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CROSSWORD POWER (tm) CROSSWORD PUZZLE PROGRAM Version 5.00 This program to create Crossword Puzzles from your vocabulary words and clues CROSSWORD POWER (tm) is a copyrighted program distributed as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may make 1 copy of this program and documentation for a 30 day evaluation. If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses are also available for $119.85 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. All references to SHAREWARE and evaluation software are removed from the print outs of the registered versions of this program. To order the registered version, use the order blank that can be printed from the pull down menu. Registered owners will receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. This program can only be updated and improved when you support my efforts. for use with IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, and compatibles (512 K) (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1985-1992 WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 Modem Support is available on the Rapid River BBS (715) 435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1) MasterCard & VISA orders accepted (715) 423-8189 Voice Support is only available to registered users. The information contained in the CROSSWORD POWER program and manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by the author or WISCO COMPUTING for its use. The author or WISCO COMPUTING shall not be liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the CROSSWORD POWER program or this manual. Comments on this publication and on CROSSWORD POWER are invited. CROSSWORD POWER, VOCABULARY POWER, VOCABULARY BINGO POWER, GRADE BOOK POWER, GRADING SKILLS POWER, AND SURVEY POWER are the trademarks of WISCO COMPUTING. The computer hardware, software, and printer names used in this manual are the trade names and/or trademarks of their respective owners. CROSSWORD POWER is a computer software program that combines entertainment and educational value. This program was originally developed for teachers to help students learn vocabulary. This program can be used by anyone who enjoys making and solving crossword puzzles. Puzzles can be created for parties, games, and study aids. Imagine the fun and interaction you can have at family reunions and baby showers with these puzzles. You could even set up your own part-time business making crosswords for business organizations and parties. Businesses and consultants have used this program for training sessions, and advertising promotions. Businesses can use this program for their internal newsletters. Restaurants can use the crossword puzzles for their place mats. ----------------------------------------------------------------- EDITING WORDS, CLUES, AND SETTING INFORMATION The Home key will place the cursor at the beginning of the current edit field. The End key will place the cursor at the end of the current edit field. Alt-D will delete the current edit field. Alt-R will restore the original information. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor within the edit field. Control-left and control-right arrow keys move the cursor to the far left or right sides of the window. The up and down arrow keys move the cursor between edit fields. Alternate-F1 displays foreign language codes, Shift-F1 displays math symbols, and control-F1 displays the Greek characters when editing. The special symbols can be included in your vocabulary words and clues by holding the alternate key down and entering the 3 digit number on the number pad of the IBM keyboard. CROSSWORD POWER Page 3 CROSSWORD POWER is specifically designed to be simple to understand and easy to use. It requires very little knowledge of computers. No commands need to be memorized. The menus allow easy movement through the program so you can begin producing and printing puzzles in just a few minutes. Help is available by pressing the F1 function key. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible 512K One disk drive (second recommended) or hard drive Blank formatted diskette for puzzle and word list storage Letter Quality, LaserJet II/III, DeskJet or Graphics Printer MS-DOS Version 2.1 or greater CAPABILITIES OF CROSSWORD POWER: Puzzle size can be varied from 3 to 24 columns and from 3 to 17 rows. Large squares for puzzle letters (3 1/3 per inch). Puzzles can be printed in 10, 12, 15, or 17 pitch type. Depending on your printer, clues can be printed in either 10, 12, 15, or condensed (16.66) pitch type. Up to 80 words will be placed automatically in each puzzle. Puzzle words can be up to 18 characters long. Clues can be up to 100 characters long. Words and clues can easily be added, deleted, printed, or changed at any time. Words and clues from previously used word lists can be added automatically to displayed puzzles. Words can also be manually entered into the displayed puzzle at any time. CROSSWORD POWER also supports the optional font cartridge of the EpsonLQ printer. Downloaded fixed-width soft fonts and