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- WORD FUGUE
-
- About The Program
-
- 1. This is a heavy duty Word Processing Program intended for a wide
- variety of word processing and editing tasks. As installed, it is
- ideal for the touch typist - there is no need to take your hands
- off the home row to activate any of the functions.
-
- 2. The keyboard commands are fully configurable from an installation
- program. Many of the options are also configurable from inside the
- program. As supplied, it comes installed with a WordstarTM
- compatible interface.
-
- 3. The word processor document files are ascii text files, which
- means that there are no funny embedded characters (unless you use
- the print control sequences) and no hi order bits set on. The
- files are WordstarTM compatible, which means that you can load
- them into any wordprocessor that reads Wordstar files. Apart from
- printer control strings, all formatting commands are by use of dot
- commands (. in column one) or embedded functions ({. }) in the
- text body.
-
- 4. There are up to 8 editing windows, which can look at different
- files or the same file.
-
- 5. The program is easy to learn, since it comes with context
- sensitive help available at the press of the F1 key.
-
- 6. The program comes supplied with industry standard Pull Down Menus
- to make learning it even easier. The point and select usage means
- that touch typists do not need to lift their hands from the home
- row. In addition, each command on the pull down menu can
- optionally display the command sequence needed to activate it.
-
- 7. Printer support includes laser printers. It is easy to customize
- the printer drivers.
-
- 8. The program comes with a 100,000 word dictionary (registered users
- only) and an update program that will add or delete words from the
- dictionary.
-
- 9. The program can generate indexes and tables of contents.
-
- 10. The program comes with macro facilities, the ability to record
- keystrokes, and a number of macro files for additional
- flexability.
-
- 11. Printing can include other files, which can in turn include other
- files, up to 5 levels of nesting. This means that even the biggest
- novel or research paper can be easily managed.
-
- 12. Automatic reformatting of text is available.
-
- 13. Newspaper style columns are supported, as is word wrap and
- justification of each column independently. Column mode blocks can
- be defined and copied, moved or deleted.
-
- 14. Comprehensive monitor support - MONO, CGA, EGA or VGA or HERCULES.
-
- 15. DOS shell is supplied to permit use of all DOS commands from
- within the program.
-
- 16. A pop up calculator with 16 functions is included. The calculation
- result can be pasted into your text.
-
- 17. The program comes with support for box and line drawing, with
- these characters available at the press of a key. Load the macro
- files SINGLE.MAC for single lines and DOUBLE.MAC for double lines.
-
- 18. Optional on screen display of fonts is also available. You can
- edit text with this mode operating (unlike wordstar).
-
- 19. Printing can have multiple headers and footers, and these can
- include functions such as current date or time. These functions
- are also available within the text body.
-
- 20. Hundreds of other sophisticated features like insertion of current
- date or time (in different formats), the ability to mark changed
- text in the left hand margin, offset page number on odd or even
- pages and so on.
-
- 21. The installed command make it perfect for Lap tops, while the
- cursor can be changed to a hard block of color where it is
- ordinarily hard to see.
-
- Files on the disks
-
- Disk 1 - Word Fugue System Disk
- WF.EXE - The Word Fugue program
- WF.OVR - Overlays for the program
- WF.HLP - The context sensitive help file
- README.1 - This attachment
-
- Disk 2 - Word Fugue Utility Disk
- README.2 - The list of changes to Word Fugue since V1.5
- *.MAC - The macro files
- *.PDF - These are the printer configuration files.
- Install and edit them from the print menu
- (<ShiftF1> F P) W will load a print
- definition file, E will edit the file, while
- S will save the modified definition.
- WFINST.EXE - The installation program (for installing
- keyboard commands)
- WF.TXT - Text file used by WFINST
-
- Disk 3 - Word Fugue Dictionary Disk
- WFDICT.EXE - The dictionary maintenance program
- Adds or Deletes words from dictionary
- WF_MAIN.DIC - This is the dictionary
-
- Running the Program
-
- The manual describes how to install and run the program. Briefly - the
- overlay file (WF.OVR) must be in the default directory unless you have
- installed the home directory:
-
- 1. Make the Word Fugue directory the default directory
- 2. Run Word Fugue by typing in WF
- 3. Install the home directory by ShiftF1 O L H to display the
- default directory. Press ENTER to record it, followed by ESC to
- return to the options menu, S to save the defaults, and then
- press ESC 3 times to exit the pulldown menus and return to text
- entry mode
-
- These instructions may seem long winded, but they are operating a
- pulldown menu, and will be intuitively obvious when you try it.