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PART 3--WRITER'S HEAVEN COMMANDS AND FEATURES
Part 3 catalogs and describes all Writer's Heaven commands
and additional features.
COMMAND KEY TYPES
Writer's Heaven employs three basic kinds of command keys,
all located on the keyboard's "typewriter keys."
ACTION KEYS act as a function key or as the first key in a
"two-key" combination. The ACTION KEYS are SYMBOL, OTHER, EDIT,
SWAP, CLEAR, and REFORMAT.
UNIT KEYS define grammatical or display units, either
forward or backward in the document. They are used with an ACTION
KEY and/or Control or Alt in a "matrix" of commands that enables
cursor movement, deletion, and transposition, all by unit in
either direction. The UNIT KEYS, for both "left" and "right," are
CHARACTER, WORD, LINE, SENTENCE, and PARAGRAPH. The layout of the
UNIT KEYS on the Writer's Heaven keyboard is directional and
mirrored (explained below).
SCREEN KEYS are simple cursor or display movement keys. The
SCREEN KEYS, both forward and backward, are LEFT AND RIGHT, UP
and DOWN, SCROLL, DOCUMENT, SCREEN/PAGE, BOOKMARK, and GO BACK.
Most of these keys too are mirrored and/or directional.
Writer's Heaven also has a small number of miscellaneous
commands. These include additional shift-status functions of the
RETURN KEY: "Return, to left margin," "Return, and stay up,"
"Return, to left margin, and stay up," and Triple-space.
Capabilities added to the SPACE BAR are "Insert spaces to next
tab," and "Delete spaces to previous tab."
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.
WRITER'S HEAVEN Commands and Features 18
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ ___ ___ ___
| ! W ! | | | || | | | || | | | | ! O ! |! P ! ! { ! ! } !
| !___! |_ _| |_ _|| |_ _| |_ _|| |_ _| |_ _| !___! |!___! !_[_! !_]_!
| SYMBOL | | OTHER | EDIT SWAP CLEAR
_\ _ _ _ _ _ _\ _ _ ___\ _ _ _ _ _ _ \ _ _ _ _
|| | | | | | || | | ! H !| | | | | | | || | | |
_|| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _|| |_ _| !___!| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| ||_ _| |_ _|
\ \ REFORM \ \
_ _\ _ _ _ _ _ _\ _ _ _ _\ _ _ _ _ _ _ \ _ _
| || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _| |_ _|
EDIT KEY (Ctrl)Mark, Move / (OTHER)Copy / (Alt)Delete / (Alt-OTHER)Undelete
THE ACTION KEYS
ACTION KEYS operate as a simple function key or as the first
key in a "two-key" combination.
All such two-key combinations are "sticky"--meaning that the
ACTION KEY is pressed then released before the second key is
pressed. The two-key combination can be interrupted and cancelled
after the first key is pressed by pressing that first key again.
In PC-Write at present, two-key combinations cannot be included
in recorded key sequences.
The ACTION KEYS displace two temporary-margin commands,
which have been moved elsewhere. (See below, under MISCELLANEOUS
KEYS.)
SYMBOL KEY Ctrl-W
The SYMBOL KEY is used as the first key in a set of two-key
combinations that insert font and special characters into the
text. This set of combinations replaces the Alt-key combinations
normally used in PC-Write for this purpose. (This was necessary
to free the Alt-key combinations for other functions.)
To use the SYMBOL KEY, press and release Ctrl-W, then press
Control with the letter key that you normally in PC-Write would
press with Alt to insert a particular font or special character.
(These characters and their assigned keys are found in PC-Write
documentation.) For instance, to insert an italic font character,
press SYMBOL (Ctrl-W), then Ctrl-I.
Writer's Heaven adds a period after an inserted guideline
font (SYMBOL-G), since they are most often used together. Delete
this period if you are using the font character to establish a
ruler line.
The SYMBOL KEY is used with the RETURN KEY for a special
Triple-space function. (See below, under MISCELLANEOUS KEYS.)
In PC-Write at present, the SYMBOL KEY combinations cannot
be used to enter font or special characters in search or replace
text, or when recording keystrokes. For these purposes, you will
have to instead use the "Alt-keypad" method. You'll need this
method also to insert the "double-underline" font character
WRITER'S HEAVEN Commands and Features 19
associated with the W key, since the SYMBOL KEY itself is located
at that key. (Unfortunately, the Alt-keypad method is not
available on the Tandy 1000. Sorry.)
To use the Alt-keypad method, press Alt and hold it down
while entering the character's ASCII code on the numeric keypad
at the right end of the keyboard. (You do not have to press the
NUMLOCK KEY.) The character will appear when you release Alt. The
ASCII codes are found in the table below and in the appendix of
the PC-Write printed manual.
If you are using Writer's Heaven 1.1 with a PC-Write version
later than 2.7, the Writer's Heaven control file may require
editing to adjust to revisions in the PC-Write character-to-key
assignments. (See MODIFYING THE WRITER'S HEAVEN CONTROL FILE, in
the Appendix.)
ASCII CODES OF FONT AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS, BY KEY
PC-Write 2.6 and 2.7
A:014 F:028 K:020 P:005 U:023
B:002 G:011 L:025 Q:022 V:004
C:006 H:024 M:007 R:030 W:018
D:016 I:021 N:017 S:001 X:013
E:003 J:008 O:019 T:012,015 Y:031
Z:015
OTHER KEY CTRL-O and ALT-O (letter O)
The OTHER KEY is used in a set of two-key combinations that
provides alternate but related functions for many command keys.
Ctrl-O begins definition of alternate cursor movement and
miscellaneous commands, and is always followed by a letter key
with Control. Alt-O begins definition of alternate deletion
operations, and is always followed by a letter key with Alt.
Individual OTHER KEY commands will be listed and described
by key in the UNIT KEYS and SCREEN KEYS sections, following. The
notation OTHER-key will mean that first Ctrl-O is pressed and