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subject: LINES overview: Line functions have been grouped together in the menu "Line functions" shown below. Many of these functions are defined in the Keystrokes section of this manual. ┌───────────────────┐ │Line functions: │ page ╞═══════════════════╪═══════ │(A)dd line above │ 183 │(D)elete line │ 183 │(E)rase to line end│ 183 │(I)nsert line │ 183 │(J)oin lines │ 183 │(L)ines - special │ 187 │(P)age markers │ 184 │(S)plit line │ 183 │e(X)it │<--Exit Line Functions menu └───────────────────┘ Detailed descriptions for "(P)age markers" and "(L)ines - special" are given in this section. (A)dd above: Insert a blank line above the cursor in the text area and move the cursor up to that blank line. The cursor column will remain unchanged (unless the Indent margin comes into play). (Equivalent to the keystroke Ctrl A outside the menus.) (D)elete line: Delete the line in the text area in which the cursor is located. (You can get the line back with the Whoops key, Ctrl W.) (Equivalent to the keystroke F5 outside the menus when the cursor is in the text area.) (E)rase to end: In the text area, erase the character under the cursor and all characters on the line to the right of the cursor. (Equivalent to the keystroke F6 outside the menus when the cursor is in the text area.) (I)nsert line: Insert a blank line below the cursor in the text area and move the cursor down to the blank line. The cursor column remains unchanged. (Equivalent to the keystroke Ctrl I outside the menus.) (J)oin lines: Join the line on which the cursor is located with text on the next line. If there is too much text in both lines to fit in one line, the excess text will remain on the second line. (Equivalent to the keystroke Ctrl J outside the menus. See the "Keystrokes" section for more detail and an example.) (S)plit line: Split the line at the cursor. (Equivalent to the keystroke Ctrl \ outside the menus. See the "Keystrokes" section for more detail and an example.) 179 subject: PAGE MARKERS discussion: The "(P)age markers" option in the "Line functions" menu forces a page break after the line in which the cursor is located. (Equivalent to the keystroke Ctrl P outside the menus.) The new page number may be absolute or relative to the current page number. When the "(P)age markers" option is selected, (you may exit with no effect by pressing Esc), you are prompted to enter the desired page as: Enter new page number: +0 +n implies skip n pages. n implies absolute page no. Pressing the Enter key causes a page line looking like ├────────────── User-Page +0 ──────────────┤ to be inserted in your text file below the line on which the cursor is located. The page marker is used by PC-Type II when printing your document. When PC-Type II encounters such a marker, it spaces to the end of the physical page being printed, prints a footer (if any), increments the page number (in this case by one), and then continues. If a '+' sign precedes the number you enter, then PC-Type II will skip that number of pages when printing your document. Hence, if page 14 was printing when the line: ├────────────── User-Page +2 ──────────────┤ was encountered, the page number printed on the next page would be 17, i.e., two page numbers would be skipped for: +0 --> 15 +1 --> 16 +2 --> 17 If no '+' sign precedes the number you enter, then PC-Type II will set the next page to that number. If your document was printing page 14 when it encountered the page line: ├────────────── User-Page 50 ──────────────┤ then the page number 50 would be printed next. This is useful when a document is too big to fit into memory. By placing an absolute page number at the top of each text file, the numbering can proceed as desired. 180 modify: Page markers and Special Lines can not be edited. No characters can be typed on top of them, they can not be split, etc. However, they can be moved, copied and deleted. To modify a page marker, move the cursor to the page marker line, and select the "(P)age markers" option from the "Line functions" menu, or press Ctrl P. When you do so, a window with the question: Modify current page number line or insert new page line? Press M or I is displayed. If you press M, then the number you enter in response to Enter new page number: will replace the number in the current page marker line. If you press I, then a new page marker line will be inserted below the first with the new reference you enter. (You may also press Esc to cancel the request.) paragraph: The page marker, like all Special Lines, constitutes a paragraph break in the text. If a text line exists immediately above the page line and another exists immediately below the page line, then the page line marks the end of the paragraph above and the beginning of the next paragraph below. In this manner it is equivalent to a blank line. .PCT files: Page markers are saved to .PCT files exactly as you define them. However, page markers in non-.PCT files are saved as simple formfeed characters and the relative/absolute characteristic of the markers are lost. When PC-Type II loads a non-.PCT file, all formfeed characters encountered are represented as: ├────────────── User-Page +0 ──────────────┤ 181 subject: SPECIAL LINES overview: NOTE:ïPage markers should be considered as Special ïLines in the discussion which follows. Special Lines are directives to PC-Type II for use when printing a document. Many Special Lines come in pairs, one to mark the beginning of a group of lines and another to mark the end of a group of lines. Special Lines cannot be edited. No characters can be typed on top of them, they cannot be split, etc. However, they can be moved, copied and deleted. Special Lines mark a paragraph break in the text. If text lines exist immediately above and below a Special Line, the Special Line marks