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- MARKING AREAS
-
- There are six different Marking commands in PC-TYPE+. Three of them
- are specifically oriented toward character graphics, but may be useful
- when performing text functions as well.
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- ALL MARKING COMMANDS ARE CANCELLED with the AltU (Unmark) keystroke.
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- All functions performed on marked areas will cause the marks to be
- cancelled at the completion of the command with the exception of Copy
- functions. The marking will remain in effect for copying so that if
- you want to copy a marked area in more than one location you will not
- have to go back and remark the area.
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-
- Press the PgDn Key
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- MARKING AREAS (continued)
-
- A Marking command is considered to be completed after the second mark
- is issued, although many commands will work with only one mark, and
- you may adjust your marks after the second mark has been made. The
- first mark will cause a letter signifying the type of marking to blink
- on the Command Line. The second mark will stop the blinking. AltU
- will remove the character from the Command Line.
-
- Should you forget what the different marking commands are, you may
- refresh you memory by looking at HELP panel D (F1 then D), or by using
- the BLOCKING FUNCTIONS menu by pressing first F7 and then F1 (Marking
- Areas).
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- PARAGRAPH MARKING (AltL)
-
- AltL (for Line) is the most common type of marking. The first marking
- stroke will mark an entire line. The second marking stroke (on
- another line) will mark all the lines between and including the first
- and second marks.
-
- Move the cursor to this line and press AltL. Notice the blinking
- "P" on the command line. Then move the cursor to the bottom of this
- paragraph and press AltL again. Notice that the "P" stops blinking.
- The "paragraph" has now been marked and is ready for some other
- command such as AltR (reformat), AltC (copy), AltM (move) etc. Now
- move the cursor above the line beginning 'The "paragraph" has ..' and
- press AltL again. As you can see, you may adjust the marking if you
- missed the first time.
-
- Now press AltU and notice that the marking disappears as well as the
- "P" on the Command Line.
- Press the PgDn Key
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- SENTENCE MARKING (CtrlL)
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- If you only want to move or copy (for example), one sentence in a
- paragraph, you may use the CtrlL command. Move the cursor to the "M"
- at the beginning of this sentence and press CtrlL and then move the
- cursor to the period at the end of this sentence and press CtrlL
- again.
-
- Notice that in this case the letter "S" blinks on the Command Line
- with the first CtrlL and stops blinking with the second. Now modify
- your mark by moving the cursor to the end of the word "beginning" in
- the marked area and press CtrL again. You have now modified your
- marked area. Press AltU to remove the Sentence type marking.
-
- This command is particularly useful with CtrlM and CtrlC to move a
- sentence from one paragraph to a particular location in another
- paragraph.
-
- Press the PgDn Key
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- MARKING BLOCKS (CtrlB)
-
- CtrlB is the most versatile of all the marking commands, and the more
- advanced PC-TYPE+ functions normally use this type of marking. You
- may use this type of marking instead of all the character graphic
- marking types described below if you wish - however you will then have
- to perform an additional keystroke to perform the desired function.
-
- (*) Move the cursor to the asterisk at the left and press CtrlB.
- Notice that the letter "B" is blinking on the Command Line. Move the
- cursor three characters to the right and press CtrlC. Notice that you
- can copy (or move) one character in this fashion. Now move the cursor
- to the asterisk to the right (*) and press CtrlB again. You have now
- marked a block and and the "B" on the Command Line has stopped
- blinking.
-
- Move the cursor to the letter B in the marked area and press CtrlB to
- redefine the marking. Press AltU.
- Press the PgDn Key
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- MARKING AREAS for CHARACTER GRAPHICS (Alt[, AltE, and AltF)
-
- (Alt[, AltE and AltF mentioned below are described in the HELP file
- SPCL_CHR).
- BOXES and LINES (Alt[)
-
- These three marking commands cause the desired function to happen
- immediately upon receipt of the second mark. Move the cursor to the
- asterisk (*)
- and press Alt[. Notice the character "[" is blinking on
- the command line. Now move the cursor to the second asterisk and
- press Alt[ again. Notice that the box was drawn immediately.
- (*)
- (You could alternately have marked the asterisks with CtlB's and then
- pressed Ctrl[ with the same end result). If the two marks are in the
- same row or in the same column, they mark where a line is to be drawn.
- You select your line character from a set of characters by moving the
- cursor to the character and pressing F10. Try to draw a line.
- Press the PgDn Key
-
- ERASING BOXES AND LINES (AltE)
-
- Go back to the previous screen and mark the upper left corner of your
- box with AltE and the lower right corner of your box with another
- AltE. Then return here. If you noticed, the letter "E" was blinking
- on the Command Line after you pressed your first AltE. (You could
- alternately have marked the corners with CtlB's and then pressed CtrlE
- for the same end result).
-
- AltE will remove lines the same way. Actually, if you press AltE
- twice on the same line or on the same column in a text area, it will
- remove the text on that line or column as well.
-
- AltE works in a special way on the special box and lines characters.
- Move the cursor to each asterisk below and press AltE and notice the
- result.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- MARK AREAS TO BE FILLED (AltF)
-
- There is a special character in PC-TYPE+ called the Fill Character
- which you select by pressing AltG, moving the cursor to the desired
- character, and then pressing F10. Do this and select the character.
- Notice the character appears on the Command Line. Now move the cursor
- to the two asterisks below and press AltF at each asterisk.
-
- * Notice the area is immediately filled with the selected
- character. If such a character does not appear on the
- Command Line, then the Space character is selected. You
- could use this feature to erase an area with any
- * contents without disturbing your columns and rows.
-
- The same end result could have been accomplished by marking the two
- asterisks with CtrlB's and then pressing CtrlF.
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- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu
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