💾 Archived View for mirrors.apple2.org.za › archive › apple.cabi.net › Applications › Editors › WRIT… captured on 2024-02-05 at 13:55:41.
⬅️ Previous capture (2023-01-29)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
About WriteIt! version 2.0
Designed and written by C.K. Haun
RavenWare Software
22045 McClellan Rd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Copyright 1990, C.K. Haun, all rights reserved.
This product is ShareWare. If you like it and use it, please send
something to encourage me to write more. Cash, blank disks,
your own program, anything you feel is worth the value you've
received from my work.
And remember, good software breeds good software.
WriteIt! is an NDA word processor designed to let you
capture your thoughts while you're in any application.
Version 2.0 adds features that make WriteIt! more powerful
that ever before, and easier to use!
Version 2.0 removes the command popup and replaces it
with a standard window menu bar. A list of the menus
and commands available follows;
Apple Menu
The apple menu contains the About item, which will keep you
informed about the current version of WriteIt!, and gives you
RavenWare's address, so you can send your shareware donations
if you use WriteIt!.
Of course, like any Apple menu, all your current NDA's are listed here,
and they can be opened by selecting them.
File Menu
Open
The Open item lets you edit existing files. WriteIt! will work with
standard text files, programming source files, and Teach files (file type
$50). Using Teach files lets you save font and style information with
your document.
Save and Save As
These items let you save your work. If you are editing an exisiting
file and select Save, WriteIt! will save to the current file.
If you have started from scratch, or select the Save As option,
WriteIt! will prompt you for a new file name to save the file as.
You have another choice here, the 'Entire Document' or 'Text Only'
selection.
If you select the 'Entire Document' radio button, WriteIt! will create a Teach
type file (file type $50) and save the text of your file AND all the
font and style information.
If you select 'Text Only' WriteIt! will create a standard ASCII text file
(file type $04) and save just the text information, any special fonts
or styles will NOT be saved.
Close WriteIt!
Selecting Close WriteIt! will close the WriteIt! NDA.
Search Menu
The Search menu lets you manipulate the text in your file.
The first two options, Find and Find Again search for text patterns.
When you select Find, you'll be asked for the text you want to find.
WriteIt! will find the text and hilite it for you. If it cannot find the text,
WriteIt! will beep.
Find Again will search for the last text searched for again, without
prompting you for new text.
Replace will ask you for text to find and for text to replace the
found text with. For example, if you enter FRED in the first edit line
and BOB in the second edit line, WriteIt! will look for FRED. When it
finds FRED, it will delete the word FRED and insert the word BOB.
Replace again does the same thing without prompting you for
new words.
NOTE: If you do not enter any text in the second ( replace text ) edit line,
WriteIt! will ask you if you are sure you want to do that.
The Hi Bit menu selection is for those folks working with old
text files or Merlin assembler files. Those files store characters with
the hi bit of each character ON. This will cause a garbaged display in
WriteIt!. The Hi Bit dialog box will ask you for default reading and writing
modes for Hi Bits, as well as giving you the option to correct hi bit
settings in the file currently open.
WARNING: If you do NOT know what that all means, DO NOT use the hi
bit menu command. You won't need it.
Font Menu and Style Menu
The font menu let's you select different type faces for the text in your
document. The font menu will contain a list of all the fonts installed
in your system when WriteIt! was started. There is also a Choose Font
option. You may want to use the Choose Font option if you are running
WriteIt! under the Finder and you install a new font after you have
opened WriteIt!.
The Style menu lets you set the style of the font you are using, plain,
bold, underlined, outlined, or shadowed. Remember that some fonts
( like the system font, Shaston ) cannot be underlined even if you select
that option.
You can also pick the size of the font. Not all of the sizes listed are
'real' sizes, some are created by the Font Manager, and may not look
as good as you'd like. The font sizes that are shown as shadowed text
are 'Real' fonts, and will look as good as the person who designed
them wanted them to look.
Using Fonts and styles;
To change to font or style of a word or group of words, hilite that
word or words by clciking the mouse when the cursor is at the start
of the word and dragging until you reach the end of the words you
want to change the font or style of. This will hilite the text ( make it
white on black, instead of black on white) . Then go to the Font or
Style menu and make your selection, and the text will change.
Rememeber, it may take a few seconds to change text styles, since
the font manager may need to load a font from disk or do other
processing.
And keep in mind that font and style information is ONLY saved to
Teach type files ( file type $50). If you save your document as
Text Only, or if the original file was a text or source file, the font information
will not be saved.
If you opened a Text type file and want to make and save font information,
you must use Save As and create a new file for this information.
The final menu is not really a menu, it merely gives you the name of the
last file WriteIt! worked with.
Enjoy WriteIt!
CKH