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GALAXY LITE 1.0
Quick Reference Guide
Copyright (C) 1989 by Omniverse Software Corp.
All Rights Reserved
EXCLUSIVE MARKETING, MODIFYING & DISTRIBUTION
BY
Starlite Software Co.
P.O. Box 370
Port Hadlock, WA 98339
Information: (206) 385-9611
FAX: (206) 385-9612
Toll Free Order Line: 1-800-767-9611
LICENSE AGREEMENT
The GALAXY LITE Word Processing Program is protected by United States
Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. All rights are
reserved. Non-registered users of GALAXY LITE are licensed only to use
the program on a TRIAL basis for the sole purpose of determining
whether or not it meets their requirements. All other use requires
registration.
Any other use of non-registered copies of GALAXY LITE by any person,
business, corporation, government organization, or any other entity is
strictly forbidden and is a violation of this license agreement.
Registration permits a user a license to use GALAXY LITE on a single
computer.
All users are granted a limited license to copy GALAXY LITE V 1.0 for
the trial use of others, with the following additional conditions:
GALAXY LITE V 1.0 must be distributed in unmodified, complete form,
including this Reference Guide and License Agreement. Please refer to
Vendor.Doc for further information.
GALAXY LITE may not be distributed in conjunction with any other
product, HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE without written permission from Starlite
Software. Please read the file Vendor.doc for more information.
WARRANTY
Starlite Software makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied,
including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability and/or
fitness for a particular purpose. Starlite Software shall not be liable
for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential
arising from a failure of this program to operate in the manner desired
by the user. Starlite Software will not be liable for any damage to
data or property which may be caused directly or indirectly by use of
the program.
IN NO EVENT WILL STARLITE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING
ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM, OR FOR
ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
The License Agreement and Warranty shall be construed, interpreted and
governed by the laws of the state of Washington.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction...........................4
Getting Started........................5
Installing GALAXY LITE.................6
Running GALAXY LITE....................7
Using the Pulldown Menus...............8
Managing Files.........................9
Loading Document Files................10
Saving Document Files.................11
The Directory Command.................12
Entering Text.........................13
Automatic & Fixed Tabs...............14
Reformatting Text.....................15
Cursor Movement.......................16
Formatting Your Text..................17
Entering Printer Codes................18
Using Block Commands..................19
Windows...............................20
Macros................................21
File Menu.............................24
Print Menu............................27
Window Menu...........................30
Default Menu..........................31
Search Menu...........................36
GoTo Menu.............................37
Block Menu............................39
Spell Checking........................41
Appendix A:
WordStar (tm) Files...................43
Appendix B:
Printer Description Files.............44
Appendix C:
Headers and Footers...................46
Appendix D:
Using a Mouse with GALAXY LITE........47
Appendix E:
Quick Commands........................48
Appendix F:
WordStar (tm) Commands................49
Appendix G:
Registration..........................50
Appendix H:
Adding Graphic Characters.............51
Order Form............................52
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 4
INTRODUCTION
GALAXY LITE is a fast, RAM-based word processor that offers a wealth of
features designed to make the program powerful yet extremely easy to
learn and use. GALAXY LITE offers users a choice of using menus or
quick keyboard commands for all of the major program functions. With
GALAXY LITE you're never stuck with a cumbersome menu system for
commands you already know.
GALAXY LITE has a very short learning curve. GALAXY LITE's logical,
easy to use, easy to learn commands are the result of considerable
research into how people really use word processors. If you have
experience using any full-featured word processing program, you'll be
up and running with GALAXY LITE in no time. If you're brand new to
computer word processing or to IBM (tm) compatible computers, you'll be
pleasantly surprised at how quickly you'll be able to learn all the
advanced features of GALAXY LITE.
We believe GALAXY LITE is among the very best word processors at any
price. Starlite Software Co. is also determined to be a leader in
Customer Support. We offer free telephone support. We also listen to
our users. Many suggestions from earlier versions of GALAXY have been
incorporated into GALAXY LITE.
In reading this manual you will encounter what you might think wrong,
but the example line below is correct. saVe means that if you pull the
menu down you can press V to get to that option, we made this manual an
exact copy of the menu's so you would get use to the hot key options.
Choose "saVe parameter file" to record the logged drive in your
parameter file. If you want to get to the right menu choice fast you
would do this Press F-10 D for Default and V for saVe parameter file,
rather than using the arrow keys.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 5
GETTING STARTED
GALAXY LITE requires an IBM (tm) PC or close compatible with 192K, one
disk drive, a color/graphics or monochrome card and monitor, and a
printer. Before you start using GALAXY LITE, you should be familiar
with your computer. You need to know how to load DOS, how to make a
copy of a diskette, and how to load and run a program.
The GALAXY LITE Program Disk
Your GALAXY LITE program disk includes the following files:
GL1.ZIP Archived program and support files.
PKUNZIP.COM Used to extract files from GL1.ZIP
INSTALL.EXE Installation program.
VENDOR.DOC Information on distributing this software.
You do not need to make a backup copy of your GALAXY LITE program disk,
your original disk is your backup, store it in a safe place. You can
not use your original GALAXY LITE program disk as your working copy.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 6
INSTALLING GALAXY LITE
1. With your computer turned off, open the door
to Drive A, and insert your DOS disk.
2. Close the door to Drive A and turn on your
computer.
3. If DOS asks you for the date, enter the date in the
following format: mm-dd-yy, or mm/dd/yy, and then
press Enter.
4. If DOS asks you for the time, enter the time
in the following format: 8:30 or 20:30, and then
press Enter.
5. When A> appears on the screen, remove the DOS disk from
Drive A and insert your GALAXY LITE Program Disk, and
close the disk drive door.
** 6. Type INSTALL and then press Enter. Follow the
instructions.
GALAXY LITE reference Guide Page 7
RUNNING GALAXY LITE
Floppy Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type A: and
press Enter if you don't see the DOS prompt, A>.
2. Insert your copy of the GALAXY LITE program disk in
Drive A. Type GLITE and then press Enter.
Hard Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type cd and then type the
name of the directory you copied your GALAXY LITE files
to with INSTALL. For example, if the directory is
called GLITE, you would type CD\GLITE. Then press Enter.
2. Type GLITE and then press Enter.
3. On a Hard Disk System, you can use the DOS Path command
to start GLITE from anywhere on your computer and
any drive.
To use GALAXY LITE from anywhere on your computer, add the name of the
subdirectory where GALAXY LITE resides to your Autoexec.bat File as
follows:
Example line one. PATH=C:\GLITE
If you already have an AUTOEXEC.BAT File with a path
Example line one. PATH=C:\DOS;C:\UTILITY;C:\GLITE
If you have further questions regarding the PATH command please consult
your DOS manual. It should have been sold to you with your computer
system.
The GALAXY LITE opening screen will appear after the program is loaded.
Please read the opening screen. A window will open at the bottom of
the screen that asks you for the name of a file to edit. You can enter
a filename here, or simply press the Enter or Esc key to continue.
Filename is simply the name you give to your document. A legal DOS
filename must be used. If you have questions refer to your DOS Manual.
If you enter a filename to edit, GALAXY LITE will load the file into
the computer's memory, and the GALAXY LITE's editing screen will then
be displayed. If the filename that you enter is not found on disk, the
message "File is new. Continue? <Y/N>" will be displayed. If you enter
Y, a file with the name you gave will be created. More information on
loading and saving files can be found in the chapter entitled Managing
Files.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 8
THE PULLDOWN MENUS
This next chapter explains the use of the Pulldown Menus, activated by
pressing the F10 key. The F1 key takes you directly to the Help Menu.
