to the window. If the value shown is fine, select OK or Cancel and the window will open with that amount. Otherwise, select the input area with the mouse and edit in the new value. Press RETURN or select OK when done.
Project
Quit
This command is used to exit SCRIBBLE! and return to AmigaDOS. This command can also be activated by holding down the right Amiga key and typing "Q". SCRIBBLE! will present a requester verifying that you wish to exit, and if you respond "Yes", you will be returned to AmigaDOS at once.
If you select, Project Quit while viewing a window that is NOT the active edit window, the verification requester will appear in the active window, wherever that is. However, once the requester has appeared, the F5 function key will no longer be effective. You will have to use the window gadgets in the upper right hand corner of the screen to locate the active window.
If you click the mouse over the left gadget, it will put the current edit window "behind" all the other windows. Doing this repeatedly will move you through all of the windows (including AmigaDOS). When you have located the requester, you can complete the exit operation. If you use the left hand window gadget to
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locate a screen, you'll need to click the right hand gadget after you find the screen. This makes the current window come to the "front" of all the others, and when the window is full-sized, causes the proportional scroll gadget to be visible once again.
This menu controls certain items of SCRIBBLE!'s appearance and editing actions. Default values, if you will. How the text appears while editing (justified or ragged), what color background is used, where the tab stops are, all of these are controlled here. There is one other distinction of this menu, however. Anything located on this menu is saved in "format" files. These are configuration files that allow you to remember favorite SCRIBBLE! setups in disk files and load them back later. You might configure SCRIBBLE one way when writing letters, and another when editing.
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programming source files. By having both of these stored in format files, it only takes a few seconds to have SCRIBBLE! takes on an entirely different "face".
Default
Archive
The first command on the Default menu is Archive. This command is used to load and save your format files.
When you select Archive, the only files displayed will be those which have the pattern ".fmt" in their filenames. This is a convenient method of filtering out extra files on a crowded disk. If you store a file, the pattern ".fmt" will be added for you automatically.
When you select Archive, SCRIBBLE! will activate the disk drive for several moments, collecting the list of files on the disk, and then display the Archive Requester. (This is a large screen with filenames listed on it and a sequence of command icons at the bottom. If your current window is not full sized, or close to it, you will not be able to see this requester. In these cases, you expand the current window.
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So then, when this Archive Requester appears, you will be looking at a list of files from the current default drive and directory. One of the filenames displayed will be highlighted with a reverse video bar. This is the file that will be operated on when you select one of the action icons at the bottom of the requester (i.e. this is the file that will be loaded, replaced, erased, etc.). You may change which file this is by using the mouse to select a different filename.
If the file or files you want to access are located on another disk drive, you need to use the Dir icon to select this drive. (This would also be true in the case of files located in another directory.) Select the Dir icon and a small requester will appear asking you which drive/directory you want to display. Select the input area (the open bar where the cursor appears). You may then enter, via the keyboard, the name of the drive and/or directory you want to display. Press RETURN when done to continue. SCRIBBLE! will read the new directory and display any files found.
The complete list of commands is:
Command Function
Resume Return to the editor
Get Load selected file and return to the program
Replace Replace selected file with current document
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Command Function
Store Prompt for filename and store current document to
disk
Delete Erase selected file from the disk
Up Display previous page of entries (if any)
Dn Display next page of entries (if any)
The Delete and Replace commands will prompt you to verify that you are sure you want to continue. Replace will permanently overwrite the contents of the selected file with the current settings and Delete removes the selected file from the disk permanently (no Trashcan here!).
Get and Store load and save documents, respectively. Get automatically returns to the editor after loading the selected file. Store prompts you for a new filename and an optional comment, and then writes the current settings to disk using this information.
Up and Dn are used to page the display forward and backward if you have a larger number of files than one screen can display. Resume returns to the editor area (this is not needed after Get).
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Default
Justify
Ragged
Flush
This command controls whether the text appears on the screen as justified (flush left AND right), or ragged (flush left only). Under normal circumstances, the text on the screen appears just as it will during printout, assuming that you have set the video lie length to match the printed line length (see: Default Line Length). This command provides a vehicle for you to observe and approve the effect that justification will have upon your text. These commands can also be activated by typing Amiga-R for ragged and Amiga-F for flush (justified). The text will instantly change on the screen. If you are entering text with the justification turned on, the text of each line will be justified as you complete the line.
When text is justified, "soft spaces" are inserted where necessary to move the text into its proper position. These soft spaces will print out on paper as real spaces but you can locate them on the screen by typing SHIFT-F10. The areas made up of soft spaces will be shown as gray hatch patterns. Be careful when editing with justification enabled; if you should overtype a soft space with a normal space, the justification at that point in the line cannot change. SCRIBBLE! will add and delete soft spaces as you add and delete text. If you are not sure whether you are dealing with soft spaces or not, use the above
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mentioned procedures with SHIFT-F10, which toggles the "background" on and off.
Since SCRIBBLE! automatically reformats all paragraphs, engaging the justification should not affect the editing of your text at all (aside from the above mentioned caution regarding t soft spaces).
If you turn on justification for the screen and then printout a document, the printout created will also be justified unless the text of the document turns off justification with a format command in the text. The justification of text can be controlled by the "JU" and "FR" commands, which are documented along with the rest of the format ("dot") commands in the SCRIBBLE! Overview.
Default
Line-Length
This command allows you to set the video line length to match the printed line length. This is the only method you have for correctly displayed line breaks on the screen.
