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CHAPTER 1    GETTING STARTED

.tc    Introduction .......................................#
Introduction     {.Œ}

Welcome to the world of Word Processing and Word Fugue. Word Fugue is
a text based word processor that has grown much since its humble
beginnings in 1985. It is distributed as shareware, which means that
you the user have had a say in what it does, and how it does it. Word
Fugue is a powerful word processor that is simple to use, and can
handle almost every type of business and professional document.{.Œ}
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You can customise Word Fugue - change the mapping of keyboard to
commands, as well as the way it performs many of its tasks, to build a
custom word processor for each type of document you work on. Word
Fugue is not just one word processor for all jobs, it is a program
that you can change to be a specific word processor for each different
type of document.{.Œ}
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For advanced users, Word Fugue can generate indexes and tables of
contents, supports snaking columns of text as well as tables,
footnotes and endnotes, and includes special fields that can be
included to generate such data as the current date or time. It also
has macros for combining commands and repeating them. Yet even the
advanced features are easy to use for beginners and occasional users.{.Œ}
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This manual you are now reading was put together with Word Fugue, and
the Camera ready copy was printed on a Texas Instruments laser
printer.{.Œ}
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Getting Started{.Œ}
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The instructions in this User's Guide are for a computer with two disk
drives. If your computer has only one disk drive, just change disks
when your computer tells you to. If you have a hard disk, modify the
instructions as appropriate. Whenever this User's Guide says "B:",
substitute "C:" (and a subdirectory name, if necessary).

The notation <Enter> means that you should press the Enter key after
you type the command. The Esc key is the universal cancel key; use it
to cancel Word Fugue commands.

If you have only one disk drive, you should load the program, then
change the disk to the data disk. Word Fugue is a memory editor, so it
loads all the file into memory. However, you will need to copy the
overlay file (WF.OVR) and your chosen Printer Definition File
(????.PDF) to the data disk. If you need help, you will have to copy
the help file (WF.HLP) from the program disk, or swap to the program
disk, before you press the Help key. Checking spelling can also be
done by swapping to the dictionary disk before you start checking
spelling. Remember to swap back to the data disk before you save your
file. If you have a large capacity floppy drive (1.2M or 1.44M) then
you should put all required files on the same disk.

A tutorial is supplied at the back of this manual (Refer to Appendix
A). If you are new to Word Processing, you should go through this
tutorial once you have installed the programs. If you are an
experienced user, you should skim the rest of this manual to get a
feel for the commands and functions, and start using the program.

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Backup Your Disks
.imInstallation
.ix   Backing Up Originals

Word Fugue comes on several disks in compressed format. Look at the
file READ.ME on the Word Fugue program disk for any last minute
changes. The file UPDATE.DOC contains details of any updates to the
program that did not make it into this manual. You can run the program
README.COM that comes on the installation disk to browse the READ.ME
file:

       README  README.1

will display a full screen from the READ.ME file. The arrow keys will
move up and down, as will the page up and page down keys. Press ESC
when you have finished.

To make backup Word Fugue disks:

1. Format blank disks with the DOS FORMAT command. You will need as
   many disks as you received with your package.

2. Place the original Word Fugue program disk in drive A, and the new,
   formatted disk in drive B. Copy all the original Word Fugue files
   to the new disk by typing at the DOS prompt:

   COPY *.* B:  <Enter>

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3. Place the Word Fugue utility disk in drive A, and a new formatted
   disk in drive B. Copy the original files to the new disk by typing
   at the Dos Prompt

   COPY *.* B:  <Enter>

4. Label the backup disks and store the originals in a safe place.

If you have only one floppy disk drive, refer to the manual that came
with your computer for instructions about how to make copies of the
disks.

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Installation

The disks are issued in compressed format, using PKZIP. Installation /
decompression should be automatic - place disk 1 in drive A (or B) and
make that drive the default drive (by typing in A: or B:). Then type
INSTALL, and follow the instructions on screen. On your hard disk you
will need about 1.2M of free space. Once installed, you can save space
by deleting the documentation files, and the Printer Definition Files
that you do not need. If you select to unpack the sample documentation
(a disk version of this manual) you will need about 649K additional
disk space. You probably don't need this, but it give a good example
of how to prepare large documents.

