Night Owl 9/Night Owl CD-ROM (NOPV9) (Night Owl Publisher) (1993).ISO/056a/wpm341.zip/WHATSNEW.FMS

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What's New                                      Fenimore's Macro Suite
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Modified:  ALT E, F, M, V, X; CTRL S, Z, HOME; CTRLKEY, DP, ENH, ENV,
           LTRHD, MEMO, OPT, SPRDSHEET, TBLBLK, TBLMAIN, TBLOPT,
           TBLCURMV
     NEW:  _AK4, MARGINS; CTRL U;

The following are the most recent changes:

NOTE:  CTRL L (LTRHEAD) and CTRL M (MEMO) were discontinued as
separate macros. LTRHEAD (letterhead) and MEMO are now accessed as
options under the ENVELOPE FUNCTION RELATED MACRO (ENVLP/ALT-E)

ALT A (ADV)
4 Apr 93 Added list of measurement units to menu header. Reveal codes
         now toggles on/off using the reveal codes key. Space key
         acts as an exit key. (Version 3.74)

ALT E (ENVLP)
20 Mar3  No longer allowed to work if document is blank! (Version
         1.21)

5 Apr3   Added new menu entry to allow access to ENV.WPM (address
         lists composed of envelope pages). If the document is empty
         the macro now asks if you wish to create an address list
         file. If yes then the macro enters ENV.WPM. If no then an
         error message is displayed and the macro terminates (as
         previously).  (Version 1.30)

12 Apr3  The macro acquires the capability to access the letterhead
         and memorandum macros. The menuing was changed accordingly.
         Now within a blank document, the only options which appear
         are those for creating letterhead, memos, and envelope
         lists. In a non-blank document all options are displayed
         (copying address with and without barcode and creating
         barcode only). (Version 2.00)

ALT F (FILESAVE)
9 Mar3   Somehow the original file name was not being reported when
         an attempt was made to save a current file to another path
         on which the file already existed (at least a file of the
         same name). The original name is now correctly reported.
         (Version 4.70c)

10 Mar3  Updated the problem reported fixed on 9 Mar 93 (Version
         4.70c). Also fixed a problem with the rename function used
         when the user has chosen not to overwrite an already
         existing file of the same name. If no name was provided
         (ENTER hit at the prompt for path) the rename function was
         reentered and the filename reported would consist only of
         the path. Subsequent run throughs (hitting the ENTER key at
         the prompt for path) would result in the path being appended
         to the path. This fix made it so that the if no new path is
         provided, the macro returns to the main menu (not to the
         renaming facility). Also, at the request to rename, a yes or
         no answer was expected. This fix now recognizes ENTER, EXIT
         (F7), and ESC as valid menu entries; any one of these
         indicates a cessation of attempt to save the file in the
         requested destination and returns the user to the main
         filesave menu. (Version 4.70d).

6 Apr3   Fixed a minor problem related to saving blocks. A variable
         indicating that a block save was occurring wasn't cleared
         out at the conclusion of that save. This meant that if a
         file save of the same name occurred later during the same
         edit session, a block save error would occur (but no such
         error should occur because, presumably, you were editing the
         file not the block. As such, you KNEW you were saving the
         current file back over itself!). Also, the filename to which
         the block was being saved is now identified when this error
         occurs. This should help during the subsequent block save
         attempt. Previously no such identification was performed.
         (Version 4.70e)

ALT M (MISC)
17 Apr3  TABLE. Choosing this option now enters the table edit macro
         directly. (Version 2.82)

18 Apr3  PAGE MARGINS. Moved functions to MARGINS.WPM. (Version 2.83)

21 Apr3  WORD COUNT. Counting words in a blocked region isn't allowed
         by WordPerfect without first spell checking that region. The
         macro now identifies that fact with a cancellable delay
         message (i.e., hitting ENTER removes the message and the
         spell check/word count proceeds) (Version 2.83b)

ALT X (EXIT)
17 Mar3  The macro now more fully ensures the current state of
         WordPerfect with respect to the screen display before
         operating. Previously, someone could be partway through
         saving a file via WordPerfect menuing and decide to run the
         EXIT macro -- it used to be a great way to potentially
         effectively hang the computer (at the worst)! (Version
         5.41b)

