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EASY TEXT v1.2 Public Domain USER GUIDE (c) zzSoft 1989 all rights reserved This documentation is for the Pulic Domain version of EASY TEXT budget Desktop Publisher, released into the PD 23/2/89. ****************************************************************** THE FULL COMMERCIAL VERSION OF EASY TEXT IS AVAILABLE FOR 15 POUNDS (Post and Packing included), INCLUDING PRINTED USER MANUAL. PLEASE SPECIFY 1 MEG OR HALF MEG VERSION OR BOTH (ON A D/S DISK). OUTSIDE THE UK (EXCEPT EIRE) COST IS 20 POUNDS (Post and Packing included). STERLING ONLY PLEASE. ALL CHEQUES, CORRESPONDENCE TO: ZZSOFT, 3 RIVERDALE HOUSE MYTHOLM CLOSE HEBDEN BRIDGE WEST YORKSHIRE ENGLAND HK7 6BP ****************************************************************** 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Welcome to EASY TEXT Welcome to EASY TEXT from zzSoft, a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) page-based DTP software package designed especially for the Atari ST (including Mega) computer and the GEM operating environment. EASY TEXT is exceptionally inexpensive, which brings effective DTP into the hands of anyone with an ST and the use of a printer. EASY TEXT has been designed to be easy to learn and intuitive to operate. Full advantage is taken of usual GEM features such as windows, drop-down menus and dialogs/forms. There is an example EASY TEXT page which can be viewed before 'getting into' EASY TEXT which will give some idea what EASY TEXT can do. Some words on GDOS EASY TEXT can be used with our without GDOS (Graphics Device Operating System) which was left out of the ATARI ROM'S and therefore is NOT part of the GEM enviroment when you switch your computer on. The usual method of incorporating GDOS is to place a GDOS.PRG in an AUTO folder on the disk that you use when the computer is first switched on. This ensures that GDOS is now ready to be used. Why use GDOS? Because by using GDOS different fonts designed for use with GDOS may be incorporated into your text. PLEASE NOTE: GDOS.PRG (at the time of writing 23/02/89) is not included on the Easy Text disk supplied by zzSoft. However, it can be found on the following disks, EASY DRAW, DEGAS ELITE, TIMEWORKS DTP and other commercial text processing and art programs. Fonts for use with GDOS are included on the EASY TEXT disk. If this all seems very technical don't worry it is not necessary to understand these details to successfully use EASY TEXT. For more details on using GDOS fonts and modifying the ASSIGN.SYS file see chapter 2.3. Also it is not necessary to have GDOS.PRG to use EASY TEXT as the system font can be used quite adequately in many circumstances. An example using the system font text is included on your EASY TEXT disk: EXAMPLE.EZ1 or EXAMPLE1.EZM. Clip art can be incorporated into your EASY TEXT pages and for examples of this see the example pages included on your Easy Text disk and the different clip art screens included too. 1.2 What's on your EASY TEXT disk or folder EASYTEXT.DOC (This document) An Introductory text on how to use EASY TEXT effectively. EASYTEXT.PRG - the PD 512K-machine version. EXAMPLE.EZ1 - Example EASY TEXT page, HI RES EXAMPLE1.EZM - Example EASY TEXT page, MED RES FONTS A folder that contains GDOS fonts. NOTE THAT A DISK FULL OF EASY TEXT GDOS COMPATIBLE FONTS IS AVAILABLE FROM zzSoft for 5.00 (Pounds) 1.3 Fault Reports and Technical Enquiries and Upgrades If you have any problems operating EASY TEXT or any technical questions, you should first consult your dealer. If the response from these sources is not satisfactory, you may contact zzSoft direct preferably in writing at the address given at the beginning. If telephoning please ensure that you have the following details to hand The version number, which can be found in the drop-down menu 'About EASY TEXT...', and/or on the master disk itself in the README.1ST file. The type of ST, and amount of RAM, and other things such as RAM disks, desk accessories being used. If you have found a bug please try to list the steps needed to replicate the particular fault. zzSoft welcomes suggestions in ways that EASY TEXT may be improved, and in particular is interested to hear from users of the new 24-pin dot matrix printers and in ways that Easy Text may be used with these printers. Please enclose a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for a reply. UPGRADES: EASY TEXT is undergoing continual development and periodically new versions will become available that will incorporate new features. For instance it is hoped that in the near future 24-pin printers, and laser printers will be catered