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PART 2--EXPLORING WRITER'S HEAVEN--A TUTORIAL
Writer's Heaven is easy to learn, because it is based on an
"intuitive" command-key layout. This section will let you quickly
get the "feel" of the program and begin using it, while Part 3
will add details.
GETTING READY
-- If you have not already done so, create a Writer's Heaven
workdisk or hard disk directory according to the directions in
Part 1 of this document.
-- Now make a copy of an existing text file (for instance,
the STORY document on the PC-Write program disk) to experiment
with. Call it to the screen for editing with your Writer's Heaven
workdisk or hard disk directory. With a workdisk in drive A and
the text file in drive B, the command would be
A>ED B:FILENAME (RETURN)
followed by ESCAPE to display the file.
If you have a monochrome or single-color CRT monitor, the
first difference due to Writer's Heaven you are likely to notice
is that it reverses the video on your screen so that you are
reading dark on light. YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO TURN DOWN THE
BRIGHTNESS ON YOUR MONITOR. Reverse video is much more attractive
and easy on your eyes than is the normal display. (See under
ADDITIONAL FEATURES in Part 3 for a fuller discussion of reverse
video, including instructions on how to remove it if you don't
like it.)
-- I recommend that you leave PC-Write's automatic
reformatting function turned off. (See A NOTE ON AUTOMATIC
REFORMATTING in Part 1.) To reformat during the following
session, use the Writer's Heaven enhanced reformatting command,
Alt-H. This command reformats the entire paragraph, both above
and below the cursor.
All Writer's Heaven commands are executed on the main
portion of the keyboard--the "typewriter keys." No command
requires moving either hand away from its place on the keyboard--
though some require stretching.
In the remainder of this discussion, "main row" is the name
given to the row of keys on which the hands normally rest in
standard typing position; the "high row" is the row of letter
keys just above the main row; and the "low row" is the row of
letter and punctuation keys just below the main row. The topmost
row of keys, containing the numeral keys, is not specially
employed by Writer's Heaven 1.1.
WRITER'S HEAVEN Exploring Writer's Heaven 12
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|| | [ E ] [ R ] || | | | |[ U ] [ I ] | | || | | | | |
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_ \ ___ ___ ___ \ _ _ _ _ \ ___ ___ ___ \ _ _ _ _
| |[ S ] [ D ] [ F ] || | | | |[ J ] [ K ] [ L ] || | | |
_| |[___] [___] [___] ||_ _| |_ _| |[___] [___] [___] ||_ _| |_ _|
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EXPLORING THE UNIT KEYS
You are now ready to explore the first of three kinds of
command keys used by Writer's Heaven. This first group, forming
the foundation of Writer's Heaven, is the UNIT KEYS.
-- Using normal PC-Write command keys, move the cursor to
a portion of text in the center of the screen.
-- Position your hands on the main row of the keyboard, in
normal typing position. Without shifting your other fingers,
press the Control key with your left little finger, and keep it
down.
-- Now press first the key under your left index finger
(Ctrl-F), then the key under your right index finger (Ctrl-J).
You will see the cursor first move by one character to the left,
then by one character to the right. These are the CHARACTER KEYS.
-- Next--with the Control key still down--press first the
key under your left middle finger (Ctrl-D), then the key under
your right middle finger (Ctrl-K). The cursor will move forward
and backward by one word. These are the WORD KEYS.
-- Next press the LINE KEYS, under your ring fingers (Ctrl-S
and Ctrl-L). These will take you to the left margin and to the
end of the line of text, respectively.
-- The SENTENCE KEYS are on the high row just above the
CHARACTER KEYS, and are pressed by the index fingers again
(Ctrl-R and Ctrl-U). They move the cursor forward and back by
sentence.
-- The PARAGRAPH KEYS, above the WORD KEYS, move the cursor
by paragraph (Ctrl-E and Ctrl-I).
Notice that the layout of these UNIT KEYS is directional:
left-hand keys move the cursor "left and up," while right-hand
keys move the cursor "right and down." Also notice that the two
sets of keys are mirror images of each other. (Directionality and
mirroring are two unique features that make Writer's Heaven such
an effective yet simple editing tool.)
WRITER'S HEAVEN Exploring Writer's Heaven 13
Also notice that Writer's Heaven moves the cursor to a
unit's beginning point. If the cursor is initially somewhere
within a unit, the left-hand UNIT KEY will move the cursor to the
beginning of that same unit.
The UNIT KEYS are used with any of several other keys in
what is called a "command matrix"--the third distinctive feature
of Writer's Heaven. You have just explored the cursor movement
commands assigned to these keys with Control. The same UNIT KEYS
are used with Alt to delete.
-- Try all the UNIT KEYS once again, but this time let your
left little finger hold down Alt instead of Control. (You
may have to stretch and tilt your hand to reach some of the left-
hand UNIT KEYS, but try not to move your hand out of position.)
This time you will see the units deleted, left and right.
(WARNING: Because of present limitations in PC-Write's definition
of a sentence, the DELETE SENTENCE macros are buggy!)
Reformat the paragraphs as needed with Alt-H.
Notice that deletions too operate to the beginnings of
units. If the cursor begins in the middle of the unit, the
deletion occurs between the cursor and the previous or next
beginning of such a unit.
In Writer's Heaven, Alt is used exclusively for
deletion and reformatting.
Later, you will explore a transposition function using the
UNIT KEYS.
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