27 Mar3  The routine which detects the presence of print jobs was
         slightly improved to recognize that during a SAVE exit
         there's no need to alert the user to the fact that print
         jobs are on-going. The menu which requests the user to
         decide between continuing a WordPerfect exit (and exiting
         all print jobs as well) or staying in WordPerfect (to
         continue the printing). The menu's also recognize numeric
         options of 1 and 2 (in addition to the Yes or No responses).
         (Version 5.41d)

ALT V (VIEW)
17 Mar3  Hitting the spacebar would exit the viewing but not
         necessarily the macro. This fix ensures that the macro is
         fully exited along with the preview when the space bar is
         hit. Removed extraneous coding. (Version 2.11b)

CTRL S (Superscript over Subscript)
29 Mar3  Minor menuing change: numbers added to menu items. Sometimes
         a double space would remain after the action occurred; this
         won't happen now. Minor coding changes/improvements.
         (Version 2.11d)

CTRL U (UPDN)
14 Mar3  NEWLY SUPPORTED. Changed the menuing to support added
         options to subscript or superscript the previous one or two
         characters with or without underlining. Previously, this
         macro only superscripted and underlined the first two
         characters to the left of the macro. The original intention
         of the macro was for use with such words as 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
         and 4th. (Version 2.10a)

19 Mar3  Adds support for active blocks:  allows superscripting or
         subscripting the blocked region. (Version 2.20)

CTRL Z (BLNKSCRN)
31 Mar3  Added an option to use the Global Password as the password
         entry. The main purpose of this change is to speed password
         entry. This option allows using the ■=■ key at the password
         entry menu (ONLY one character and it MUST be ■=■). When
         this is entered, only the global password is allowed. The
         global password, as supplied, is ■FMS■. To make it easier to
         change the global password, a variable called ■GPW■ was
         created. However, this variable is hidden in the depths of
         the macro (at the end of the routine SM and immediately
         before ROW. The routine ROW is the next routine immediately
         after SM). (Version 1.11c)

CTRL HOME (GOTO)
20 Mar3  Improved support for cursor repositioning within a table or
         document. Macro now better recognizes, and responds to, HOME
         and ALT HOME (valid when used within tables, otherwise
         converted to HOME HOME). Added ability to go to a
         WordPerfect character set character. (Version 1.14)

ALTKEY
12 Apr3  _AK4. (NEW) Moved ALT E information here (ENVLP.WPM). It
         includes the ALT E shell options information previously
         contained in ALTKEY and information for LTRHD and MEMO
         (these two macros' information were transferred from
         CTRLKEY). (Version 2.32.0-_AK4)

CTRLKEY
19 Mar3  Updated GOTO to show availability and use of "=" option.
         (Version 2.32.53)

DP
27 Mar3  OPTIONS for DIR and FILESAVE are now only callable as
         numeric options. All other  options are available for use as
         valid path options. (Version 1.20f)

ENH
14 Mar3  Made a minor menu revision. The options for extra, very
         large, multiple, and lists have changed. The "=" option has
         come to imply a certain type of operation and as such is now
         sort of reserved. Extra large is now "/", very large is ";",
         multiple is now ".", and lists is now ",". When multiple
         options is chosen, the entered options no longer display the
         mnemonical menu entry. Instead, the "global" option is
         displayed. When an attempt is made to enter a second size a
         beep occurs. There should be a slight increase in speed too.
         (Version 1.11)

23 Mar3  MULTIPLE ENHANCEMENTS. Manually blocking a region of text
         and then using multiple enhancements to apply size and/or
         attributes had the problem that the cursor might end up on
         some sort of formatting code. If this occurred, depending
         upon the type of formatting code, the macro would either
         drop the enhancements at the end of the block (not around it
         as intended) or extend the blocked region to the end of the
         next available word (neither of which was acceptable). This
         change fixes that problem. (Version 1.11a)

27 Mar3  MULTIPLE ENHANCEMENTS. When a single character was being
         enhanced with two or more enhancements (by blocking or as a
         default action, which is "character") the macro wouldn't
         place the enhancements together. Also, due to a quirk in the
         manner in which WordPerfect treats punctuation, if the
         character being blocked was a punctuation character, the
         WordPerfect {system}right~ function would report the
         character at the cursor as being the punctuation character
         and not necessarily the character which was really at the
         cursor. This caused a failure. The specific problem was with
         the ".". This has been fixed. (Version 1.11b)

31 Mar3  MULTIPLE ENHANCEMENTS. Found that when at a formatting code
         or at the end of the document, the multiple enhancements
         were dropped into the document but that the cursor wasn't
         dropped in the center of those enhancements as intended. The
         only time that the cursor should remain at the end of the
         enhancements entered is when a block has been defined
         previous to adding the enhancements. (Version 1.11c)