The top two lines of your screen are used to display status
information. Two keys to remember are:
F1: = HELP
F10: = MENU
To Activate Menus: Press the F10 key.
To Leave The Menu Bar: Press the ESC key.
GALAXY LITE offers a complete Pulldown Menu system for entering
commands. These menus allow you to use the full power of GALAXY LITE
almost immediately, without having to memorize keyboard commands.
To activate the menus, press F10. The Menu Bar will appear at the top
of the screen, and the first heading, File, will be highlighted. You
can press the left or right arrow keys to move the highlight to any of
the other menu headings. Pressing Enter will "pull down" the menu of
commands underneath the highlighted heading. A list of GALAXY LITE
commands associated with that menu heading will be shown.
Once the Menu Bar is activated, the menus can also be pulled down by
pressing the capitalized letter of any menu heading, whether or not
that heading is highlighted. This method automatically pulls down the
menu without pressing the Enter key.
The commands in a Pulldown Menu can be executed in the same way, either
by highlighting your choice using the up or down arrow key or by typing
the capitalized letter in each selection.
Once any menu is pulled down, the right or left arrow keys will display
the pulled down menu to the right or left of the current menu. Pressing
the Esc key causes the Pulldown Menu to disappear. The next press of
the Esc key will cause you to exit from the Menu Bar and return to the
text window.
When you become more familiar with GALAXY LITE you may find it easier
to enter commands directly from the keyboard. Most of the menu commands
have a corresponding quick command listed next to them. The quick
commands are not active while you are in the menu system, but they will
help you learn how to bypass the menu system and issue commands
directly from the text window. The quick keys that perform commands
you use often will be easy to learn, allowing you extremely fast
editing. For example:
Alt-R for Right margin
Alt-C to Center text
F2 to Save a file
But GALAXY LITE doesn't force you to memorize every command. Press the
F1 key for help with the quick commands you use less often, or press
the F10 key to use the Pulldown Menus.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 9
MANAGING FILES
The Logged Drive or Directory
Unless you specify a different drive or directory, GALAXY LITE will
always attempt to load and save files from either the current
directory, or the default directory specified in the Defaults Menu.
If you have a computer with two floppy disks, you would probably want
to configure GALAXY LITE to always use the B: drive for text files.
To set a default logged drive or directory:
Press F10 to activate the Pulldown Menus.
Press D, or use the right arrow key to move to the Defaults Menu. If
you use the arrow key, when Defaults is highlighted, press Enter.
Press D, or use the down arrow key to move to the "Default directory"
command. If you use the arrow key, when "Default directory" is
highlighted, press Enter.
Type in the drive or directory to be used for saving and loading GALAXY
LITE documents.
To temporarily change the logged drive or directory:
Press F10 to activate the Pulldown Menus.
Press F, or use the right arrow key to move to the File Menu. If you
use the arrow key, when File is highlighted, press Enter.
Press L, or use the down arrow key to move to the "set Logged dir"
command. If you use the arrow key, when "set Logged dir" is
highlighted, press Enter.
Type in the drive or directory to be used for saving and loading GALAXY
LITE documents.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 10
LOADING DOCUMENT FILES
GALAXY LITE can retrieve a file from any disk or subdirectory of your
disk. When you first start GALAXY LITE, or when you choose Open from
the File Menu, or use the F3 command, a window appears near the bottom
of the screen asking you for the name of the file you wish to edit.
For example, to open the file "Anyfile.Doc" which is on the logged
drive or directory, just type the complete file name like this:
Anyfile.Doc Enter
If the file is located on another drive or directory, you can include
that information, too:
C:\Files\Anyfile.Doc Enter
If GALAXY LITE can't find a file with the name you give, the message
"File is new. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Pressing Y will create a
new file with the name you gave and take you to the text window to
begin editing. Pressing N will also take you to the text window, but
no file name will be specified until you use the "Save" command.
You can automatically open a file to edit when you first start GALAXY
LITE, like this:
GLITE Anyfile.Doc Enter
If you include the file name to open when you first start GALAXY LITE ,
GALAXY LITE will look for that file on the current drive or directory,
or use the drive or directory you include with the file name.
You can also "pick" a file from the Directory display. You can get to
the Directory display in two ways:
1. Press F4, or choose "Directory" from the File Menu. Enter a
wildcard file specification, such as "*.DOC", "*.*", etc.
2. Enter a wildcard file specification instead of a file name when
opening a file. This can also be done from the command line when you
first start GALAXY LITE.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 11
SAVING DOCUMENT FILES
When you finish working with a document that you want to use again at a
later time, you can save the file on your disk.
You can use the "Save" command from the File Menu, or the F2 command,
to store an exact copy of your document on your disk. If you are saving
a new document and haven't entered the name of the file before, GALAXY
LITE will ask you for the name to give the file.
You can also use the "save As" command from the File Menu to save your
file with a new name. This option is useful if you have a template, or
"boilerplate" document that you want to modify and save without
altering the original file.
When you choose the save As command you will be prompted to enter a new
file name, and your original file will not be changed.
With either the Save or save As command, a backup copy of your original
file is created. This file will have the same name as your original
file, but with the extension .BAK. For example, when you save the file
Anyfile.Doc, a backup file called Anyfile.BAK will also be saved.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 12
THE DIRECTORY COMMAND
You can see a list of the files on your disk by choosing the Directory
command from the File Menu or by using the Quick Command, F4.
Use the *.* mask to see all the files, or enter a new mask, like this:
Mask Shows
*.Doc All files with a .Doc extension
B:*.* All files on the B: drive
\Text\*.* All files in the Text subdirectory
GALAXY LITE will look for the files in the current directory, unless
you add a drive or directory in the mask.
You can also "pick" a file from the Directory display. Just highlight
the file you want to load, and press Enter.
You can also get to the Directory display by entering a wildcard file
specification instead of a file name when opening a file. This can also
be done from the command line when you first start GALAXY LITE. For
example, if you type "GLITE *.DOC" from the DOS prompt, the program
will display the directory of all files with an extension of "DOC".
Highlight the one you wish to load, and press Enter.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 13
ENTERING TEXT
A word processor lets you enter text much like you do with a
typewriter, with several important differences.
Word Wrap
When the text you are typing reaches the right margin, GALAXY LITE
automatically "wraps" the next word down to the beginning of the next
line. You don't need to press Enter at the end of a line unless you
want to start a new paragraph. You can turn Word wrap on or off from
the Defaults Menu.
After a line is "wrapped", the text will be positioned on the next line
at the left margin. If Autoindent is active, the text will be lined up
with the line above it.
Insert and Overtype
Pressing the Ins key toggles GALAXY LITE between Insert and Overtype
modes. With Insert on, whatever you type is inserted at the point
where the cursor is, pushing other text to the left or the right.
In overtype mode, as the name implies, new text you type in replaces
existing text.
GALAXY LITE shows you which mode you are in by the size of the cursor
block. A large cursor signifies Insert mode, a small cursor, Overtype
mode.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 14
AUTOMATIC & FIXED TABS
If you specify a tab size of 0 from the Defaults menu, tab stops will
be calculated automatically. When you press the Tab key, GALAXY LITE
is smart enough to automatically line the cursor up underneath the
first non-blank character in the line above.
