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.1 Help menu - scroll with up and down arrows. Page through with pg_up and pg_dwn. Moving in the Matrix: Use the Arrow Keys or the Keypad, also: ^7 (^home) Top Left ^1 (^end) Bottom Left ^9 (^pgup) Top Right ^3 (^pgdown) Bottom Right ^4 right side ^6 left side Marking the Matrix: CR or SP Mark or Unmark a dot ins Mark a dot del Unmark a dot Alt C Toggle: When marking, precedent given to a new mark/old mark (currently ) Erase - automatically Trace - automatically Normal - erase or mark one character at a time Alt M - Mirror mark - simultaneously mark opposite lateral cell. Repeat Alt M to return to normal Alt F - Flip mark - simultaneously mark opposite vertical cell. Repeat Alt F to return to normal Alt F and M together will make a box. Alt V Toggle Rt-Angle move screen. ^V Make a Rt-Angle move. (Turns Rt-Angle move toggle to off.) C or - Clear the matrix ^U Restore previous matrix ^G Restore previous Get Fetching a character to edit: Get character from the current file F2 fetch a character with the cursor (use arrows or pick character with desired letter key) Import character from an file S = Save character in the matrix Deleting a character from the file: ^D Delete ^X Delete with the cursor Move entire character: Up | Left | Mirror Down | Right | Flip Define quadrant section to move: F3 Upper Left | F4 Upper Right F5 Lower Left | F6 Lower Right move contents of the quadrant with U D L R M F C Clear quadrant & return to full matrix CR return to the full matrix Moving rows and columns move a column F7 Up from cursor F8 Down toward cursor F9 Down from cursor F10 Up toward cursor move a row ^F7 Right from cursor ^F8 Right toward cursor ^F9 Left from cursor ^F10 Left toward cursor Combine Characters: And - add two characters with what they share together only XOR - add two characters with what they do not share. Edit out adjacent marking Or - fully add two characters. Edit out adjacent marking ^Import OR - Add a character from another file to the character in the matrix Observation BOX Alt B toggle: Put matrix in BOX/ Clear BOX Alt R exchange matrix for BOX ^R restores previous BOX Combine BOX with matrix using: Alt And, Alt Or, Alt XOR Printing out a character: P or + test Print character in the matrix ^P test Print character over another (for accents and diacritics) Z change Print size (currently ) ^Y Print the matrix grid W current Width of character / Change from ASCII/Char listing Alt S proportional Spacing (currently %) Alt G Toggle Grid on/off ^T Show the Time Q or ESC to Quit the editor [Jimmy Paris - there to help] .2 Enter the name of the Font you wish to load or create. You need not enter the extension suffix (.LQD, .LQN, or .LQP), though to bring in a backup file (.BAD, .BAN, .BAP) the extension is necessary. To call up the Directory hit '?' or '/'. .3 .- begin main menu help screen . The Main menu takes you to the following routines: [E] - The main editor where you create and edit characters. F1 from the editor will get you to an extensive help screen. [P] - Will take you to the print menu. Various types of print outs are available. F1 will provide help. [M] - Miscellaneous routines: Combine files, Sort a file, change the Color values and the ASCII ranges. F1 will provide help. [N] - Will load a new file into memory. You will be able to save the current file if it has been changed. [V] - Will tell the current version of LQMATRIX. .| [R] - This will print out a registration form. Please register. .| It keeps programmers like me in business. [JPS] [Q] - To quit. If you have changed the current font you will be asked if you want to save the changes. If you do and the Back Up routine is set, a backup file (with a .BA? extension) will be made. Type Quality will indicate the type of font being edited: Draft, NLQ, Proportional. .4 Indicate the type of Font you wish to edit or create: [D]: Draft - fast printing, but crude. [N]: NLQ - (Near Letter Quality) - fixed width (each character has the same width, like a typewriter) and good quality. [P]: Prop - (Proportional) - variable width and the best quality available in the Text mode of user made characters. .5 The Miscellaneous Menu: [S] - This will sort the file in Memory. Normally you will only use this when you have combined two separate files, since a character is automatically put in its proper place when it is saved from the editor. [C] - This will allow you to add a file to the file in memory. You might wish to do this when you have a few special characters to add to a full font. You will be given the option of giving the combined file a new name. [U] - The SetUp allows you to: 1. Alter the low and highlighted character colors on the screen. 2. Change the ASCII range downloaded to the printer and the position used for trial printing from the editor. The default range is from ASCII 1 to ASCII 127. The default trial position is 127. 3. Turn off (or on) the Back Up feature. When finished the altering you can save the changes to disk. [F] - Toggle: Read/Write <-> Read Only. Latter will prevent font from being altered. ., [R] - If you plan to give a copy of this program away to a ., friend, you are urged to unregister the copy. .6 The Print Menu: [P] - This will print out the characters in the memory. Numer- als and Upper and Lower case letters will each start a new line. [F] - Each character in the file, its default equivalent and its ASCII location will be printed out. In Proportional, the character width will also be printed. [D] - Downloads the file to the printer. In the editor, if you want to test print a character and compare it to another in the font you must first Download from this menu. [O] - If available with your printer, this command will set the printer to copy either the Roman or the Sans Serif font to RAM. [T] - This will print out the font in Memory in the pattern of the keyboard, with the default characters above each letter. Use this with graphic characters or with a font