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- GALAXY LITE Version 1.0
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- Spelling Checker
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- Press ^K^L, or select Spell check from the Block menu to begin
- checking the spelling of your document. If there is a block
- marked, the spell check will cover the marked block only. If no
- block is marked, checking will begin at the cursor position.
-
- If you press any key during a spell check, you will be asked if
- you wish to abort the spelling check.
-
- When GALAXY LITE encounters a word not in its dictionary, you will
- be shown a menu of possible corrective actions:
-
- Skip once
- ---------
- Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for
- now.
-
- Ignore for this document
- ------------------------
- Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for
- the rest of the spelling check. Useful for proper names,
- etc.
-
- List soundalike words
- ---------------------
- Show a menu of possible replacement words for the unknown
- word. Highlight the correct word and press ENTER to correct
- the misspelled word.
-
- GALAXY LITE uses a technique called soundex to build the list
- of replacement words. If the misspelled word is phonetically
- close to the correct spelling, GALAXY will almost always
- suggest the correct spelling as the first choice in the list.
- If you have transposed letters GALAXY will sometimes be unable
- to suggest meaningful alternatives.
-
- When replacing a word in your document, GALAXY LITE will
- attempt to match the capitalization as follows: If the
- misspelled word is all lower or all upper case, the replacement
- word will be all lower or all upper case. If the misspelled
- word is mixed upper and lower case, the replacement word will
- have its first letter capitalized, and the rest of the word
- will be lower case.
-
- Edit from keyboard
- ------------------
- You will be prompted to type in the correct spelling. After
- you have retyped the word, GALAXY LITE will check the spelling
- again.
-
- Add to dictionary
- -----------------
- If this is a word that will appear often in your documents
- (your company's name, for example), you can add the word to
- your auxiliary dictionary.
-
- GALAXY LITE uses four dictionaries:
-
- An internal list of 500 common words.
-
- GALAUX.DIC: Your auxiliary dictionary. An ASCII file, one
- uppercase word per line, with a leading and trailing space.
- Created automatically when you choose "Add to dictionary"
- during a spelling check. This dictionary is held in memory
- during the spelling check and will not be loaded if there is
- less than 20K of free memory.
-
- GALRAM.DIC: An ASCII file containing approximately 3000 of
- the most common words in the English language. This
- dictionary is held in memory during the spelling check, and
- will not be loaded if there is less than 48K of free memory.
- The spelling check will operate correctly with or without
- the RAM dictionary, but not as quickly.
-
- GALMAIN.DIC: The main dictionary file, approximately 45,000
- words (10,000 words in the Evaluation Version) , compressed.
-
-
- Mouse support
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- If you have a mouse installed and have run MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS
- prior to loading GALAXY LITE, you will see a mouse cursor in the
- upper left corner of the screen.
-
- You can enter the pulldown menus by pressing any mouse button on
- either the status line or the top ruler line.
-
- There are two ways to use the mouse in the menu system:
-
- In the first method, you "click" (press and release the
- mouse button) on line one or line two of the screen. The
- menubar appears on screen, in the same manner it does when
- you press F10. You then can click on any of the top level
- menu items to pull down the submenu. This will happen as if
- you pressed the first letter of the main menu item. You can
- then click on a submenu item to select it. To leave the
- menu system, just click anywhere outside the displayed menu.
-
- In the second method, rather than clicking, you "drag"
- (press the mouse button but don't release it) the mouse
- cursor to the menu item you want. As the mouse cursor
- passes over a menu item, the submenu below it automatically
- pulls down. As you drag the mouse cursor down a submenu,
- the submenu choice under the mouse cursor will be
- highlighted. To select a submenu item, release the mouse
- button when the selection you want is highlighted. To leave
- the menu system, just release the mouse button anywhere
- outside the displayed menu.
-
- Clicking anywhere in the text window will move the cursor to that
- position. You can change from one window to another simply by
- clicking the mouse in the other window.
-
- In the Defaults menu you can choose whether or not to display a
- scroll bar on the right hand side of the text window. The scroll
- bar has an "elevator" which shows your relative position in the
- file. Dragging the elevator to a new position is similar to
- issuing a Go To Line command. For example, if you drag the
- elevator to roughly the middle of the scroll bar while editing a
- 1000 line file, the current line will be changed to approximately
- line 500.
-
- Clicking anywhere between the up arrow mark and the elevator is
- treated the same as the Page Up command, and clicking anywhere
- between the elevator and the down arrow mark is the same as the
- Page Down command. Clicking on the up arrow mark or down arrow
- mark is the treated the same as if you pressed the up or down
- arrow key. Leave the mouse button down in any of these cases to
- scroll continuously.
-
-
- Print options
- -------------
- You can now designate a starting and stopping range of pages to
- print. Default setting is to start with Page 1 and stop with Page
- 1000. To print a single page, enter the same page number for both
- the start and stop page. Note: if the top and bottom margin are
- set to zero GALAXY LITE does not keep track of pages, and the
- entire document will print.
-
- You can specify LPT1, LPT2, or FILE as the device to print to.
- For FILE, you will be asked the name of the file to print to. If
- you name an existing file you will be asked to confirm overwriting
- the file.
-
-
- Other changes
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- Reformat and word wrap now compensate for any print formatting
- characters in the line.
-
- Home key positions cursor at Left margin, not column 1.
-
- Alt-F3 will convert a WordStar file to ASCII. Although GALAXY
- LITE can read, edit, and save a WordStar file with no problems,
- the search and spell check routines only work on ASCII files.
-
- Corrected problem finding GALITE.INI and GLITE.MSG support files
- when a default data directory was set.
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- Starlite Software Co. P.O. Box 370, Port Hadlock, WA 98339. (800)
- 767-9611 Orders. (206) 385-9611 Information Fax, (206) 385 9612
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