All you need to do to set up automatic tab stops is type in the first
line of your text. On the next line, every time you press the Tab key,
the cursor will line up with the next non-blank character in the line
above it.
For normal fixed tab stops, just specify a tab size in the Defaults
menu. The ruler line at the top of each window will show you your
selected tab stops.
Automatic Indent
In a manner similar to automatic tabs, if Auto indent is active, when
you press the Enter key, or when a line "wraps", GALAXY LITE will
automatically indent the new line to line up with the line above it.
This feature can be toggled on or off from the Defaults Menu.
You can use Auto indent to create "hanging indent" paragraphs and to
easily set temporary margins while you're editing. Simply use the
space bar or cursor keys to move the start of your text line to the
desired position. From that point on, Auto indent will align the
starting text of new lines in that paragraph to match the line above.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 15
REFORMATTING
If you change margins, you can reformat a paragraph to the new settings
by using the Reformat (Control-B) command. When you issue this
command, the text will be realigned to fit within the current margins.
The reformatting will start at the current line and continue until the
end of the paragraph. GALAXY LITE considers a paragraph to end with a
blank line. You may also create a Macro to take you to the top of your
document and reformat as many times as required maybe 5, Example:
ALT-M, CTRL-PG UP, CTRL-B, CTRL-B, CTRL-B, CTRL-B, CTRL-B, ALT-M and
save the Macro. Then every time you type ALT-2 for example the program
would reformat five paragraphs.
Reformat and word wrap now compensate for any print formatting
characters in the line.
Home key positions cursor at Left margin, not column 1.
Alt-F3 will convert a WordStar (tm) file to ASCII. Although GALAXY
LITE can read, edit, and save a WordStar (tm) file with no problems,
the search and spell check routines only work on ASCII files.
Corrected problem finding GLITE.INI and GLITE.MSG support files when
a default data directory was set.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 16
CURSOR MOVEMENT
You can quickly move around your document using some special keys:
Arrow Keys
The up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down one line at a
time. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor one space to the
left or right.
Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the left or right arrow key
moves the cursor one word to the left or the right.
Home Key
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
END Key
Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
PgUp Key
Moves the cursor one screen up.
PgDn Key
Moves the cursor one screen down.
Ctrl+PgUp Key
Moves the cursor to the very beginning of the document.
Ctrl+PgDn Key
Moves the cursor to the very end of the document.
Ctrl+Home Key
Moves the cursor to the top left hand corner of the screen.
Ctrl+End Key
Moves the cursor to the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 17
FORMATTING YOUR TEXT
With GALAXY LITE, you can use a variety of tools to format your text
before you print it. You can set top, bottom, left and right margins,
page length, and font size. You can also enter codes to tell your
printer to apply special effects including bold, underline, or italics.
Setting Margins
From the Print Menu, you can tell GALAXY LITE your preferred settings
for top, bottom, and left and right margins.
Left and Right Margins
To set the left and right margins, press Alt-L or Alt-R, or choose Left
margin or Right margin from the Print Menu. You will be prompted to
enter a column number for each margin setting.
With a standard 10 character per inch font size, you can print a
maximum of of 85 characters on each line of an 8.5 by 11 inch paper.
Another way of stating this is that there are a maximum of 85 columns
on each line. But this would leave no margins on either side.
If you want to leave a margin of one inch on each side of your page,
you would enter 11 for the left margin, and 75 for the right margin.
Top and Bottom Margins
To set the top and bottom margins, choose Top margin or Bottom margin
from the Print Menu. You will be prompted to tell GALAXY LITE the
number of lines for each margin setting.
GALAXY LITE measures top and bottom margins in lines. Most printers
will print 6 lines per inch, so a standard 8.5 by 11 inch paper will
have a maximum of 66 lines.
If you wanted to leave a margin of one inch on the top and bottom of
each page, you would enter 6 lines for the top margin and 6 lines for
the bottom margin.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 18
ENTERING PRINTER CODES
You can tell GALAXY LITE to apply a special printing attribute, such as
bold, italic, or underline, to any part or all of your text.
You tell GALAXY LITE where to apply the special attributes by placing a
print code at the beginning and end of the text you wish to mark.
GALAXY LITE supports the following print codes:
Alt-B Bold Print Alt-D Double strike Print Alt-I Italics Print Alt-U
Underline Print Alt-T Superscript Print Alt-V Subscript Print Alt-F1
User Installed Patch Alt-F2 User Installed Patch
To use any of these print attributes, enter the code at the point where
you wish the attribute to start, and again where you want it to stop.
As an example, to highlight the word "computer" with bold print in the
following example of text, press Alt-B before and after the word. A
highlighted B will be inserted into the text to show you where bold
print will begin and end:
The BcomputerB has revolutionized the workplace.
If you wanted to highlight the word "revolutionized" in italic print,
you would follow the same procedure, but you would press Alt-I before
and after the word:
The computer has IrevolutionizedI the workplace.
You can use the MAKEPRD program to customize any of the printer codes
for your printer. You can also change printer drivers at any time by
choosing "Set printer" from the Print menu. More information see page
number (51) in this manual.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 19
USING BLOCK COMMANDS
Marking a Block
GALAXY LITE lets you define a section of your text as a block. Once
defined, the marked block of text can be copied, moved, deleted, or
written out as a disk file. Blocks of text are displayed in yellow on a
color monitor, or as high intensity video on a monochrome monitor.
The easiest way to mark a block is with the F7 and F8 keys. Position
the cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to mark, and press the
F7 key. Now move the cursor to the end of the text you wish to mark.
You can use arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, or even Ctrl+PgUp or Ctrl+PgDn to
move to the end of your block. Position the cursor just past the point
you want to mark and press the F8 key. GALAXY LITE will highlight all
the text from the point where you pressed the F7 key, to just to the
left or above where your cursor is when you press the F8 key.
You can also use the WordStar (tm) (tm) Ctrl-KB and Ctrl-KK commands
to mark the beginning and end of a block. Move the cursor to the
beginning of the block you wish to mark and press and hold down the
Ctrl key while you press the K key. Then press the B key. Next, move
the cursor to the end of the text you wish to mark, and press and hold
down the Ctrl key while you press the K key. Then press the K key.
Or you can select "Begin" and "End" from the Block Menu.
The Block Copy command will make a copy of the marked block, and insert
it at the current cursor position. Block Move is similar, but the
marked block "moves"; it disappears from its original position, and is
inserted at the current cursor position.
The Block "Read" command will insert an entire disk file into your
document at the point where the cursor is. Block write will make a new
file of just the marked block of text. You will be prompted for a file
name to use for the saved block.
Block commands also work with GALAXY LITE Windows, so you can cut and
paste between two documents easily.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 20
WINDOWS
Text Windows
GALAXY LITE allows you to open a second text window onscreen to work on
two documents at the same time.
To open a Window, select "Open" or "Switch" from the Window Menu. A
prompt will appear to ask you "How many lines?" to give to the new
window. When you have one text window on screen, there are 23 text
lines displayed. A second window will take lines from this window,
insert a ruler bar, and ask you if you wish to open another file.
Enter a number between 1 and 21 for the number of lines for your new
window. The new window will appear below the current window.
Your original document in the first window is still available for
editing. To switch windows press Alt-W. The cursor will jump back to
the top window, and the file name in the Status Line will change back
to the original file name. You can also use the PullDown Menu to
switch windows.
