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;;06-13-85
OUTLN.DOC v1.1
07/24/85
Eric Gans
French Dep't UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Version 1.1 update:
Added skip-line toggle, force blank spaces; corrected a couple of
messages.
In these days of the "outline-processors" KAMAS and the
public-domain TOUR, a friend showed me an older program called
OUTLINE that has no fancy command-structure but is all the easier
to use. Instead of trying (and probably failing) to be its own
word-processor, it processes Wordstar source files of any length
that you create using commands that can be learned in about 30
seconds. The result of the processing is an outline in Wordstar
DOC mode that can itself be edited directly. A great little
program, but with a couple of drawbacks:
1. Allows only four outline levels, with no "0" level for
ordinary text.
2. Limited number of entries at each level (39 for level 1,
26 for level 2, etc.)
2. The right margin cannot be more than 80 (although
printers in compressed mode can handle 120).
3. The file takes up 16K on disk and, although not slow,
could be a lot faster. (It uses so many PUSH's, POP's and DAD
SP's that it must have been written in Forth.)
OUTLN is a Z80 version of OUTLINE with the following
improvements:
1. Allows 8 outline levels plus a "zero" level for straight
text.
2. Allows right margins from 50-255
3. Creates a BAK file from your source (if you use the same
name for source and destination); this can be disabled with a
switch.
4. Occupies only 13 sectors (1.5 K) and is quite fast (30
seconds for an 80K source file).
Format: outln sourcefile [destfile] [/switches]
If no destfile given, the same name will be used and the source
filename changed to fn.BAK.
Switches:
B = no BAK file. (Use only if destfile name not entered.)
L = don't skip extra lines between headings (default will skip 1
line before headings @2-@8 and 2 before @0 and @1; with the L
switch you skip one line before @0 and @1 and none otherwise)
Mnn = Set right margin to nn. 50 <= nn <= 255. The default
margin is 65, as in WS.
The switches can be entered together in any order: /bm100 or
/m100bl is acceptable
Command structure:
The outline levels (0-8) are entered following an "@". They
may appear at any point in the text, although it is simpler to
put them in the left margin. The outline remains in the order
entered and is indented and numbered according to the level:
@0 = text (flush left margin)
@1 = roman caps I-CCLV = 255
@2 = Caps A-Z The 27th @2 will produce A & will continue to wrap
around until 255 letters have been reached.
@3 = Numbers 1-255
@4 = l.c. a-z as in @2
@5 = roman l.c. i-cclv as in @1
@6 = (Caps) (A)-(Z) as in @2
@7 = (Numbers) (1)-(255) as in @3
@8 = (l.c.) (a)-(z) as in @5
@l or @L = skip line toggle. Switches between skip-line and no
skip modes (see "L" switch description) within the file, allowing
you to close up or spread out the outline at different points.
Spaces, crlf's and "soft" hyphens will be compressed to a single
space when the outline is output. To force spaces (in formatting
tables, etc.), use the underline character "_" This will only
work within the predefined margins.
For either "@" or "_" as a literal, precede it by @: "@_@_@_"
will produce "___"
Thus:
@1 OUTLN
@2 ease of operation
@3 small size
@3 simple command structure
@4 single format
@4 follows text order
@3 speed
@2 flexibility
@3 allows direct entry using WS @l
@3 allows files of any length @l
@3 margins 50-255
@4 to format: 123 456
@4 use:_______123_____456
would appear (with the /l switch) as:
I. OUTLN
A. ease of operation
1. small size
2. simple command structure
a. single format
b. follows text order
3. speed
B. flexibility
1. allows direct entry using WS
2. allows files of any length
3. margins 50-255
a. to format: 123 456
b. use: 123 456
Notes:
If you want to edit the outline with WS, you should reset the
right margin with ^OR if you used the "M" switch. OUTLN does
nothing about page breaks since WS creates its own and kills any
others already in the file (i.e., converts 8ah to 0ah) on editing
or printing.
Like OUTLINE, OUTLN give you total freedom in changing levels.
You can mix them in any order, although of course the traditional
format moves downward 1 level at a time and never permits a
single entry at any level (e.g., no "A" without a "B"). It
seemed counterproductive to waste code on error checking when it
might just be useful in some application to jump from level 1 to
level 5 ... and in any case, the program is simple enough so that
you will have no difficulty in applying these constraints
yourself.
The enhancements of v1.1 were made at the suggestion of Dick
Sheresh of Chula Vista CA. If you have other suggestions for
additional features/corrections I will do my best to include them
in a future version.