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INTRODUCTION TO WORDWISE-PLUS
MENUS

The Main Menu

When you first start up Wordwise-Plus you will be presented with a list of
options. This is call the Main Menu. From the Main Menu you can load and
save your text and can tell the computer to print it out.

The Text Area

If you press the key marked ESCAPE on the keyboard the menu will go away and
you will see your text, between the words "Start" and "End". This is called
the text area. Anything that you type in will become part of your document.
To return to the Main Menu you just press the ESCAPE key again.

The ESCAPE key moves you back and forth between the Main Menu and your Text
Area.

Option 9 of the Main Menu will move you to the Segment Menu.

The Segment Menu

From the Segment Menu you can load and save segments as well as printing
them out. There are 10 segments and they are used to store programs or text.
Menu option 5 is used to select another segment for editing.

The Segment Areas

If you press the key marked ESCAPE on the keyboard the menu will go away and
you will see a segment, between the words "SEG 0" and "ENDSEG". This is
called Segment 0. Anything you type in will become part of that segment. To
return to the Segment Menu you just press the ESCAPE key again. In this case
the ESCAPE key moves you back and forth between the Segment Menu and a
Segment Area.


Option 9 of the Segment menu will move you to the Main Menu.

As well as the options displayed on the Main & Segment Menus there are two
"invisible" options "*" and ":".The first is *

* will permit you to type in any operating system command-just as you can
from BASIC.This must be used with care. Some commands will destroy the text
that you have in memory.

: will enable you to use all the Wordwise-Plus commands immediatly.All these
commands can also be used to write programs which are held in the SEGments.
Whilst most of the Main Menu options are quiet obvious ther are a few points
which it may be helpful to record for completeness.

1) Save entire text

When attempting to save text on disc, Wordwise-Plus first checks to see if a
file of that name already exists on disc. If it does then you will have to
confirm that you wish to save the file, since doing so will delete the file
previously held on disc under that name.

When text is saved all markers are deleted before it is saved.

2) Load new text

If you attempt to load a text file into the computer while there is already
one there you will delete the file in memory. To prevent this happening by
accident you will have to confirm your command in this case.

3) Save marked text

If you have markers around a section of text you can choose to save the
marker area only.

4) Load text to cursor

This command will let you load any text without the computer first deleting
the text in memory. It inserts the file being loaded into the text in memory
at the cursor position.

5) Search and Replace

If you wish to search for spacial characters such as RETURN or TAB or the
codes used in memory to represent <green>f1 or <white>f2 then you should use
the following characters:

İTo search forİuse these characters
İTABİİİT
İRETURNİİİR
İf1(green)İİİG
İf2(white)İİİW

Note that these codes do not follow the usual BBC computer conventions.The
letters have been chosen as mnemonics for the operations.
6) Print text

This command will print a formatted version of the text in memory. If some
of the text is surrounded by markers then the computer will ask if you wish
to print the marked text only.

7) Preview text

This command will let you preview the formatted output without printing the
text. If there is enough memory in the computer, or if you have fitted the
Aries B20 board or the 6502 second processor then the display will be in 80
column mode. If you have not fitted these expansion boards and the document
is too large to permit an 80 column display then the text will be printed in
a 40 column display mode. You will find that if you have less than about
15500 "Characters free" when you preview the text then the preview display
will be in 40 column mode.

8) Spool text

This command will enable you to save a fully formatted version of the text
on disc or cassette.

This formatted version of your document can then be *TYPED or sent over
electronic mail.

If you attempt to *TYPE or electronic mail the SAVED form of a document then
the embedded control codes and lack of RETURN characters may well cause
problems.

9) Segment menu

This option will select the segment menu. Option 9 of the segment menu
allows the user to return to the main menu.
CONTROL KEYS

Wordwise-Plus has two main modes of operation, known as Menu mode and Edit
mode. When entering for the first time the main menu is displayed which
shows a list of ten options that the user can choose. Nine of these have a
number beside them and can be selected by simply pressing the number of the
option reqired.

