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WORD FUGUE V3.1
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┌─────────┐
┌─────┴───┐ │ (R)
──│ │o │──────────────────
│ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of
│ │ │─┘ Shareware
└───│ o │ Professionals
──────│ ║ │────────────────────
└────╨────┘ MEMBER
Shareware
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Shareware is an exciting new marketing method which allows you to try top
quality software before you pay the author. With shareware, you cannot
be disappointed spending money for a program that's not right for you.
The small fee you pay for your shareware copy of the program covers only
the duplication and distribution costs, and permits you to evaluate the
program.
Registration
============
If you continue to use the program after a reasonable evaluation period,
(42 days) you are required to send the registration fee to Fugue Software
(or one of our agents). The addresses of agents are listed in the file
REGIST.TXT
Registration entitles you to a printed manual, the latest version of
the software, a periodical newsletter, and technical support. Please
copy the file ORDER.FRM to your printer, fill it it, and send it off. If your
country has a local agent, then the file ORDER.FRM will have the address of
the agent, and prices will be in your local currency.
In the USA, the latest version of Word Fugue is available from Pik A Program's
home BBS Software Creations. You can reach this BBS at the following numbers:
(508) 365-2359 - 2400 Baud V42 MNP5
(508) 368-7036 - 14.4k V31(bis) DS
(508) 368-4137 - 16.8k HST USR
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 novice should have no difficulty in using the program - the
program is easy to learn, since it comes with context sensitive
help available at the press of the F1 key. There is also a
tutorial on the program disk, for novice users to try out the
various functions.
3. 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, so
novices can learn the commands. The pull down menu is activated by
the F10 key.
4. 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, which is the industry standard for editor
programs. Experienced users do not need to use the pull down
menus, since all functions of the menu are also available at the
press of one or two keys.
5. 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 word processor 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.
6. There are up to 8 editing windows, which can look at different
files or the same file. These files can be loaded from the
parameter line. Any window can be zoomed to occupy the entire
screen.
7. Printer support includes laser printers. It is easy to customise
the printer drivers, and different ones can be selected from a
pick list at print time. Printing also occurs in background,
letting you go on with other word processing tasks.
8. The program comes with a 100,000 word dictionary and an update
program that will add or delete words from the dictionary. In
addition to the main dictionary, you can set up auxiliary
dictionaries in each directory, containing words specific to
particular projects. Main dictionaries are available in American,
Australian and British versions.
9. The program can generate indexes and tables of contents. Both
these files can be customised during the generation by use of
options embedded in the text. In addition, paragraphs can be
numbered automatically in several formats.
10. The program comes with macro facilities, the ability to record
keystrokes, and a number of macro files for additional
flexibility. In addition, macros can be invoked at program start
up from the parameter line.
11. Printing, index and table of contents generation 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. This can be turned ON
and OFF as required. In addition automatic hyphenation is
available.
13. Tables are supported, as is word wrap and justification of each
table 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 supported to permit use of all DOS commands from
within the program. Can also free up memory to run large programs.
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.
Additional macro files contain European and Greek characters.
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.
20. Embedded print functions are supported in both headers / footers
and within the text body. Print functions can be evaluated on
screen, and include date and time, file name, revision marking and
so on.
21. Comprehensive text formatting is available and can be stored in
the text as ruler lines. There is no limit on the number of ruler
lines you can have. There is even a file of standard ruler lines
that can be automatically included into your text. You can add
other lines to this file should you so desire.
22. Mouse support.
23. Automatic save feature after number of minutes or number of
keystrokes (can be disabled)
24. Full featured mail merge facility that includes mathematic
calculations, conditional merging using IF ELSE constructs and so
on.
25. File names can have up to 65 character descriptions added to them,
in order to make recognition of files easier. These descriptions
are displayed when files are listed, and can be altered at the
press of a key. In addition, a utility (FI) is supplied to display
and change file descriptions from the dos prompt. It acts like a
replacement of the DOS DIR command.
26. Support for foot notes and end notes. Notes can span multiple
include files.
27. Snaking columns of text supported. These newspaper style columns
(not to be confused with tables) have text wrapping to the next
column when the bottom of the current one is reached.
28. Hundreds of other sophisticated features like insertion