The changes since the manual was printed are documented in the files
UPDATE.??? on the Word Fugue Program disk. The README.1 file on the
first disk details which files are in which ZIP file - you can always
unpack them manually with PKUNZIP (supplied). If you do encounter
problems with installation, please let us know - it is sometimes
difficult to anticipate problems that might be caused by specific
hardware/software configurations. If you do have trouble, you can
always copy the *.ZIP files to your hard disk, and then type in

        PKUNZIP -x filename *.*

where filename is the name of a .ZIP file, and PKUNZIP will extract
the contents. {.Œ}
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Dictionary{.Œ}
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The dictionary that is unpacked automatically contains about 75,000
words, but will fit on a 360k floppy disk. A larger dictionary is
supplied on a separate disk - you will need high density floppies or a
hard disk to utilise it. It contains about 100,000 words. You unpack
it by copying it to your hard disk, along with PKUNZIP.EXE, and typing
in:{.Œ}

        PKUNZIP -x WFBIGLEX *.*{.Œ}
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The small dictionary is called WF_MAIN.LEX, while the large dictionary
has a different name, depending upon which language it is based upon.
We have both Australian, English & American versions of the
dictionary, titled WF_AUS.LEX, WF_UK.LEX & WF_USA.LEX so that you can
keep both on your hard disk. You can select which one you want to use
from the options menu. (Refer to Spell checking for more information).
If you would like to order an additional dictionary - information on
how to order any of them is included in the back of the manual.
Foreign language dictionaries may be available - check with your local
distributor.


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Install On Floppy Disk
.imInstallation
.ix   Floppy Disk

Word Fugue comes in compressed format to save on disks. The
installation program automatically unpacks the compressed files. You
are given the option of unpacking the documentation files or not.

You place the installation disk into your floppy disk drive and make
that the default drive. (If it is drive A then type in A: followed by
Enter, if it is B then type B: followed by Enter). Type in

     INSTALL

and follow the instructions of the installation program. You will be
asked which drive to install to, the directory to install to, and
whether you are updating a previous version. Once you have answered
these questions, the installation program will commence unpacking the
files.Before unpacking each compressed file, the installation program
checks to ascertain whether the destination disk has sufficient room.
If there isn't, you  will be prompted to place a formatted disk in the
destination drive.

Once the unpacking has finished, you will be asked to enter your name
and serial number (which is printed on the original Word Fugue program
disk), and then Word Fugue will be configured with the destination
drive and directory as the default path for its own files.

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At this point, Word Fugue is installed. No matter the size of your
disks, you should be able to run the program. However, read the
discussion below about which files should be where, because you may
like to rearrange the files to suit your purposes better.

High Capacity Drives

If you have a large capacity floppy drive (1.2M or 1.44M) then you can
put all required files on the same disk. Thus if you have 2 floppy
drives, you can have a Word Fugue disk and a data disk. You should
make the drive containing the Word Fugue disk the default, or install
Word Fugue (using Global file options on the menu) to refer to the
appropriate floppy disk.

You need 1 disk for the program files (and a second if you unpack the
documentation files)

3´" Drive

If you have a 720k 3´" drive, you can put the required files onto one
floppy disk:

       WF.EXE{.Œ}
       WF.OVR{.Œ}
       WF.HLP{.Œ}
       *.MAC{.Œ}
       WF.RLR{.Œ}
       WF_MAIN.LEX{.Œ}
       your choice of Printer Definition File (.PDF){.Œ}

To run the installation program, you will need a separate disk
containing only{.Œ}
       WFINST.EXE{.Œ}
       WF.EXE{.Œ}
       WF.TXT{.Œ}
and copy the reinstalled WF.EXE & WF.HLP to your working disk.{.Œ}

You need 2 disks for the program files, and a third for the
documentation files.

360k Floppies

If you have only 360k floppies, you need 4 disks for the program
files, and another 2 for the documentation. Once you have unpacked the
files, you will need to rearrange them to suit your needs better:

  Disk 1
       WF.OVR
       WF.HLP
       *.MAC
       WF.RLR
       your choice of Printer Definition File (.PDF)

This goes in Drive A:, which must be the default drive.

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  Disk 2 contains
       WF.EXE
       your data files

This goes into drive B:

  Disk 3 contains
       WF_MAIN.LEX

You start Word fugue by typing B:WF, and because drive A is the
default, it will find the overlay file. You MUST install the Home
directory (see your manual Chapter 2 for more information) as drive B,
since WF will look there for the Dictionary during spell checking. You
MUST also turn Autosave OFF (otherwise Word Fugue could save your data
to your dictionary disk)

For spell checking, you will remove disk 2 from drive B and replace it
with disk 3. While this disk is in drive B, you will not be able to
Save the WF configuration, since it will need to find WF.EXE

Remember to remove the dictionary disk and replace your data disk
before you save and print your file.