fixed- width font cartridges for the DeskJet and LaserJet II/III printers are also supported. If your monitor supports EGA screens, puzzles can also be displayed and captured as a PCX graphic. These graphics can be imported into desk top publishing (and some word processing) programs. A variety of puzzles can be created and printed from each list of words and clues. This option allows teachers to stress the same vocabulary but give different puzzles to their students. This has been a proven effective method for learning vocabulary words. CROSSWORD POWER is not copy protected. Backups of all files can be made using normal disk copying procedures. CROSSWORD POWER Page 4 GETTING STARTED: If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses are also available. To order CROSSWORD POWER, use the order blank that can be printed from the pull down menu. Registered owners will receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. Modem Support is available on the Rapid River BBS 715-435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1) Voice support is only available to registered users. CROSSWORD POWER can only be updated and improved when you support my programming efforts. Only registered users will receive the upgrade notices and be eligible to purchase the upgrade. A QUICK TUTORIAL: 1. Insert the working copy diskette in drive A:. 2. Enter the word PUZZLE when A:> is displayed. 3. When the program is loaded, the Title Screen will appear. 4. Then the Menu Bar will appear at the top of the screen. 5. Use the right arrow key or left mouse button to go to the Settings Menu. Select Additional Settings. 6. Make the correct settings for your computer and printer. 7. Press Escape to reveal the Menu Bar. 8. Save these settings. 9. Move the cursor to the File Menu. 10. Select Load First Word List. 11. Move the cursor up or down to a word list. Press Enter. 12. Move the cursor to the Puzzle Menu. 13. Select Automatic Arrangement to automatically place the puzzle words into the puzzle.. GENERAL INFORMATION: A status line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The starting square, current word list name(s), and the number of words in the current or best puzzle are displayed. When CROSSWORD POWER begins, 0 words will be displayed. The F1 function key can be pressed to reveal Help Screens. CROSSWORD POWER Page 5 THE WORDLIST MENU: --------------------- New Load First Word List Load Second Word List --------------------- Create... Edit Title... Review/Change/Add Print Wordlist Manipulate Wordlist Save Wordlist --------------------- Shell to DOS --------------------- Exit --------------------- NEW: This selection removes all puzzles and word lists from the computer's memory. Since a puzzle no longer exists in the computer's memory, the status line shows 0 words. ABOUT THE WORD LISTS: Each word list can have up to 100 words and related clues. Word lists can be combined to place up to 80 words in each puzzle. Every word list may be reused in new puzzles. This allows the user to review previously learned vocabulary too. All files created by CROSSWORD POWER may be copied and erased using the normal DOS commands. ABOUT THE PUZZLE WORDS (ANSWERS): Words may be up to 18 characters long. Any character except the space, comma, asterisk *, double quote ", vertical bar |, and number sign # can be used in a puzzle word. Even numbers can be used to create math puzzles. ABOUT THE CLUES (DEFINITIONS): Each clue can be up to 100 characters long. Long clues are automatically divided if necessary. Any character except the double quote " and comma can be used in a clue. SECOND WORDLIST: Additional words from other word lists may be added to a displayed puzzle. Up to 80 words can be placed in each CROSSWORD POWER Page 6 puzzle. After selecting, an additional word list will be read from the diskette. CROSSWORD POWER will attempt to fit the additional words into the current puzzle. The additional words will be displayed as they are inserted into the puzzle. Duplicate words will not be entered into the puzzle. This selection may be repeated to add words from additional word lists. Pressing the Escape key while the wordlist names are displayed will remove the second wordlist. MANIPULATING THE WORDLIST: Words and clues can be automatically changed to upper and lower case letters, be sorted by length, alphabetized, and randomized. The F1 function key can be pressed to provide more information about editing the puzzle words and clues. Alternate-F1 displays foreign language codes, Shift-F1 displays math symbols, Control- F1 displays Greek characters when editing. ABOUT WORD AND CLUE FORMATTING: Puzzle words can be changed back and forth between capital and lower case letters. It is easier to work with all capital letters. However, sometimes lower case letters are necessary. For example, in chemistry, CO means Carbon Monoxide and Co means Cobalt. This program treats capital letters and lower case letters as two different letters. This means that words will not intersect at a common letter if one is a capital letter and the other is lower case letter. ABOUT