3. THE QUICK-START MINI-MANUAL 
 
Now that you've completed your preliminary housekeeping, you're ready
to start word processing.  At this point you should have your keyboard
overlays positioned on your keyboard and should have run the Automatic
Install option in the INSTALL program.  by the end of this chapter,
you'll be ready to compose your own document. 
 
Reading the README File 
 
After loading WW, but before you go any further, read the README file
on your WORK disk.  (two-drive users can load the file from side 2 of
their Program disk.)  This file contains any modifications that do not
appear in this manual.  To view this file after loading "", remove the
Program disk and insert your WORK disk Then press [C= L] to load the
file.  At the prompt, "LOAD FILENAME?" type readme and press [RETURN].
The file will appear on your screen. 
 
Let's get acquainted with the editing screen display.  To create a
new document after reading the README file, press [CTRL 8].  In
response to "NEW DOCUMENT OR QUIT? (N/Q)" press [N].  You will now
see a clear WORD WRITER display. 
 
The WORD WRITER display 
 
At the top of the display you will see: 
 
WORD WRITER             INS P:01 L:01 C:01 
 
This is the Status line.  WW sometimes asks you questions.  These
questions or prompts always appear on the Status line.  On the right
side of the Status line, you will see P:01 L:01 C:01.  These numbers
tell you the location of the cursor (the lighted marker that indicates
where keyboard input will take place.)  For example: P:01 stand for
the page number where your cursor is located.  You can create document
of up to twenty pages (You are now located on Page 1.) 
 
L:01 stands for the line number where your cursor is located.  You are
now on Line 1. 
 
C:01 stands for the column number.  The column number is your
horizontal position on the display.  You are now in Column 1. 
 
Text Mode vs. Font Mode 
 
WORD WRITER provides you with two printing/text creation modes--font
and text.  TEXT modes is by far the simpler of the two and is the
fastest way to print your document.  TEXT mode uses the printer's
built-in mono-spaced character set (all the characters are the same
width) and any text enhancements styles your printer supports. 
 
FONT mode uses your dot-matrix printer in its graphics mode.  WORD
WRITER will print high-quality, proportionally-spaced fonts (a small
"i" taking less space that a capital "W"), and built-in styles of
underline, bold, italics, superscript, and subscript.  These fonts
and styles can be combined in many ways, even adding graphics for
complete flexibility. 
 
WORD WRITER can easily switch between FONT mode and TEXT mode at
any time.  Your document will quickly reformat to your selected
margins and page length--all at the press of a key.  In FONT mode,
while the fonts themselves are not displayed on the screen, the screen
will always reflect the correct number of words on each line and the
number of lines on each page.  This allows the program to operate very
quickly and simplifies editing since you can always see exactly where
your text appear on each line and on each page. 
 
All of this will mean much more to you when you print the sample
file SAMPLE, first as a text document and them as a font document
(assuming you have a dot matrix printer.) 
 
Place your WORK disk into your disk drive (two-drive users can use
Side 2 of the Program disk).  This disk contains the sample document
(and another document called TOWN). 
 
Loading a File 
 
before you begin, first take a look at the document SAMPLE.  To load
this document into WW, press [F2] (overlay).  remember, the
even-numbered function keys are accessed with the [SHIFT] key.  For
example, [F2] is obtained by pressing [SHIFT F1]. 
 
"SAVE/LOAD/MERGE? (S/L/M)" will appear in the status line at the top
of the screen.  Press [L] to load.  "LOAD FILENAME? will appear in
the status line at the top of your screen.  Type in sample and press
[RETURN].  The document will appear on your screen. 
 
What Are Those Funny Marks For? 
 
Very briefly, the codes "imbedded" in this in this document are-from
top to bottom--check mark (they look like check mark), hard returns
(they look like <-), font codes (they look like a number in reverse
video) and style codes to tell the printer to use certain
enhancements, such as underlining (they look like a letter in reverse
video). 
 
The check mark at the top of the document (m,0,80 RETURN) sets the
left margin and the line length.  The second line tells WW that a
graphic will be printed here, starting at position 52, in normal
orientation and the file name to look for is baseball.pic.  The third
line is another margin check mark, this one for the text to follow.
(In this case, the left margin is 10 and the line length is 60.  Just
precisely what 10 and 60 stand for depends on whether you are in TEXT
or FONT mode.  More on that later.)  The next two lines (center and
S3) instructs WW to center the text on the following lines and the
amount of spacing to put between each line. 
 
(See "Check Mark, Entering a" in Chapter 4.) 
 