A full sized edit window can display 76 characters on a line. If your line length exceeds this, automatic horizontal scrolling will take place. In addition, the proportional scroll gadget at the bottom of the screen (which is the horizontal gadget) will reflect the relative position of the window as set against the total line length. Any time a gadget does not completely fill
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the space allocated for it, you know that the window cannot display all of the text (either the number of lines or the number of characters).
As with justification, the value you use here will be the line length of the printed document unless you specify a different line length with the proper format command (LL - Line Length). The line length can also be derived from the format commands PO (page offset), LM (left margin), and RM (right margin). The formula would be LL=RM-(LM+PO).
To actually use this command, either select Default Line-Length from the menu or type Amiga-L. A requester will appear containing the current line length. Select the input area with the mouse, if you wish to change this value, edit the value, and press RETURN. If the information there is correct select "OK".
If the line length you select is LESS than 76 characters, SCRIBBLE! will display the text centered against the screen width. The requester will appear somewhat similar to the following box:
The Default Tabs command allows you to define where your tab stops will be. A "tab stop" is the location where the cursor will stop next when you type the Tab key. The default values are: 6, 11, 21,31, 41, 51, 61, 71, and the last character on the line.
In other words, the first time you type Tab, the cursor will skip in five spaces. The next time, it will skip five more. Each subsequent time you type the Tab, SCRIBBLE will advance another ten spaces.
For most applications, this will probably be fine. For some however, you many want to have tab stops every 4 or 8 characters. In these cases, you need to modify them with this command.
Either select Default Tabs from the menu or type Amiga-T. SCRIBBLE! will display a requester where you may enter the new tab stop values. At this point, you should either select the input area with the mouse in preparation to enter tab stops, or select "OK" or "Cancel", if you have brought up this requester in error.
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If you decide to input the new tab stops, after selecting the input area, type in the tab stops separated by commas and press RETURN when you are done. In other words, tab stops every four characters would be entered as:
This command allows you to adjust the color with which text is displayed in the current edit window. Please note that these colors will change if you use the Preference tool on your Workbench disk to alter the display colors. Each edit window can have different Ink and Paper colors.
This is a useful method for keeping the edit windows straight. Also, we have found that special text attributes, such as boldface, are better displayed in some colors than others. (The default colors of black Ink on white Paper are such as case.)
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Paper
Blue
White
Black
Orange
This command allows you to adjust the color of the background on which text is displayed in the current edit window. Please note that these colors will change if you use the Preference tool on your Workbench disk to alter the display colors. Each edit window can have different Ink and Paper colors. (This command is the "inverse" of the Ink command.)
This is a useful method for keeping the edit windows straight. Also, we have found that special text attributes, such as boldface, are better displayed in some colors than others. (The default colors of black ink on white Paper are such a case.)
Print
Page-Length
Page-Offset
Top-Margin
Bottom-Margin
Setup
The Default Print command and its related subcommands allow you to create a "general document format" for SCRIBBLE! that will take effect for printed output, unless specifically overridden by format commands in the text.
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SCRIBBLE! DOCUMENTATION CONTINUED
* Page Length. This the length of your physical page. How many
lines are actually printed on the page will be controlled by the top
and bottom margins. Standard 11 inch paper with a normal 6 line per
inch line height will give you 66 lines on each page. This can also be
set with the PL dot command.
* Page Offset. This value is the number of spaces that will be
printed to the left of each line during printout. Optionally, you can
make this a different value for odd numbered pages and even numbered
pages (which gives the effect of a right/left offset for output that
is to be printed up double sided. The dot commands PO, EO, and OO
allow you to set Page Offset, Even Offset, and Odd Offset,
respectively.
* Top Margin. This value represents the number of lines SCRIBBLE!
will skip at the top of each page. The default value is 6. The
corresponding dot command is MT.
* Bottom Margin. This value represents the number of lines
SCRIBBLE! will skip at the bottom of each page. The default is 6. The
number of actual lines usable on each page is expressed as Page Length
- (Top Margin + Bottom Margin). Any header or footers will come out of
the usable lines per page. The corresponding dot command is MB.
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* Set up. This is the string sent to the printer driver, or
directly to the printer if you print to PAR: instead of PRT:, just
prior to the document's printing. (See: Bypassing Preferences in the
SCRIBBLE! Overview.) Within this string, control values are expressed
carat-letter (^A would be CTRL-A), and specific decimal values are
expressed as the percent sign followed by the decimal value (%221
would send a decimal 221). Decimal values are input for three
characters, or up until the next non-numeric character. To send a
carat or percent sign, you'll need to send their decimal values, 37 =
% and 94 = ^. While there is no dot command that directly corresponds
with the Setup command, you can specify printer control values with
the User Defined Print codes 0 through 9.
By combining these values with line length and justification, you
can create a normal document appearance that is stored in your format
file. You may then type in many standard documents and print them
without every using any dot commands for advanced formatting. And if,
for some reason you want to change one of these values during a
printout, the dot commands are there to accommodate you.
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Default Format
LF only
CR+LF
CR only
The Default Format command is one of the most powerful areas of
SCRIBBLE!. With this command, you can control how SCRIBBLE! indicates
an "end of line". You can also use this command to interrogate how a
document was stored on the disk (whether it had line feeds at the end
of each line, or carriage returns followed by line feeds, or just
carriage returns).
Normal "text file format" defines that an end of line indicator is
a carriage return followed by a line feed. Files that you are
preparing for upload to a communications service such as a local BBS
or CompuServ should be made this way. However, AmigaDOS text file
format defines that a line feed alone signals the end of a line.
