gibson@trwrb.UUCP (Greg Gibson) (12/07/89)
I use Word Writer because it has a spell check and thesaurus. However, I can not get the paragraph format command to work. Does any know how to make the Word Writer paragraph format command to work? I think anyone selling a word processor without a properly working format command should be jailed for fraud. Thank You, Gregory Gibson
fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) (12/09/89)
In article <227@trwrb.UUCP>, gibson@trwrb.UUCP (Greg Gibson) writes: > I use Word Writer because it has a spell check and thesaurus. However, I > can not get the paragraph format command to work. Does any know how to > make the Word Writer paragraph format command to work? I think anyone > selling a word processor without a properly working format command should > be jailed for fraud. > > Thank You, > Gregory Gibson Paragraph format works, but you may not understand what Word Writer thinks is a paragraph. If you type carriage return, that marks the end of the paragraph. Just type in your text without hitting carriage return and let Word Writer break the lines for you. By the way, the carriage returns it puts in are followed by a space, so Word Writer can distinguish its line breaks from the carriage returns that mark the ends of paragraphs. If you delete the space after a carriage return, you will turn the line break into a paragraph end. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> | | Bitnet: <fischer-michael@yalecs.bitnet> | | UUCP: <fischer-michael@yale.UUCP> | ==================================================
mark@rpp386.cactus.org (Mark Lehmann) (12/10/89)
In article <7941@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes: >In article <227@trwrb.UUCP>, gibson@trwrb.UUCP (Greg Gibson) writes: >> I use Word Writer because it has a spell check and thesaurus. However, I >> can not get the paragraph format command to work. Does any know how to >> make the Word Writer paragraph format command to work? I think anyone >> selling a word processor without a properly working format command should >> be jailed for fraud. >> >> Thank You, >> Gregory Gibson Because of this very reason, I wrote a C program to analyze regular text files and determine where the paragraphs end and then convert the text file into a Word Writer (also First Word) file. I can send it to anyone who wants it. It is just a short C program (written in Laser C, but ports to UNIX, so should be able to port to any C language for the ST). I don't have my code available now (just reformated the hard drive for MINIX, and the Laser C code is backed up on floppy) but from memory, I think that all blank spaces (ASCII 32) gets converted to ASCII character 30. There is a ASCII character 30 before every newline (ASCII 10). And the end of a paragraph has no ASCII 30 before the newline. Kind of an interesting format. When the Word Writer format is displayed all the blank spaces will appear to have disappeared, but really, they are just represented as ASCII character 30, which doesn't show up on the Atari ST screen (at least it doesn't in TOS/GEM). Mark Lehmann -- +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Mark Lehmann | | | mark@rpp386.cactus.org | | | {bigtex|texbell}!rpp386!mark | |