An alternative is to copy the overlay file (WF.OVR) and the help file
(WF.HLP) to a ram disk. You will still need a startup disk, but you
can leave it in drive A until you wish to spell check your document,
whereupon you will need to replace it with the dictionary disk.

If you have only one floppy disk, you will need a data disk with the
overlay file (WF.OVR) on it, and the printer definition file (???.PDF)
on it, and swap this disk in whenever you want to save the file or
print it. (It must be saved to print). Since Word Fugue works on the
file in memory, once you have read in the file, you can swap the data
disk out and either the dictionary disk or the system disk back in. If
you wish to be able to utilise the help command, then the help file
must also be on each disk. You may find that you have to set up a ram
disk as described in the previous paragraph, and swap your startup
disk for your data disk or your dictionary disk as required.

You may wish to configure your program to make it easier for you to
use. Refer to Chapter 2 for more information on this.

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.tc    Install on Hard Disk ...............................#
Install On Hard Disk
.ix   Hard Disk

Word Fugue comes in compressed format to save on disks. The
installation program automatically unpacks the compressed files. You
place the installation disk into your floppy disk drive and make that
the default drive. (If it is drive A then type in A: followed by
Enter, if it is B then type B: followed by Enter). Type in

     INSTALL

and follow the instructions of the installation program. You will be
asked which drive to install to, the directory to install to, and
whether you are updating a previous version. Once you have answered
these questions, the installation program commences to unpack the
files. You will see the list of installed files scroll up the screen.

Once the unpacking has finished, you will be asked to enter your name
and serial number, and then Word Fugue will be configured with the
destination drive and directory as the default path for its own files.

At this point, Word Fugue is installed. You may wish to configure your
program to make it easier for you to use. Refer to Chapter 2 for more
information on this.

Be sure to include the directory name in your PATH statement. (Refer
to the DOS manual that came with your computer if you are unsure about
this.)

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.tc    Partial Installation ...............................#
Partial Installation
.ix   Partial

The compressed files are in the industry standard PKZIP format, and
can be unpacked by PKUNZIP.EXE, a copy of which is supplied on your
disks. To extract a single file, you would type

      PKUNZIP -x ZIPFILE filename

where ZIPFILE is the name of the compressed file which contains the
              file you want (refer to the readme file for a list of
              files in each compressed file)
      filename is the name of the actual file you want to extract.

Running PKUNZIP without any parameters will display a help screen.

  PKUNZIP is shareware from   PKWARE
                              7545 N. Port Washington Rd.
                              Glendale  WI 53217
                              USA

                              Registration is $25


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.tc    DesqView Users .....................................#
.ix   DesqView
DesqView Users

Word Fugue runs under DesqView from Quarterdeck systems. Refer to
Appendix E for more information on how to set up Desqview to work with
Word Fugue.


.tc    Windows Users ......................................#
.ix   Windows
Windows Users

Word Fugue works well with all of Window's modes (Real, Standard & 386
Enhanced). Refer to Appendix E for more information on how to set up
Windows to work with Word Fugue.

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.TC    About Word Fugue....................................#
About Word Fugue

.ixStatus Line;Status Line
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As you edit, the top lines of the screen normally display the Status
Lines. It looks like this:

        

        <F10> for Menus, <F1> for Help, <AltX> to Save & Exit                   09:58:58
        >Z< ˛MANUAL.DOC    53%  Line 40:37 Col 3  Page 5  Ins Indent Wrap Just Tbl R >P<
        L---+---!1----+-!--2----!----3--!-+----4!---+---!5----+-!--6----!----R----+----8
        


                        Fig 1.1 - Status Lines
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The top line is reserved for messages.

The third line is the ruler line which can be turned off. Refer to
Chapter 10 for more information on Ruler Lines.

The second line is the status line proper. Not all the fields will
appear:

  Z           only shows if this window is Zoomed - that is, it is set
              to cover the entire screen,regardless of the number of
              windows open. If you only have one window open, you will
              normally not see this field.

  MANUAL.DOC  This is the name of the file you are editing. You will
              not see MANUAL.DOC unless you are editing a file called
              that.