for specifically etc. It will be necessary to make a small charge for upgrades. For major updates the charge may have to be correspondingly higher especially if extensive additional documentation is required. To qualify for an upgrade it is essential that a bone fide copy of EASY TEXT can be exchange, a Public Domain/Shareware disk does not qualify, and in this event the full price will have to be paid. 2 GETTING STARTED 2.1 EXPANATION OF SOME TERMS USED CLICKPress and release the left mouse button once DOUBLE CLICK Quickly press and release the left once button twice in succession DRAG After positioning the mouse pointer (initially an arrow or pointing finger) over the required object hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to where you want the object moved to. The mouse pointer will change to a flat hand when an object is successfully selected. FRAME A rectangular box drawn by the user and into which text, art or graphics are placed. The corners and centre of the frame contain smaller rectangles which can be used to 'size' the frame by placing the mouse-pointer into one of them and then altering the size of the frame by dragging the mouse. (It looks like a plan view of a snooker table!) JUSTIFIED TEXT As an example of left and right justified text- look at this document. Most text is left justified as this is, but often text is not right justified, ie it is ragged at the right-hand side. EG, This is not right justified text. This in an example of text that is not right justified. Using a word-processor like First Word makes it easy to justify text. Text is just- ified in First Word by placing extra spaces in the text. This paragraph would be known as left justified (only) text. DTP Desktop Publisher Keyboard Conventions EG CONTROL-RETURN or CNTRL-RET means hold down the control key and press the return key at the same time. 2.3 Loading the EASY TEXT Program Double click on the EASYTEXT.PRG icon in the EASYTEXT directory. 2.3 Using GDOS, ASSIGN.SYS, and GDOS Fonts As already stated (2.2) it is essential that GDOS.PRG is in Drive A at program boot up. If it is not no GDOS font can or will be loaded for use by EASY TEXT. Also it is essential that the ASSIGN.SYS file is on the same disk as EASY TEXT and the GDOS.PRG. The ASSIGN.SYS file lets you specify what GDOS fonts can be loaded and used by EASY TEXT. This is not peculiar to EASY TEXT, it is the usual method used by DTP and art programs, eg Degas Elite. To modify the ASSIGN.SYS file so that diferent fonts may be loaded other than the ones already specified in the file, you have to modify the file. This is acheived by loading the ASSIGN.SYS file into First Word and then turning off Word Processing (WP Mode - top of the EDIT menu). The file can then be modified to your purposes. As an example the present ASSIGN.SYS file contains the following text: path=A:\FONTS ; 01p screen.sys;Default screen ; 02p screen.sys;Low-resolution screen ; 03p screen.sys;Medium-resolution screen ; 04p screen.sys;High-resolution screen ; COURIE10.FNT COURIE14.FNT COURIE18.FNT COURIE28.FNT COURIE36.FNT ETC To use the fonts you want substitute the new font names for the present ones, or alternatively include your new choice of fonts with the present ones. Then save the new ASSIGN.SYS file and place on your working disk with the other files and EASY TEXT program. Only have one ASSIGN.SYS file on your copy working disk. Do not leave a blank space in the ASSIGN.SYS file between the font names as this will cause the remainder of font names in the file to be ignored. Eg do not do this: COMPUT16.FNT COMPUT18.FNT COMPUT28.FNT It is perfectly possible to use the EASY TEXT program as it stands without GDOS or GDOS font or ASSIGN.SYS files, as EASY TEXT can use the system font in three different sizes and six different styles, eg 10 point height, underlined and bold. To Summarise (a) If using GDOS. You need ASSIGN.SYS, EASY TEXT program, the Auto folder containing GDOS.PRG, and all font files on the same disc. If using a RAM disk to run EASY TEXT from, you will still need the Auto folder and all font files on a disk in drive A. (b) Without GDOS. You just need the EASY TEXT program on the disk. 2.4 The Startup Screen (see diagram) When EASY TEXT is loaded it displays the following: (a) Drop-Down Menu Bar The top line of the screen displays the menu headings: Desk GEM desk accessories (if loaded), and About EASY TEXT... File Load and Save and Print selections Edit Frame/text editing/selection selections Options Some extra choices, such as print screen Text Text style choices, eg Italic Font Font height selections and font styles Graphics Choice of different fills (b) At the right side of the screen is the scroll bar, and slider. Note that the two scroll arrows have been disabled. (b) The mouse pointer (a small arrow) should be visible. 