4 Apr3   Choosing a non-existent option before an existing one didn't
         guarentee that the macro'd work as intended. For instance,
         if a non-existent option was hit and then the CANCEL key hit
         (to return to menu #1), the macro would fail! This was
         fixed. (Version 1.11d)

ENV
25 Mar3  Discovered a major discrepancy with the way in which ENV
         works with PRNT. The problem is that PRNT has evolved beyond
         its usefulness to ENV. For this reason, ENV no longer relies
         upon PRNT for printing jobs. Additionally, the ENV print
         operation now only prints the current page (the page being
         displayed). Additionally, now the macro detects whether the
         document is empty. The name and location of the envelope
         reference file (ENVELOPE.REF) is now in it's own separate
         macro called, ENVLOC.WPM. The ENV macro is to large to edit
         in the WP macro editor. The changes to this macro have been
         fairly substantial. (Version 4.00)

28 Mar3  Although the macro still expects the use of a style to begin
         the envelope definition, the requirment that TABS be used to
         begin each line of the address has been removed. This means
         that the envelope style definition can have a margin defined
         to place the mailing address or use tabs within the address
         itself. This should provide some flexibility to user
         definition of the mailing address placement. (Version 4.00a)

29 Mar3  Numerous minor changes and/or minor enhancements. Improved
         edits for PO Box and address lines, addresses with ATTN
         TO's, reversing address and PO Box lines, removal or error
         messages from screen after displayed, reading of prior
         address page which ends with a hard return and page break,
         minor menuing changes, etc. If the address contains an
         address line or PO BOX line with an ATTN TO, and an edit of
         the address line or PO BOX line deletes it, the ATTN TO line
         is removed too. All lines of an address except the name and
         city, state, zip lines may be removed during edit by hitting
         a single space followed by an ENTER. NOTE: The primary focus
         of this macro is to ENTER, not edit, addresses onto an
         envelope page. Primary edits of the mailing addresses should
         be accomplished at a document edit screen! (Version 4.01)

30 Mar3  Improved detection of the lack of a requested entry (PO BOX
         or Address). If a combination option (PO Box and ATTN or
         Address line and ATTN) and either the PO Box or Address line
         isn't entered, the ATTN request isn't followed through with
         (an ATTN to line can't exist without one or the other).
         (Version 4.01a)

5 Apr3   Document validity is determined before proceeding. If the
         document has an OPEN STYLE sheet (presumably FMS.STY) at the
         top of the page (actually within 2000 characters of the end
         of the document) and the (first actual word at the) end of
         the document is a zipcode (a word which starts with a number
         and the fifth letter is also a number is assumed, at this
         time, to be a zipcode) then the document is a valid envelope
         address list file and the macro proceeds. An invalid
         document results in an error message and a return to the
         calling location. (Version 4.10)

6 Apr3   Added a check for a non-blank very small document (only a
         few characters). This is a special version of an invalid
         file that must be accounted for to keep the macro from
         failing. (Version 4.10a)

LTRHD
15 Apr3  Made a minor revision to support working with ENVLP related
         to reveal codes window. (Version 1.30b)

MARGINS
18 Apr3  (NEW, function moved from MISC.WPM) Removed WordPerfect
         menuing which didn't apply to margin settings to improve the
         appearance of margin set menu. (Version 1.00)

MEMO
15 Apr3  Added new support for CANCEL. Now, if CANCEL is hit at the
         prompt for "memo type" or "from", no final message is
         displayed (it is if the "from" and/or "memo type" is
         entered). (Version 2.72)

OPT
17 Mar3  TRUE_QUOTES. Hitting the HOME key toggles true quotes to
         keyboard quotes. The menuing toggles the word "true" to
         "key" (Version 1.34)
SPRDSHET
18 APR3  Removed option 3 from the wordperfect menu screen and
         altered the display of the other displayed options. This
         should improve the look and decrease confusion when using
         the spreadsheet options menu. (Version 1.00A)

TBLBLK
21 Apr3  If TBLMAIN passes control to TBLOPT from a document edit
         screen with blocking active, the macro checks ends of the
         blocked region for cell addresses and then, upon entering
         the macro, blocks the region defined by those cells.
         (Version 2.01)