Files that you are preparing for use with an Amiga compiler or to be
further edited with Ed (the AmigaDOS full screen text editor) should
be prepared this way. The CR only end of line format was included for
compatibility with TRS-80 Model I, III, 4 text file format, which
defined an end of line indicator as just a carriage return. (The
TRS-80 was another popular microcomputer a couple of years ago, and
many of them are still in service. Since adding support for this
format was easy, as long as we were going to support the other two, we
added it. Even if you never have occasion to use it, it will be good
that it is here.)
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When you are editing the text file with SCRIBBLE!, the end of line
marker appears as the normal paragraph symbol (roughly something that
looks like a backwards "P"). This is placed in the text wherever you
press the RETURN or ENTER key, and signals that you have forced the
end of a line. The Default Format command, however, is that which
decides what this paragraph marker is translated into when the file is
stored to disk.
When you load a file, SCRIBBLE! "looks" at the incoming text and
attempts to determine which format this file is using. It them adjusts
itself to this. Because of this, you should be able to edit and
replace any file on your disk without having to consider which format
it is in. If you are curious, or want to change the format, the check
mark on this submenu will move to reflect the format of the file
loaded. You may manually move it to another format, if you like. Let's
take an example.
Most of the time, you will probably want to leave this set for LF
only, since this is the accepted AmigaDOS text file format. However,
let's assume that you have written a text file describing a program
you've created and you wish to prepare this text for uploading to a
bulletin board along with your program. You will want the end of each
line to contain a carriage return followed by a line feed.
In the case of a shorter file, the easiest method is to actually
press RETURN at the end of each line, select
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CR+LF on the Default Format submenu and store the document on disk.
However, for transmission to a friend who also has an Amiga, but does
NOT have SCRIBBLE!, you'll probably want to store the file with line
feeds only at the end of each line. When you load the text file you
created previously, you'll see that the check mark on this submenu
moves to the CR+LF indicator. With the mouse, you can move it to LF
only and store the file again under a new name, or replace the
existing file.
(For longer document files needing end of line indicator on each
line, it will prove faster to write the document with word wrap, as
normal, and then print it to a disk file. See: Print Go File later in
this section.)
So, then translating between the different text file formats should
prove an easy task with SCRIBBLE!.
THE TEXT MENU
| TEXT |
| |
| Edit | A | E |
| |
| Search |
| |
| Replace |
| | A | C |
| Copy |
| |
| Cut | A | P |
| |
| Paste |
| |
| Style |
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This menu controls all of you "global" text operations. A global
text operation is some specific action that, while it does not HAVE
to, can possibly affect the entire document. Searching and replacing
strings within the text, moving or copying large blocks of text, and
special text attributes all fall into this category.
Each of the options on this menu selects a different "mode" of
operation for SCRIBBLE!. The mouse pointer will change shape to
reflect these mode changes, and the "Action" indicator at the bottom
of the screen will detail exactly which mode you are in at any given
time. Each edit window can be in a different mode.
When the mouse pointer changes shape, remember that the part of the
pointer which actually "points" will be the upper left hand corner, no
matter what the shape of the pointer.
Text
Edit
The Text Edit mode is perhaps the most command in SCRIBBLE!. In
this mode, nothing special is happening outside the normal editing,
and the mouse is used to aid in rapid cursor positioning.
In this mode, the mouse pointer appears as a pencil, with the point
in the upper left hand corner. When you point at some text with the
mouse in this mode
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and click the left button, the cursor will immediately move to this
location in the edit window. This is very useful when scrolling
through a document, editing at. When you spot a place where you want
to make a change, you do not have to wait on the keyboard repeat speed
to get the cursor over there. Simply point at it with the mouse and
click.
The Text Edit mode can also be engaged by holding down the right
Amiga key and typing "E".
Text
Search
The Text Search mode lets you locate a character or string of
characters in your document. You can combine this with the Text
Replace command and change all of the "Smiths" to "Smythes", if you
like. Or you can just search without replacing.
When you select Text Search, a requester will appear asking you to
enter the text you wish to search for. Select the input area and enter
the character or string of characters you want to locate. Press RETURN
when done and the cursor will immediately position to the first
location.
The search always begins at the top of the document and moves down,
in order to locate the string regardless of its location.
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In the Text Search mode, the mouse pointer appears as magnifying
glass. The top left hand corner of the pointer is the area which
actually "selects".
Once the first location is displayed, you have several options.
First, you can click the left mouse button and locate the next
occurrence. Second, you could press the F9 Function Key, and do the
same thing. Third, you could make some editing changes, now that the
cursor is positioned for you.
At any point, you can engage the Text Replace mode. You must define
a search string in order for replace to work.
Many people use the comment function of the format lines to create
"place markers" in the text of their document that they can later
return to with the Text Search mode. For example:
..#1
Something important is in the text here. That is why I will search
for the string "#1" later, to find my spot. I can have as many of
these as I want, and they can even get descriptive.
..end of example is here
I could locate this comment by looking for any piece of the text.
However, it is usually a good idea to make the comment something
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unusual, so that it does not occur often in the text of the document.
(How many times do you think I would have to search before I found the
correct "is"?)
On subsequent accesses to the Text Search command, you will notice
that the string you specified the LAST time you used the command is
still there. This is done on purpose to allow you to either make
editing changes or search for the same string again by selecting "OK".
If you want to erase the current search string and enter an entirely
new one, select the input area and type SHIFT-Left Arrow to move the
cursor to the start of the box. Then hold down the right Amiga key and
type "X". This will erase the entire line.