   ˛          This only shows if the file has been modified.

   Line       This indicates the position of the cursor. The figure
              before the colon (':') is the line number, while the figure
              after the colon is the character position in the line.

  Ins         This shows that you are in INsert mode.
  Ovr         This shows when you are in overwrite mode.

  Wrap        This indicates that Word Wrap is on. Text you
  Para        type will be wrapped around to the next line when you
              type beyond the boundaries of the current line. If this
              status display is blank, the line will not wrap unless
              you press return. If it shows PARA then the text will
              automatically reformat as you type, while if it shows
              WRAP, you will have to use the paragraph reformat
              command if you wish to have the paragraph reformatted.

  Just        This shows  that the text  you are typing  will be right
              justified, that is the right hand side will line up with
              the right  margin, and extra spaces  will be inserted to
              make the  margins even. This paragraph  is an example of
              Right Justification, while all  the other paragraphs are
              not justified. If JUST does  not show then text will not
              be justified when it is wrapped or reformatted.

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  Page        This indicates the page number of the document you are
              processing. It will not show unless pagination is on
              (refer to Page Breaks). When Page breaks are on, the
              line number shown is the line number within the page,
              otherwise it is the line number from the start of the
              file.

  Col nn      This indicates the column number of the document you are
              editing. It will only appear if you have set up Snaking
              Columns of Text.

  Tbl I       This shows whether or not you are in Column Mode or
  Tbl R       Column replace mode. Refer to Column mode for more
              information. These modes are used for tables, and
              defining columnar blocks of text.


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If Word Fugue needs information from you, it prompts you by opening a
window for you to enter information into. The information you provide
is the response. Prompts appear in response to certain editing
commands:

˛  Some prompts require that you press a single key.

˛  For other prompts, you respond by typing a file name or other text.

The first time most prompts of this type appear, there is a blank
response. When you change the response, it stays in the computer's
memory until you change it again or exit the program. There are three
ways to respond to this kind of prompt:

˛  You can press the Enter key to use the current response if there
   is one.

˛  You can type a new response, then press Enter. The cursor is
   located at the first character of the current response; as you
   begin to type, the current response disappears. Press the Enter
   key when you are done typing.

˛  You can edit the current response. Move the cursor past the first
   character in and begin to edit, or delete the first character
   with the Del key, then edit. Press Enter when you're done.

.IMPulldown Menu
.ix   Activating
You can enter editing commands directly from the keyboard, or use one
of Word Fugue's menus to help you. There are eight menus, plus the
Quit and Help options.

To bring up the Main Menu:

˛  Press Function key F10

You will see the ruler line and status line and first line of text
disappear, and the top level of the pull down menus will appear in
their place.

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To bring up the Second Level Menu:

˛  Press the letter corresponding to the Capital letter in the
   keyword or use the arrow keys to highlight the keyword, and press
   enter

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To select an option from one of the pulldown menus:

˛  Press the letter corresponding to the Capital letter in the keyword
   or use the arrow keys to highlight the keyword, and press enter

To return to the previous level Menu:

˛  Press Esc.

To access the Help screens:

˛  Press F1 once. This will work both from the main edit window and
   from the pulldown menus. The help displayed is context sensitive.

˛  Move through the help screens by means of the PgUp and PgDn keys.
   To return to the previous level, press Esc.

You perform most of the Word Fugue editing commands by pressing
combinations or sequences of keys. If a command requires a combination
of keys, they are shown in this manual as a unit. For instance, Ctrl
F1 means you press the Ctrl key and hold it while you press the F1
key. If a command requires a sequence of keys, they are shown in this
manual following each other. For instance, Ctrl Q then R means that
you press the Ctrl key and hold it while pressing the Q key, let it
up, then press the R key.

Word Fugue edits entirely in memory. This makes for fast processing,
but it can restrict you if you have only a small amount of memory. You
can edit as large a file as will fit in memory, and this has
advantages if your disk becomes too full, or if you are working from
floppies only, since you can remove your data disk and replace it with
another.

To save a file when the disk is full:

1. Remove the full disk and replace it with one that has enough room.

2. Try the save again.

                        ***

        If you are new to Word Processing, refer to the Tutorial in
        appendix A, and go through it using Word Fugue.


        If you already know about Word Processing, but you want to use
        some of the more advanced features, you should read the
        appropriate chapters, as well as refer to Appendix C for some
        examples of how to use some of the more advanced features.{.Œ}