The hard returns are shown on you screen as left-facing arrows and
till the program that this is the end of a paragraph. 
 
The highlighted numbers, of "font tokens," in the document are used
in FONT mode to tell WORD WRITER that you wish to switch from one
font to another. 
 
The highlighted letters, or "style tokens," tell the program that
the text in between these codes is to be printed in a special style,
such as underlined or italic.  The uppercase (capital) letters are set
by pressing [CTRL] along with that letter and begin that particular
printing enhancement.  The lowercase (small) letters are created by
pressing [C=] along with the corresponding letter and end the
enhancement. 
 
Later in this manual, we'll show you how to enter, change and delete
the font and style tokens.  You have complete control and flexibility
in the way your text looks. 
 
Seeing the Difference between Text and Font Mode 
 
Since the object of this exercise is to show you the difference
between TEXT and FONT mode, press [CTRL 9].  The PRINTER OPTIONS menu
will appear.  Let's first print SAMPLE in TEXT mode.  To do so, set
the Print Fonts option to N by pressing [A].  Be sure your printer is
connected, turned on and has paper.  Now, press [RETURN].  The document
will print out in TEXT mode. 
 
When you installed your printer in Chapter 2, (and responded to the
options in the Set preferences Window) the values for options
OPEN 4,4,?, NORMAL ASCII and LINEFEEDS were preset for your printer and
will probably never need to be changed.  A detailed explanation of these
options can be found in Chapter 5, "All about Printing." 
 
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NOTE: If the document doesn't print or doesn't appear to print
correctly, you may have install the wrong printer.  Return to Chapter
2 and install the correct printer. 
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TEXT mode printing is the fastest way to get your document on paper.
In many cases this will suffice.  However, if you have a dot matrix
printer, you have another option.  To print in FONT mode, you'll have
to set that first option in the PRINT OPTIONS menu, so press
[CTRL 9]. At the menu press [A] to toggle back to Y(es) for print
fonts. 
 
In FONT mode, you can print only from disk.  (There's much too much
going on to be held within the Commodore 64's 64K memory.)  If you
had just created SAMPLE-- or any other document--or if you had made
changes to the document, you would be prompted to save the file before
printing in FONT mode.  After the file was saved to disk, you would
print that file from disk.  Since SAMPLE is already on disk, "PRINT
FILENAME?" will appear on the Status line at the top of your screen
followed by the current filename--SAMPLE.  Respond by pressing
[RETURN]. 
 
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WARNING: Printing in FONT mode will erase any document in memory.
It is essential that you save your document before printing in FONT
mode, or your work will be lost. 
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This is lesson Number One in printing in font mode--The more you
switch among fonts, the more time it takes to print a page. 
 
When your document has finished printing, compare this print-out
with your first print-out.  In what can only be described as a
graphic demonstration, this second printing of SAMPLE certainly looks
more like an announcement. 
 
And now you know the difference between TEXT and FONT mode--and the
trade-offs that are involved in selecting one mode over the other. 
 
Moving Beyond Text Mode vs. Font Mode 
 
You  have already learned quite a bit in working with SAMPLE: loading
a file, check marks, hard returns, font and style tokens, the
differences between TEXT and FONT Mode and printing. 
 
Now let's try some editing functions, using the same file, SAMPLE. 
 
Instead of relying on the keyboard overlay, this time press the
mnemonic [C= L].
 This will load a file directly, by-passing the "SAVE/LOAD/MERGE"
prompt.  The prompt "LOAD FILENAME?" will appear, along with the name
of the current file.  Simply press [RETURN]--just as you've done
before.  Now that SAMPLE is on your screen, we're going to move from
the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen.  Press
[C= CLR/HOME].  The cursor will move from the top of the screen to
the bottom of the screen. 
 
To return to the top left of the screen, press [HOME]. 
 
To scroll quickly through your document, press [F7] to move a quarter
was down the screen, [F8] to move a quarter way up the screen. 
 
For other ways to move within your document, see Cursor Movement in
Chapter 4. 
 
A quick way to move about in a document--particularly a long document
that you've created--is to use the search feature. 
 
Making certain that you're at the top of SAMPLE (since WW searches
down from the current cursor position), check the keyboard overlay at
the top of your computer to find the search function.  Press [CTRL 1
(one)].  At the prompt "SEARCH FOR?" type RED and press [RETURN].  For
now, by-pass the prompt "REPLACE WITH?" and press [RETURN].  The cursor
will jump to the first occurrence of RED.  GO to the second occurrence,
by pressing [CTRL 2] (for search again). 
 
