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!Styles 1.05 by Gerald Williams, 22/10/91.
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Styles is an application to complement Computer Concepts Impression Junior.
Styles, as its name may suggest, allows styles to be set up and used in
Impression Junior in a similar way to that of Impression.
Styles 1.05 is a significant improvement over Styles 1.02.
New features added are:
1. Colour control (background and foreground)
2. Strikeout option
3. Lock to linespace option
4. Left, right, centre & decimal tabs can now be used.
5. Error checking now added - virtually impossible for Impression Junior to
misinterpret the Style file.
6. Any style name can now be used including the word "sub".
7. Icons have now been improved.
8. No longer causes an error when window is closed with adjust.
To use, click its icon on the iconbar to open the main window. In this
window, you will be able to change a number of settings.
Style name
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Type in the name of the style you wish to create. Normal spaces are not
allowed, but if you do want to have a space in the style name, hard spaces
can be used instead (ALT-space).
Font name
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Type in the full font name, or select a font from the menu (opened by
pressing menu over the icon). This menu contains the set of fonts
distributed with Impression Junior, but if you want to use a different font,
you will have to type in the full name.
Font size
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Type in the number (point size) or select one of the 7 font sizes available
from its menu.
Font aspect
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Allows the font to be streched or squashed. Type in the percentage of its
normal width (ie 50 for half width, 200 double width) or select one of the
options from its menu.
Colours
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Colour can be set for both the foreground and background. In the spaces
provided, type in the percentage of red,green and blue in the resultant
colour. Alternatively, a choice of red,green,blue,black, or white is
available from its menu (opened by pressing menu over one of the icons).
To have a colour which is not on the menu, use Impression Junior's colour
editor to select the required colour, and then type in the percentages into
the appropriate spaces in Styles.
Effects
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Script: Select no script, subscript, or superscript using the radio icons.
Underline: Click its icon to select/deselect.
Strikeout: Draws a line through the centre of the text, click its icon to
select/deselect.
Lock to linespace: Keeps the lines of text in multiple columns lined up
correctly. Click its icon to select/deselect.
Justify
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Select left,right,full,centre justification.
Tabs
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Tab types:
Left: The normal type used in Impression Junior, the text is lined up with
its left side to the tab point. Its icon is a triangle with its left
side black.
Right: The text is lined up with its right side to the tab point. Its icon
is a triangle with its right side black.
Centre: The text is lined up so that the centre of the text is in line with
the tab point. Its icon is a white triangle.
Decimal: Text is lined up so that decimal points are lined up with the tab
point. This is very useful for lining up columns of numbers. Its
icon is a white triangle with a dot in the middle.
Type in the fields the number of each tab type you want to appear in the
style. When the style has been created, the tabs will all appear at 0. The
tabs must be positionned in Impression Junior using the edit ruler
facility. Tabs can be deleted as normal, but only left tabs can be added,
so make sure you have plenty of each when you create the style.
Style Creation
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To create the style, press menu in the window, to bring up the Create Style
menu. Move right, then drag the icon into an Impression Junior frame.
Impression Junior will bring up a window. Click OK to load the file as
ASCII.
To select the style from Impression Junior, press menu, move to the ruler
submenu, and select the style name from the ruler list.
The program
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Archway 2 was used to write the application.
Styles is Shareware - It may be freely distributed, so long as none of the
files are altered in any way, and that no extra files
are added to the directory.
If you find it useful, a small fee of ú3 should be sent
to me at the address below.
If you also send a blank disc, I will send you an
updated version if I have written one, and also some
more software which I have written.
Styles has been tested with Impression Junior version 1.12.
If you have found a bug in the program, or can think of a possible
improvement, write to me, and I'll see what I can do.
The Author
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Name: Gerald Williams
Address: 39 Manor Road
Aldershot
Hants.
GU11 3DG