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- RICH TEXT FORMAT (RTF) DRIVERS FOR THE SERIES 3/3a WORD PROCESSOR
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- This directory contains Rich Text Format (RTF) drivers that enable
- the Series 3/3a Word Processor to save and load files in Microsoft
- Rich Text Format (RTF). This allows you to interchange documents with
- other programs which can save and load RTF files, such as:
-
- - Microsoft Word for Windows
- - Microsoft DOS Word
- - Microsoft Word on the Macintosh
-
- Before you can save and open RTF files on your Series 3/3a, you must
- install the RTF drivers (WL$RTF.DYL and WS$RTF.DYL) into a \WDR
- directory on your Series 3/3a. You can install them onto the Internal
- disk or, if you want to avoid using up internal memory, an SSD in
- drive A or B.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- 1. Display the RCom command prompt (on Windows-based PCs use the RCom
- icon; on DOS-based PCs enter the appropriate command to run RCom).
-
- 2. Make sure that the current directory is the one in which you
- installed RCom. If RCom is located in c:\psrcom you can type
- CD C:\PSRCOM to make this the current directory.
-
- 3. Make sure that the `Remote link' option on the Series 3/3a System
- screen is set to `On'.
-
- 4. Type RTFINST followed by the new (virtual) PC drive letter that is
- set up to represent the Series 3/3a drive on which you wish to
- install the RTF drivers. For example, RTFINST I:
-
- This runs the batch file RTFINST.BAT which copies the RTF drivers
- into the \WDR directory on the specified Series 3/3a drive.
-
- Note: Don't confuse the \WRD and \WDR directories - \WRD\ is the
- directory where Word processor documents are stored, while \WDR is
- where the Word processor keeps special files of various kinds
- (templates, and add-on software or printer drivers).
-
- Note: WL$RTF.DYL is the software to open RTF files, and WS$RTF.DYL
- the software to save them. You don't have to install both drivers, if
- you only wish to be able to open OR save RTF files. To install a
- single RTF driver: use the COPY command from the RCom command prompt
- to copy the relevant file to a \WDR directory on the Series 3/3a,
- rather than using the RTFINST.BAT batch file described above.
-
- When the RTF drivers are installed
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-
- You can copy RTF files to and from the Series 3/3a like any other
- files, as described in the RCom booklet. When you next use the `Open
- file' or `Save as' options in the Word processor, you will be able to
- set the `File type' line to RTF, and select an RTF file.
-
- Note: when the RTF file is next saved in the Series 3/3a Word
- processor - and this will happen if you switch to a different file -
- it is saved in the Series 3/3a Word processor format with the .WRD
- file extension, complete with style and emphasis information. If you
- wish to send the file back to the PC at a later time, you need to use
- the `Save as' option to save the file in the RTF format, creating a
- new RTF version of the file.
-
- Direct access to remote RTF files
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-
- You can use the Series 3/3a Word processors `Open file' and `Save as'
- options directly on RTF files on the PC, as long as the Series 3/3a
- is linked to the PC by RCom. Simply set the `Disk' line to the
- appropriate REM:: drive and then select the file. See the RCom
- booklet for more details.
-
- Using the HP3 printer driver as a nominal RTF driver
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-
- The HP3 printer driver (with file name HP3.WDR - also supplied on the
- RCom disk) is primarily for printing to the Hewlett Packard III laser
- printer. However, with RTF, it is worth using HP3.WDR as the printer
- driver, even when there is no prospect of printing to the Hewlett
- Packard III laser printer, because it contains a good basic font set
- (mono-spaced Courier, a scalable serif font and a scalable sans-serif
- font) which travels well through the "RTF barrier".
-
- For details of how to install the HP3 driver, see the README.TXT
- documentation file in the \PRINTDRV subdirectory of your RCom
- directory. This also gives information about the other printer
- drivers supplied on the RCom disk.
-
- Restrictions on headers and footers
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-
- The Series 3/3a Word processor supports only one header, which applies
- to the whole document. If an RTF file specifies some other type of
- header, such as for even pages only, this may become the header for
- the whole document.
-
- The `On first page' settings in the Series 3/3a Word processor's
- `Header' and `Footer' dialogs are not affected by opening an RTF
- file.
-
- If a header in Microsoft Word has a separate stylesheet size, or any
- changes of font within its text, these will be ignored.