SORTING, ALPHABETIZING, AND RANDOMIZING WORD ORDER: The word list order is used to determine which words are placed in a puzzle first. Changing the order of the words allows different puzzles to be created. HINTS: Placing the longest words into a puzzle first does not guarantee that more total words will be placed into a puzzle. Each time a word list is randomized, the order of the puzzle words and clues is changed. Different puzzles can be used by teachers to stress the same vocabulary words but wanting to give students different puzzles. The different puzzles allow verbal interaction to learn the puzzle words and clues. CROSSWORD POWER Page 7 THE PUZZLE MENU: ------------------------- Automatic Arrangement Unused Words Displayed ------------------------- Load Unfinished Puzzle Self-Designed Puzzle Edit Unfinished Title Edit Puzzle Letters Edit Unfinished Clues ------------------------- Save Unfinished Puzzle ------------------------- AUTOMATIC ARRANGEMENT: When selected, a single crossword puzzle is created using your word list(s), puzzle size, and starting square. UNUSED WORDS DISPLAYED: This option allows you to display and print words from the word list that were not inserted into the puzzle. SELF-DESIGNED PUZZLE: You can design a complete puzzle from a blank grid. This puzzle is saved as an unfinished puzzle. The unfinished puzzle is loaded and saved from this menu. EDITING PUZZLE LETTERS: This selection lets you type puzzle words directly into the puzzle. You can also erase puzzle words with this selection. After making this selection, the flashing cursor will be located in the upper left corner of the puzzle. The HOME key can be used to return to this corner. The four arrow directional keys can be used to move to the puzzle position to enter or change a puzzle letter. When the cursor is at the location to be changed, enter the new letter. If you make a mistake, and/or wish to delete a puzzle letter, you should enter a question mark (?) for the new letter. A blank space will replace the old letter. After pressing the END key to leave the Editing mode, asterisks will be entered at the beginning and end of each puzzle word. You should save these puzzle words. Do not put more than 80 words in the puzzle. CROSSWORD POWER Page 8 EDITING UNFINISHED CLUES: This selection allows you to enter or revise clues in unfinished puzzles and puzzles created by automatic arrangement. SAVING THE UNFINISHED PUZZLE: The Unfinished puzzle can also be saved from this menu selection. Unfinished puzzles use the same base name as the word list name. The extension of the file name is .UNF MAKE WORDLIST FROM UNFINISHED PUZZLE: This selection is only used if you are designing a puzzle from scratch or attempting to list all words used in an unfinished puzzle. Puzzle words are saved to make it easier to enter the related clues. The wordlist used the base name of the Unfinished puzzle and adds the extension .WL This selection makes it easier to use these words in our companion product VOCABULARY POWER. CROSSWORD POWER Page 9 THE OUTPUT MENU: ------------------------- Student Puzzle Printed Teacher Puzzle Printed Clues Only Printed ------------------------- Student Puzzle to Disk Teacher Puzzle to Disk ------------------------- Both Student & Teacher ------------------------- EGA Puzzle Display PCX Puzzle to Disk ------------------------- STUDENT PUZZLE PRINTED: The student copy of the puzzle will be printed when this option is selected. The boxes will be automatically numbered. The puzzle clues will also be automatically numbered, arranged and printed below the puzzle. TEACHER PUZZLE PRINTED: The teacher copy (answer key) will be printed when this option is selected. The puzzle words will be placed in the puzzle. The puzzle clues will be automatically numbered, arranged and printed below the puzzle. PRINTING THE PUZZLE CLUES: Only the puzzle clues will be printed using the arrangement determined by the Settings Menu. If Side by Side was selected, across and down clues will be automatically balanced and formatted in two columns. Full line clue printing prints all across clues before printing the down clues. SAVING PUZZLES TO DISK: At times you may want to create a puzzle for importing to another program. These selections allow you to save the puzzles to disk as ASCII files. CROSSWORD POWER Page 10 BOTH STUDENT & TEACHER: The teacher puzzle (answer key) will be printed with each student puzzle when this selection is made. EGA & PCX GRAPHICS PUZZLE DISPLAY: If your monitor can display EGA screens (SCREEN 9), then the puzzle can be graphically displayed. The displayed puzzle may be screen captured or saved as a PCX graphics and imported into most desk top publishing and some word processing programs. The extension .PCX is used for PCX graphic filenames. ASCII FILE NAMING DETAILS: If a puzzle is saved as an ASCII file, the following pattern is used to name the file: The first part of the file name uses the same name as the word list. The extension part (the three letters after the period) varies depending on the whether the puzzle is the teacher or student copy. The