2.4 How To Exit From EASY TEXT SELECT the FILE drop-down menu and select quit. Press Alternate-Q and this will take you back to the desktop. 3 EASY TEXT 3.1 Overview EASY TEXT provides a work-surface like a blank piece of paper onto which you can enter a variety of text styles and fonts all of your chosing. Clip art, and text from First Word may also easily be imported onto the screen. EASY TEXT differs from a paint program in that each block or frame of text is an entity unto itself, so that each frame and the text therein may be manipulated in a variety of ways. Each frame of text can be selected and reselected and the frame positioned where ever you want on the screen. As you select a frame the text inside it is automatically transferred with it. Each time a frame of text is selected the text inside the frame can be altered to the current text and font selections, or the text can left in its original state. Text can be entered into a frame each time a frame is 'cut' or drawn on the screen. However you cannot edit text in a frame like you would using a word-processor. To edit your text, fortunately is very easy and only involves a couple of menu selections. Your text, then, can be freely edited and quickly and simply placed back into the original frame with just one click. Because the screen is smaller than an the usual size of paper that you would normally print to EASY TEXT has a scroll bar which allows the screen to be moved (very fast too) so that you have, in effect, a full page in which to enter your work. To see how a page is made-up, step-by-step, see TUTORIAL.DOC which details the (easily-mastered) techniques needed to create your own great looking page. Also the section titled 'Doing It!' in this documnent is a quick introduction to Easy Text techniques. 3.2 Scrolling EASY TEXT * the white slider in the scroll bar represent the visible portion of the page as follows: * the slider shows the size and vertical position of the page relative to the size of the page. Try scrolling EASY TEXT using the GEM scroll bars, observing the effects on the screen. * clicking the shaded areas moves you to the top of the page (screen) or the bottom of the page (screen). * dragging the slider moves the page through to the position indicated. 3.2 Printing To print an EASY TEXT page or screen there are a few options that can be taken to get exactly the hard copy you want. The default setting is for an 11" by 8 1/2" page of paper with a layout width of what is actually printed of 7 3/4" (centred approx on the page). To alter these settings select PRINTER... and/or PAGE... from the FILE menu and click on the setting you want. Select PRINT from the FILE menu and the EASY TEXT page will be printed. To get a hard copy of the screen only, select PRINT SCREEN from the OPTIONS menu. Using this selection any full screen part of the EASY TEXT page can be printed out. Note that if PRINT SCREEN is not selected then you must ensure that EASY TEXT is positioned at the start position, ie the top part of the page MUST be at the top of the screen. Selecting PRINT from the FILE menu will give a warning message about this. Selecting Double Pass or 6 pass option will give the best print quality. Note the menu and scroll bar are not printed. Press Control-C to stop EASY TEXT from printing. 3.4 Loading and Saving To load or save an EASY TEXT page select the FILE menu and from the drop-down menu select LOAD... or SAVE or SAVE AS... When loading an EASY TEXT page note that the example pages provided by zzSoft are fixed in style and cannot be manipulated in the way your own documents can be. This was to save space on the EASY TEXT disk. To load an example EASY TEXT page select LOAD and from the selection box select which page you want. It must have the extension .EZ1 eg EXAMPLE.EZ1, for hi res or extension .EZM for medium res. The page will be loaded onto the screen. Any previous text or art will be lost as the example page will erase it. To see the lower half of the Example page click on the shaded area of the scroll bar or move the white slider to the position you require. It is not necessary to save the Example page again before either exiting EASY TEXT or loading another EASY TEXT page. To save your own pages select either SAVE or SAVE AS... The difference between these two options is that SAVE saves to disk (provided there is enough room on the disk) using the last filename that was used. Thus SAVE is disabled when first loading