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1 within the column.
1 will also be centred.
1 to be used:
1 this text is printed
1 the justification modes and
1 the >margin command.
1 textr carriage return, but has a space
1 pica ...is used.
1 mar 25 {this positions the graphic in the centre:
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1 italic superscript.
1 intro 324 C
1 into the text. As you can see, the special characters are displayed
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1 graph [*word]
1 graph 1,1 [*master] {note: the above line does not end in a
1 graph 1,1 [*cardex]
1 emphasised italics,
1 elite ...is a valid command. This (on printout) will set
1 demo 5 2245
1 demo 4 2060
1 demo 3 1431
1 demo 2 1987
1 demo 1 2707
1 custom! 1256
1 a$=" ":
1 [q/a/o/p] move [CURSOR] shape
1 [ENTER] store [SPACE] quit
1 [ENTER] search$
1 [ENTER] replace$
1 [ENTER] filename
1 You should also note that >wide will only work properly with >fill justification. As you can see above, using >left, >right or >centred text produces erratic results when used with >wide. You should not set these modes when using this.
1 You could also try printing this out in >wide spacing by typing this command at the start of the file. You will notice that the lines as printed no longer correspond to the 64 column display. This is because >wide reduces the line length by one eighth when printing, then fills out the line to produce wide spacing. You can see this if you alter the display to 56 columns. The display lines will then correspond to the printed lines, though you should change back to 64 columns when you print the file.
1 You can use these to print special characters not normally accessible (see one of the other demos) but there are some things you should be wary of:
1 You can print the page number anywhere in the text by pressing [GRAPH] then [CAPS LOCK] then three blank characters after the `dot' character produced. The result looks like this:
1 You can also use them in combinations, such as
1 WordMaster +2A
1 Word-Master
1 WM2 b,
1 WM1
1 WM
1 To read on, press [ENTER] to enter the document and use the cursor keys to scroll.
1 This text is printed in pica pitch. Notice how there is no gap between this and the above text when printed, although when displayed there is a command line in between them. To separate two paragraphs with a gap, a carriage return is used (the downwards pointing arrow character). This is inserted into the text by pressing [ENTER] when editing. Here, then, is a wide space:
1 This style of justification (>left) is the same as that shown on the screen. As you can see, the text is printed the same as it appears in the display. This is the usual way to print a letter or note, but for an important document >fill justification may be required.
1 This paragraph has a new margin, and is printed in 32 columns. You can see how this particular paragraph looks if you reduce the display to 32 columns also. It should be remembered that the margin is always set in PICA units (10th's of an inch). You should take this into account when working out a column width for a different pitch such as ELITE.
1 This is some text. This will be printed out in elite pitch & in 64 columns across. Notice how the text is displayed in a different colour to the main text.
1 This file demonstrates the >margin and >column commands. This paragraph is printed as on-screen, in a 64 character column width. The left margin has been set by the >margin command.
1 This file demonstrates
1 This demo prints a graphic in the centre of the page (with the above commands) and another in the middle of this text. As you can see, the text is automatically wrapped round the graphic to produce neat results. You can try this with different pitches
1 The above defines UDC 1 as `a', `b' & `c'. Printed out this looks like `
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1 Print Style
1 Pressing the [GRAPH] key brings up a new menu allowing you to insert
1 Press [Q] to quitelite 27 77 | pica 27 80 | subscript
1 Paul Sneesby
1 PCG Software
1 OTZXed by Mike Baker 19/6/04
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1 Load paper then [ENTER]maRcoLgRteXpicAelitEconDlargEnorMnlQdrAheaDfooTaTlefTceNriGfilLwidELreseTFdeFsHinK
1 Large text
1 From compilation - The DTP Pack
1 For 128k +2A only
1 Customise Printer Control Codes
1 Control Characters
1 Compilation
1 B(,8*GObk>
1 B M Parkinson
1 As you can see
1 Another use for >column is to print in a wider column width than can be displayed. This ELITE paragraph is printed in 77 columns so as to be equal in width with the PICA paragraph above.This can be useful if you have a 120-column printer or if you want to use the full width of a standard 80-column printer.
1 And now back to the standard margin & column width. You could use the above demonstration to leave space in a document for a photograph or drawing. Use of the >at command (see HEADERS & FOOTERS section) in conjunction with >mar & >col would enable you to design specific layouts for printing certain types of document.
1 @[L] load file [GRAPH] screen$ [DEL] del.file [J] link files
1 @[EDIT] del.word [DEL] del.line [CAPS] space [ENTER] undelete:
1 @-------^-------^-------^-------^-------^-------^-------^-------
1 ?[ENTER] move [CAPS LOCK] copy [DEL] delete [SAVE] save block
1 >def 1 97,98,99
1 >[INV.VID] options [TRU.VID] com.line [AT] under [PLOT] fast
1 >[GRAPH] p.codes [EDIT] del/undel [DRAW] blocks [REM] search
1 >GRAPHIC [CAPS] [EDIT] [DEL] [1-7] [EDI^S] on [edis] off
1 >FILE HANDLING [C] create file [G] get file [S] save files
1 >CAPS LOCK off | INSERT MODE on | COLUMN 64 | FAST SCROLL off
1 =SEARCH/REPLACE [DRAW] autoreplace off [REM] check-case off
1 :[P] print [BREAK] quit [F] f'feed off [H] single on
1 :<KEYS> [A] ASCII [C] colours [F] find page [P] print
1 9 CODES
1 8[D] drive T [K] catalogue [E] erase file [Q] lists
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1 7OPTIONS [ENTER] write [Q] quit [S] save [R] rename
1 7By B M Parkinson and Paul Sneesby. All rights reserved.