You can choose "Zoom" from the Window menu, or press Alt-Z, to zoom
either window up to full screen. With Zoom, you can have a small (as
small as one text line) window with text you occasionally need to refer
to, which you can expand to full screen whenever you need to. When
either window is zoomed to full screen, you switch back and forth
between windows with Alt-W or "Switch" just as you do with two onscreen
windows. To "unzoom" a window, just press Alt-Z again, or choose
"Zoom" again from the Window menu.
You can mark a block of text in one window, use Alt-W to switch
windows, and then copy or move the block to the other window.
To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the Window
Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The screen will
clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return to GALAXY LITE,
just type "Exit".
The "Run a program" command from the Window Menu lets you enter a
program name to run. You can include parameters to the program as
well. For example, you could enter "Format B:" to format a disk on
your B: drive.
GALAXY LITE Reference Guide Page 21
MACRO SUPPORT
A macro is a sequence of up to 255 keystrokes, either commands or text,
that you record as you type. The macro can then be "played" by
pressing one key.
You could define a macro that would type in your name and address as it
appears underneath your letterhead. Or you could define a macro that
would format a diskette in Drive A:. Any action that you can perform
from the keyboard in GALAXY LITE can be done from a macro. Up to ten
macros can be saved in a file and loaded again whenever you like.
To begin recording keystrokes for a macro, press Alt-M. A highlighted
message on the status line will remind you that your keystrokes are
being recorded. When you're done, press Alt-M again to stop recording.
GALAXY LITE will then prompt you for a number between 0 and 9. This
number, plus the ALT key, will be used to play back the macro in the
future. GALAXY LITE will also ask you to give a name to the new macro.
The name you use will appear on the Macro menu next to the number for
that macro.
When you first start GALAXY LITE, GALAXY LITE will try to find a macro
file named GLITE.MAC. GALAXY LITE will first look in the current
directory, and then will search the DOS path.
If a macro is attached to ALT-0, that macro will be automatically
executed when the program starts.
Macros can also call other macros. The only restriction on nested
macros is that the typeahead buffer can only hold 512 characters and
will generate an error message if it overflows.
The macros in the sample macro file were recorded with the following
keystrokes:
ALT-0: (not defined)
ALT-1: {F3} Y {ESC} {F3} GLITE.DOC {Enter}
The 'Y' and ESC after the first F3 are to handle the message 'Abandon
changes <Y/N>' if the current file has been changed. Macros will play
back the same keystrokes every time you use them, so it's up to you to
anticipate the possible conditions that may be encountered.
ALT-2: ^KG Format a: {Enter}
The 'Run a program' command was used instead of Alt-S because GALAXY
LITE cannot continue a macro from the DOS prompt. However, when
returning from an exit to DOS with Alt-S, a macro would continue as
soon as GALAXY LITE regained control from DOS.
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GALAXY LITE's message will not be displayed if there are more
keystrokes pending after the command.
ALT-3: ^KG Chkdsk {Enter}
ALT-4: {BACKSPACE}{LEFTARROW}{ALT-F10}{RIGHTARROW}
This macro uses GALAXY LITE's undelete backspace command to create a
command that transposes two characters.
ALT-5: ^KW PRN Y {Enter}
This macro prints a block by writing the block to 'PRN' instead of to a
file.
ALT-6: {HOME}{SPACE}{SPACE}{SPACE}{HOME}{DOWNARROW}
If INSERT is on, this macro will shift the current line to the right
three columns.
ALT-7: {HOME}{DEL}{DEL}{DEL}{HOME}{DOWNARROW}
If INSERT is on, this macro will shift the current line to the left
three columns.
ALT-8: (not defined)
ALT-9: (not defined)
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MACRO MENU
Menu Choice Alternatives
0 .. 9 Alt-0 .. Alt-9
Play the macro if defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Define a macro Alt-M
Begin (or end) recording keystrokes for a macro. After you define the
keystrokes, you will be prompted for a number and a name for the new
macro.
Menu Choice Alternatives
save Macros None
This menu choice lets you save your currently defined macros in a
separate file.
You can load a new macro file at any time by choosing the Read macros
file command from the File Menu.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read macros None
This menu choice lets you read a previously saved macro file.
When you first start the program, GALAXY LITE will try to load a macro
file named GLITE.MAC. GALAXY LITE will look first in the current
directory, and then will search the DOS PATH to try to find the default
macro file. If the default macro file is found, macro 0 will
automatically execute if it is defined.
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FILE MENU
These commands are used to manage files, including opening, closing
saving, copying, etc.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Open F3
Use this menu choice to read a disk file into a GALAXY LITE window for
editing. The file that you open will replace the file currently being
edited. If you have made changes in the file you are editing, you will
be prompted to save the current file before opening the new file.
If you enter a file name to open without a drive or directory included
in the name GALAXY LITE will look for that file in the currently logged
directory, if you have specified one, or in the default (current)
directory.
If you enter a wild card file specification (*.*, *.DOC, etc.) GALAXY
LITE will take you to the Directory display and allow you to pick a
file from a list that matches the specification.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Close None
This menu choice will clear the current file being edited from memory,
after prompting you to save any changes.
You will then be prompted to open a new file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Save F2, ^KD
This menu choice will save the file currently being edited. If you
have never specified a file name, you will be asked at this time to
give the file a name.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
save As ^F2
This menu choice will prompt you for a file name to use when saving the
file you are currently editing. You can include a disk drive and
directory with the file name and GALAXY LITE will store the file in
that location.
After using "save As", GALAXY LITE will show the name you specified as
the default file name on the top command line of the screen. The file
with the original name that you were editing still exists on disk
unchanged.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Directory F4
This menu choice will show you a list of files on disk. You can enter
a mask using the same ? and * wildcard characters that DOS allows.
GALAXY LITE will also show you free disk space and memory free
following the directory listing. The disk space shown is the free
space in the logged drive.
You can pick a file to edit by highlighting its name and pressing
Enter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
set Logged dir None
This menu choice allows you to designate a default drive or directory
to be used when saving and retrieving files.
You can change this menu option at any time, but it will not remain in
effect in future editing sessions. To permanently define a default
drive or directory to be used when saving and retrieving files, use the
"Default directory" command from the Defaults Menu.
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FILE MENU, continued
Even if you have specified a default drive or directory with this
option, you can override it at any time simply by including the drive
or directory in the file name when you are saving or opening a file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
copY None
This menu choice works just like the DOS copy command, except that
wildcard characters are not allowed. If you attempt to overwrite an
existing file, you will be first asked to confirm that the existing
file can be destroyed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Rename None
This menu choice works just like the DOS rename command, except that
wildcard characters are not allowed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Erase None
This menu choice works just like the DOS delete command, except that
wildcard characters are not allowed. The file you specify will be
erased from disk permanently. You will be asked to confirm this action
before it takes place.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Quit Alt-X
This menu choice closes the current window, after prompting you to save
any changes you may have made.
If two editing windows are opened, the full screen is returned to the
other window. If only one window is open, the program terminates.
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PRINT MENU
Menu Choice Alternatives
Print F9
This menu choice allows you to begin printing a disk file. All editing
tasks can continue while the printing takes place in the background.
Remember, GALAXY LITE prints the version of the file you specify from
the disk. If you want to print the file you are currently editing,
remember to save it first.