EASY TEXT and before any load is performed as there can be no file name for your page prior to either of these operations. SAVE AS... presents you with a selection box, and this time you can either select a previous EASY TEXT page you wish to overwrite or create a new filename by typing in the name of your page. When either Saving or Loading EASY TEXT pages ONLY use the extension to the file .EZ1. When saving a page many other files will automatically be created with the extensions .EZ2, EZ3 etc. DO NOT try to load these files into EASY TEXT. EZ2 etc are files which are loaded automatically when you select an .EZ1 file. They contain information which allows you to move and alter the frames on your page as and when you want. (For med res substitute .EZM for EZ1). Note it is advisable to have a blank formatted disk for each time you want to save an EASY TEXT page as a maximum of 319400 bytes of information will need to be saved. The amount of information needed to be saved depends on how many frames you used when creating your page. 4 USING EASY TEXT 4.1 Doing it! After the fonts have or have not been loaded, which depends on whether you have GDOS.PRG, you will be presented with a blank screen apart from the menu bar and right-hand scroll bar. If you do not have GDOS then no Font Styles can be selected, except the system font which is automatically the default style. Naturally, you can alter the text style of each font height by selecting, for example Bold or Italic or both together from the TEXT menu. The font heights that are not available to users without GDOS is 36 and 48 point. To start select the EDIT drop down menu and select START / CUT. If you look at the EDIT menu again you should notice that START / CUT has a tick to the immediate left. A tick on a menu selection shows that this is what you have selected and what is in effect. Prior to selecting START / CUT you could have selected the particular text style, font height, and font style (if applicable) you wanted. Position the mouse pointer in the general area on the screen you would like to begin. Pressing the left mouse button drag the mouse until a rectangle of suitable size has been created for the font height you expect to be working with. Don't worry if the rectangle appears initially too small or too big to use, the size is easily altered. Release the left mouse button and a rectangle/frame will be drawn on the screen the same size as the one you have just outlined with the mouse. If you wish to move the rectangle/frame to any other position press the left mouse button and move the mouse - the rectangle/frame will follow the direction of your movements. You can now also select the font height, text style and font style (if applicable). Once you are happy about the position of the frame then again select EDIT and from the drop down menu select USE FRAME and the frame will alter in that it will now possess a larger frame around the previous rectangle and this rectangle will have smaller rectangles at each corner and half way along each side. These smaller rectangles are so that you can size the frame in any manner you wish. You can also move the frame to any position on the screen, including the lower half. Any text or art or graphic fill inside the frame will automatically be moved with it. In the USE FRAME mode you can enter text. To enter text use the keyboard. Note that you cannot directly edit the text in a frame, eg use back space or delete. To edit or alter text you have to select from the EDIT menu the EDIT TEXT... option. Before you can actually edit the text in a frame you have to leave that frame, ie tell EASY TEXT you want to leave USE FRAME mode. To do this press Control- Return or ALT-Z or select END / PASTE from the EDIT drop-down menu. The frame will disappear. Note that pressing Control- Return, or ALT-Z, or END / PASTE saves your text/clip art for later manipulation. To edit the text within a frame chose SELECT from the EDIT menu and then EDIT TEXT... too. Then click the mouse pointer over the text/frame you want to edit. A large box containing your text will appear. You can now edit your text using the various editing keys on the keyboard, eg delete, backspace. Note pressing the escape key will clear the particular line where the cursor is positioned. Text may be altered and entered at will. More text can be used than was in the frame, or less. The frame can be altered afterwards to accommodate the extra or less text. Although the text in the Edit Box is always displayed in a 10 point system font this does not affect the text within a frame. Med res uses 9 point font for this. When you have finished