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PC-Write Standard Level 2.00
Reference Manual Addendum
September 20, 1991
Installation
- "Formatted documents"
During installation, you choose whether you want Document Formatting to be
either 1) Automatic, or 2) Manual or unformatted. The first choice gives you
automatic one-inch margins, and turns on automatic formatting (auto-repage
and paragraph reformat). When the Getting Started booklet or the Reference
Manual refer to choosing to "create mostly formatted documents", we mean the
first choice.
Generally if you're new to word processing, or like the computer to manage
the details, pick Automatic. If you edit unformatted documents (like ASCII
files), or prefer to control formatting yourself, pick Manual. If you'll be
editing files created with earlier versions of PC-Write, pick Automatic if
you always edited them with auto-reformat on, otherwise pick Manual.
Don't worry too much about making the right choice; you can easily set the
margins and degree of automation you prefer later.
File Features
- Changing Directories in a File List
Any time you're viewing a list of files (File, List & open; or typing *.* or
F8 at a filename prompt) you can select any subdirectory name (they end with
a \) and press Enter. Then PC-Write lists the files in that directory.
Margin Features
- Temporary Indents
You can set temporary left, right, or paragraph indent positions. This is
handy when editing files without formatting, or to try out an indent for a
short time. Place the cursor at the indent position in a line, and press:
Ctl-[ Sets or clears a temporary left indent (left side of paragraph).
Ctl-] Sets or clears a temporary right indent (right side of paragraph).
Ctl-/ Sets or clears a temporary first line of paragraph left indent.
The symbols "[", "]", and "\" appear on the Status line when the matching
temporary indent is active.
- Long Dashes (M-Dash)
You may want a long dash -- as in this example, to set off a phrase. The
best way to do this is a Hard Hyphen followed by a normal hyphen, since
two normal hyphens in a row can get divided at the end of a line. To get
an M-dash that always remains intact, press Ctl-hyphen, then hyphen.
- Ruler Editing
When you're editing the Ruler line (Layout, Margin, Use ruler, Edit ruler;
or Ctl-F2) press the Shf-Grey- key to see the default Ruler line, or press
the Shf-Grey+ key to see the last embedded Ruler line in the document.
Paging Features
- Setting a Lower Page Number
You might set a page number (Layout, Paging, Page number; or .N) and give a
number smaller than the page before. This works fine when printing the whole
document (Print, All), but you can't print page-by-page (either Print, View
or Print, Range) and move forward to the page with a smaller number. To do a
Print View or Print Range in this case, place the cursor in the first part
of the document and View or (Print Range) those pages, then move to the
second part of the document and do the remaining pages.
Merge Features
- Place Holders with Names
Place holders in a template document, such as {1} or {2}, show where input
fields will be placed. You can make these place holders more meaningful by
adding a dash and a name after the number, such as {1-Name} or {2-State}.
- Automatic Reformat with Merge
The Reference Manual cautions you not to edit the merge input file with
auto-reformat on, since each line in the input file contains exactly one
record (if comma separated) or one field (if line separated). However, you
may want to do the actual merge with auto-reformat on, since the resulting
output documents may look better. Do this if you have a place holder inside
a paragraph, and the field that replaces it could be short of long. For
example, a last name field might be "Ng" or "Anderson-Jacobson".
Help Features
- New Help menu item, Context
The Help pull-down menu has three items. They are:
Index: brings up the Help index page.
Context: brings help about the text or formatting at the cursor
(the same as pressing F1 then F1).
Tutorial: brings up the Tutorial.
PC-Write Wizard's Book
Note that the Wizard's book is available separately from Quicksoft.
Font Selector Program
Note that this program is available separately from Quicksoft.