extension .PZT is the teacher copy of the puzzle, .PZS is the student copy of the puzzle, and .PZC is the extension used for the clues. The original word lists use the extension .WL Word list files are saved as ASCII files to make it easier to check spelling. If you use the spell checker of your word processor, and your words are changed, make sure to save the word list file in ASCII format. Many word processors use special formatting codes when files are saved the regular way. Saving of the file in ASCII format prevents saving of the formatting codes. VOCABULARY POWER, our companion product also varies the extension. The first letter of the extension will always be V (for VOCABULARY). The last letter will either be a S for STUDENT or T for TEACHER. The second letter uses the following pattern Wordsearch = W, Cryptolist = C, Juggle word = J, Multiple choice quiz = M, and matching Quiz = Q. CROSSWORD POWER Page 11 THE MULTIPLE MENU: --------------------------- Find Best Single Puzzle Find & Print Best Single --------------------------- If the Escape key is pressed during the search for the best puzzle, the program will return to the pull down menus. THE BEST SINGLE PUZZLE: The program will search through different word arrangements to find the best single puzzle. If Find & Print Best Single is selected, the best puzzle will be printed automatically after the search is completed. Your first word will be placed horizontally at your starting row and column position before trying to find intersecting words. When attempting to find the best puzzle, the best starting square should be Column 1, Row 1. The method used to find the best puzzle is set in the Settings Menu. The Total method examines all possible starting square combinations. The Quick method examines about 40 combinations. CROSSWORD POWER Page 12 THE SETTINGS MENU: --------------------- Additional Settings Select Printer Font Save All Settings --------------------- Order Information Print Order Blank View Manual --------------------- Additional Settings Total Puzzle Size - Columns, Rows (C, R): 24, 17 Starting Square - Column, Row (C, R): 8, 17 Puzzle Pitch (10, 12, 15, or 17) Chars.: 10 Clue Pitch (10, 12, 15, or 17) Chars.: 10 Drive Containing Word Lists: C:\PUZZLE\ Print the Following Two Line Puzzle Heading: YES Puzzle Heading - Line 1, Left Side: SCIENCE Puzzle Heading - Line 1, Right Side: Name_________________ Puzzle Heading - Line 2, Right Side: Period 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Puzzle Clue Arrangement: SIDE BY SIDE Automatically Capitalize the Letters: YES Printer to Print Puzzle & Clues: EPSONLQ Search Method to Find Best Puzzle: TOTAL Set Printer to Letter Quality: YES Clue Lines Per Page ( 6 or 8): 6 Length of Paper in Inches: 11 Print Extra Space between Puzzle & Clues: NO PUZZLE SIZE: Puzzle size may be varied from 3 to 24 columns wide and from 3 to 17 rows high. A typical puzzle with clues will usually fit on the normal size 8 1/2" by 11" paper. Puzzles are automati- cally sized before printing. This eliminates all outside rows and columns that do not contain letters. STARTING SQUARE: Your first word will be placed horizontally at your starting row and column position before trying to find intersecting words. When attempting to find the best puzzle, the best starting square should be Column 1, Row 1. The Total method examines all possible starting square combinations. The Quick method examines about 40 starting square combinations. CROSSWORD POWER Page 13 PUZZLE AND CLUE PITCH: Select a printer pitch supported by your printer. DRIVE CONTAINING WORD LISTS: Select the Drive Letter and subdirectory. To keep the word lists in the same directory as the CROSSWORD POWER program files, you can delete the displayed information by pressing Alternate-D. (Holding the Alternate Key down while pressing the letter D) PRINTING THE TWO LINE PUZZLE HEADING: If YES is chosen a two line heading will be printed. The topic of the word list will be printed on the left side of the second line. If NO is chosen, the word list topic will be centered at the top of each printed page. PUZZLE CLUE ARRANGEMENT: If Side by Side is selected, across and down clues will be auto- matically balanced and formatted in two columns below each puzzle grid. Full line clue printing prints all across clues before printing the down clues. AUTOMATICALLY CAPITALIZE PUZZLE LETTERS: For letters to intersect in the puzzle, they must be identical. All letters of the words must be either all lower or upper case. To quickly change the case of the words, use the manipulate selection on the FILE MENU. PRINTER TO PRINT PUZZLE & CLUES: The following printers are supported by CROSSWORD POWER: EpsonMX Diablo 630 IBM Proprinter EpsonRX Okidata Panasonic KX-P1091i EpsonFX Toshiba P1351 H-P DeskJet, DeskJet Plus EpsonLQ NEC 3550 H-P LaserJet II, IIP, III Additional printers may also be supported. If your printer is not listed or can not emulate on of the listed printers, printer codes for User-Defined printers can be entered and saved by the program. Use your printer manual to find the following printer codes needed for User-Defined printers. 