the end of the paragraph above and the beginning of the next paragraph below. In this manner it is equivalent to a blank line. Unlike a blank line, it is not included in the count of the number of lines on a page when printing, performing Ctrl T, or moving up or down one printed page in the text. Special Lines are saved to .PCT files only. It is assumed that they exist as printing directives, and hence are intended for document files. Special Lines cause characters to be placed in your text files which have no meaning to programs other than PC-Type II. They will not be saved to disk in non-.PCT files. When saving your file you will be informed that they will be lost unless you change the file extension to .PCT. When you select the "(L)ines - special" option in the "Line functions menu", the menu shown below will appear. Each of the Special Line options in this menu is discussed in the pages which follow. ┌──────────────────────┐ │Special lines: │ page ╞══════════════════════╪═══════ │ (C)onditional page │ 188 │ (D)on't print │ 190 │ (F)ooter defn │ 192 │ (H)eader defn │ 192 │ (M)ailmerge defn │ 189 │ (N)o reformat │ 190 │ (S)eparate paragraphs│ 189 │ (1) header off │ 193 │ (2) header on │ 193 │ (3) footer off │ 193 │ (4) footer on │ 193 │ (5) default hdr/ftr │ 193 │ e(X)it │<--Exit Special Lines menu └──────────────────────┘ 182 subject: CONDITIONAL PAGE discussion: When you select the "(C)onditional page" option from the "Special lines" menu, the two Special lines: ├─────────── Bgn conditnl page ────────────┤ ├─────────── End conditnl page ────────────┤ are inserted in your text below the line in which the cursor is located. Each of these Special Lines should be moved to mark the beginning and end of a block of text which should not be split between different pages in your document. These Special Lines are not counted in the number of lines required to fill a page. If the "End conditnl page" line is encountered before a new page has to be started, then the existence of these two Special Lines is ignored. However, if a new page has to be started before the "End conditnl page" line has been reached, then the new page will begin immediately after the "Bgn conditnl page" Special Line. example: Assume you have set the number of lines per page to 66 and have defined a header of 6 lines and a footer of 5 lines. You therefore have 55 lines of text for the body of a printed page. Suppose the following lines appear in your document: ░ Keep the group of lines below contiguous. ░├─────────── Bgn conditnl page ────────────┤ ░ Line ONE - do not split. ░ Line TWO - do not split. ░ Line THREE - do not split. ░├─────────── End conditnl page ────────────┤ ░ Keep the group of lines above contiguous. If the line "... group of lines below ..." was the 45th line of the page being printed, then all the lines shown would be printed on the given page as: ░ Keep the group of lines below contiguous. ░ Line ONE - do not split. ░ Line TWO - do not split. ░ Line THREE - do not split. ░ Keep the group of lines above contiguous. However, if the line "... group of lines below ..." was the 53rd line of the page being printed, then that line would be the last line printed on the current page. The line "Line ONE - do not split" would be the first line printed on the next page. 183 subject: MAIL-MERGE DEFINITION LINES discussion: Selecting the option "(M)ailmerge defn." in the "Special lines" menu causes the following five lines to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ░├────────── Bgn Mail-Merge Def. ───────────┤ ░.fspec file.IMP, Define or Keyboard ░.fieldn Vname ░.force Vname,"string" ░├────────── End Mail-Merge Def. ───────────┤ This block of data is used to define your mail-merge parameters. The data between the two mail-merge special lines can be edited as required. (See the discussion "Mail-Merge Definition Block" in the Mail-Merge section.) This block of data may be located anywhere in your file but it is normally placed at the beginning. None of the lines of data in the mail-merge definition block will be printed when you perform a mail-merge operation, and these lines are not counted when determining the line and page number on which the cursor is located. subject: PARAGRAPH MARKER discussion: Selecting the option "(S)eparate paragraphs" in the "Special lines" menu causes the line shown below to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ├──────────── Paragraph Marker ────────────┤ This is primarily used to inform PC-Type II that the end of one paragraph and the beginning of another paragraph has been reached if you are printing your file single-spaced with no blank lines between paragraphs. Without this marker, PC-Type II would not know when to indent according to your Tab/Margin definition. This line is neither printed nor counted as a line for page number determination. 184 subject: NO REFORMAT discussion: Selecting the option "(N)o reformat" in the "Special lines" menu causes the two lines shown below to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ├─────────── Begin NO Reformat ────────────┤ ├──────────── End NO Reformat ─────────────┤ These lines should be moved to surround a block of text you don't want reformatted. When the cursor is between these two lines and you press Ctrl R (reformat paragraph), the text will not be reformatted. NOTE: If blank lines exist within the surrounded block of text, Ctrl R will do some reformatting. If you go to the Reformat menu and select the option to reformat the entire file or any part of the file that includes this text, it will not be reformatted. If you redefine your tabs and tell PC-Type II to go ahead and reformat, this section will not be reformatted. If you specify a reformat option in a mail-merge substitution inside such a block of text, it will not be reformatted. NOTE: If you highlight a part of the block of text between these lines and neither extremity of the highlighted area touches one of these Special Lines, then that area can be reformatted. The No Reformat lines are neither printed nor counted as lines for the page number determination. subject: NO PRINT discussion: Selecting the option "(D)on't print" in the "Special lines" menu causes the two lines shown below to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ├────────── Begin No Print Def. ───────────┤ ├─────────── End No Print Def. ────────────┤ These lines should be moved before and after a block of text which you want to see when you edit your file, but not when you print the file. Neither the Special Lines nor the block of text between them will be printed, nor will they be counted as lines for the page number determination. 