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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.