The last option on the list says:

ESCEdit Mode

If the ESCAPE key is pressed then you will enter the editing mode. Press the
key again and you will be returned back to the main menu-Menu Mode. It is in
Edit Mode that you enter your text into your main document or into any of
the ten segments and then chop and change it.

The top line of the Edit Mode display, known as the status line, shows how
many words have been typed into memory so far, and on the right, how many
more  characters can be typed in before the memory is full.

To enter text you can simply type at the keyboard as if it were a
typewritter. There is however one exception in that when the end of the line
is reached there is no need to press the RETURN key to start the new line.
This is done automatically in Wordwise-Plus. The only time that the RETURN
key should be pressed is if you want to end a paragraph or want to
deliberately force the end of a line of text. Indeed it is important that
the RETURN key is not pressed at the end of each line as it will effect the
layout of the final document when printed out.

The following pages contain a list of all the editing commands that are
available in Edit Mode.

Using the cursor keys

RIGHT Arrow key
Moves the cursor one position to the right, unless it is already at the end
of the line, in which case it will move to the start of the next line down.

LEFT Arrow key
Moves the cursor left one character unless it is already at the start of the
line, in which case it will move to the end of the line above.

UP Arrow key
Moves the cursor up one line.

DOWN Arrow key
Moves the cursor down one line

The following cursor controls can be used by holding bown the key marked
CTRL and pressing the appropriate arrow key.

CTRL & RIGHT Arrow key
Moves the cursor right one word, leaving it under the first character of the
next word in the text.

CTRL & LEFT Arrow key
Moves the cursor left one word, leaving it under the first character of the
previous word in the text.

CTRL & UP Arrow key
Moves the cursor up the text by 23 lines. This is one line less than a whole
screenful and so allows rapid 'paging' through the text.

CTRL & DOWN Arrow key
Moves the cursor down the text by 23 lines or one screenful.

The following cursor controls can be used by pressing the appropriate arrow
key whilst holding down the SHIFT key.

SHIFT & RIGHT Arrow key
Moves the cursor to the last character on the current line.Please note
however that this does not always move the cursor to position 40 on the
line, but to the last character. Because Wordwise-Plus normally displays
lines on the screen without splitting words between the end of one line and
the beginning of the next, the last character on the line is often not at
the last possible position.

SHIFT & LEFT Arrow key
Moves the cursor to the first position on the line.

SHIFT & UP Arrow key
Moves the cursor to the very start of the text stored in memory.

SHIFT & DOWN Arrow key
Moves the cursor to the last position in the text.

Other useful editing keys

CTRL A
Deletes the character at the cursor position. This is different from the
delete key which always deletes the character immediately to the left of the
cursor.

CTRL S
Swaps the case of the character at the cursor from upper case to lower case
or vice versa. This will only affect the alphbetic characters A to Z.

CTRL D
Deletes the entire word at the cursor.Wordwise-Plus recognises a word as any
collection of characters seperated by spaces including punctuation and
numbers.

CTRL F
Changes the on-screen formatting. Normally Wordwise-Plus does not split
words between the end of one line and the start of the next, instead it
transfers the whole word to the line below. There are occasions when this
can be a nuisance and so CTRL F can be used to prevent this on-screen
formatting. This actually re-displays the screen from the position of the
cursor onwards. Pressing CTRL F again will switch the on-screen formatting
back on.

CTRL R
Deletes all markers in your text. 

CTRL W
Causes the computer to recount the total number of words in the text,
setting W% and changing the word count in the corner of the screen. This
performs exactly the same operation as the command RECOUNT.

DELETE
Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. If the cursor is at the
start of the line then it will delete the last character of the previous
line.

TAB
When pressed this enters a TAB code into the text which is shown as a small
right arrow. This will then cause spaces to be output until the next defined
tabs stop when printing or previewing. See the DTembedded command.