home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- SpiritEd MANUAL ADDENDUMYou have received Version 1.3 of SpiritEd. This new version should be
- compatible with all ST, TT, and Falcon030 screen resolutions and work
- with all versions of TOS including MultiTOS. In the process of
- revising SpiritEd to conform to these new resolutions, some of the
- dialog boxes have been reworked, so they don't look exactly like the
- illustrations in the instruction manual. (The dialogs still contain
- the same items, they have just been reorganized a bit.) A major change has occurred in the menu bar. The menus no longer drop
- down--they now pull down. To access a menu, you need to move the
- mouse pointer into the menu bar over the menu you wish to select
- from, click and drag to the item you want to select, then release the
- mouse button. You will also notice that the main Menu bar at the top
- of the screen remains active even when the SpiritEd window is the top
- one. This means that there are two functional menu bars on the screen
- at the same time. (There are advantages and disadvantages associated
- with both the old and new approaches. We actually favored only having
- one active menu bar on the screen at a time, but MultiTOS required us
- to go with two which forced us to switch from pull-down to
- drop-down.) In addition to these changes, SpiritEd has some new features that are
- not covered in the instruction manual. These new features are as
- follows:PASTE FILE...The Paste File option in the Edit menu works just like the Paste
- option, except that the text to be pasted is taken from a file that
- you specify, instead of from the clipboard. To use this function,
- first move the insertion point to the spot where you want to insert
- the file, or select the text you want to replace by dragging the
- mouse over it. Then, select Paste File from the Edit menu and open
- the file that you want to paste.CONVERT...Text that you get from on-line services and readme documents that are
- meant to be displayed by file-viewing programs often have carriage
- returns (CRs) inserted at the end of each line. These extra CRs
- interfere with SpiritEd's word wrapping process. The Convert option
- that has been added to the SpiritWare menu deletes CRs at the ends of
- lines so the text will wrap properly. CRs between paragraphs are not
- deleted. How does SpiritEd know the difference between CRs at the end
- of lines and CRs between paragraphs? For SpiritEd to get it right,
- paragraphs must be separated by two or more CRs, or each paragraph
- must be indented with spaces or tabs.If there is no text selected when the Convert function is used, the
- entire text is converted. If text is selected, then the conversion is
- limited to the selected text. (To convert a document back to one
- which has CRs at the end of each line, save the file using the Print
- to File option in the Print dialog. See the instruction manual
- section on Printing.)KEYBOARD EQUIVALENTSThe keyboard equivalent for Find Again has been changed to ^G. For
- now, ^A still works, but you should get used to using ^G becuase this
- has become the Atari standard for this function. (^A will eventually
- be used to select all of the text.) ^R still activates the replace
- function, but ^H will do this as well. (^H is the new Atari
- standard.) Also, both ^D and Shift Delete can be used to delete a
- line.CURSOR MOVEMENTThe Clr Home key brings the cursor to the top of the document and
- Shift Clr Home takes the cursor to the bottom of the document.