185 subject: HEADERS AND FOOTERS OVERVIEW overview: Headers and footers define the information to be printed at the top and bottom of each page of text as well as the size of the top and bottom margins of a page. Besides text, which you define, headers and footers can also contain page numbers, dates and times. (For a complete discussion of how to define headers and footers, see "HEADER/FOOTER (Definition)" in the Configuration section of this manual.) Within the Configuration Menu, you can define default headers and footers and save these definitions in your .PRO file. When you print a file, (unless you turn headers and footers OFF in the "PRINT OPTIONS" window) these default headers and footers will be printed. If you want the header and footer definitions to change or if you want to turn headers and footers off and then back on within the same document, then you must use some of the Special Lines designed for header and footer control. A new header definition in the text will override the default header definition, and a new footer definition in the text will override the default footer definition. Subsequent header and footer definitions will override any preexisting definitions within the text file. You may reinstate the default headers and footers at any point in the document with the "Default Hdr/Ftr" Special line. Headers or footers can be selectively turned off and on at any point in your document. (See Header and Footer Controls.) NOTE: When headers and footers are turned off, they are not printed. However, the number of lines in their active definition will appear as blank top and bottom margins. If headers and footers are turned off in the PRINT OPTIONS window, you cannot turn them on with the special lines. New header and footer definitions may have different numbers of lines than their predecessors. It should be remembered that the number of text lines printed on a page is determined by the number of lines per page (defined int the PRINT OPTIONS window) less the number of lines in the active header and footer. 186 subject: HEADER and FOOTER DEFINITIONS discussion: Selecting the option "(H)eader defn." in the "Special lines" menu causes the two lines shown below to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ├─────────── Begin Header Def. ────────────┤ ├──────────── End Header Def. ─────────────┤ In a like manner, selecting "(F)ooter defn" inserts these two lines in your text: ├─────────── Begin Footer Def. ────────────┤ ├──────────── End Footer Def. ─────────────┤ You should enter your new header (or footer) definitions between these lines. Neither the Special Lines nor the definitions within them are counted as part of your text. The data inside headers and footers will not be reformatted with Ctrl R or the reformat commands. However, the lines can wrap if this option is turned on. Placement of these blocks of text is important. A new header definition will not become active until a new page is begun, while a new footer definition becomes active immediately. The best location for these blocks is after a page marker or at the top of your text. This way you know when they will become active even though you continue to edit your document. Since you can change the number of lines within a header or footer, remember that the number of lines of text per page will change accordingly. 187 subject: HEADER AND FOOTER CONTROLS default hdr/ftr: Selecting the option "(5) default hdr/ftr" in the "Special lines" menu causes the line ├──────────── Default Hdr/Ftr ─────────────┤ to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. This Special Line becomes active immediately and reinstates the default header and footer definition. Any header/footer definitions appearing in your text prior to this Special Line become inactive and must be redefined below this line if they are to become active again. This line is neither printed nor treated as part of your text in determining the page count. on and off: Selecting one of the options: (1) header off (2) header on (3) footer off (4) footer on in the "Special lines" menu causes the corresponding Special Line shown below to be inserted in your text below the line on which the cursor is located. ░(1) ├────────── Turn headers off ──────────┤ ░(2) ├────────── Headers back on ───────────┤ ░(3) ├────────── Turn footers off ──────────┤ ░(4) ├────────── Footers back on ───────────┤ These lines are neither printed nor treated as part of your text in determining the page count. They all become active immediately. As their name implies, they turn the headers and footers off and on. Turning an active header or footer off suppresses it from being printed but does not eliminate the number of lines it defines for the top or bottom margin. Turning a header or footer back on allows the information in the top and bottom margin to be printed again. Remember that if the "Headers/Footers" toggle in the PRINT OPTIONS window is turned OFF, then no headers nor footers will be printed regardless of these Special Lines. 188