1. Master Reset 5. 12 Pitch On 9. Doublestrike OFF 2. 6 Lines per Inch 6. Underline ON 10. Unidirection ON 3. 8 Lines per Inch 7. Underline OFF 11. Unidirection OFF 4. 10 Pitch ON 8. Doublestrike ON CROSSWORD POWER Page 14 When the printer is selected, additional questions will be asked. FILL CHAR. <A>SCII, <C>HECKERED, OR <S>OLID If the listed printer has a C or an S after the printer name, the unused letter squares can be filled with a checkered or solid pattern. All printers support an ASCII character filling the unused letter squares. SHEET FEEDER <Yes or No>: You will be asked if a sheet feeder is attached to the printer. IGNORE PRINTER STATUS <Yes or No>: CROSSWORD POWER always checks the status of the parallel printer port before sending any data. This normally works quite well. However, if you map a parallel port to a serial one by the MODE command, or if you have a non-standard, or very fast computer, you may experience problems. CROSSWORD POWER might actually think that your printer port (LPT1:) is busy when you know it is not. If you have printer problems like this, select Y for Yes to ignore the printer status. LASERJET AND DESKJET PRINTERS: If a LaserJet or DeskJet printer was selected, you will be asked which symbol set to use. Symbol sets 10U PC-8, 11U PC-8 (Danish/Norwegian), and 12U PC-850 are supported. The puzzle squares can be either full letter size or square. The LaserJet II and DeskJet printers have built in fixed-width Courier 10 and 16.67 pitch fonts. Printing either 12 and 15 pitch require downloaded fixed width fonts or fixed width font cartridges. Included on the distribution disk are two batch files for downloading Courier 12 and 15 pitch soft fonts to the printers. To download these fonts to the DeskJet family printers type DJCFONTS at the DOS command line. To download these fonts to the LaserJet printers, type LJCFONTS at the DOS command line. SET PRINTER TO LETTER QUALITY: Depending on the printer, the puzzles may be printed in either draft of letter quality mode. CROSSWORD POWER Page 15 SELECT PRINTER FONT: LaserJet, DeskJet and Epson LQ printers support different fonts. The LaserJet II and DeskJet printers have built-in fixed width 10 and 16.66 (condensed) pitch Courier fonts. Printing 12 and 15 pitch fonts require downloaded fixed-width fonts or using a fixed-width font cartridges. The EpsonLQ optional font module is also supported giving the user six additional fonts. CROSSWORD POWER supports all fonts and pitches included with the optional font module. 0. Roman (10,12,15 pitch) 5. OCR-B (10 pitch) 1. San Serif (10,12,15 pitch) 6. OCR-A (10 pitch) 2. Courier (10,12,15 pitch) 7. Orator (10 pitch) 3. Prestige (10,12,15 pitch) 8. Orator-S (10 pitch) 4. Script (10,12,15 pitch) Paper length can be selected at either 11, 14, or 99 inches. Ninety-nine is used for continuous paper. The paper will advance about 2 inches after the last printed line when using continuous paper. SAVING THE SETTINGS: This selection saves the settings to be used the next time CROSSWORD POWER is started. ORDER INFORMATION: Descriptions of additional products available direct from WISCO COMPUTING will be displayed. PRINT ORDER BLANK: An order blank for purchasing this program or other products sold by WISCO Computing can be conveniently printed. VIEW MANUAL: Use this selection to view the manual while CROSSWORD POWER is active. The manual, CRMANUAL.DOC must be in the same directory or disk drive as the CROSSWORD POWER program. CROSSWORD POWER Page 16 THE EXTRA MENU: Reset Printer Advance Paper Form Feed Back Up Word List Files Change Screen Colors About Crossword Power The first three selections of the Extra Menu send printer codes to the printer. The first selection RESETS the printer to the top of the page to the current paper position in the printer. If you have manually adjusted the paper position in the printer, use this selection so the program and printer properly communicate. ADVANCE PAPER advances the paper in the printer one line. FORM FEED ejects the current page in the printer. BACK UP WORD LIST FILES: When this selection is made, you will be asked to enter the name of the drive to receive the copies of the word lists. If an acceptable drive letter and optional subdirectory is entered, all word lists will be copied. CHANGING THE SCREEN COLORS: The screen colors may be changed to your personal preference, or because the regular colors may be hard to see on a lap top computer. ABOUT CROSSWORD POWER: This screen displays information about CROSSWORD POWER, current pricing, and order and support information. Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 (715) 423-8189 Quantity Product Unit Price _____ GRADEBOOK POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ GRADING SKILLS POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ CROSSWORD POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $39.95 _____ VOCABULARY POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $39.95 _____ SURVEY POWER IBM 512K Indiv. 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