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This file should accompany "City Desk Beta .2" "City Desk" is Copyright
(C) 1987 by Microsearch. "City Desk" is NOT public domain. Permission is
given to distribute copies of "City Desk Beta .2" for demonstration
purposes if, and only if, this file is included.
"City Desk" is a desktop publishing program for the Amiga computer developed
by MicroSearch and SunRize Industries.
Please direct all marketing questions to:
MicroSearch
9896 Soutwest Freeway
Houston, Texas 77074
(713) 988-2818
Please direct all suggestion, comments, and Bugs to:
SunRize Industries
PO Box 1453
College Station, Texas 77841
(409) 846-1311
Beta version .2 is the first public release of "City Desk." The program
is still very much in development. The program will no doubt crash, and
many functions that will be included in the final version are not included
here. "City Desk" is being distributed in its early stages to give
you, the user, a chance to mold its development. We very much want to
hear your comments. Please send features that you would like to see, Bugs,
and comments to SunRize Industries at the above address. You are welcome
to call; however, letters will have a more lasting effect.
"City Desk Beta .2" should be discarded after Jan. 30, 1987 when a new
version will be made available.
A Short Manual:
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This brief introduction was written by PROGRAMMERS, so don't expect much...
Some of the menu items are ghosted out. This was deliberate, as some of the
features aren't implemented yet, and others we didn't want to include in the
demo. (If we included save and print, you wouldn't need to buy it, now,
would you?)
This version was designed to run under version 1.2 of Workbench. It may
not run under version 1.1. External "fast" ram is also supported.
Brief summary of Toolbox icons:
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Hand Arrow
Resize Crop
Magnify Text
Page Copy
Tools planed for next version: Lines, Boxes.
Hand - This allows you to move objects between pages and the clipboard. The
clipboard is the background screen, behind the pages. You should be able to
move objects from one page to another regardless of magnification.
***known bug*** Using Hand on objects that extend off the screen (not the
window) can crash the program.
Arrow - This allows you to move objects around on the current page. You
can't move things from one page to another, use Hand instead.
Resize - Resizes text or graphics. Click and hold the button down on the
object to be resized, pull the rubber band box, and let go. For graphics,
the object gets bigger or smaller. For text, the printable area changes,
allowing more or fewer characters on a line. The size of the characters
does not change. (change fonts for that).
Crop - Not implemented yet.
Magnify - Sets the magnification for the current page, from 1 (full page on
screen) to 7. Most text is hard to read until about magnification 4 or 5.
Text - Brings up a little requester for you to enter some text in. You then
get a TEXT pointer, and you point and click where you want the text to go.
Page - Allows you to select a page number to view. More than one page can
be open at a time. (Currently, you can only have two pages, this will of
course be changed).
Copy - Makes a copy of a graphic. Use the hand or the pointer then to move
the copy.
Loading Graphics
----------------
When you select Load Graphics, you get a disk file requester. Select a
file, and the graphic will be loaded into the Clipboard area (behind the
pages). You may need to move the page to see the newly loaded graphic. Use
the hand to move it onto a page.
The graphics should be in IFF format and, for best results, use only
one bitplane (two colors.) IFF brushes or full screens can be loaded.
Loading Text
------------
After you select a file, your pointer changes to TEXT. Point to where you
want the text to go, and click. The text will flow into the column you
select, starting at the pointer position and going down. If all the text
won't fit in the column, the pointer will stay TEXT. Click where you want
the continuation to go. If you don't, and do something else instead, then
click in the first part of the text again with the pointer and you will get
another chance to place the rest of the text.
Formatting Commands
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Formatting commands, such as changing text, margins, etc. may be embedded in
the text. All such embedded commands are enclosed in square brackets [].
Multiple commands may be entered in the same brackets if you separate them
by either commas or semicolons. Commands are:
[lj] - Set left justify mode. Right margin is ragged.
[rj] - Set right justify mode. Left margin is ragged.
[fj] - Set fill justify mode. Both margins are straight, and spaces are
stretched to fill in the extra room. If the spaces get stretched too far,
then the space between characters will start to get stretched too.
[cj] - Set center justify mode. All lines are centered.
[lm=n] - Set left margin to n. See below for the format of numbers.
[rm=n] - Set right margin to n.
[indent=n] - Set paragraph indent to n. This is independent of left margin,
so if you want an indent of 5 from the margin, set indent to 5+margin. This
doesn't sound good, but it allows you to do reverse indenting, for outlines
or similar numbered blocks of text. Setting the indent less than the left
margin will cause an inverse indent.
[leading=n] - Set line "leading" to n. This currently sets the space between
the bottom of one line and the top of the next, but it will in the future be
changed to be the distance from the baseline of one line to the baseline of
the next.
[bold] - Sets boldface in the current font.
[it] or [italic] - Sets italic. ***known bug*** Italic characters at the
beginning of a line will cause the program to do major fireworks. Use
italics only with extreme caution (at least until we fix it).
[under] - Sets underline.
[p] or [plain] - sets plain text. Cancels bold, italic, and underline (which
can be used in combination, by the way).
[fsize=n] - sets the font size to n.
[font=name n] - sets the font to name (with or without the ".font" extension).
The parameter n is optional - it sets the font size just like fsize and is
merely a shorthand notation for [font=name,fsize=n]
If one of these commands is not found, a font name is assumed. So you can
use [topaz 8] or [diamond 20] or [emerald] as shorhands for
[font=topaz,fsize=8] or [font=diamond 20] or [font=emerald].
One other formatting command is available - the soft hyphen. If you put a
tilde (~) in the middle of a word, the program can then break the line at
that point. If the tilde does not appear near the end of the line, it will
be ignored. If it is near the end of the line, and it would help the line
to have the word hyphenated, it will be replaced by a hyphen (a dash
character) and the word will be continued on the next line.
Numbers
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Numbers in the escape sequences can optionally have units following them.
If no units are given, inches are assumed, except for font sizes, where
points are assumed. A number may have a decimal point. Current valid
units are:
pt - point, = 1/72 of an inch
in or " - inches
ft or ' - feet
pc - picas, = 12 points = 1/6 inch
cm - centimeters
mm - millimeters
cb - cubits = 18 inches
If you think of any other useful units to have, let us know.
Examples:
10pt 10 points
2.54 cm 1 inch
.5 half an inch (anywhere but font sizes)
3" 3 inches
*****************************************************
Also available from SunRize Industries:
"Perfect Sound" Stereo digitizer for the Amiga for $79.95
Includes editing software, two channel digitizer to record any sound
in stereo, library of recorded sounds, and source code in 'C' of the
editor. Demo copies of the editor "Perfect Sound" or "PSound" are
available on BBS, Compuserve, and People Link.
To order call either Microsearch or SunRize at the above phone numbers.