editing select OK if you want the new text to replace the old text in the frame. SELECT Cancel if you have decided that you want to leave the text in the frame alone, or in the event of selecting the wrong frame to edit. Summary of selecting a frame of text to edit (a) Click on SELECT (b) Click on EDIT TEXT... (c) Click in vicinity of text want to edit (d) EDIT TEXT box will appear (e) Edit your text, and leave EDIT TEXT box- ie click on OK (f) Click on SAME frame as in (c) and text will immediately be substituted. IMPORTANT NOTE: You can only directly enter text into a frame the first time you use a frame. Subsequently you need to use the EDIT TEXT selection from the EDIT drop-down menu. See 4.1 and 4.4 4.2 Repositioning a Frame If you wish to reposition a frame on the screen go to SELECT menu option and position mouse pointer over text. Press left hand mouse button and keep pressed. The mouse pointer will change into a flat, open hand. Move the mouse and the frame will move with you. Release the mouse button when you have positioned the frame where you want it. Don't forget to press Control-Return or ALT-Z to cease using that frame. To reposition a frame in lower half of page/screen - select the frame as above and scroll the page making sure that you can still see the text or expect to be able to see the frame. Go to SELECT and select the frame and reposition. 4.3 Altering Text To alter text within a frame, ie alter text style and/or font height and/or font style (where applicable), first chose the font height you require. Do the same for other options. Then select SELECT and CHANGE in the EDIT menu. Move the mouse pointer over the text you wish to alter and click the left mouse button. The frame will be selected and the text will be altered in the way you have requested. The frame can be resized to accommodate a larger font height in the SELECT and CHANGE mode. It can also be moved about. Press Control-Return or ALT-Z to finish with that frame, or select END /PASTE from the EDIT drop-down menu. 4.4 Using EDIT TEXT... There are three distinct ways that the EDIT TEXT... option may be used: (i) As described in Chapter 4.1 (ii) To prepare text for a frame before creating it. To do this select EDIT TEXT... from EDIT menu and enter text into edit text box. Note that using the (carriage) Return key will move the cursor down a line. The mouse may be used to position the cursor on a particular line. After you have finished entering and if necessary, editing your text in the edit text box click once in the small OK box and you will be returned to the main screen. Now select START / CUT from the EDIT drop down menu and continue as described in chapter 4.1. As soon as you select USE FRAME the text you entered in the EDIT TEXT box will be drawn in the frame. By adjusting the size of the frame you can ensure the precise 'look' of the text layout. Text will automatically be left justified. (iii) To import text; see next chapter. 4.5 Importing Text Importing text from First Word is easy. Select IMPORT TEXT from the FILE drop down menu and a GEM selection box will appear. From this box you may specify the disk drive you wish to load your text from and by using the scroll bar see what files you have on the disk. Double clicking over the actual name of the text document you wish to load will place your document 'into' the EASY TEXT Edit Text box starting at the beginning of the document. Please note the maximum size document you can load into EASY TEXT is about 5000 bytes or approximately 5000 characters. If your document is larger than this it will be necessary to to separate your document into less than 5000 byte size sections so that EASY TEXT can eventually load all of your document. To place your text on the EASY TEXT page/screen the click OK or Cancel if you wish to do something else than place your text into an EASY TEXT frame. Note Cancel does not 'unload' your document. Cancel ensures that the next operation you do in EASY TEXT will not be affected by the previous operation of loading text into the EDIT TEXT box. Now select START / CUT from the Edit drop down menu and draw the required size frame etc. Then continue as usual. Note selecting USE FRAME will place your text in the frame in the current selected text style, size and type. Press Control- Return, OR ALT-Z or End / PASTE to exit the frame. Importing justified text: Using First Word, or any other word processor that justifies text in a similar manner, arrange your document so that it will fit on the EASY TEXT page. In other words ensure that each sentance is not too long. You can easily tell if your text will fit on the EASY TEXT page