Menu Choice Alternatives
First page None
This menu choice prompts you for the page number of the first page you
wish to print. To print a single page, enter the same page number for
First page and Last page.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Last page None
This menu choice prompts you for the page number of the last page you
wish to print. To print a single page, enter the same page number for
First page and Last page. Menu Choice Alternatives
Menu Choice Alternatives
Device None
Indicate where to send print output. Most printers are attached to
LPT1. If you choose FILE, you will be prompted to enter the name of a
file to print to.
Menu Choice Alternatives
priNter pause None
This menu choice toggles a printer pause on or off. When pause is on,
printing will pause after completing each page. This will allow you to
change paper in a single sheet printer. If your printer uses
continuous form paper, printer pause should be off.
Printer pause is disabled if the top and bottom margins are set to 0.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Double spacing None
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This menu choice toggles double spacing of your printout on or off. Top
and bottom margins will still print out single spaced, but the body of
each page will be double spaced.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Top Margin None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the
default top margin setting.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here will be
inserted at the top of each page. This is also the area where headers
will be printed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Bottom Margin None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the
default bottom margin setting.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here will be
inserted at the bottom of each page. This is also the area where
headers will be printed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Page Length None
This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the
default page length during printing.
When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here, minus the
top and bottom margin lines, will be printed on each page.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Left Margin Alt-L, ^OL
This menu choice prompts you for a column number to use as the default
left margin setting.
Print options
-------------
You can now designate a starting and stopping range of pages to print.
Default setting is to start with Page 1 and stop with Page 1000. To
print a single page, enter the same page number for both the start and
stop page. Note: if the top and bottom margin are set to zero GALAXY
LITE does not keep track of pages, and the entire document will print.
You can specify LPT1, LPT2, or FILE as the device to print to. For
FILE, you will be asked the name of the file to print to. If you name
an existing file you will be asked to confirm overwriting the file.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Right Margin Alt-R, ^OR
This menu choice prompts you for a column number to use as the default
right margin setting.
Menu Choice Alternatives
repaGinate ^F9
This menu choice is used to place pagebreaks in your file. The
repagination process will begin at the top of the file, and will prompt
you for each page break.
GALAXY LITE will suggest each page break according to the current top
and bottom margin settings and the page length setting. It will also
prompt you for placement of a pagebreak at any existing pagebreaks. You
may override the suggested location by using the up or down arrow keys,
moving the cursor to your preferred page break location. The limits of
your placement will be: you can move upward in the file as far as the
previous page break; you can move downward as far as the current page
margins will allow.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Set printer None
This menu choice will prompt you for the name of the Printer
Description File to use.
Be sure to enter the complete name of the PRD file, including the drive
and path. If no drive or path are specified, GALAXY LITE will assume
that the PRD file will be found in the current directory.
Menu Choice Alternatives
saVe parameter file None
This menu choice will save all of the current settings of both the
Print Menu and the Defaults Menu into a parameter file.
When you first start the program, GALAXY LITE will try to load a
parameter file named GLITE.INI. GALAXY LITE will look first in the
current directory, and then will search the DOS PATH to try to find the
default parameter file.
You can load a new parameter file at any time by choosing the Read
parameter file command from the Defaults Menu.
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WINDOW MENU
These commands are used to open, close, switch, or zoom text windows.
With GALAXY LITE you can open a second window of 1 to 21 lines. You
can use any GALAXY LITE commands in either window, including copying or
moving a block between windows, loading a second file, etc.
a window in GALAXY LITE when there are two windows open returns the
full screen to the other window. If only one window is open, closing
that window is the same as exiting the program.
To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the Window
Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The screen will
clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return to GALAXY LITE,
just type "Exit".
The "Run a program" command from the Window Menu lets you enter a
program name to run. You can include parameters to the program as
well. For example, you could enter "Format B:" to format a disk on
your B: drive.
When you open a DOS window or run a program, do not load or unload any
memory resident programs such as SideKick. Because of the way that DOS
assigns memory to these type of programs, the memory being used by
GALAXY LITE will be corrupted.
With this exception, you can use DOS to format a disk, run another
program, even load another copy of GALAXY LITE.
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DEFAULTS MENU
These commands are used to set your preferred environment. You can
change the default settings at any time, or permanently save your
preferences.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Insert Insert Key, ^V
This menu choice toggles between Insert and Overtype mode.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Word Wrap ^OW
This menu choice toggles Word Wrap on or off. With Word Wrap on, any
attempts to type past the right margin setting will "wrap" down to the
following line.
With Word Wrap off, a new line will not start until you press Enter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Auto indent ^QI
This menu choice toggles Autoindent on or off. With Autoindent on, a
new line will line up automatically with the text on the line above it,
rather than at the left margin.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Graphics Alt-G ^QG
This menu choice toggles Graphics on or off. With Graphics on, the
IBM (tm) extended character set is displayable. If you are using
WordStar (tm) text files, you will need to have Graphics off.
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The Graphics toggle also strips the high bit of WordStar (tm) files
during printing.
If you are not using WordStar (tm) formatted files, you should probably
leave Graphics on.
Menu Choice Alternatives
EGA 43 lines Alt-E
This menu choice toggles between the EGA 43 line and the normal 25 line
display. If you don't have an EGA display active, the command is
ignored.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Justify Alt-J
This menu choice toggles justification on or off. With Justify on,
every time a line is wrapped or a paragraph is reformatted, the text
will be padded with spaces to fit exactly within the current left and
right margin settings.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Format WS None
This menu choice toggles WordStar (tm) file formatting on or off.
A WordStar (tm) file has the high bit set in every word wrapped line.
If you are not converting files for use with WordStar (tm) , you should
probably have this option set to off.
To convert an ASCII file to WordStar (tm) format, you would need to
reformat each paragraph in the file. The reformatting will set the
wrapped flag in each paragraph line but the last, which will allow
GALAXY LITE to save the file in WordStar (tm) format using the "soft"
carriage returns for word wrapped lines.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Scroll bar None
You can choose to display a scroll bar on the right hand side of the
screen. With a mouse, you can use the scroll bar to scroll text up or
down. With or without a mouse, the "elevator" on the scroll bar will
show you your relative position in the file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
tab siZe None
This menu choice prompts you for a tab size. If you enter 0, automatic
tabs will be enabled.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Undo Limit ^OS
This menu choice will prompt you for the number of deleted lines to
save on the Undo stack.
Every time you press Esc GALAXY LITE will restore one line from the
Undo stack back into your text.
Menu Choice Alternatives
teXt color None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for the color of
normal text. Enter a number between 1 and 127 to indicate the color. A
chart showing all available color choices is on the Defaults Menu's
Help screen.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Block color None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for the color of
marked blocks of text. Enter a number between 1 and 127 to indicate
the color. A chart showing all available color choices is on the
Defaults Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
hiLite menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for the color of a
highlighted menu item. Enter a number between 1 and 127 to indicate
the color. A chart showing all available color choices is on the
Defaults Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Normal menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for the color of all
other menu items. Enter a number between 1 and 127 to indicate the
color. A chart showing all available color choices is on the Defaults
Menu's Help screen.
Menu Choice Alternatives
fraMe menucolor None
Use this menu choice to set your preferred choice for the color of the
menu "frames" or borders. Enter a number between 1 and 127 to indicate
the color. A chart showing all available color choices is on the
Defaults Menu's Help screen.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Default directory None
Use this menu choice to indicate a default drive or directory for
GALAXY LITE to use when loading and saving files. For example, if you
always wanted to use your B: drive to store documents, enter "B:" for
your default directory.