End of line markers are always stored, internally to SCRIBBLE!, as
line feeds. They are translated into the proper format when stored to
disk. To search for the end of line marker, look for "^J" or "%10".
(Carat indicates a control value for a character is following.) Forced
page breaks are "^L" or "%12".
Text
Replace
The Text Replace command works hand in hand with the Text Search
command. As a matter of fact, you cannot use the replace command until
after you have
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defined the search text and located the first occurrence.
In the Text Replace mode, the mouse pointer will appear as a double
arrow. The point of the left-most arrow is the active selection spot.
When you engage this command, SCRIBBLE! will bring up a requester
asking you for the replacement string. This, as previously mentioned,
makes the assumption that you have already located the string with the
Text Search mode. Select the input area and enter the text of the
replacement string. If you wish to perform a global DELETE of the
search string, just select "OK" here while the input area is empty.
SCRIBBLE! will then replace the search string with the empty
replacement string, effectively deleting it.
Under most circumstances, however, you will enter the replacement
string. SCRIBBLE! will find the first occurrence of the search string.
If it is not already positioned over it, and display its action
requester. This appears something like this box:
| |
| Replace options: |
| |
| | Next | | Quit| | Change| | All | |
| |
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To skip this location and proceed to the next occurrence of the
search string, select Next or type "N". To change this location of the
string, select Change or type "C". To abort this replace operation
(while remaining in the replace mode), select Quit or type "Q". And
finally, to change this location and all SUBSEQUENT locations, select
All or type "A".
WARNING! You will no longer be prompted as to whether or not you
should replace, once you select All. SCRIBBLE! will replace until it
can no longer locate the search string.
When a replacement is made, by selecting Change, in order to
proceed to the next occurrence of the search string and make this
requester appear again, all you need to do is simply click the left
mouse button or press the F9 function key.
When you specify a replacement string for your search value (which
is input earlier, with Text Search), SCRIBBLE! will begin at the top
of your document once again, even if you have previously used the
search mode to skip down over the first few occurrences of the string.
At that point, click the left mouse button or press the F9 function
key to replace the next occurrence of the search string, just as you
would normally. SCRIBBLE! will move from the current cursor position
forward in the text.
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Also, if you know in advance that you are going to do a replace
operation, you may find it useful to define the search string. Skip
over the occurrences you do not want to replace with the Next option,
instead of repeated searches.
Text
Copy
The Text Copy command, along with its companions, Text Cut and Text
Paste, are used to manipulate blocks of text. Using block moves is
also the manner in which you will transport data between edit window.
Copying a block of text is a two-step procedure. First you must
take a "picture" of the text you want to copy, and then you may paste
it down in its new location. To accomplish the first step, taking a
picture of the text, you must use the Text Copy command. In addition
to using the mouse menus, you can engage this mode by holding down the
right Amiga key and typing "C".
When you engage the Text Copy mode, the mouse pointer will appear
as a camera. The upper left hand corner of the camera is the active
selector.
To define the block of text, you have two choices. First you can
use the mouse. Point to where you want to begin your block and press
the left mouse button. Continue to hold it and move the mouse pointer
to
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"paint" the block you want to copy. SCRIBBLE! will highlight the block
in inverse video as you go. When the block is complete, release the
mouse button. If you should make a mistake and want to exit the
highlight operation without any action, just pull the pointer outside
the edit window. This will abort the highlight mode. (Although,
copying is not nearly so important to get right as cutting, where you
remove the text. If you copy the wrong text. If you copy the wrong
text, just copy the right text on top of it.
If you prefer not to use the mouse, or the text block you want to
copy is larger than what can be displayed on the screen, you need to
use the keyboard in defining the block. Position the cursor to the
start of the block and press F9 function key. This "anchors" the
block. Use the normal cursor motion commands to position the cursor to
the end of the block, and press RETURN. This completes the block
definition and does the copy, all at the same time.
When the text is copied, it is placed into a temporary buffer, call
the "paste buffer". It will remain there until you either exit the
program or put something else on top of it. You can use the Text Paste
command to bring the text in the paste buffer into the document.
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Text
Cut
The Text Cut mode is very similar to the Text Copy mode. However,
in this mode, you are either moving the block of text (as opposed to
copying it), or deleting the block of text.
Moving a block of text is a two-step procedure. First you must cut
the text from its current location, and then you may paste it down in
its new location. To accomplish the first step, cutting out the text,
you will use the Text Cut command.
When you engage the Text Cut mode, the mouse pointer will appear as
a pair of scissors. The point of the left blade is the active
selector.
To define the block of text, you have two choices. First you can
use the mouse. Point to where you want to begin you block and press
the left mouse button. Continue to hold it and move the mouse pointer
to "paint" the block you want to cut. SCRIBBLE! will highlight the
block in inverse video as you do. (If you should make a mistake and
want to exit the highlight operation without any action, just pull the
pointer outside of the edit window. This will abort the highlight
mode.) When you release the button, the text you have highlighted will
disappear.
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If you prefer not to use the mouse, or the text block you want to
cut is larger than what can be displayed on the screen, you need to
use the keyboard in defining the block. Position the cursor to the
start of the block and press F9 function key. This "anchors" the
block. Use the normal cursor motion commands to position the cursor to
the end of the block and press RETURN. The text you have highlighted
will then disappear.
When the text is cut, it is placed into a temporary buffer, called
the "paste buffer". It will remain there until you either exit the
program or put something else on top of it. You can use the Text Paste
command to bring the text in the paste buffer back into the document.