because if it fits a First Word screen without extending beyond the right-hand scrool bar then you will be ok. You can reformat your text so that each sentance is much smaller, as in the example below: This isan example of text that can be importedinto EASY TEXT, so that you can have your document in long columns like this or by careful use of First Word's features you can make text appear to wrap-around a piece of clip-art by placing spaces where you want the art to go. So if you wanted a piece of clip art to then it is quite easy go here all you need to make it look like to do is use First text has wrapped aro- Word's ability to und your clip-art. A limit the size of the little bit of care is length of text and all that is needed!!! Click the small MORE box to view the next part of your document. Click in the LESS box to go backwards and view the previous text. Click the CLEAR box to empty the EDIT TEXT box of all text. Select FROM HERE when you want your text to be displayed in a frame from a particular EDIT TEXT box page. EG if you have loaded a large document into the EDIT TEXT box and you wish to place the text from a particular page into a frame click FROM HERE to do so. Select ALL if you wish all of the text from the FROM HERE position to be placed into a frame. NOTE that no more than 550 characters (approx) is the maximum. If ALL is not ticked (ie selected) then only that particular EDIT TEXT box page will be placed in a frame. If FROM HERE is not ticked (ie selected) text from the start of the document will be placed into a frame. EASY TEXT CANNOT import ST Writer documents. Try converting to ASCII text file only first. FIRST WORD word processor is freely available in the Public Domain. 4.6 Importing Clip Art To import clip art or even full-size (ie screen-sized) pictures select IMPORT CLIP ART from the FILE drop down menu. A selection box will allow you to chose the disk drive to load from and the art file you wish to load into EASY TEXT. All art files must be in the DEGAS file format ie a .PI3 type of file, eg PICT.PI3. There are many PD conversion programs if the art file you wish to load into EASY TEXT is not in DEGAS format. Uncompressed DEGAS file format must be used, ie the size of a .PI3 file must be 32066 bytes approx. Med res DEGAS files use the extension .PI2 You can load .EZ1 or .EZM pages from the LOAD CLIP ART selection. Note that although frames of art can be manipulated in EASY TEXT it is not possible to proportionately resize art frames, so that it is important to import into EASY TEXT the size of the frame of art you require. EASY TEXT can, however, move and clip frames of art. Note that after clipping the frame of art smaller than its previous size AND pressing Control- Return (to end use of that particular frame) the previous larger size cannot be regained unless reloaded using the IMPORT CLIP ART selection. Once you have selected the file you wish to load into EASY TEXT the screen will be overdrawn by the picture or clip art. To continue press Alternate-C -the keyboard START / CUT method of telling EASY TEXT that you wish to begin. Using the mouse pointer select an area that you wish to place into Easy Text. Press Alternate-U for USE FRAME and the art will immediately be placed onto the EASY TEXT screen. To place further clip art into EASY TEXT you have to load the art file again and repeat the process as described above. 4.8 Fonts This chapter describes most of the details of using the various text and font options available in EASY TEXT. Users with GDOS.PRG will be able to use the FONT STYLES selection in the FONT drop down menu. Users without GDOS.PRG will find that this selection is not available-the FONT STYLES text in the drop down menu will be in light text indicating that this selection is unavailable. Up to four different font styles may be loaded into EASY TEXT at start-up. To effect the correct loading of a particular font(s) the following criteria need to be adhered to: 1. GDOS.PRG must be in an AUTO folder on the EASY TEXT disk 2. The ASSIGN.SYS file that you wish to use must be on the same disk as the EASY TEXT program, although the actual fonts may be on another disk in another disk drive. To have the actual fonts loaded from another drive you must specify this in the ASSIGN.SYS file at the top of the file where it states PATH=A\:- substitute your own disk drive designation here. So, if you were using a RAM disk with the actual fonts on the RAM disk you would have to specify PATH=D\:, if the RAM disk was designated as D. Note that the ';' used in an ASSIGN.SYS file is there so that comments can be placed in the file. Any text on the