composed of non-Roman letters (Greek, Cyrillic, etc.). [R] - Resets the printer. Use this if you have turned the printer off after downloading to it. You must then download again. .7 Monochrome screen: The default values are 14 for the High value and 7 for the Low. If you wish to reverse the background enter the value of 112 when asked to change the Low value. A simple CR will maintain the current value. Color screen: For the text BACKGROUND enter a numerical value in the range 0-7 where: Black = 0 Red = 4 Blue = 1 Magenta = 5 Green = 2 Brown = 6 Cyan = 3 Light Gray = 7 For the text COLOR enter a numerical value in the range 0-15 where : Black = 0 Red = 4 Dark Gray = 8 Light Red = 12 Blue = 1 Magenta = 5 Light Blue = 9 Light Magenta = 13 Green = 2 Brown = 6 Light Green = 10 Yellow = 14 Cyan = 3 Light Gray = 7 Light Cyan = 11 White = 15 You will be asked for two text color values, one for Low and the other for High values. .8 LQMATRIX (and LQ) will accept ASCII assignments from 0 to 255. However no printer to my knowledge will accept values in the Upper range, above 127. The common values run from 32 (space) to 126 (~) with 127 assigned to Delete. The default values run from 1 to 127. If you wish to assign in the range <32 (less than 32) be careful. Your word processor might be using them for its own purposes. Certain printers (the LQ800 for example) accept assignments from 128-159. A code has to be sent to the printer, however, if these are to be used. If you put the Upper limit at above 127 you will be asked if this code should be used. There is a trick for these 'upper' assignments are in fact loaded in the printer at the location X-128 with a maximum value of 31. Thus a character assigned to ASCII 150 (û) will end at ASCII 22. Most printers accept characters at 127 and I have thus used that place for print testing. If you try to print a test and nothing shows than change its location, to 33 for example. .9 If you wish to keep the changes you have made, they will be stored in the LQX.DEF file which will be read each time you call LQMATRIX. If LQX.DEF is absent then the default values will be used. The default values are: 7 Low video (Gray) 14 High video (Yellow) (Black background on a color screen) 1 Minimum download value 127 Maximum download value 127 Test print value from the editor NO Extra upper values YES Create backup files .10 You have set the maximum ASCII value above 127. If you have an Epson LQ800, LQ850 or equivalent printer you should set the extra value to YES. When set, the appropriate code will be sent to the printer and it will accept the upper characters and store them in RAM. .11 For those printers that have both Roman and Sans Serif fonts built into their permanent (ROM) memory (LQ850, for example): If your font consists of a limited number of characters to be interspersed with the built in characters you are given the choice of copying either the Roman or Sans Serif into User memory. Which ever one is copied will appear with your user characters. The default is Roman. .12 Assign the character to save to an appropriate location by entering the desired letter. If another character is occupying the location, you will be able to assign your new character elsewhere or overwrite what is already there. You can save at an upper ASCII position by holding the Alt key down and entering the appropriate ASCII number from the keypad. ESC will return you to the matrix without saving. .13 Assign the character to save to an appropriate location by entering its ASCII position. If another character is occupying the location, you will be able to assign it to another number or overwrite what is there. Instead of the ASCII number you can enter the desired letter followed by a CR. ESC will return you to the matrix without saving. .14 Enter the letter you wish to bring into the editor's matrix. You can retrieve an upper ASCII character by holding the Alt key down and entering the appropriate ASCII number from the keypad. You can also retrieve a character with the 'Cursor Fetch' by hitting F2. ESC will return you to the matrix without getting anything new. .15 Enter the ASCII number of the character you wish to bring into the editor's matrix. Instead of the ASCII number you can enter the desired letter followed by a CR. ESC will return you to the matrix without saving. .16 Enter the character you wish to AND with the character in the matrix. When you AND two items you end up with what each one shares with the other. What they do not share will be lost. ESC will exit the routine. .17 Enter the ASCII number of the character you wish to AND with character in the matrix. When you AND two items you end up with what each one shares with the other. What they do not share will be lost. ESC will exit the routine. .18 Enter the character you wish to OR with the character in the matrix. When you OR two items you end up with the sum of the two. Since ORing will violate the adjacent column rule, you will have to edit out adjacent marking. ESC will exit the routine. .19 Enter the ASCII number of the character you wish to OR with the character in the matrix. When you OR two items you end up with the sum of the two. Since ORing will violate the adjacent column rule, you will have to edit out adjacent marking. ESC will exit the routine. .20 Enter the character you wish to XOR with the character in the matrix. When you XOR two items you end up with what each does not share with the other. Since XORing will violate the adjacent column rule, you will have to edit out adjacent marking. ESC will exit the routine. .21 Enter the ASCII number of the character you wish to XOR with the character in the matrix. When you XOR two items you end up with what each does not share with the other. Since XORing will violate the adjacent column rule, you will have to edit out adjacent marking. ESC will exit the routine. .22 The highlighted quadrant of the matrix is now separated from the rest. You can move the quadrant with the (U)p, (D)own, (L)eft, (R)ight, (F)lip over, and (M)irror. To clear the quadrant hit (C). To return to the full matrix hit CR. If you made a mistake you can return to the former matrix with the undo command, ^U (Control U), immediately on exiting the quadrant. .23 Although the original file, what you brought into the matrix, will - if the BackUP is on - be automatically renamed as a backup (.BA? extension), you might still wish to change the full name of the edited file, especially if you have made, or expect to make, extensive changes. In changing the name do not add on an extension. The appropriate extension (LQP, LQN, LQD) will be automatically put in place. If you hit ESC nothing will be saved. .24 All the current changes will be saved to disk and, if the BackUP routine is on the original file will be renamed as a backup file with a .BAD, .BAN, or .BAP extension. .25 Saving the file in memory and using its current name will erase the file on disk that has the same name. If you want to preserve the latter file then enter <N> and you will be able to change the name of the file in memory. That will keep both files. .26 By changing the name of the combined file you can maintain the integrity of the original two. That might be a wise move to make. .27 The current disk and path is displayed. To change it simply enter the new path. It is essential that you begin with the first directory within the path. You need not indicate the drive if you are already logged to that drive. But enter the drive if you want to log on a different drive. An example: If the directory setup is: C:\LQMATRIX\ \HENSEL \MYOWN (where HENSEL and MYOWN are subdirectories of LQMATRIX). And if you are in LQMATRIX directory and want to move to HENSEL then write in \LQMATRIX\HENSEL\. Do the same if you are in the MYOWN directory and want to move to HENSEL. If you are on the B: drive and want to move to HENSEL which is on the C: drive enter C:\LQMATRIX\HENSEL\. Be SURE to end with a back slash \. The appropriate mask: *.LQP (or *.LQN, *.LQD) (proportional, LQN and draft respectively) will be added automatically. .28 If this is the wrong directory hit ESC and try a new path. .29 This will take you back to DOS. .30 If you wish to update the character enter 'Y' and it will re- place what is in memory with what you have in the matrix, otherwise to move it to a new position enter 'N'. You will then be asked where you want to store it. ESC will return you to the matrix without storing anything. .31 To import a character from another file first enter the character you want, then hit CR. At that point you will be asked for the name of the exporting file. You may call up the directory if you are not sure of its name. You need enter the exporting file's name only once (unless you want to import from a new file on a second try). The 'I' command will replace the matrix with what is imported (if it exists). The '^I' command will add (Or) the imported character (if it exists) to what is in the matrix. ESC will return you to the matrix without importing anything. .32 Enter the character (or its number if you are in the ASCII mode) that you want to delete. You will been given the chance to change you mind. You can also delete by using the 'Cursor Fetch' with the '^X' command. ESC will return you to the matrix without deleting. .33 Hit N if you decide that, on second thought, you do not wish to delete the character in memory (the one that is here indicated). .34 You can change you mind if you wish. Though once again, help your programmer keep in business by distributing non-registered copies. .35 If you do not want to clutter your disk with backup files then set the Back Up routine to NO. However if you want to play safe and be very sure to avoid problems and mistakes it might be better to set the routine to YES. The default value is YES .36 who know's about this? .37 The file requested has not been found. Make sure you have indicated the correct drive (C:, A: etc) and directory path. .38 The directory path, for example: C:\LQMATRIX\HENSEL\, has been incorrectly entered or does not exist. Remember to end the path with a back slash \. .39 Two many files are open at once. If you should by chance receive (and I don't why you should) increase the Files instruction in the CONGIG.SYS file to FILES=20. .40 The font you have called has been marked as a 'Read only File' and cannot be changed nor deleted. You can, however, look over the file in the editor, though no changes will be accepted. The Read only attribute can be changed from the Miscelaneous Menu (M,F). You can also alter the font to a Read/Write by saving it under a different name. The orginal read only file will be preserved without change. .41 You have entered a nonexistant, invalid, Drive letter. Something like X:. .42 There are no files in the current directory of the size you want. .43 LQMATRIX cannot read the requested file. Perhaps you have given a Draft file a Proportional (.LQP) extension? In that case LQMATRIX is trying to read beyond the end of the file. .44 LQMATRIX cannot seem to write the file to disk. Has the drive lock slipped open? .45 Apparently the file has not been opened, a fault of LQMATRIX and not you! Let me know if this comes up and when. .46 You have covered the Disk write protect notch (on a 5 inch disk), or moved the Disk write slide (on a 3 inch disk). That prevents you from changing the contents of the disk. This does not prevent you from reading or downloading the file. If you wish to write the file to disk remove the protect- ive covering. .47 The Disk drive lock has not been set, or there is no disk in the drive. .48 You can change the nature of this file from a Read/Write file, one that you can alter as you wish, to a Read only file. Or, if already marked as Read only you can return it to the normal Read/Write status. .49 Move the cursor with the arrow keys or press the desired character. To select a character (or ASCII number) hit Enter. ESC will return you to the matrix. .50