Obviously, however, if you never paste the text back into the
document you have to delete it. This is how the Text Cut command
serves double duty, both moving and deleting text. If you make a
mistake with cutting text, don't worry. It is a simple matter to paste
it back where you cut it from. Nothing is permanent unless you want it
to be.
Text
Paste
The Text Paste command, which can also be invoked by holding down
the right Amiga Key and typing "P", is the culmination of the copy and
move block operations. Whatever is in the paste buffer, whether it was
cut there or copied there, can now be pasted back into the document.
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When you select the Text Paste mode, the mouse pointer appears as a
paste jar, with the tip of the handle being the active selector.
To use the paste mode, simply point to where you want the text to
be inserted into the document and click the left mouse button. That's
all there is to it. The text will be inserted at that location.
Pasting text does not remove it from the buffer. You may copy or
Cut once and paste as many times as you like. You may also cut or
copy text into the duffer and then select another edit window before
pasting it down. As a matter of fact, the text will remain in the
paste buffer until you exit the program or put some other text on top
of it.
Text
Style
Plain
Bold
Underline
Italic
SCRIBBLE! allows three different types of character formatting,
boldface, underlined, and italicized. The Text Style command allows
you to apply these to existing text. To apply them to text as you are
entering it, you should make use of the style function keys:
F6 Toggles boldface attribute on and off
F7 Toggles underline attribute on and off
F8 Toggles italic attribute on and off
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You may use one or more of these at the same time.
However, in the case of text you have already typed, you do not
want to go back and type it again to get the special character
formatting. So, SCRIBBLE! gives you a way to "paint" these attributes
on to existing documents.
When you move the mouse pointer over the Text Style command, a
pop-out menu will appear that contains the different styles. You'll
notice that these are check marked to let you know which style or
styles you are applying right now. The Plain style supersedes all of
the others, but Bold, Underline and Italic can co-exist without
problem. Pick the style or styles you would like to apply. Remember,
you can select multiple items by clicking the left mouse button. Just
be sure to have your final choice be the one still highlighted when
you release the right mouse button, so that you don't select Bold and
Underline, and then get Plain on your way out of the menus.
When you actually select a style and enter the Text Style mode, the
mouse pointer appears as an artist's paint brush. The very tip of the
brush is the active selector, since there is no real "upper left hand
corner".
To apply the style to the text after you have selected it, you must
define the block of text, just like the block copy and block cut
operations.
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To define the block of text, you have two choices. First, you can
use the mouse. Point to where you want to begin your block and press
the left mouse button. Continue to hold it and move the mouse pointer
to "paint" the block you want to copy. SCRIBBLE! will highlight the
block in inverse video as you go. If you should make a mistake and
want to exit the highlight operation without any action, just pull the
pointer outside of the edit window. This will abort the highlight
mode. When you release the button, the text you have highlighted will
have the selected attributes applied to it.
If you prefer not to use the mouse, or the text block you want to
style is larger than what can be displayed on the screen, you need to
use the keyboard in defining the block. Position the cursor to the
start of the block and press F9 function key. This "anchors" the
block. Use the normal cursor motion commands to position the cursor to
the end of the block, and press RETURN. The text you have highlighted
will then be styled.
If you have made a mistake, you can always go back and apply the
Plain style to the text, and then re-apply the desired styles.
Briefly, here's an interesting technical note. When styling large
blocks of text, it is much slower to apply the initial style or remove
all styling, than it is to apply an additional style. In other words,
if the text is underlined, it can be boldfaced in a hurry. This is
entirely normal. In 99% of your styling applications, though, the text
block will be small enough to make the operation of the command
instantaneous.
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THE PRINT MENU
| PRINT |
| |
| PREVIEW |
| |
| LINEFEED |
| |
| GO |
| |
| FORWARD |
| |
| COPIES |
| |
| NUMBER |
| |
| SHEET |
| |
This menu controls some final options regarding the physical
printout of your document, and also holds the commands that actually
start the printing. As a matter of fact, the only command on this menu
that you would likely use before you are actually ready to print would
be Print Preview.
Print Preview
The Print Preview command allows you to "print" your document on
your screen prior to actual printout on paper. This is a very useful
command, because some of SCRIBBLE!'s more advanced formatting commands
(such as the hanging indent) will not display on your screen as you
edit your document. The only way to see what effect they have on your
document's appearance will be to use the Print Preview command. As a
matter of face, in general, dot commands that appear in the text will
not show on the
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screen. The "on screen" format of your document will be controlled via
SCRIBBLE!'s menu commands.
When you preview a document, it is shown on the screen EXACTLY as
it will be printed out. All special character formatting (boldface,
underline, etc.), headers, footers, and line/page breaks will appear
correctly. There are other facilities within SCRIBBLE! for viewing
page breaks "on screen", however. Your main purpose in using this
command should be to see how dot commands are not shown on the screen
will appear in the document.
The preview will start from the current cursor position, and move
downward through the document. If you want to preview the entire
document, make sure to home the cursor first. Shift-Left Arrow is a
fast way to do this.
While a document is being previewed, you may press the Space Bar to
pause the display, or the ESC key to abort. When the display is
paused, pressing any key will cause it to resume. After aborting or
completing a preview, the display will pause and wait for you to press
a key before returning you to your document in the editor.
If you have turned on the single sheet printing, either with the
menu command or the dot command, SCRIBBLE! will pause at the end of
each page while previewing. Press any key to continue.
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The only dot command NOT honored by preview is the page offset
(PO). Since this is your physical printed page indent, it is not
important to show it on the screen. In addition, skipping the page
offset lets you see more text on a line while previewing.
The line length of a full-sized SCRIBBLE! window is 76 characters.