same line as a ';' and placed after it will be ignored by GDOS, which is occasionally useful. Note that all fonts are loaded at start-up if there is enough RAM, If there is not enough RAM to accommodate all the fonts NO fonts will be loaded at all OR only some. This is why the Free RAM selection in the OPTIONS menu is so useful. It allows you to determine exactly how many fonts to place in an ASSIGN.SYS file. It is possible to have many different ASSIGN.SYS files, by naming them slightly differently from ASSIGN.SYS. So you could have 4 different ASSIGN.SYS files called ASSIGN.SY1, ASSIGN.SY2, ASSIGN.SY3 and the one you are using at start-up ASSIGN.SYS. By having different combinations of fonts in each ASSIGN.SYS file it is possible at start-up time by correctly renaming any one of the other three files to ASSIGN.SYS and renaming the other now unwanted ASSIGN.SYS to some other name to load different font styles. Note that if you do this and you load an EASY TEXT file designed using different fonts you will lose these font styles if an attempt to modify and/or move a frame containing text. They will be replaced by whatever font style is currently selected. So if you want your previously designed EASY TEXT page to remain similar in style as when you first designed it use the same ASSIGN.SYS file. Always reboot the computer with the EASY TEXT disk if you change the ASSIGN.SYS FILE. Selecting a font size that is not available results in the next smaller size being used. 4.9 Loading and Saving EASY TEXT pages You need a lot of space on a disk to save an EASY TEXT page. A maximum of 319400 bytes are needed. However, if you can't save all the files that are needed you will still be able to load the the EASY TEXT page (provided you saved at least 64000 bytes of an EASY TEXT page, or 32000 bytes for just the screen). If all the EASY TEXT files are not saved then when you load this EZ1 page you will not be able to move your text or clip art about. To solve this problem it is possible to load an EZ1 page using the Import Clip Art selection and by cutting the text you want you can then move the frames about. Loading an EASY TEXT page clears all other previous text and clip art from the screen. 5 OPTIONS At tick will appear when you select any of these options. To deselect click again on the selection and the option will be diselected, and the tick will disappear. 5.1 Keep return This option ensures that when you enter text in a frame the carriage returns are kept. Note that using the EDIT TEXT box also ensures carriage returns are kept, as Importing Text does. It would be usual to select KEEP RETURN before using the EDIT TEXT box. 5.2 Clear All This option clears the screen and resets the program from the beginning so that you will lose all text, imported text, clip art, and all the current text and font settings. 5.3 Print Screen This allows you to just print the screen only, rather than a complete EASY TEXT page. Note that you can have the page in any position; only what you can see on the screen will be printed out to a printer. You must then select PRINT selection from the FILE menu to actually print the screen. Ignore any message about going to start position 5.4 Save Screen This allows you to save the screen only, rather than a complete EASY TEXT page. As in 5.3 you may have the screen displaying any part of your EASY TEXT page. To actually save the screen as a file you must select SAVE or SAVE AS from the the FILE menu to actaully save the screen to disk. 5.5 Bring To Front This allows you to select a frame that is positioned behind another frame without disturbing the other frame. After using the frame it is placed back to the same position as before, unless you reposition it. 7.0 KEYBOARD Sometimes it is easier to use the keyboard to make a menu selection rather than go to the actual menu and select something. Those menu options that are followed by a funny- looking character and then by a letter of the alphabet are the menu selctions that can be selected from the keyboard. To select a particular menu option press the ALTERNATE key and the particular key at the same time. The following menu selctions are available from the keyboard: LOAD... ALT-L QUIT ALT-Q START / CUT ALT-C SELECT ALT-S SELECT & CHANGEALT-X END / PASTE ALT-Z EDIT TEXT... ALT-E KEEP RETURN ALT-R CLEAR ALL ALT-A FREE RAM ALT-M BRING TO FRONT ALT-B FONT STYLES... ALT-T FILLS... ALT-F UNDO UNDO allows you to cancel any frame and/or text you may have entered in that frame, or clip art, prior to pressing ALT-Z or Control-Return, or END / PASTE. If you have selected SELECT or SELECT and CHANGE from then UNDO is not available.