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.IF DSK1.NEW/CODE/3
GETTING STARTED WITH T.I.WRITER, Part II
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^by Jack Sughrue
Creating a document with the Text Editor of the
TI-WRITER Word Processor is made easier with the Word
Wrap feature that automatically moves words that exceed
the right margin down to a new, automatically inserted
blank line. This means you do not have to press a key
at the end of each line as you would if you were using
a typewriter. With Word Wrap, you simply type, and the
Text Editor keeps your margins for you. Now, you don't
have to keep looking back and forth from your text to
the screen to see if you are running over the right
margin. You can immediately see the benefits of having
Word Wrap once you have used it. Letter writing is
made easy. Your school age children can use TI-WRITER
Word Processor to prepare reports and themes for school
work. A thousand uses will become apparent to you as
you learn what the TI-WRITER Word Processor Word
Processor can do for YOU!
Create, save, and print your documents
with the Text Editor, or insert format commands into
your document and print it using the powerful Text
Formatter. With the Text Formatter, such operations as
overstriking and underlining, and right margin
justification are made available, as well as setting
margins and paragraph indentation, inserting blank
lines, centering, and automatically numbering pages
consecutively. The most powerful FORMATting tools,
as far as I'm concerned, are the IF command and the
Transliteration Key. But for our purposes of this
second part of the intro to the processor we'll leave
that area of exploration up to you. (Maybe discovering
a wordpro freak in your user group might be the ideal
thing once you have some of the self-discovery under
your belt.)
The TI-WRITER Word Processor Word
Processor has many of the features of the larger word
processors and lots of features many of them do not
have. At school, for example, we use Apples,
Commodores, Timex/Sinclairs, and TIs. TIW is,
unquestionably, the most profound of all the word
processors I've used with all these computers over the
past five or six years.
What kinds of documents can you create with the
Text EDITor without FORMATting? Using the Word Wrap
Mode, you can create reports, themes, theses, recopy
recipes and print copies for your relatives and
friends. In short, any type of document in paragraph
form can be created using Word Wrap. Suppose your
document needs a diagram, or a chart or table. Those
too can be created using the Fixed Mode of the Text
Editor. In Fixed Mode, the Word Wrap feature is not
activated so that inserting and deleting text will not
cause Reformat to "readjust" the rest of your
document!
Included in the TI-WRITER Word Processor Manual are
special tutorial sections on using the Text Editor and
the Text Formatter. These two sections take you step
by step through the creation, editing, and printing of
a document, insertion of format commands and printing
through the Text Formatter. The Manual also takes each
option and fully explains the operations, functions,
and commands for using that option. At the end of the
manual is a Quick Reference section that lists the
Function and Control Key Combinations, the Command Mode
Commands, and Text Formatter Commands, as well as a
Glossary section and an Index.
If all this sounds confusing, it isn't for one simple
reason: you only do one thing at a time. When you are
typing, you type. When you correct mistakes, you
correct (mostly by using your arrows to direct your
cursor over the mistake and make the corrections or by
using your 1, 2, 3 keys to DELete a CHARacter; INSert a
CHARacter (which may be paragraphs long - pressing
CTRL/R will REFORMAT after you have INS CHAR; and
DELete LINE) easily and directly. When you do the
other commands (see Quick Reference Card and the Strip
above the numbers), you will do the other commands.
And they are done instantly!
TI's own upgrade of the disk and the numerous versions
which are available (consult your user group) are
really worth examining. The newer versions (such as
FUNLWRITER/FUNLPLUS!, TK WRITER, and BA WRITER) give
you some remarkable additional to this remarkable
word processor.
Patience!
And on that note of patience, just a little comment.
I've heard lots of comments about the TI WRITER and
its grandchildren. Among those comments are often
questions about How do you do this? or How do you do
that? to processes which are very basic. Inevitably,
I will ask, Did you read the manual, yet? The answer
is ALWAYS negative. My suggestion again is to play
with and experiment with the processor. Print out
things. Use the strip and reference card to try things
out. After you are able to use the processor in a
reasonable way in the EDIT Mode, then start the manual
and, with your processor on in front of you, go step by
step through the entire book, even if it takes you two
or three months. (It took me six weeks to get through
it all.) After that initiation, you'll own your
processor. For life.
[Jack Sughrue, Box 459, E.Douglas, MA 01516]
******
If any newsletter editor prints these articles, please
put me on your mailing list. Thanks - JS
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