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CASSETTE! Version 4.0 A Logika Product Written by John Buckman Logika (tm) John Buckman 4 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010 Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT IS CASSETTE!? Cassette! is a full screen editor not unlike a word processor except that instead of being specialized toward full-page writing, Cassette! is an editor especially made to create paper inserts for audio cassettes. Much like a programmer's editor or a mailing label editor, Cassette! is a word processor whose features are especially tailored to help you create audio cassette paper inserts (Hereby referred to as 'Cassette Labels') WHAT CAN I DO WITH CASSETTE!? Cassette! allows you to create labels in four different formats. Each format has its own benefits and shall be discussed later. Cassette comes with the program 'Imageprint' which will print Cassette labels in letter quality print. In addition, printers which cannot normally print IBM graphics characters such as the Epson MX/FX series will be able to when they use Imageprint. ALL THIS FOR FREE? Cassette! is not a free product, but a user-supported package. You may try out this complete version of Cassette! but I ask that if you find the product useful you register the program for $20. The registration fee not only ensures that new, improved versions of Cassette! shall keep coming, but you will also receive updated versions of Cassette! in the mail, printed documentation and product support. If you appreciate Cassette! but do not feel that the program merits your dollar donation, then I ask you to donate your time, as I have in the creation of this program, to write me to let me know what can be done to improve Cassette! Logika John Buckman 4 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010 Cassette! Version 4.0 by John Buckman ____________________________________________________________________________ Cassette Version 4.0 User's Manual The main operation of Cassette! is based on the Editing Mode and its various word-processing functions. The File menu provides label saving and loading while also letting you print multiple copies of the same label. The Options menu was designed to accomodate future additions to Cassette! The Options menu now supports an optional recording date on the top line, an automatic song-numbering facility, and insert & delete whole line capability. The Help facility is a feature which is implemented only in the registered version of Cassette! sent to all registered users. The main print facility is for dumping the onscreen label to the printer. If letter quality print is desired, or if your printer cannot handle IBM graphics characters, then the Imageprint program must be used. The following pages describe in detail each of the functions of Cassette! and explain their purpose in constructing Cassette labels. Beginning with version 2.3 of Cassette!, there is an optional EGA Compatible version of Cassette included. This version uses the EGA's 43 line mode to make full screen editing of larger labels possible. The labels have an extension of ".ECS" for EgaCassette label. For the most part, users will still use the normal CASSETTE program except when they want to use this new Cassette format. The EGA Cassette will only edit ECS labels and is not meant to be an exact duplicate of the normal Cassette program but rather to complement it and to surpass it for certain applications. The EGA Version of Cassette is executed by running the EXE file EGARUN.EXE. All the Cassette editing functions should work fine with this new version. I hope you enjoy and use this new format. Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ [ Editing Labels ] Editing Key Function ___________ __________________________________________________ Alt - C Execute the Configure Cassette! program. Be carefull, File Menu as selecting this erases the current label you are [C]onfigure editing when it executes the Configuring program. The Configure! Cassette at present only lets you change two things. You may change the colors of the menus inside Cassette! and you may change the type of Cassettte! label format you wish to use. Alt - D Execute the Print (Dump) feature from the main menu. Main Menu Pressing this key automatically dumps the on-screen label [P]rint (Dump) to the printer in What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) format. This is a straight ASCII dump to the printer and does not provide Letter quality print. If your printer will not print IBM graphics characters such as those used in the Cassette label, then you MUST use the Imageprint program or another program which is capable of printing those characters on your printer. I have included this feature for two reasons. One, often a memory resident print enhancing program (Such as Lettrix) is resident or the printer has acceptable print quality and therefore Imageprint is neither needed nor wanted. Secondly, sometimes a rough copy is wanted and letter quality is not needed. Alt - F Go to to Cassette! File menu. File Menu Alt - H Execute the Cassette! Help facility. Help Facility Alt - I Executes the Insert line facility of the options Options Menu Menu. Inserts a blank line at the current cursor [I]nsert Line position. This function is available only in the song name area. Cassette will not let you insert a line at any other part of the label. Alt - L Executes the load label facility of the File Menu. You File Menu may only load Cassette! labels with an extension of [L]oad label ".CAS"; ".BIG" Labels like those created by the paste label facility cannot be displayed on-screen. Loading a label automatically replaces the on-screen label so be sure to save the label you are working on before loading another on top of it. Only labels created and saved by Cassette may be loaded into Cassette. The labels are saved in a plain ASCII format that is not directly compatible with Wordstar, Multimate and other word-processing packages. Cassette labels may be edited using a plain ASCII editor such as PC-WRITE or EDLIN but using one obviously defeats the purpose of using Cassette! as said editors are page oriented while Cassette! is explicitely made for the creation of labels. Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ Alt - M Executes the multiple print facility of the file menu. File Menu This may also be used as a simple print-label facility [M]ultiple Print if one specifies 1 copy to print. Otherwise, this simply dumps the label to printer, much in the same fashion as the Print (Dump) onscreen label does. Each label is printed on its own piece of paper so that if large amounts of labels are to be printed, all can be cut from the single top label if they are stacked correctly. An extension of ".CAS" is assumed but labels produced by the paste label facility may be printed if the extension of ".BIG" is added. Alt - N Executes the Number Songs facility from the options Options Menu menu. Numbers songs in a "1.Song Name" fashion [N]umber songs throughout the Label's song name area. Each line which begins at the first column is numbered. In this way, song names which take up more than one line are not numbered twice. There is no way to un-number the songs once the process has been done so I would recommend saving the label before numbering, so that it may be brought back if the effect of numbering is not wanted. Some expreimentation may be needed to get used to the way this facility works. Look especially carefully at the four sample labels if you don't fully understand how this works. Alt - O Go to the Options Menu. Options Menu Alt - P This executes a specialized Paste label facility Paste Label available only from Editing Mode. This facility will merge two Saved Cassette! labels together into one large label with an extension of ".BIG". This facility effectively create one label with two song areas, one of which folds under the other. Perhaps the best way to understand what the Paste label facility does is to simply TYPE the sample label "SAMPLE5.BIG" For obvious reasons, the paste label facility will only work correctly with Cassette! Label formats one and two. The Song areas for formats three and four are too large to fold and fit inside a audio cassette box. As with the numbering facility, the best way to understand this specialized utility is to experiment with it. Alt - R Execute the remove line facility of the Options menu. Options Menu This function removes (deletes) the line at which the [R]emove line cursor currently resides. This function is the exact reverse of the Insert Line function and also will only work in the song section of the label. Alt - S Executes the Save label procedure of the File menu. File Menu Labels are automatically saved with an extension of [S]ave label ".CAS" and no other extension name is allowed. The Label is saved in straight ASCII format. Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ Alt - X This key automatically quits Cassette! and exits to DOS. No warning is issued unlike the Quit facility from the Main menu. Pressing Alternate - [X] from any menu automatically exits Cassette and drops to DOS. Ctrl - C Centers the line. This function is available only from the editing mode. Ctrl - E Clears the screen to begin a new label. The current label is erased from the screen and a new blank label appears. Be carefull to save your work before erasing the screen. Once a label has been completed, this is the standard procedure for starting a new label. TAB Inserts a space at the current cursor position. This is the equivalent of turning insert ON, pressing the space bar, and turning insert OFF. This is just a shortcut key for alligning or inserting single space into a Cassette! label. ESC Returns to the previous Editing field. I recommend using the ESC key instead of the Up-Arrow key to move up a field since the ESC is a true field move while the Up-Arrow key merely moves the cursor. The Up and Down arrows are included in the program merely for quick editing purposes. RETURN Moves the cursor to the next field. Use of the Return and ESC key is preferable over the use of the Up and Down Arrow keys for moving from field to field. Cassette! is a field orented editor and therefore expects a Return key at the end of each field. The ESC key does a true move to previous field while the Arrow keys merely move about the screen. [ \ ] Pressing the backslash key bring up the Main Cassette! Main Menu Menu. Almost all of the Cassette! functions can be selected with two keys from the Main Menu. Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ [ Printing a Label ] Next to designing a label, printing a label is the most important function of Cassette! There are several ways to print a label. 1. Selecting "Print (Dump)" from the main menu or pressing ALT-D from the editing mode. The advantage of this is that it may be executed from within Cassette! The output is straight ASCII data sent to LPT1: to be printed. Unfortunately, if your printer does not directly support IBM graphics characters then your printer will not correctly print the label. In addition, the unless your printer has built in letter quality print, the quality of the print will not match that produced by the Imageprint program. 2. Selecting "Multiple Print" from the File Menu or pressing Alt-M from the editing mode. The output is the same as that produced by the "Print (Dump)" selection in that straight ASCII data is sent to the printer. However, here, a saved label may be specified to print any number of times. Each copy is printed on a separate sheet of paper. 3. Exiting to DOS and printing a Cassette! label using the Imageprint program. The format for printing a label from DOS is "C>PRINT MYLABEL.CAS". If you wish to print a BIG label such as one created by the Paste label facility, then an extension of ".BIG" should be used instead of ".CAS". For example, "C>PRINT BIGLABEL.BIG". The Imageprint program has many things going for it. It prints all text in superb, three times over, letter quality font. It manages to print IBM graphics characters on most printers while still being in letter quality mode. The complete Imageprint is not a public domain program, but this version with only FONT1 included is. If you like this program as much as I do, I suggest you get yourself registered with them to get all the fonts. In any case, you should be able to find the complete Public domain version of Imageprint on a local BBS. The program I included and the FONT1 are but the bare minumum needed to run Imageprint, more programs are included in the full release. In general, I use the "Print (Dump)" feature to print a rough draft of a Label, then save it and print it using Imageprint. Once you have seen the quality of its print it is hard to settle for normal dot-matrix print. Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ [ Cutting a label to size ] Once the label has been printed, it needs to be cut and folded so that it may fit inside an audio cassette box. Here is a full size example: ____________________________________________________________ | | | (Printed Page) | | | | | | _______________________ | | | | Cut around the Outer | | | | edge of the label, then | | |-----------------------| get ready to fold the label | | |_______________________| on the next page. | | |___________|___________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <--(Cassette Label) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |___________|___________| | | | | | |____________________________________________________________| Cassette! Version 4.0 ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ [ ] [ ] [-------------------------] <---- Fold here [ ] [-------------------------] <---- and Fold Here. [------------|------------] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ Folding a regular, Cut Label ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [____________|____________] _________________________ [ ] [ ] [-------------------------] <---- Fold here [ ] [-------------------------] <---- Fold Here. [------------|------------] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ Folding a BIG, cut label such [ | ] as one produced by the Paste [ | ] label facility ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [------------|------------] <---- Fold this section under the [ | ] previous song section. [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [ | ] [____________|____________]