Menu Choice Alternatives
saVe parameter file None
This menu choice will save all of the current settings of both the
Print Menu and the Defaults Menu into a parameter file.
You can give any name you like to this parameter file, but GALAXY LITE
will always try to load a parameter file named GLITE.INI when you
first start the program. GALAXY LITE will look first in the current
directory, and then will search the DOS PATH to try to find the default
parameter file.
You can load a new parameter file at any time by choosing the Read
parameter file command from the Defaults Menu.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read parameter file None
This menu choice will let you load a new parameter file. The settings
on the Defaults and the Print Menu will be reset to the values found in
the new parameter file.
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SEARCH MENU
The choices listed in this menu are for searching your text for strings
of characters that you specify. You can search for any character,
including control characters, with the exception of ASCII #13, the
Enter key, and ASCII #27, the Escape key.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Find F5 ^QF
The Find command starts searching for the text you specify at the
current cursor position. The search will proceed to the end of the
text, unless you specify Backwards as an optional search parameter.
Menu Choice Alternatives
find/Replace F6 ^QA
You will be asked to enter a string to search for, as with the Find
command, and also a string to replace the found text with.
With either the Find or find/Replace command, you will be asked to
enter Options to define the parameters of either the Find or the
find/Replace command:
G: Global search.
Once only from the top. Search the entire document, from beginning to
end.
B: Backwards search. Begin searching at the current cursor position,
and proceed towards the beginning of the file.
U: Ignore case. Find all matches of the text specified, whether or not
the capital and lower case letters are the same. Without this option,
the capitalization must match exactly. W: Whole Word.
Will only find complete words (strings of text beginning and ending
with a space or a punctuation mark). Without this option, searching
for the would successfully match the, they, there, etc.
N: No Confirm.
With find/Replace, will not stop to ask for confirmation before making
the replacement.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Next ^F5 ^L
Repeats the last Find or find/Replace command, using the same optional
parameters.
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GOTO MENU
These commands are used for quick movement around your document.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Top of file ^PgUp
Places the cursor at the very top of the text window, at the first line
of your file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
End of file ^PgDn
Places the cursor at the very bottom of the text window, at the last
line of your file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Begin block ^QB
Moves the cursor to the beginning of a defined block. If no block is
defined, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
end blocK ^QK
Moves the cursor to the end of a defined block. If no block is
defined, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Line ^ON
Prompts you to enter a line number, and moves the cursor to that line.
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Menu Choice Alternatives
Go marker ^QM ^Q1..9
This command will move the cursor to a previously defined marker.
You will be prompted to enter the marker number to go to. You can skip
this step by using the ^Q, followed by a number, command.
If a marker you specify is not defined, an error message will be
displayed.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Set marker ^KM ^K1..9
This command will define a marker, which can be used later for quick
movement to a specific place in your text file using the Go marker
command.
You will be prompted to enter the marker number you wish to define. You
can skip this step by using the ^K, followed by a number, command. For
example, to define marker number 1, without going through the menu,
enter ^K1.
Marker positions are effective only in the current editing session, and
are not saved with the file.
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BLOCK MENU
The Block menu groups all the commands for block operations. A block
is a section of your text that is marked with a beginning and an end so
that some editing function can be performed on the block. Common block
tasks are to copy a section of text to another location in the file, to
write a section of text to disk as a separate file, or check the
spelling of a section of text.
Most WordStar (tm) Control-K block commands work exactly as they do in
WordStar (tm) .
Menu Choice Alternatives
Begin F7 ^KB
Used to mark the beginning of a block of text. For block operations,
such as copying, deleting, etc. both the beginning and the end of the
block must be defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
End F8 ^KK
Used to mark the end of a block of text. For block operations, such as
copying, deleting, etc. both the beginning and the end of the block
must be defined.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Copy ^F7 ^KC
After a block is defined, use this command to make a copy of the entire
block. A copy of the entire block will be inserted at the point where
the cursor is currently located.
This command can be used to "cut and paste" blocks of text between
windows.
If the cursor is within the currently defined block when this command
is issued, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Move ^F8 ^KV
Similar to Block Copy, but the block is deleted from its current
position, and inserted at the point where the cursor is currently
located.
The Block Move command can be used to "cut and paste" blocks of text
between windows.
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If the cursor is within the currently defined block when this command
is issued, no action is taken.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Read ^KR
This command will prompt you for a filename to Read into the current
text window.
The file specification can be any legal DOS filename, including drive
designation and path. If just the name of the file is entered, GALAXY
LITE will look for the file in the Logged directory.
The file will be inserted into the current text window at the cursor
position.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Write ^KW
This command will write the currently defined block to disk as a
separate file. You will be prompted for a filename, which can include
a drive designation or file path.
If you specify a filename that already exists, you will be asked to
confirm that you want to overwrite the old file.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Delete ^KY
This command will delete the currently defined block, removing it from
the text window.
The GALAXY LITE UNDO command, the ESC key, will restore a deleted
block, line by line, at the point where the cursor is located when the
UNDO command is issued.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Hide ^KH
This command turns off the block highlighting.
Menu Choice Alternatives
Spell check ^KL
This menu choice checks the spelling of your document. If there is a
block marked, the spell check will cover the marked block only. If no
block is marked, checking will begin at the cursor position. If you
press any key during a spell check, you will be asked if you wish to
abort the spelling check.
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SPELL CHECKING
Press ^K^L, or select Spell check from the Block menu to begin checking
the spelling of your document. If there is a block marked, the spell
check will cover the marked block only. If no block is marked,
checking will begin at the cursor position.
If you press any key during a spell check, you will be asked if you
wish to abort the spelling check.
When GALAXY LITE encounters a word not in its dictionary, you will be
shown a menu of possible corrective actions:
Skip once
---------
Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown
word for now.
Ignore for this document
------------------------
Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for the rest of
the spelling check. Useful for proper names, etc.
List soundalike words
--------------------
Show a menu of possible replacement words for the unknown word.
Highlight the correct word and press ENTER to correct the misspelled
word.
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GALAXY LITE uses a technique called soundex to build the list of
replacement words. If the misspelled word is phonetically close to the
correct spelling, GALAXY LITE will almost always suggest the correct
spelling as the first choice in the list. If you have transposed
letters GALAXY LITE will sometimes be unable to suggest meaningful
alternatives.
When replacing a word in your document, GALAXY LITE will attempt to
match the capitalization as follows: If the misspelled word is all
lower or all upper case, the replacement word will be all lower or all
upper case. If the misspelled word is mixed upper and lower case, the
replacement word will have its first letter capitalized, and the rest
of the word will be lower case.
Edit from keyboard
------------------
You will be prompted to type in the correct spelling. After you have
retyped the word, GALAXY LITE will check the spelling again.
Add to dictionary
-----------------
If this is a word that will appear often in your documents (your
company's name, for example), you can add the word to your auxiliary
dictionary.
GALAXY LITE uses four dictionaries:
An internal list of 500 common words.
GALAUX.DIC: Your auxiliary dictionary. An ASCII file, one uppercase
word per line, with a leading and trailing space. Created automatically
when you choose "Add to dictionary" during a spelling check. This
dictionary is held in memory during the spelling check and will not be
loaded if there is less than 20K of free memory.