1 6Word-Master V1.04: (C)1987, Cardex Computer Software.
1 464 column 66 words 472 characters 26823 freeVerified OK
1 3DELETE/UNDELETE [<ANY>] return FAST SCROLL off
1 222444((hpppabddIV
1 1[SPACE] ret [B] border [C] C'lines [D] display
1 1987 BP & PSS
1 0BLOCKS MENU [SPACE] return FAST SCROLL off
1 . This is done by typing a space (or as many spaces as are required) at the start of the line.
1 -[ENTER] start of block [ENTER] end of block
1 -[ENTER] continue [SPACE] quit [DEL] replace
1 ---------------------------------------------------------------
1 *word 1135 n
1 *master 2193
1 *cardex 1405 |
1 (using the appropriate command) and you can resize the graphic by altering the graphic size parameters.
1 (C)1987 Cardex
1 '. You will notice that this line juts out from the column by two characters. This is because the justification assumes the UDC's to be one character wide, and in this case it isn't. There isn't much use for `abc' anyway - the main use of these is to produce special characters like
1 "[L] 60 lines [S] 1 start [N] 1 first [E] 999 end [G] 12 spacing
1 normal draft mode
1 italic text
1 in the text, and disappear on printout.
1 emphasised text
1 double-strike
1 are always reproduced on the paper as they are in the display.
1 You should be careful when using very large enlargements as it is possible to blow up a graphic to wider than the printer carriage. Word-Master uses the printer's 120 DPI mode, so a full screen blown up to *4 wide would comprise 256*4 or 1024 dots. On an 80 column printer there are only 120*8 or 960 dots to the eight inch line, which means that the right hand section of the graphic would be lost. It is also possible to expand a graphic to wider than the text column width. Although this doesn't do any harm, it does look a bit untidy.
1 You may find the special characters a bit hard on the eyesight (they are a bit small). There isn't really much you can do about this - the Spectrum display wasn't designed to print 64 characters across, and 32 characters is rather impractical for word-processing. The best quality display will be from a professional computer monitor, but with a bit of fine tuning a black & white TV will prove adequate. Portables are best, as the smaller screen improves the clarity.
1 You can also produce combinations of pitches, though this depends on which combinations your printer supports. This text is printed in condensed pica.
1 Welcome to Word-Master, the word-processor.
1 This is >fill justification. As you can see, the spaces between the words have been `filled out' where necessary to make both sides of the printed column even and straight. As this is achieved on output, you will not see the same results in the display, but note that the lines themselves have not been altered - only the spaces separating the words.
1 This does have the disadvantage of not being what-you-see is what-you-get, but can still be useful on occasion.
1 They do affect the printout though, by selecting the
1 The demo's included on the cassette should be read through in order and with reference to the manual. Most of the commands and print options are demonstrated so you can quickly see how different print effects are produced with Word-Master.
1 One problem with using the command line system to produce graphics is that you can't actually see what you are going to get before you print the document. The only solution is to carefully work out what you want beforehand and make a test-print or two in draft mode before the final print (this demo took me one test-print to get the margin settings right - mainly because I couldn't be bothered working them out).
1 Less useful, but required on occasion, is >right justification. Here you can see that the right-hand margin is straight and the left-hand ragged. You should not use this or the >centre mode when you want the text to appear as it does on the screen, as you would if printing a list or table of figures.
1 If you print this out, you will find the current page number (whatever you have set as the `first' on the PRINT menu) will be printed where the three zeros are above. Ideally you would want to incorporate this into a header or footer, for which you should see the appropriate section in the manual.
1 If you have tried printing this and your printer has just produced garbage or spurious characters then it is possible that your printer uses codes different to those being sent by the commands above. You will have to load the `custom!' file and compare the codes being used with those in the printer manual, and make any changes that are necessary.
1 As you can see, these two paragraphs are separated by a wide-space. You will also notice that this paragraph is
1 And this text is printed in large-condensed pica! As you can see, the overall width of the printed column is the same as that above. When the >large setting is used, the printed output is automatically re-formatted by Word-Master to do this, though this does mean that the output is no longer what-you-see is what-you-get.
1 And now we are back to the pica pitch. This demo-file should have shown you the basics of using the command lines and the pitch commands, though there are many other combinations possible.
1 27 71 | off
1 27 83 0 | off
1 text written on a command line will be printed.
1 ignored.
1 command there. If there isn't, the command line is simply
1 characters of the line to see if there is a valid
1 These coloured lines are command lines. None of the
1 27 69 | off
1 What happens is that Word-Master checks the first few
1 To change back to the default pica pitch, the command
1 27 52 | off
1 to the printer. All the text from this point on will
1 there has only been this comment...
1 now be printed in elite.
1 elite pitch by sending a sequence of control codes
1 That is, if there were any text in this file, as yet
1 27 84 | condensed 27 15 | normal 18 | emphasised
1 27 72 | large 27 87 1 | normal 27 87 0 | italics
1 27 70 | doublestrike
1 27 53 | underline 27 45 1 | off 27 45 0 | draft 27 120 0 | nlq 27 120 1 | margin n 13 27 108 | skip n 27 102 1 | n/216' feed 27 74 | carriage return 13 | line feed 10 | form feed 12 | reset 27 64 | n/72' spacing 27 65 |
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1 sub
1 the end of the line and see what
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1 is `filled out' because >fill
1 happens on the printout.}
1 effect of this is that the line
1 after the `s' in `pitches'. The
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