¢DTP Atari8¢¢Part 4¢¢By Eric Bemrose¢¢¢ In 1990 Roy Goldman released the third, and so far final, version of his Daisy Dot text processing program, containing some major improvements.¢¢ Daisy Dot III (DD III from now on) is currently available in two versions, a freely available PD release with restricted features, and a full version available from the author in return for a $25 donation.¢¢ The PD version can only use one font per document, it is only partially compatible with SpartaDOS X, and comes with eleven fonts and only eight pages of basic documentation. This is not in DD III format and should be printed from DOS. The registered version is unrestricted, has a fifty page printed manual and comes with fifty DD III fonts.¢¢ DD III has many features, including centering, block right, justification, full tab support with dot leaders, hanging indents, underlining, vertical and horizontal magnification, italics, controllable character spacing and line spacing, support for different paper sizes, headers and footers, page numbering, file chaining, multiple copies, printing a range of pages, redirected output, command line support with SpartaDOS, and more!¢¢ The program needs a minimum of 48k to run, and will support any graphics capable Epson or compatible, Star Gemini 10X/SG10, BlueChip/Mannesmann Spirit, Atari XMM801, or C.Itoh Prowriter.¢¢ As usual a text file must be prepared before anything can be printed. This time however, all formatting is handled by the program. This means that there is no need to print to disk to create a pre-formatted document as previously required. All commands used by your word processor should be ignored in favour of those used by DD III, the document can then be saved as normal.¢¢ The new print processor comes with an auxiliary program that allows the processor to be customised to your personal requirements. Although the processor can still use the existing Daisy Dot fonts, this version supports a new, larger, more detailed font format, created with a new improved font editor. Please note that DD II size fonts created, or edited, with this editor will not run with DD II. The font editor is also provided with a customising program.¢¢ The font utilities package offers a magnifier, which can expand a font up to one inch square, an italiciser, and a convertor, which will convert standard Atari fonts into the DD III format.¢¢ If you want to see what DD III is capable of in action, I would suggest you look at a copy of the TWAUG newsletter, this is created using DD III and is an excellent example of its use.¢¢ The TWAUG PD library contains the PD version of DD III as well as a comprehensive ten disk user guide, written by Dave Richardson, and endorsed by Roy Goldman. The guide was reviewed in the first three editions of the newsletter. The guide also contains 59 new fonts, some of which contain graphics in the form of converted Print Shop Icons and Micropainter pictures. The conversion programs are also included. If you have DD III then this user guide will help you to get the best from it.¢¢¢Contact addresses:¢¢TWAUG,¢PO Box 8,¢Wallsend,¢Tyne & Wear NE28 6DQ,¢UK.¢¢Roy Goldman,¢2440 South Jasmine,¢Denver,¢Colorado 80222,¢USA.¢
