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- February 11, 1990
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 5.0?
-
- Version 5.0 contains revisions to permit use with both Versions 5.1
- and 5.0 of WordPerfect (and some programs work with PlanPerfect 5.0
- and perhaps the new DrawPerfect). There are also two new programs in
- Supplemental Tools and some minor improvements and bug fixes beyond
- revisions to handle 5.1. (Versions 4.0D and E were not widely
- distributed, so that for most users, the 4.0D changes are also
- relevant.)
-
- New Programs (in Supplemental Tools -- not in shareware distribution)
- -----------
-
- STYLEUSE -- Lists styles used in a document and styles found in
- the prefix but not used. Optionally deletes unused (or
- all) styles from the prefix. Optionally deletes style
- on and off codes from document text, leaving the codes
- added to the text by the styles.
-
- WPGSIZE -- Extracts and lists information on the width and height
- of the "image coordinate space" of WPG file graphics,
- optionally sorted.
-
- Revisions
- ---------
-
- FIXPRE -- (a) Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1.
- (b) Now optionally traverses a directory tree.
- (c) Minor modifications to handle PlanPerfect
- set files.
-
- FONTFILE -- Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1.
-
- FONTLIST -- (a) Improved deletion of non-fonts from output.
- (b) New option for WPerf output allows use of a prefix
- selected by the user.
-
- IS50DOC -- Replaced by IS5XDOC, which returns different error
- levels for 5.0 and 5.1 documents.
-
- LISTMACS -- Revisions to handle PlanPerfect macro and keyboard
- files, as well as similar macro and keyboard files
- from any recent WPCorp program.
-
- MERGESUM -- (a) Revised to handle the WP51 document summary
- format. Output by default in new format, with option
- to use format of prior versions of MERGESUM. New
- format includes all information in WPerf 5.1
- summaries, plus WPerf version number.
- (b) Handles dates in WP50 document summary format
- written in European format (e.g., 3 March 1990) and in
- French and Spanish. Improved handling of dates in
- Dutch.
-
- PRSFONTS -- Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1 PRS files.
-
- STYLIST -- Revised to handle Outline Styles.
-
- TARGETS -- Revised to handle Equation references.
-
- WHATPTRS -- Revised to handle the new ALL file format.
-
- WP5LOOK -- (a) Revisions to handle 5.1 documents.
- (b) Revisions to provide display of caption for
- various boxes, text for text boxes, etc.
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-
- January 15, 1990
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0E?
-
- MERGESUM -- Revision to handle months in Dutch spelling.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- December 11, 1989
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0D?
-
- ENDFOOT -- Bug fixed that caused failure converting large files.
-
- LISTMACS -- Revision to handle inability to process macros that
- both are created in WPCorp's external macro editor and
- lack descriptions. Problem had caused program crash
- with error message. Problem did not affect macros
- created within WPerf itself.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- November 13, 1989
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0C?
-
- MAKETABS -- (a) Bug fixed in processing of right tabs. Bug
- resulted in failure to delete spaces even though
- right tab was inserted in certain circumstances;
- (b) Will no longer insert a right tab before a string
- that ends with a space and includes other
- characters;
- (c) New optional treatment of blanks within strings
- to be right tabbed.
-
- MERGESUM -- (a) Comment field for documents lacking
- document summary revised to more closely
- approximate the way WPerf creates comments (i.e.,
- semicolons replace hard returns);
- (b) Barry Zimmerman's WPDOCS.NB Notebook file is now
- distributed with WPTOOLS to aid in manipulating
- MERGESUM output.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- November 10, 1989
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0B?
-
- FIXPRE -- Fixes for two bugs introduced in WPTOOLS 4.0A:
- (a) Limitation of input file specification to 12
- characters removed;
- (b) Eliminates garbage output where -A option is
- used and no files have archive bit set.
-
- MERGESUM -- (a) Fixes potentially unreadable output when volume
- has no label and DOS 3.0 or greater is used (bug
- introduced in WPTOOLS 4.0);
- (b) Fixes erroneous numerical version of file creation
- date for months beginning with M (bug in all prior
- versions of MERGESUM).
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- October 22, 1989
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0A?
-
- FIXPRE -- (a) New -A option: process files in wildcard spec
- only if archive bit set.
- (b) Skips over read-only files, without error
- message or renaming.
- (c) Eliminates renaming where user erroneously
- specifies directory, rather than file(s), for
- input.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- October 9, 1989
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0?
-
-
- New Program
- -----------
-
- IS50DOC -- Identifies WP5.0 document files, to allow branching
- in batch files.
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- DISKFONT -- Provides support for DeskJet as well as LaserJet soft
- fonts.
-
- FONTLIST -- (1) Printer and PRS file information added to output
- (2) Cleaner treatment of garbage preceding font names
-
-
- FIXPRE -- (1) Wildcard input file specification
- (2) Optionally preserves original file date and time
- (3) Optionally deletes styles from prefix
- (4) Optionally deletes initial codes
- (5) Optionally preserves printer information when
- deleting other information
-
- MAKETABS -- (1) New right tabs option for Method 1
- (2) Trailing blanks stripped before conversion to
- avoid ending lines with tabs
- (3) New coding to avoid truncated output lines
- (4) Optional parameter file for ease of use
- (5) Improved treatment of columns for tab settings
- matches WP5 treatment better. However, earlier
- -t settings need to be changed. Subtracting 1
- from every number should work.
-
-
- MERGESUM -- (1) Volume label field added to output
- (2) Optional appending to existing output file
- (3) Reports number of summaries written to output file
- (4) Optional method for using list of filenames as input
- (5) Improved error handling
-
- PRINTIT -- Errors in handling of title corrected.
-
- PRSFONTS -- (1) Optional processing of protected PRS files
- (2) Less likely to list non-fonts as fonts
-
- WHATPTRS -- Accepts multiple file specifications for input, so
- that it can handle ALL files in more than one
- directory. Requires command line switch to identify
- output file.
-
- WP5LOOK -- (1) Accepts piped input
- (2) Optionally writes screens to ASCII text file
- (3) Adapts to screen modes with greater than 25 lines
- (4) Improved centering
-
-
- WPSNOOP -- Information on WP5 document files now includes PRS
- file identification.
-
-
-
- Supplemental Tools
- ------------------
-
- The following new programs are not included in the shareware
- distribution of WPTOOLS4 but are provided to registered users:
-
- COMMENTS -- Reads a WP5 document and writes to standard output
- any comments it finds.
-
- ENDFOOT -- Converts footnotes to endnotes (or endnotes to
- footnotes), converting autoreferences as
- appropriate.
-
- MASTER -- Analyzes stucture of master document - subdocument
- relationships.
-
- TARGETS -- Lists autoreference targets, indentifying those who
- are not referenced in the document. Lists
- autoreference references identifying those which refer
- to nonexistent targets.
-
-
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-
- To save space, we are not including information on changes in versions
- of WPTOOLS earlier than Version 4, but it is available on request.
-
-