This document contains the first four pages of the user guide's reference chapter and Clearlook's on-line help.
This example shows:
1. Use of cellular structures for indentation
2. Use of styles
3. Creation of a table-of-content by merge
4. Creation of an index by merge
Table of Content:
All headers use the style header 1 or header 2. To view the styles, press Ctrl+S. To view a style's definition, press Ctrl after selecting the style. The styles header 1 and header 2 set the field Marking to Content. This causes all headers to have the data-marking attribute Content.
Use the function Tools | Merge to create a table-of-content. After activating the function, select the merge format CONTENT.CTX. A new, unnamed document containing all headers with page numbers is created. Modify the merge format CONTENT.CTX to adapt the output to your needs.
Index:
In this example indexing information is written next to the headers. All index words use style index. The style index sets field Marking to Index and field Lining to NO PRINT. This causes all index words to have the data-marking attribute Index. The no-print setting allows the insertion of index words as needed for the index independent of the document's text.
Use the function Tools | Merge to create an index. After activating the function, select the merge format INDEX.CTX. A new, unnamed document containing all index entries with page numbers is created. INDEX.CTX contains merge defines (accessed with the function Tools | Defines) to automatically sort the index words and merge duplicates while conserving page number information.:
Introduction
Clearlook is a word processor designed exclusively for OS/2 Presentation Manager making wide use of OS/2's 32-bit architecture and multithreading capabilities. Clearlook's unique concept for structuring text documents allows the user to interact intuitively with powerful text objects.
The history of Clearlook: Clearlook's leading designers have created custom made word processors for DOS since the early eighties. Years of careful observation of users' needs and intuitive responses were carefully coded to produce a series of evolving word processors that fulfilled the various specifications of Administrations and international organizations. When 32-bit OS/2 became available in 1992 the existing word processor was transferred to OS/2, but the designers were not content with the result. They decided to rewrite the word processor from scratch, blending a decade of experience creating word processors with the extraordinary capabilities of the new OS/2.
Related information:
Status Window
Word Processor
Containers
Objects
Status Window status window
The status window is primarily a container for text documents and one or multiple thesaurus objects. It also contains an object representing Clearlook's internal window list and setup window.
Every opened document appears as an icon in the status window. Using the container's pop-up menus you can create additional objects and set them for a variety of functions:
Create Document (from templates)
Open Document
Status Window Menu Functions
Window List window list
Clearlook's internal window list shows all open documents and service windows in decreasing order of their last access. The active window is listed on top, the previously active window below, and so on. Pressing Enter or double-clicking activates any window displayed in the list.
Related information:
Switching Between Windows
Switching Between Windows switching between windows
In document windows: Press F10 to switch to the status window at any time. By activating an object, the corresponding window receives the focus and is moved to the top.
In all windows: Clearlook maintains an internal window list, showing all open windows in decreasing sequence of their last access. Activate any Clearlook window through this window list. You can also use the following key combinations to switch between windows:
Keys Alt+2: Previously active window
Keys Alt+3: Third last active window
.........
Keys Alt+9: Ninth last active window
Keys Alt+0: Origin window
Create Document create document (from template) document, create status window
Create a new, unnamed document with a default format and font using the status window's Text | New menu function.
Set up document templates to customize format and predefined text. To use templates, create an object in the status window. In the setup dialog of this object, set the object's function to new (create object) and enter the path where the templates reside. Title this object Create Text.
To create a new document, go to the status window and activate the object named Create Text. A list of all the document templates is presented. After choosing one, a new text document is created from the template.
Related information:
Objects
Word Processor
Status Window Object Setup
Open Document open document document, open status window
Open text documents by using the status window's menu function Text | Open.
To frequently access documents in a particular directory, you can create an object in the status window. In the setup dialog of this object, set the object's function to open (open object) and enter a directory path you want to access. Title the object Open Text.
To access a document in that directory, go to the status window and activate the object named Open Text. A list of all the documents in the directory is presented.
Related information:
Objects
Word Processor
Status Window Object Setup
Document Templates document templates templates status window
To create a document in a specific format, containing your logo or other preset features, use the document template function. A template is a document automatically copied into a new document. To use this feature, create a new document and pattern it as you want your template to look. Save this document, preferably in a specific directory for all templates, as for example, in a directory \TEMPLATE.
To access the template, place a text object in the status window and configure it to create new documents. Whenever this text object is activated, the system displays a list of templates or a specified template to create your document.
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