GALRAM.DIC: An ASCII file containing approximately 3000 of the most
common words in the English language. This dictionary is held in
memory during the spelling check, and will not be loaded if there is
less than 48K of free memory. The spelling check will operate correctly
with or without the RAM dictionary, but not as quickly.
GALMAIN.DIC: The main dictionary file, approximately 45,000 words
(10,000 words in the Evaluation Version) , compressed.
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APPENDIX A
WordStar (tm) Files
GALAXY LITE can handle WordStar (tm) files with almost no exceptions.
The major difference is that GALAXY LITE ignores the WordStar (tm)
"dot" commands. They will be displayed onscreen unchanged, but will be
ignored during printing.
WordStar (tm) sets the high bit in many characters, including justified
spaces, the last character of every word, and the end of lines and
paragraphs.
Since GALAXY LITE can display any ASCII character onscreen a WordStar
(tm) file will appear garbled. This can be adjusted with the Alt-G, or
Graphics toggle. The Graphics toggle simply strips the high bit from
the displayed characters. The actual character is not changed, and
will be saved to disk in its original state. The GALAXY LITE "Print"
command will likewise strip the high bit of any character during
printing, so that WordStar (tm) files may be printed without any
translation if the Graphics toggle is OFF.
To display the IBM (tm) extended character set, such as the lines used
for drawing boxes, and the foreign characters, simply toggle the
Graphics ON. Your preferred setting can be saved in the pulldown
Defaults menu.
To save a file in WordStar (tm) format, with "soft" carriage returns,
set the "Format WS" choice to ON from the Defaults Menu. If this
toggle is OFF, all files will be saved as straight ASCII files. Even
with this toggle ON, GALAXY LITE will only use "soft" carriage returns
on lines that were either word wrapped, reformatted, or were "soft" in
the original file.
GALAXY LITE can convert a WordStar (tm) file to straight ASCII. The
command for this is Alt-F3. Although GALAXY LITE can read, edit, and
save WordStar (tm) files with no conversion, the searching and spell
checking routines need ASCII text to work properly.
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APPENDIX B
Printer Description Files
GALAXY LITE is supplied with Printer Description (PRD) files, which are
used to send the proper codes to the printer to enable Italic, Bold,
Underline, etc. To change the default PRD file, choose the "Set
printer" command in the Print Menu.
If the GALAXY LITE Program Disk does not contain a PRD file for your
printer, you can use MAKEPRD.COM, to easily create custom PRD files to
address any function of any printer.
Printer codes are entered just as in LOTUS 123, e.g.; 027\083. The
string of control codes that your printer needs to start or stop a
certain print attribute are entered as decimal numbers, separated with
backslashes. Up to 16 different printer control code strings can be
stored in a PRD file. Fonts, attributes, margins, tabs, even complex
laser printer codes can be used to format your document with ease.
ADDITIONAL MAKEPRD.COM INFORMATION
Makeprd.com is a utility that edits or creates New PRD files for the
GALAXY LITE Word Processor. This file sends the proper print codes to
your printer such as BOLD, ITALICS etc. Each printer is different so if
your printer is working but you can not get BOLD to work this would be
the answer to that type of problem. A legal name for this file must
end with a .PRD extension example: ALPS (tm) .PRD.
I will be using the ALPS (tm) ALQ200 printer and manual for an example.
In your printers manual there is a section of control codes. In the
ALP's Manual it's called Emulation Modes. Yours might be called
Function codes. GALAXY LITE sends these codes to the printer as they
are encountered in your text file, to create 'BOLD' etc.
GALAXY LITE uses only DECIMAL codes, your manual probably gives you HEX
CODES and DECIMAL codes. Make sure you use the DECIMAL Codes only!
This is what you will see as you use MAKEPRD.COM
MAKEPRD Version 1.2 - Create or Edit a Printer Description File.
Copyright (C) 1987 Omniverse, PO Box 2974, Renton, Wa 98056 All Rights
Reserved.
Enter the Decimal codes for each print attribute separated by
backslashes. For Example
27\084\066 [ENTER]
Enter the name of printer description file:NEW.PRD < Edit/Create >
Enter the decimal codes to start BOLD print. 27\71 Look into your
manual and find the code to start BOLD print!
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Enter the decimal codes to Stop BOLD print. 27\72 Look into your manual
and find the code to stop BOLD print! Most printer manuals will have
the start and stop next to each other. Some special printer functions
will require three or four sets of numbers
27\ Normal Escape Code \45\ Special Function \1\ On switch \0\ Off
Switch
Function for UNDERLINING on the ALPS (tm) is this.
27\45\1 To Start 27\45\0 To End
Some printers do not need the 27\ escape code such as the Tandy
Printers you may need to try both ways, With and Without! You will be
asked to enter all the normal features such as: BOLD, DOUBLE STRIKE,
ITALICS, SUPERSCRIPT SUBSCRIPT, UNDERLINE, USER PATCH, ONE USER PATCH
TWO
User Patch Numbers One and Two are used for other features that your
printer supports like Script Characters, Elite Pitch, Condensed Print
Etc. So if I wanted to use the condensed print on my ALPS (tm) I would
include the
27\33\4 turn on Condensed 27\33\0 turn off Condensed
After you have created or edited your printer description file, 'PRD'
you will need to install it into GALAXY LITE so that your printer will
receive the proper codes.
To install the NEW.PRD file pull down the print menu, Type 'S' for Set
printer [ENTER] [TYPE] A:\NEW.PRD
On a Hard Drive system [ENTER] [TYPE] C:\GLITE\NEW.PRD
Remember GALAXY LITE will need to find that PRD file wherever it really
exists!
The option just under 'S' set printer is 'V' saVe settings [ENTER]
[TYPE] A:\GLITE.INI
OR for a Hard Drive 'V' [ENTER] [TYPE] C:\GLITE\GLITE.INI
If GALAXY LITE finds the INI 'Initialization' File it will warn you
and ask you before overwriting the file! <Yes> would be the
appropriate response.
More than One PRD file for your printer, like NEW1.PRD for normal use.
NEW2.PRD for special features, ETC. This is handy for your laser type
printers to load different fonts and character styles. ALT-B in the
second PRD does not have to be for BOLD you can re-use all those for
other Features Example NEW2.PRD ALT-B could be used for FONT SIZE ETC.
Macro may be used to load PRD files in and out of GALAXY LITE. To use
this feature see Macro's Example ALT-M, F-10, P, S, ENTER,
DRIVE\PATH\FILENAME, ENTER, ESC, ALT-M SAVE MACRO. See Page (23)
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APPENDIX C
Headers and Footers
A header or footer is text that appears at the top or bottom of every
page of a printout.
Headers are lines marked by placing the cursor in "column one" of the
line and pressing ALT-H. The highlighted H that appears must be in
column one of the line or GALAXY LITE will not recognize the line as a
header.
When the file is printed, GALAXY LITE will ignore the line marked as a
header until the next page. At that time up to three header lines will
be substituted for three lines of the top margin. If your top margin
is not large enough to accommodate the number of header lines you have
marked, it will print as many as will fit.
Whenever you define a new header line or lines, any previous group of
header lines will be replaced by the new lines.
You can insert the current page number in the header line by placing
the # character in the text of any of the header lines. You can also
use any other print attributes, such as bold or italics, in a header
line.
Footers work exactly the same as header lines but are printed in the
bottom margin area. Like headers, lines formatted as footers, with the
ALT-F character in column one, will be ignored when they are first
encountered and then printed out on all subsequent bottom margins. You
can have a maximum of three footer lines defined at any time.