Now let's find another word for "RED" by using the Check Thesaurus
feature.  Place the Thesaurus disk in the drive you assigned for it in
the INSTALL program and press [F4].  (Remember that even-numbered
function keys are accessed by pressing [SHIFT].)  "RED" will appear in
the Status line at the top of your screen.  Press [RETURN], and the
Thesaurus will respond with a list of suitable synonyms.  Let's select
crimson by typing [2] and pressing [RETURN]. 
 
You'll learn more about the Thesaurus in Chapter 6. 
 
What if we didn't want just "crimson."  We wanted "bright crimson."
You can edit text in either the INSERT or the OVERWRITE mode.  To show
you the difference between INSERT mode and OVERWRITE mode, press
[SHIFT LEFT/RIGHT ARROWS] to move the cursor to the "c" in crimson ant
then press [CTRL INST/DEL] to change to INSERT mode.  When you are in
INSERT mode, the letters "INS" will appear in the Status line. 
 
Now type the word, bright.  As you type, the word "crimson" is pushed
aside.  You can press [CRTL INST/DEL] again to return to OVERWRITE
mode.  While we're in the business of adding and replacing words,
press [HOME] to go to the top of the screen.  Once again, press
[CTRL 1] to enter the Search & Replace feature.  At the prompt "SEARCH
FOR?," type FEAST and press [RETURN].  At the prompt "REPACE WITH",
type PIG OUT and press [RETURN].  We now have PIG OUT on Hot Dogs,
Pizza, Chili!. Every occurrence of "Feast" will now be replaced by
"PIG OUT" form the cursor to the end of the document. 
 
Moving and Copying 
 
Now we're ready for some fancy stuff--move and copy.  Move the cursor
to the top of the first letter in PACK the PLACE and press [C= 2]
(copy).  At the prompt "CRSR TO SELECT, RETURN TO COPY," move the
cursor to the last letter in PACK the PLACE and press [RETURN].  At
the prompt, "PRESS RETURN AT NEW LOCATION", press [C= G] to go to the
very end of the document and press [RETURN].  PACK THE PLACE will now
be repeated at the bottom of SAMPLE. 
 
One of the shortcuts you can take in WW is to use the Macro feature.
You may create one for any commonly used phrase-- such as Sincerely,
John Smith.  Press [C= 5].  At the "DEFINE MACRO (1/2)" prompt, press
[1] to create Macro 1 (of 2).  Then type BAH HUMBUG! and, once again,
press [C= 5].  "MACRO ENDED" will appear on the Status line at the top
of your screen.  Now jump to the end of SAMPLE by pressing [C= G] and
then press [CRTL 5] to play the macro.  BAH HUMBUG! will appear on the
line after "PACK the PLACE".  This macro can be saved using the SAVE 
SETTINGS function.  We will explain this later on. 
 
Checking Your Spelling 
 
Before you learn how to "QUIT," we have one more task--checking the
spelling of your document.  To use the Spell Checker, load the
document to be checked into WORD WRITER, and select the Check Spelling
option by pressing [F3] (check spelling). 
 
The program will then sort the words of your document into
alphabetical order.  After sorting, WORD WRITER will tell you the
number of words and the unique words in your document.  Remember to
insert your dictionary disk in the disk drive you specified in the
INSTALL program so that the computer can read the Spell Checker
dictionary.  Press [RETURN] to check the spelling or [RUN/STOP] to
obtain only the word count display. 
 
After checking its own dictionary, WW will ask if you are using a
Personal Dictionary.  For now, simply press [N].  When the computer
is finished checking your document against the WW Spell Checker
dictionary, you will see the prompt: "F1: REPLACE WORD F3: NEXT WORD
F8: EXIT."  Press [F8] to exit the Spell Checker and return to your
document. 
 
For more Spell Checker information, see Chapter 6. 
 
Saving and Quitting 
 
After you've checked your document's spelling, you may want to save
your corrected document.  To save, press [F2].  At the prompt,
SAVE/LOAD/MERGE? (S/L/M)," press [S] for the Save function.  Press
[RETURN] to save. 
 
After you've saved, you can either print the document or-- since you
already know how to print in both TEXT and FONT modes-- you can
simply quit.  To quit, press [CRTL 8].  At the prompt "NEW DOCUMENT
OR QUIT" press [N] to begin a new document or press [Q] to quit WORD
WRITER. 
 
If you have any specific questions about WW's functions, consult
Chapter 4.  Answers to your printing questions may be found in
Chapters 4 and 5.