Webb Mike@LLL-MFE.ARPA (09/09/85)
DEAR NETLANDIANS MY WIFE IS PUTTING OUT A LITTLE (5-10 PAGE) NEWSPAPER TO THE PARENTS OF THE SCHOOL MY KIDS GOTO TO PROVIDE INFO,BEG FOR HELP ETC. MY QUESTION IS 'DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A TEXT PROC. PROGRAM WHICH WILL ALLOW TEXT TO BE FORMATTED INTO SEVERAL COLUMNS ON THE SAME PAGE???'. THIS PROGRAM WOULD IDEALY BE FREE AS THE SCHOOL HAS 0-DOLLARS TO SPEND ON THIS "SORT OF STUFF"! MIKE WEBB WEBB@LLL-MFE.ARPA
rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) (09/12/85)
In article <1383@brl-tgr.ARPA> Webb Mike@LLL-MFE.ARPA writes: > >DEAR NETLANDIANS > > MY WIFE IS PUTTING OUT A LITTLE (5-10 PAGE) NEWSPAPER TO THE PARENTS >OF THE SCHOOL MY KIDS GOTO TO PROVIDE INFO,BEG FOR HELP ETC. MY QUESTION IS >'DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A TEXT PROC. PROGRAM WHICH WILL ALLOW TEXT TO BE FORMATTED >INTO SEVERAL COLUMNS ON THE SAME PAGE???'. THIS PROGRAM WOULD IDEALY BE FREE AS THE SCHOOL HAS 0-DOLLARS TO SPEND ON THIS "SORT OF STUFF"! > > > MIKE WEBB > WEBB@LLL-MFE.ARPA > Assuming you have access to CPM/[MS|PC]DOS machines, the current versions of Wordstar(tm) support a "column move" capability. Not very convenient, but it can be made to work. 1: Format the text to the width of a column. 2: Change to Column move mode -- ^K^N 3: mark the top left corner of the text that is to go in the second column. ^K^B 4: mark the bottom right corner of the '2nd' column text. ^K^K (The block of text should now be highlighted (or have ^B down the left and ^K down the right, depending on your hardware.) 5: place the cursor at the top left corner of the 2nd column destination area 6: execute the move ^K^V 7: delete the blank lines left in the source area. 8: repeat steps 3..7 as needed for additional columns. 9: Save your stuff regularly. This procedure crashes WS with some regularity on my Kaypro (WS Ver 3.something); problem may be resolved if later releases are out. 10: DO NOT USE JUSTIFIED PRINTING IF YOUR PRINTER ATTEMPTS TO MICRO-JUSTIFY THE LINES. Off hand, the only other solution (inexpensive!) might be to find a second hand dedicated word processor someone might be willing to donate. (I know Phillips Micom 2000's supportted automatic multicolumn formatting, and XEROX 860s are (were) supposed to but I never used it there. The other 10-15 dedicated wp's I used to have access to couldn't do it.) I'm not familiar with any of the other WP programs in the cpm/ms/pcdos area. I never found any of them to have enough improvement, if any, over WS to be worth the cost/effort to learn another. In the UN*X area, Fortune's FORTUNE:WORD (tm) has auto multicolumn capability, but from what you indicated, it would be too expensive, unless you could get a donation. PS: the ^K^B^N stuff is <CTRL>k , etc. in case your not familiar with this notation. -- Richard Klappal UUCP: ..!ihnp4!chinet!uklpl!rlk | "Money is truthful. If a man MCIMail: rklappal | speaks of his honor, make him Compuserve: 74106,1021 | pay cash." USPS: 1 S 299 Danby Street | Villa Park IL 60181 | Lazarus Long TEL: (312) 620-4988 | (aka R. Heinlein) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (09/12/85)
>ABN.ISCAMS at USC-ISID.ARPA writes: >I have a little program, DBLPRINT.COM (and accompanying DBLPRINT.HLP) >that works just fine on a CP/M 2.2 system. Cannot remember just where I >found it - doesn't seem to be in the SIGM archives (didn't see it anyway), >but fur shur is Public Domain. >I do NOT have source code, so no mods possible (very easily). Glad to upload >it to where you can reach it if you like. If they're doing Apples or PC's, >tho, we're out of luck with this program. This program is probably the one you're looking for: Filename Type Bytes CRC SIMTEL20 directory MICRO:<CPM.LIST> DBL211.LBR.1 BINARY 11392 B121H --Keith