Whenever you define a new group of footer lines, any previous footer
lines will be replaced by the new lines. * Top or Bottom margin must be
one line larger than required Header or Footer.
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APPENDIX D
USING A MOUSE WITH GALAXY LITE
If you have a mouse installed and have run MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS prior
to loading GALAXY LITE, you will see a mouse cursor in the upper left
corner of the screen.
You can enter the pulldown menus by pressing any mouse button on either
the status line or the top ruler line.
There are two ways to use the mouse in the menu system:
In the first method, you "click" (press and release the mouse button)
on line one or line two of the screen. The menubar appears on screen,
in the same manner it does when you press F10. You then can click on
any of the top level menu items to pull down the submenu. This will
happen as if you pressed the first letter of the main menu item. You
can then click on a submenu item to select it. To leave the menu
system, just click anywhere outside the displayed menu.
In the second method, rather than clicking, you "drag" (press the mouse
button but don't release it) the mouse cursor to the menu item you
want. As the mouse cursor passes over a menu item, the submenu below
it automatically pulls down. As you drag the mouse cursor down a
submenu, the submenu choice under the mouse cursor will be highlighted.
To select a submenu item, release the mouse button when the selection
you want is highlighted. To leave the menu system, just release the
mouse button anywhere outside the displayed menu.
Clicking anywhere in the text window will move the cursor to that
position. You can change from one window to another simply by clicking
the mouse in the other window.
In the Defaults menu you can choose whether or not to display a scroll
bar on the right hand side of the text window. The scroll bar has an
"elevator" which shows your relative position in the file. Dragging
the elevator to a new position is similar to issuing a Go To Line
command. For example, if you drag the elevator to roughly the middle
of the scroll bar while editing a 1000 line file, the current line will
be changed to approximately line 500.
Clicking anywhere between the up arrow mark and the elevator is treated
the same as the Page Up command, and clicking anywhere between the
elevator and the down arrow mark is the same as the Page Down command.
Clicking on the up arrow mark or down arrow mark is treated the same as
if you pressed the up or down arrow key. Leave the mouse button down
in any of these cases to scroll continuously.
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APPENDIX E
The symbol ^ is used to indicate a Control key combination. For
example, to enter "^K" from your keyboard, depress the key marked
"Ctrl", and while that key is depressed, press the "K" key.
QUICK COMMANDS
FORMATTING:
Alt-C......Center Line Alt-L......Left Margin
Alt-J......Justify On/Off Alt-R......Right Margin
Ctrl-B.....Reformat Paragraph
PRINT CODES: Insert these codes before and after the text you
wish to format:
Alt-B......Bold Alt-I......Italics
Alt-D......Doublestrike Alt-T......Superscript
Alt-F......Footer Alt-U......Underline
Alt-H......Header Alt-V......Subscript
Alt-F1.....User Patch Ctrl-Enter.Page Break
Alt-F2.....User Patch
CURSOR MOVEMENT:
Ctrl <--...Word Left Ctrl -->...Word Right
Ctrl-PgUp..Top of File Ctrl-PgDn..Bottom of File
Ctrl-Home..Top of Screen Ctrl-End...Bottom of Screen
Tab........Automatic Tabs
WINDOW SELECTON:
Alt-W......Switch Windows Alt-Z......Zoom Windows
Alt-S......Exit to DOS window Alt-X......Close Window,
Exit GALAXY LITE
UNDELETE:
ALT-F9.....Undelete Character Alt-F10....Unbackspace Character
ESC........Undelete line
FUNCTION KEYS:
F1.........Help F2.........Save File
F3.........Open File F4.........Directory
F5.........Find F6.........Find and Replace
F7.........Block Begin F8.........Block End
F9.........Print a File F10........Pulldown Menus
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APPENDIX F
WordStar (tm) Commands
The symbol ^ is used to indicate a Control key combination. For
example, to enter "^K" from your keyboard, depress the key marked
"Ctrl", and while that key is depressed, press the "K" key.
^A...Word Left ^B...Reformat Paragraph
^C...Page Down ^D...Character Right
^E...Up Line ^F...Word Right
^G...Delete Character ^H...Destructive Backspace
^I...Tab ^J...Insert Page Break
^K...Block Commands ^L...Repeat Last Find/Replace
^M...Insert Line ^O...Onscreen Commands
^P...Insert Ctrl Character ^Q...Quick Commands
^R...Page Up ^S...Character Left
^T...Delete Word Right ^V...Insert On/Off
^W...Go To Top of File ^X...Line Down
^Y...Delete Line ^Z...Go To Bottom of File
^QA..Find and Replace ^OG..Toggle Graphics
^QB..Go To Top of Block ^OH..Toggle Windows
^QF..Find ^OI..Go To Column
^QI..Toggle AutoIndent ^OK..Change Case
^QJ..Go To Marker (Or ^Q1..9) ^ON..Go To Line
^QK..Go To End of Block ^OO..Open Second Window
^QS..Go To Beginning of Line ^OW..Toggle Word Wrap
^QY..Delete Text To End of Line ^OY..Close Second Window
^KB..Mark Block Begin ^KQ..Abandon File
^KC..Copy Block ^KR..Read Block From Disk
^KD..Save File ^KS..Save File
^KH..Toggle Block Hide ^KV..Move Block
^KK..Mark Block End ^KW..Write Block To Disk
^KL..Spell Check ^KX..Exit GALAXY LITE
^KM..Set Marker (Or ^K1..9) ^KY..Delete Block
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APPENDIX G
REGISTRATION
GALAXY LITE is NOT a public domain or free program! It is being
distributed as Shareware. The Association of Shareware Professionals
(ASP) offers the following definition of Shareware:
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before
buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you
are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some
request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum
trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple
right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed
manual.
Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the
copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as
stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just
like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality.
(In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main
difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically
grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and
sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require
written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their
Shareware.
Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should
find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's
commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs
easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is
low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back
guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.
Registration licenses you to use GALAXY LITE. Any unregistered use
other than trial use to determine if GALAXY LITE meets your needs is a
violation of our license agreement and is forbidden.
Single user registration is available for $65.00 per copy. Registered
users will be sent the most current version of the program and a
printed reference guide. Registration also entitles you to free
telephone support.
The GALAXY LITE license authorizes use of one copy of GALAXY LITE on
one machine at a time. If you have multiple computers, either
standalone, networked, or multi-user, you need to register one copy of
GALAXY LITE for each workstation on which it's installed.
For registration and licensing of more than ten copies, please contact
Starlite Software Co. at (206) 385-9611 for details on our quantity
discounts and site licensing arrangements. GALAXY LITE is available
from Egghead Discount Software as a special order item.
ALL PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
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APPENDIX H
ADDING GRAPHIC CHARACTERS
Graphic characters may be included in your text by finding the
appropriate ASCII value of the graphics required, this may accomplished
by obtaining an ASCII chart most printer manuals have a chart.
Press and hold the ALT key and type the decimal value associated with
the ASCII character you require on the numeric keypad. For example I
need the English Pound symbol £. I press and hold the ALT key down at
the same time I type 1,5,6, on my numeric key pad, then I release the
ALT and the graphic pound sign would appear. This function may also be
handy for making boxes etc. Macro's can be used to store these
graphics symbols or whatever you create for later use.
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