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THE KIRK EDITOR
Wordprocessor (PD)
Available on WACCI Homegrown Disc No.10
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Way back in time when I did not know a nibble from a byte, (I still don't if the
truth is known), I came across and used for quite a long time a PD wordprocessor
called "The Kirk Editor". This W/P was written by Alan Sharp, who, at one time I
believe, was a minister in the Church of Scotland, hence the name. So here is a
small insight into this very good programme.
On running a file called DISC.BAS, (of course), you are presented with a 10 line
option screen which is mostly taken up with various Doc files and the option of
running the programme from there.
First of all it uses the second bank of memory to hold most of the programmes
code and has about 28k available for text. The top 19 lines are where you type
in your masterpiece. Below this is the ruler line with margin settings and
column numbers. Below this is a summary of all the commands available. You can
switch this off giving 23 lines of text if needed. Most key presses are the same
as Tasword, there should be none of the usual moans about non standard commands,
whatever they may be.
You can reformat the text, move it right or left. <CTRL DEL> deletes a line and
this can be undeleted by <CTRL @>. This is similar to Brunword, the cursor will
take up a word, a sentence, or even a paragraph and reissue it wherever you want
it. The BLOCK command will move any number of lines up to 100. One of the most
interesting commands is sideways. This will take the marked block and place it
at the cursor position, in the same line and column. All text left of the cursor
is unchanged but everything right of the cursor, for the length of the block, is
overwritten. So you can easily produce two columns side by side.
There is a search facility, where the programme will search for a string, and if
needed, will replace it with another string. With the MACRO keys it is possible
to store a sequence of up to 40 key presses on a single function key, provided
there is room in the key buffer, (200 bytes). These are saved with the notepads
and printer codes.
When the printer commands are on screen you choose which letter you want for
what function; ie "N" for NLQ and "n" for NLQ off. You can toggle the character
under the cursor - lower case to upper case and vice versa. There is a pop up
calculator to total your figures and do all your sums.
Tab settings - (16), word count and copy cursor. There are two sets of printer
codes stored, the DMP2000, Epson set - printer 1 and a set for a Brother daisy
wheel - printer 2. There is another option - 3 - not shown. this double strikes
every line on a daisy wheel printer so you can cut duplicator stencils. There is
a command "F" this prints out text in personal organiser size pages ready to cut
and punch, and put in your oversize diary, if you still have one.
The Doc. file states the author would install Printmaster from Siren Software,
(which he evidently wrote) into the programme to give more fonts. Unfortunately
Alan Sharp can't be found so that seems to be that.
The loading of files is probably the most interesting. It is possible to say how
many lines you require loading each time. This enables you to load quite large
text files such as the Scrivener Doc. file, which I believe is around 113k. You
specify ,say, lines 1 to 200. The programme will then load the first 200 lines.
After you've edited it and saved it, you then specify load lines 201 to 400 etc.
I don't think any of the commercial W/P's can do this quite as easily.
It is also possible to catalogue a disc, read a file without loading it, erase,
rename, change drive, and change printer codes. There are two notepads which
store 6 and 10 lines of text, for letter headings, etc. Z - formats a disc as
data, A: drive only.
Although the programme's written in basic it's reasonably fast owing to the fast
screen printing with the programme Xline.Bas incorporated in the programme.
And that's about it. For anybody who may not be able to afford a commercial WP
programme or, indeed, anyone who just requires a good WP, Kirk Editor would fill
the gap admirably.
Ray Neal
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