Yours may be less, if you have resized the window. If the line length
of the document being previewed is greater than that, lines will wrap
down to the next video line and end there (which gives you one full
line and one short line for each printed line). This is unavoidable
and entirely normal.
A complete list of dot commands is contained in the SCRIBBLE
Overview.
There are two other methods of display page breaks with SCRIBBLE!,
both of which may be regarded as easier than Print Preview. The
on-screen page indicator, located in the status window, will give you
the current page number, and the ALT-J command can be used to display
the next page break (as it will appear during the printout of the
document). Each of these options is discussed in fuller detail in the
SCRIBBLE! Overview under "Displaying your page breaks".
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Print
Linefeed
This command is used to send a single linefeed to the printer, in
order to advance the paper one line. This option is useful when you
have a printer with no easy method to manually advance the paper (or
perhaps it is just inconvenient to get at).
Before this command can be used, the printer must be attached,
powered on, and on-line (available).
Print
Go
Printer
File
This command is used to actually start your printout. You have two
options with Print Go. The first, Printer specifies that the printout
should be sent to the printer, via whatever driver you have selected
with Preferences (which is part of AmigaDOS). On the other hand, File
tells SCRIBBLE! that you want to send your printout to a disk file or
other logical device. (You might want to print to a disk file in order
to get carriage return/linefeeds on the end of each line, or prepare a
disk file image of your document for later copying to the printer,
etc.)
When you select the Print menu, and move the mouse pointer down
over the word Go, a pop-out menu will appear to the side with your
options. Moving the
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pointer over the word Printer and releasing the right mouse button
will start your printout at once. The printout will automatically
begin from the top of the document, so there is no need to move the
cursor before selecting this command.
If you select File, a different chain of events will take place.
SCRIBBLE! will display a requester that asks for the name of the disk
file. You can enter the disk filename here, complete with drive and/or
directory information. For example, a response of "DF:1TEST" would
store the output in a disk file called TEST on whatever disk was in
drive 1. A response of "DF:0DOCUMENTS/MY_STUFF" would store the output
in a file called MY_STUFF located in the directory called DOCUMENTS on
whatever disk was loaded in drive 0.
To enter data into this requester, select the input area by
pointing at it with the mouse and clicking the left button. After you
do this, Intuition will let you type. Press RETURN or select OK when
you are done.
Part of the true power of SCRIBBLE! lies in this command. With
Print Go File, you many send your output to any logical device name.
For example, if you were to enter the device name "PAR:", your output
would be sent directly to the parallel device, which completely
bypasses Preferences and its printer drivers.
This is what you would do in the case of a printer that is not
supported with a Preferences driver. By using
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SCRIBBLE!'s "printer variable" feature to embed control characters in
your document and then directing the printout to PAR:, you can make
use of all of your printer's special features, whether or not it is
supported by Preferences.
NOTE: When using the print to file function to bypass Preferences, you
will not be able to use the built in character formatting; boldface,
underline, and italics. These send escape sequences that the
Preferences printer drivers understand and then translate into the
necessary codes for your printer. You must use whatever built in
functions your printer offers with the printer variable feature of
SCRIBBLE! If your printer does not offer the feature, you will likely
be unable to use it.)
Once a printout has commenced, whether to the printer or to a
file/device, you may press the Space Bar to pause output or the ESC
key to abort printing. Note that each of these will be processed at
the END of the current line, so the effect won't be instant. If you
press the key repeated times, the extra keys will be buffered up. When
the printout is over (or paused with the Space Bar), pressing any key
will return you to the document.
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For further information on using the Printer Go File command to
drive printers unsupported by any Preferences driver, consult the
"What to do when your printer is not in Preferences" section in the
SCRIBBLE! Overview.
Print
Forward
This command allows you to start your printout at the current
cursor position. This is useful when some error condition has forced
you to abort a printout, and you wish to start it from some later
point in your document. When you select this command, SCRIBBLE! will
automatically send your document to the printer, just as if you
selected Print Go Printer, except that the output will begin with the
text of the line cursor is currently positioned on.
If you want this option to work correctly, you should position the
cursor on the first line of a page (perhaps after a forced page
break). SCRIBBLE! won't correctly print out "half pages" (i.e. your
page breaks will not be right from that point on).
This command automatically sends output to the printer. You do not
have the option of using Print Forward with a file or logical device.
In those cases, you should delete the text already printed and use the
normal method for starting output.
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Print
Copies
This command is used to tell SCRIBBLE! how many copies of the
current document to print. Normally, this is defaulted to 1. However,
if you need more than one copy of something, you can increase this.
When you select this command, SCRIBBLE! will pop a requester asking
for the number of copies. If the current value is not correct, select
the input area with the mouse and enter the correct number. Press
RETURN or select OK when done.
This is a passive command. It does not start the printout, you
still need to use the normal commands for that. It only takes effect
during the printout.
Print
Number
This command is used to tell SCRIBBLE! to begin numbering pages for
the current document with a value different than 1. It is equivalent
to the dot command PN (page number). However, you'll find that you use
these two items for very different tasks.
The dot command PN allows you to change the page number while the
document is printing. For example, you might want the first three
pages of a document to be introductory information, and then page 4
would really be page 1 when printing out. The command
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".pn=1" at the top of page 4 would reset the page number as the
document is printing.
This menu command, however, is useful when you're printing a
document that occupies several disk files and reaches the end of one
module. You can examine the printout to see what page you stopped at,
and use this command to start the next module where the last one left
off, without having to modify the text to insert a dot command.
