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- ..COVER.LET The Text File of letters to cover submissions.
- ..
- ..Be sure to request prompts for such letters when your run INSTALL.
- ..(Install appears on the Utility Menu of the main program; you may
- ..also install by running AGENT4 independently.)
- ..
- ..Users may modify this text as they please.
- ..
- ..Use the Non-Document mode of your word-processor, to prepare ASCII text
- ..
- ..In general, do not indent here. My_Agent indents for you, the number of
- ..columns which you specified (and can change) in Install.
- ..
- ..The program ignores any line which begins with 2 dots.
- ..
- ..The program recognizes three commands if those commands
- ..begin in the first column of a line:
- ..
- .. .PA automatically ends the page
- .. .CP n ends the only if you have fewer than n lines left.
- .. ~ signals that you want to enter text from the keyboard.
- .. The program prompts you to do so, and tells you how
- .. to return to your letter text.
- ..
- .. Note: Use page-end commands only if you need them within your
- .. text. Don't put them at the end. The program does those.
- ..
- ..The text below always comes after any installed heading, the date,
- ..the inside address, and "Dear editor" line. You should end the text with
- ..your own version of "Yours Truly". Include your name only if you have not
- ..installed a heading. The program always then lists the manuscripts
- ..involved for this particular publisher.
- ..
- ..When you have mastered the principles here. You might want to delete
- ..these lines from the working copies of all of your .LET files, to speed
- ..the My_Agent printouts of them, and to save space.
- ..
- ..A model text follows:
- ............................................................................
- I hope that you will want to use this material. Please decide as soon as
- possible.
-
- I enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
-
- Sincerely yours,