WORD FUGUE About The Program .RRL W ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! R 1. This is a heavy duty Word Processing Program intended for a wide variety of word processing and editing tasks. As installed, it is ideal for the touch typist - there is no need to take your hands off the home row to activate any of the functions. 2. The novice should have no difficulty in using the program - the program is easy to learn, since it comes with context sensitive help available at the press of the F1 key. There is also a tutorial on the program disk, for novice users to try out the various functions. 3. The program comes supplied with industry standard Pull Down Menus to make learning it even easier. The point and select usage means that touch typists do not need to lift their hands from the home row. In addition, each command on the pull down menu can optionally display the command sequence needed to activate it, so novices can learn the commands. The pull down menu is activated by the F10 key. 4. The keyboard commands are fully configurable from an installation program. Many of the options are also configurable from inside the program. As supplied, it comes installed with a WordstarTM compatible interface, which is the industry standard for editor programs. Experienced users do not need to use the pull down menues, since all functions of the menu are also available at the press of one or two keys. 5. The word processor document files are ascii text files, which means that there are no funny embedded characters (unless you use the print control sequences) and no hi order bits set on. The files are WordstarTM compatible, which means that you can load them into any wordprocessor that reads Wordstar files. Apart from printer control strings, all formatting commands are by use of dot commands (. in column one) or embedded functions ({. }) in the text body. 6. There are up to 8 editing windows, which can look at different files or the same file. These files can be loaded from the parameter line. Any window can be zoomed to occupy the entire screen. 7. Printer support includes laser printers. It is easy to customize the printer drivers, and different ones can be selected from a pick list at print time. Printing also occurs in background, letting you go on with other word processing tasks. 8. The program comes with a 100,000 word dictionary (registered users only) and an update program that will add or delete words from the dictionary. Non registered users receive a smaller 30,000 word dictionary that is quite sufficient for them to evaluate the program. In addition to the main dictionary, you can set up auxilliary dictionaries in each directory, containing words specific to particular projects. 9. The program can generate indexes and tables of contents. 10. The program comes with macro facilities, the ability to record keystrokes, and a number of macro files for additional flexability. In addition, macros can be invoked at program startup from the parameter line. 11. Printing, index and table of contents generation can include other files, which can in turn include other files, up to 5 levels of nesting. This means that even the biggest novel or research paper can be easily managed. 12. Automatic reformatting of text is available. 13. Newspaper style columns are supported, as is word wrap and justification of each column independently. Column mode blocks can be defined and copied, moved or deleted. 14. Comprehensive monitor support - MONO, CGA, EGA or VGA or HERCULES. 15. DOS shell is supplied to permit use of all DOS commands from within the program. 16. A pop up calculator with 16 functions is included. The calculation result can be pasted into your text. 17. The program comes with support for box and line drawing, with these characters available at the press of a key. Load the macro files SINGLE.MAC for single lines and DOUBLE.MAC for double lines. Aditional macro files contain European and Greek characters. 18. Optional on screen display of fonts is also available. You can edit text with this mode operating (unlike wordstar). 19. Printing can have multiple headers and footers, and these can include functions such as current date or time. These functions are also available within the text body. 20. Comprehensive text formatting is available and can be stored in the text as ruler lines. There is no limit on the number of ruler lines you can have. There is even a file of standard ruler lines that can be automatically included into your text. You can add other lines to this file should you so desire. 21. Mouse support. 22. Automatic save feature after number of minutes or number of keystrokes (can be disabled) 23. Full featured mail merge facility that includes mathematic calculations, conditional merging using IF ELSE constructs and so on. 24. File names can have up to 65 character descriptions added to them, in order to make recognition of files easier. These descriptions are displayed when files are listed, and can be altered at the press of a key. In addition, a utility (FI) is supplied to display and change file descriptions from the dos prompt. It acts like a replacement of the DOS DIR command. 20. Hundreds of other sophisticated features like insertion of current date or time (in different formats), the ability to mark changed text in the left hand margin, offset page number on odd or even pages and so on. 21. The installed command make it perfect for Lap tops, while the cursor can be changed to a hard block of color where it is ordinarily hard to see. Files on the disks Disk 1 - Word Fugue System Disk WF.EXE - The Word Fugue program WF.OVR - Overlays for the program *.MAC - The macro files WF.RLR - File containing sample ruler lines Standard macro ESC R will load and select from this file README.1 - This attachment UPDATE.DOC - Discussion of updates to program. Useful if you are upgrading TUTORIAL.DOC - Tutorial for novice users Disk 2 - Word Fugue Utility Disk WF.HLP - The context sensitive help file *.PDF - These are the printer configuration files. Install and edit them from the print menu ( F P) W will load a print definition file, E will edit the file, while S will save the modified definition. WFINST.EXE - The installation program (for installing keyboard commands) WF.TXT - Text file used by WFINST Disk 3 - Word Fugue Dictionary Disk WFDICT.EXE - The dictionary maintenance program Adds or Deletes words from dictionary WF_MAIN.DIC - This is the dictionary Running the Program The manual describes how to install and run the program. Briefly - the overlay file (WF.OVR) must be in the default directory unless you have installed the home directory: 1. Make the Word Fugue directory the default directory 2. Run Word Fugue by typing in WF 3. Install the home directory by ShiftF1 O G H to display the default directory. Press ENTER to record it, followed by ESC to return to the options menu, S to save the defaults, and then press ESC 3 times to exit the pulldown menus and return to text entry mode These instructions may seem long winded, but they are operating a pulldown menu, and will be intuitively obvious when you try it. Registering .RRL ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! R The program is distributed as shareware, which means that unless you have paid a registration fee of $55 (Australia only) or $US55 (Overseas), you are merely trying it to see if you like it. Registered users receive the latest version of the program, as well as a printed and bound 96 page manual that describes features more fully. The manual is organized by subject matter, making it easy for the user to find what they need. In addition, if you register, you receive news of updates, you get to pester me with questions and request new features. Our policy on updates is that they are available at a reduced price (basically to cover costs), although users who suggest changes (or find bugs) receive a free update. You can distribute your registered versions to friends, but do encourage them to register to receive their own copy of the manual. If your friends register and quote your serial number, you will receive a bounty of $5 for each one. 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