Print
Spacing
This command sets the line spacing that SCRIBBLE! will use when it
prints out your document. The normal setting of "1" produces single
spaced text. A setting of "2" would produce double spaced text, a
setting of "3" would produce triple spaced text, and so on.
The line spacing can also be controlled within your document with
the LS (Line Spacing) dot command. As a matter of fact, by using the
dot command in a format line within your text, you can even adjust
line spacing to-and-from double spaced text within the confines of a
single page.
The value for line spacing that you set with this menu command will
be used for the entire document as the normal value, and unless
overridden by a format line, will not be changed.
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To use this command, select it from the Print menu and a small
requester will appear asking you to input the desired line spacing.
Select the open box in the center of the requester (where the current
line spacing is displayed currently) and input the new value. Press
RETURN or select OK when done. Line spacing is only seen at print time
or with the Print Review command. It will not alter the screen display
of the edit window.
Print
Sheet
Fanfold
Single
This command tells SCRIBBLE! whether you are printing on continuous
feed paper (Fanfold) or single sheet (Single). When you are in Fanfold
mode, printing will continue from one page to the next without pause.
However, when you engage Single mode, printing will pause at the
end of each page, and SCRIBBLE! will wait for you to press a key
before continuing.
The check mark on this command's pop-out menu will show the current
status. The equivalent dot command is SS (Single Sheet).
Please note that this command will be honored by Print Preview. If
you are previewing a document while in Single mode, the preview will
pause at the end of each page and wait for you to press a key.
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INDEX
A
Action indicator, 1-18 to 1-19
ALT key commands, 2-26 to 2-27
ALT + arrow keys, 1-12
Amiga key commands 2-26
Archive command, 1-23, 3-2 to 3-4, 3-12 to 3-14
Archive Requester, 3-2 to 3-3, 3-12 to 3-13
Delete, 3-4, 3-14
Dn, 3-4, 3-14
Get, 3-4, 3-14
Replace, 3-4, 3-14
Store, 3-4, 3-14
Up, 3-4, 3-14
Archive Requester, 1-27, 3-2 to 3-4
Archiving documents, See Storing documents
Arrow keys, 1-9 to 1-10, 1-11 to 1-12
plus ALT key, 1-12
plus CTRL key, 1-13
plus SHIFT key, 1-12
B
Backspace key, 1-9
Backup the master disk, iv to ix
with one disk drive, v to vii
with two disk drives, vii to ix
Blank lines, 1-5
Index-1
Block operations, 2-22 to 2-24
copying text, 2-24
defining a block, 2-23 to 2-24
deleting text, 2-24
Boldface function key, 1-19
C
Carriage return, 2-19, 3-23 to 3-25
Centering text, 1-29 to 1-30
Change disk drive or directory, 3-3
Close command, 3-9 to 3-10
Color display, 2-17
Ink command, 3-19
Paper command, 3-20
Column indicator, 1-18
Columnar reports, 1-5
Copy the master disk, iv to ix
with one disk drive, v to vii
with two disk drives, vii to ix
Copying text, 2-24, 3-32 to 3-33
Correcting errors, 1-8 to 1-11
backspace key, 1-9
delete key, 1-10
insert block, 1-10
Creating a document, 1-23 to 1-26
CTRL + arrow keys, 1-13
Cursor movement, 1-11 to 1-18, 2-4, 2-7 to 2-8
with the keyboard, 1-11 to 1-13
with the mouse, 1-13 to 1-16
Index-2
Cutting text, 2-24, 3-34 to 3-35
D
Default format command, 3-23 to 3-25
carriage return only, 3-23
carriage return plus linefeed, 3-23
line feed only, 3-32 to 3-25
Default Menu, 3-11 to 3-25
Archive command, 3-12 to 3-14
Default Format command, 3-23 to 3-25
Ink, 3-19
Justify command, 3-15 to 3-16
Line Length command, 3-16 to 3-17
Paper command, 3-20
Print command, 3-20 to 3-22
Tabs command, 3-18 to 3-19
Default Values, 2-10 to 2-11, See also Format lines
carriage returns, 2-19, 3-23 to 3-25
changing, 2-13 to 2-20
color display, 2-17
line feeds, 2-19 to 2-20, 3-23 to 3-25
line length and horizontal scrolling, 2-16
justification, 2-14
page size, 2-17 to 2-19
tabs, 2-17
Delete key, 1-10
Dot commands
format lines, 2-28, 2-35 to 2-37
headers and footers, 2-37 to 2-40
Index-3
justification, 2-15 to 2-36
line length, 2-16
page size, 2-36
print control characters, 2-29 to 2-30, 2-37
special page controls, 2-39
Duplicate the master disk, iv to ix
with one disk drive, v to vii
with two disk drives, vii to ix
E
Edit window, x
closing, 3-9 to 3-10
opening, 3-7 to 3-9
paged mode, 3-8
tiled mode, 3-8