TBLCURMV
1 Mar3   Made changes to allow GOTO to work with active blocking.
         Added an option to move a given number of cell up, down,
         left, or right of the current cursor position. If the
         designated number of cells to move is larger than the
         available number of columns/rows in that direction, the
         cursor stops at the table border. This means, in the case of
         left or right cursor moves, that the macro won't wrap the
         cursor past the first or last columns. (Version 2.00a)

4 Mar3   The Home key should now work the same as in the native
         WordPerfect table edit mode for moving the cursor around.
         Minor changes made to the move cursor a given number of
         cells menu. (Version 2.00c)

TBLMAIN
1 Mar3   If menu #1 calls TBLCURMV for a GOTO and the table edit mode
         hasn't really been entered, it's entered while blocking is
         active. However, for all practical purposes and as far as
         the user is concerned, while this blocking is active the
         user isn't informed (nor does he/she need to know) that the
         macro is really in table edit mode. Unless table edit mode
         is entered, true table cell blocking isn't possible. This
         pseudo-table edit mode state exists until the user enters
         menu #2 or #3, or activates (enters) table edit mode with
         "+." (Version 2.00a)

3 Mar3   Minor changes to the way in which some menu's worked. Fixed
         some minor operational bugs. (Version 2.00b)

4 Mar3   Changes to SIZE. CANCEL now works better than previously to
         cancel an operation involving either a new row or column
         size (number of) request. Additionally, while not within
         table edit mode, this option now returns to the main menu
         instead of returning to the document edit screen (as was the
         previous mode of operation). The menu identifying the row
         and column selection now identifies potential conflicts with
         a "+" (as opposed to "Y") and no conflict with the
         selections made with a "-" (as opposed to a "-"). A
         row/column conflict is a situation wherein there is a
         potential for data loss because the row and/or column
         selection is less than the existing number of rows and/or
         columns. Option #4 (no change) was changed to option #0
         (original row/column numbers) and the menu line identifying
         the original number of rows and columns before the new
         selection was changed from "OLD" to "ORIGINAL." The menu
         line identifying a potential conflict was changed from
         "CONFLICT" to "CONFLICT?." The PROCEED line was changed to
         "PROCEED WITH." (Version 2.01)

17 Apr3  Table creation is now more completely handled by entering
         the size routine. Upon entering the table creation mode
         (i.e., answer "yes" to create? prompt), a table of 1 column
         by 1 row is initially created. This serves as a basis upon
         which to build a table of the desired size. Once the size is
         determined the original "seed" table is deleted and one of
         the desired size is created. This change was prompted by the
         miscellaneous (ALT-M) macros' newly instituted calling of
         the table macro. This made the need for better table
         creation under macro control than previously available.
         (Version 2.10)

21 Apr3  a. If the cursor isn't within a table, the macro is now more
         similar to the fashion in which WordPerfect normally
         responds. This is so that a table which is completely cell
         locked may be entered for edit or so that the most previous
         table may be entered for edit without physically moving to
         it. However, if the "neither" option is chosen (neither EDIT
         or CREATE is the option desired), the macro enters the
         blocking macro. b. If blocking is on, the macro follows the
         WordPerfect convention of asking to create a table from the
         blocked region as a tabular or parallel column. (Version
         2.11)

TBLOPT
3 Mar3   Shading percentages can now be chosen by number in
         increments of 10 percent from 10 to 100; includes a manual
         percentage entry. After a shading amount is entered that
         amount is displayed in an updated screen showing the amount
         of shading chosen (as a confirmation that the entry was
         read). The amount of time the display is paused is
         controllable by the user. If desired, hitting ENTER removes
         the display and moves to the next menu immediately. (Version
         2.01)

16 Mar3  HEIGHT. Hitting the automatic height option for fixed or
         multi-line cells would result in an apparent exit from the
         macro (unless the ENTER key is hit while still in the
         table). This was corrected and the automatic row height
         options are now correctly recognized. OTHER. A few routines
         were further optimized for speed and code size. (Version
         2.01b)

27 Mar3  CELL WIDTH. When the cell with had a number 2 or 4 in it's
         with specification the macro would return to the main menu
         #3. This kept the cell with from being properly specified.
         This was fixed. (Version 2.01c)

6 Apr3   CELL HEIGHT/WIDTH. This is related to the 27 Mar 93 problem,
         which I thought had been fixed. This problem was similar as
         described above. As a result of this problem, the code
         performing the functions above was completely rewritten to
         ensure that the problem doesn't reoccur. Both functions were
         thoroughly tested to ensure that they are working as
         intended. (Version 2.01d)
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