-
- Microsoft Word may not support the %F and %M codes, nor two- and
- three-column headers, which can be used in the Series 3/3a Word
- processor. Two- and three-column headers will be treated as a
- left-justified header in Microsoft Word.
-
- The same restrictions apply to footers as to headers.
-
- Other limitations
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-
- USE A .RTF FILE EXTENSION FOR ALL RTF FILES - ON THE SERIES 3/3A AND
- PC. When you save an RTF file, the Series 3/3a Word processor forces
- this extension, but you should also use this file extension when
- creating RTF files on a PC.
-
- Content which is beyond that handled by the Series 3/3a Word
- processor (such as boxes, graphics, side-by-side formatting of
- paragraphs and tables of contents entries) are not transferred into
- Series 3/3a Word documents.
-
-
- Using Stylesheets in Microsoft DOS Word
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-
- (This information is based on version 5.0 of the MS-DOS version of
- Microsoft Word.)
-
- Microsoft Word for DOS saves a document's style information in a
- separate file - a stylesheet. It can also, however, handle files
- without a stylesheet, using in-line formatting (storing special codes
- in the document which specify the various settings for each
- paragraph).
-
- If you use a stylesheet with a particular Microsoft Word file, and you
- want to transfer the file to and from the Series 3/3a, do not change any
- of the styles while on the Series 3/3a. (You can still apply styles to
- paragraphs, and you can use emphases as normal.) When you next send
- the file to the PC and use it in Microsoft Word, it will ask for the
- stylesheet to use. Microsoft Word checks that the document styles
- still match the stylesheet. Any paragraphs which have a style that
- does not match those in the stylesheet are converted to use in-line
- formatting.
-
- If you are a user of the `Alter paragraph' option (instead of the
- `Styles' option) for changing the look of paragraphs, this should not
- worry you.
-
- Control over fonts with Microsoft DOS Word
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-
- Microsoft Word for DOS is not as sophisticated in its mapping of
- incoming fonts when it reads an RTF file as is Microsoft Word for
- Windows. When you load an RTF document using Microsoft Word for DOS
- (having created it on your Series 3/3a), you may find that some fonts
- have been mapped to those which are not present in the current
- printer driver (in which case, they will be printed as Courier).
-
- For greater control over the fonts Microsoft Word for DOS uses, you
- have two options:
-
- 1) To simply use in-line formatting to change the fonts.
-
- 2) Use an approach involving two separate stylesheets.
-
- The first is simpler to understand but the second solution, once in place,
- has the advantage of automatically applying to all files that you
- subsequently transfer from the Series 3/3a into DOS Microsoft Word.
-
- To use two separate stylesheets:
-
- 1. Choose a representative document, written on the Series 3/3a, that
- includes all the styles you use on a regular basis.
-
- 2. Save this as an RTF file.
-
- 3. On loading it into Microsoft Word, leave the stylesheet selection
- blank (delete any suggestion offered to you).
-
- 4. You will probably find it easier in what follows to make the style
- bar visible (use Options).
-
- 5. For each style that you want to record, place the cursor in some
- text with that style.
-
- 6. Use Format Stylesheet Record (alternatively, Alt-F10).
- Give as the Key Code the shortcode used on the Series 3 for the
- style.
- Leave Usage as Paragraph and type anything you like into Remark
- (leave it blank if you wish).
- For Variant, in most cases you can accept the default offered to
- you, but match `Standard' to `Body Text', and `Heading level' styles
- to the appropriate Series 3/3a `Header level' style (especially if you
- use outlining).
-
- 7. Repeat steps 5. and 6. for all the styles you are interested in
-
- 8. When finished, save the resulting stylesheet (use Gallery Transfer
- Save), with a name such as "S3".
-
- 9. Then in Gallery, look at the fonts specified by each style, and
- make any changes required.
-
- 10. Save the stylesheet you have at the end of this second pass WITH
- A DIFFERENT NAME, say "S3P" (with the "P" standing for "Printing").
-
- From now on, whenever you load an RTF file prepared by the
- Series 3/3a into DOS Microsoft Word, all you need to do is:
-
- 1. When prompted for the name of a stylesheet, give "S3" (or whatever you
- named the first of the two stylesheets).
-
- 2. Once the load has completed, use Format Stylesheet Attach to attach
- the second stylesheet, "S3P" or whatever, instead.
-
- Use of BOTH stylesheets is essential to the operation of the scheme.
-
- The system takes some effort to set up but you will be amply rewarded with
- its power and ease of use in the long run.
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