Editing a document, 1-29 to 1-35, See also Writing a document
centering text, 1-29 to 1-30
correcting errors, 1-8 to 1-11
Edit command, 3-26 to 3-27
saving changes, 1-35
Erase command, 1-22, 1-27, 2-11 to 2-12, 3-7
Escape sequences for Preferences, 2-30 to 2-34
Exiting
from a menu, 1-21
from SCRIBBLE!, 1-38 to 1-39, 2-13
Index-4
F
Footers, 2-39
Format lines, 2-28, 2-35 to 2-37, See also Default values
headers and footers, 2-37 to 2-40
page size, 2-36
printer control commands, 2-29 to 2-34, 2-37
text formatting, 2-36
G
Get a document, 2-12
H
Horizontal scrolling, 2-16
I
Ink command (colors), 3-19
Insert block (F10), 1-10
Insert mode, 1-7
Italics function key, 1-19
J
Justification, 2-14 to 2-15
command, 3-15 to 3-16
dot commands for, 2-15
Index-5
flush right, 2-15
hanging indent, 2-15
on or off, 2-15
K
Keyboard
ALT key commands, 2-26 to 2-27
Amiga key commands, 2-26
cursor control with, 1-11 to 1-13
special function keys, 2-5 to 2-8
styling text with, 1-32 to 1-33
L
Leaving SCRIBBLE!, 2-13
Line feed command, 2-19 to 2-20, 3-23 to 3-25, 3-42
Line length, 2-16
command, 3-16 to 3-17
Line number indicator, 1-17
Loading a document, 1-27 to 1-28, 2-12
M
Margins, 2-18 to 2-19, 3-21
Master disk
making a duplicate of, iv to ix
Menus, 1-20
Index-6
Default Menu, 3-11 to 3-25
exit from, 1-21
pop-out menus, 1-21
Print Menu, 3-39 to 3-48
Project Menu, 3-1 to 3-11
pull-down menus, 1-20
selecting, 1-20 to 1-22
Text Menu, 3-25 to 3-38
Memory considerations, 3-7
Mistakes, correcting, 1-8 to 1-11
Mouse
cursor control wit, 1-13 to 1-16
styling text with, 1-30 to 1-32
Moving the cursor, See Cursor movement
Multiple styles, 1-33 to 1-34
N
Naming a document, 1-24 to 1-26
Non-document files, 2-10
O
Open command, 3-7 to 3-9
Overwrite mode, 1-7 to 1-8
P
Page layout, 2-40 to 2-41
Index-7
Page number indicator, 1-17
Page size, 2-18 to 2-19
bottom margin, 2-18 to 2-19, 3-21
length, 2-18, 3-21
offset, 2-18, 3-21
special page control commands, 2-39
top margin, 2-18 to 2-19, 3-21
Paged mode, 3-8
Paper command, 3-20
Paste command, 3-35 to 3-36
Plain style, 1-34 to 1-35
Pop-out command, 3-39 to 3-41
Print command, 3-20 to 3-22
bottom margin, 3-21
page length, 3-21
page offset, 3-21
setup, 2-19, 3-22
top margin, 3-21
Print Menu, 1-37 to 1-38, 3-39 to 3-48
copies, 3-46
forward, 3-45
Go command, 3-42 to 3-45
file, 3-43 to 3-44
printer, 3-42 to 3-43
Linefeed command, 3-23 to 3-25, 3-42
number, 3-46 to 3-47
Preview command, 3-39 to 3-41
sheet, 3-48
spacing 3-47 to 3-48
Index-8
Printer configuration, 1-36 to 1-37, 2-8, 2-30
for printers not in Preferences, 2-34 to 2-35, 3-43 to 3-44
Printer control commands, 2-29 to 2-34
escape sequences for Preferences, 2-30 to 2-34
Project Menu, 3-1 to 3-4
Archive command, 3-2 to 3-4
Archive Requester, 3-2 to 3-3
Close command, 3-9 to 3-10
Erase command, 3-7
Open command, 3-7 to 3-9
Quit command, 3-10 to 3-11
Status command, 3-5 to 3-6
Pull-down menus, 1-20
Q
Quitting SCRIBBLE!, 2-13, 3-10 to 3-11
R
Removing a style, 1-34 to 1-35
Replace command, 2-20 to 2-22, 3-29 to 3-32
S
Saving a document, See Storing a document
Scroll gadgets, 1-14 to 1-16
proportional, 1-16
Search and replace, 2-20 to 2-22
Index-9
Replace command, 3-29 to 3-32
Search command, 3-27 to 3-29
SHIFT + arrow keys, 1-12
Starting SCRIBBLE!, ix to x, 2-3
Status command, 3-5 to 3-6
bottom margin, 3-6
characters free, 3-6
characters used, 3-6
justification, 3-6
line length, 3-6
page count, 3-6
page length, 3-5
page offset, 3-5
top margin, 3-5
word count, 3-6
Status window, 1-17 to 1-19
Storing a document, 1-19 to 1-22, 1-23 to 1-26, 1-35, 2-9 to 2-10
non-document files, 2-10
Styling text, 1-32 to 1-35, 2-25, 3-36 to 3-38
for the entire document, 1-33
multiple, 1-33 to 1-34
plain style, 1-34 to 1-35
Style command, 3-36 to 3-38
with the keyboard, 1-32 to 1-33
with the mouse, 1-30 to 1-32
removing a style, 1-34 to 1-35
Index-10
T
Tabs, setting, 2-17
command, 3-18 to 3-19
Tabular reports, 1-5 to 1-6
Text edit mode, 1-14
Text entry, See Writing
Text Menu, 3-25 to 3-38
Copy command, 3-32 to 3-33
Cut command, 3-34 to 3-35
Edit command, 3-26 to 3-27
Paste command, 3-29 to 3-32
Search, 3-27 to 3-29
Style command, 3-36 to 3-38
Tiled mode, 3-8 to 3-9
Title format, See Headers and footers
U
Underline function key, 1-19
W
Windows, x, See also Edit window
status window, 1-17 to 1-19
Word processing
description, 1-1 to 1-3, 2-1 to 2-2
Word wrap, 1-4 to 1-6, 2-4
Index-11
Writing a document 1-3 to 1-18, See also Editing a document
