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PRINTING A FILE
To print a file, press the <WRITE> command, and when you are
prompted for the name of the file to write to, press <RETURN>. You are
then given a menu of options which control the printing. We will
discuss some of these options below. The default value for most of the
options can be set in the WPPRMENU file.
After altering the values in the printer menu, type <CTRL> D to
begin the printing operation, type 'Q' to return to your file and not
print, and type 'M' to go into the printer queue maintainance menu.
(Note - the M option is not valid in the IBM PC version.)
The left margin specifies the number of spaces the printer will
skip (minus 1) before it prints each line. If you type your document
in the word processor with a margin of 1, and then specify a margin of
5 in the printer menu, then the printer will print 4 spaces before
printing each line.
The right margin option is really not implemented in this version,
since NYW is a WYSIWYG word processor.
The page shift option tells how many spaces each line on every ODD
numbered page will be shifted over. This is useful if you are working
with two-sided manuscripts.
There are two parameters which tell where the text body should
start and end, and where the headers and footers should begin.
If you need to print a single sheet at a time, turn on the pause
option. After a page is printed, NYW will prompt you to insert a new
piece of paper in the printer. After you do that, type any character
on the keyboard and this printing will resume.
You can specify what page you would like the headers and footers
to start on. This option would be used if you did not want a header or
footer to appear on the first page (company letterhead, start of
chapter, etc.)
The printer device option specifies the output device. For the IBM
PC, the default in PRN:. You can also print to a disk file. To do
this, start the output device name with a backslash (ie - "\foo" will
print the document to a disk file called "foo"). If you want to, you
can then edit this disk file, and send the result to the printer by
typing a command like "TYPE FOO > PRN:". (By the way, if you press the
<NEXT PARA> key in the printer menu, you will be moved automatically
to this option.)
You can specify "temporary" headers and footers to be printed.
The headers and footers that you create in the printer menu WILL NOT
be saved with your document, unlike the headers and footers created in
the format menu.
If you are in the processing of printing a file, and you either
try to exit the word processor or try to print another file, NYW will
warn you that you are in the process of printing. NYW will ask you if
you want to abort the current print job - type 'y' if you want to.
(Due to the fact that many printers have internal memory to buffer
characters, the printing may not stop right away.)
DOT COMMANDS
Some word processors use "dot commands" to control printing.
Although NYW is a WYSIWYG word processor, there are a few special "dot
commands" that are available. If you use a dot command, the dot must
start at column 1 (or the left margin).
The ".TR" command allows any characters to be translated into any
string of characters at print time. For instance, the command
.TR !=$$, @=\E^F, #=243
says that from this point on, every time the print operation sees an
an exclamation point in your file, it will send two dollar signs to
the printer. Likewise, every time the print operation encounters an at
sign, it will send an ESCAPE followed by a CTRL F to the printer.
Also, when we see a pound sign, the decimal value 243 will be sent to
the printer (on most printers, this will print some sort of graphic).
To see characters are valid after the '=' sign, refer to the
WPPRMENU file.
The ".IN" option takes a file name as its parameter, and
"includes" that file in the print operation. For instance, if in the
middle of your document the print operation finds the line
.IN foo
then the file named "foo" will be printed at that instant. After "foo"
is finished being printed, the rest of your file will continue to be
printed.