{S:X;X;0;3;This part describes the features of the window used to create documents in Wordz. The functional window for Wordz is contained by a slightly modified standard RISC OS window having shortened scroll bars to allow for the top and left hand borders in the Window of Wordz. Note that if the left hand border or side ruler is not shown then the lower scroll bar is standard as would be expected. As normal, the file name including the path name will appear in the centre of the top border of the RISC window.}
{S:X;X;0;4;To obtain the window either a file must be loaded or a template selected from the icon bar icon. Clicking select on this will produce a list of template files stored in the directory Wordz, select the appropriate template and click on OK to load it into a window. These templates have the full path name in the directory as follows: !Wordz.Resource.<Template name>, if a user template is generated this will have the full name !Wordz.User.<Template name>.}
{S:X;X;0;5;Clicking the menu button on the icon produces a menu having the entries Info, Choices and Quit. Selecting Choices produces a dialogue box with a writable icon enabling Auto save to be set with the repeat time, a display showing the ruler calibration which is selected and which can be changed, there is a control panel for Spell on which there are four buttons for selecting Auto check and controlling the dictionaries. Finally, on the left are four more buttons, the two top ones control any graphics in the file, the third selects Auto Kerning under RISC OS3 and the bottom one selects the status line in the window for display. These items will all be considered in detail in later parts of the series. The display choices operate on the next window selected after clicking OK.}
{S:X;X;0;6;02.01 The Button Bar}
{S:X;X;0;7;The top line of the Wordz window is a line of button like icons which provide quick access, by clicking (select) on the required icon, to the more commonly used commands for word processing, this is called the Button Bar. Figure 00.01 shows the Button Bar and identifies each icon, these are:-}
{S:X;X;0;8;02.01.01 Button 1 - View control}
{S:X;X;0;9;Selecting this icon, which is a pair of spectacles, displays the View Control dialogue box, various items which control the screen display are obtained by this menu. }
{S:X;X;0;10;The Top and Side rulers can be selected, in which case the button has a red centre. Column and Row borders can similarly be selected, these are useful for formatting tables and will be considered in detail in a later part.}
{S:X;X;0;11;The Display panel of radio buttons defines which area of the window will be shown on the screen, these buttons are diamond shaped and one must be on, Full shows the printable area, the paper size and the gap between pages. Printable area shows the printable area of the page, as set in the Page - Paper menu or in the printer driver settings, this includes headers and footers but excludes the paper margins also set by the Page - Paper menu. Work area displays the main area of the individual pages excluding the headers and footers which are preset and thus cannot be edited in individual pages. Below this are the Split control buttons which enable two separate parts of the document to be displayed simultaneously, examples of the use of this will be included.}
{S:X;X;0;12;The Scale control panel enables the size of the display within the window to be selected, there is a writable icon box which also has a incremental adjustment by arrow icons giving 5% changes per click, additionally there is a Fit button, if this is selected the display width is that of the top ruler, and there are also a number of preset scale buttons for selection along the bottom of this panel.}
{S:X;X;0;13;Finally there are OK, Cancel and New View buttons, the latter enables a second window for the document to be opened .}
{S:X;X;0;14;02.01.02 Buttons 2 to 5, Formatting Buttons}
{S:X;X;0;15;The next group of buttons select the type of alignment formatting which is to be applied to the text on the page relative to the left and right margin stops in the top ruler. From left to right these give left, centre and right aligned and finally justified. Thus the text will appear as follows with these controls:-}
{S:X;X;0;16;This text is left aligned with button 2.}
{S:X;X;0;17;This text is centre aligned with button 3.}
{S:X;X;0;18;This text is right aligned with button 4.}
{S:X;X;0;19;This text is justified or sometimes called fully justified using button 5. With this selection the text has straight right and left edges, the spaces between words are increased as required by the Wordz to achieve this.}
{S:X;X;0;20;These buttons have a light background when not selected which turns dark on selection, obviously only one of the four can be selected at any one time.}
{S:X;X;0;21;02.01.03 Button 6, Set Style, S}
{S:X;X;0;22;This button, when selected, produces a sub-menu of styles set for the document with switch buttons for Apply, Cancel, Change, Delete and New. The style shown selected in the list displayed will be appropriate to the position of the caret in the text. If the Apply button is selected the style shown selected in the list will be applied to any text which has been selected (marked) and is shown in inverse video in the file, or to any text entered from the caret position and the formatting of the style will apply to the paragraph that the caret is in. If all the text is deleted back to an and including the caret position the text will revert to the original style, if different, and the paragraph format will also revert. Cancel removes the sub-menu. Delete removes the selected style from the list. New adds a style to the list producing a dialogue box in which the new style name and its basis is entered, clicking OK in this dialogue box produces the style setting menu, enabling all the attributes of the style to be defined. Change allows the selected style to be edited and also produces the style setting menu. The Style setting menu will be treated in depth in a later part of this series.}
{S:X;X;0;23;02.01.04 Button 7, Set Effect, E}
{S:X;X;0;24;This button also produces the style setting menu but this time it is for setting a local effect either to the marked text or to the text entered from the caret position but it is not a named style and the menu is reset for each application. Note that, as before, any formatting will be applied to the paragraph that the caret is in but the text style only applies from the caret position. Again deleting right back to the caret position cancels all the effects.}
{S:X;X;0;25;02.01.05Button 8, Bold, B}
{S:X;X;0;26;When selected this button changes to a dark background and any marked text is changed to bold typeface and any text entered whilst the button is depressed, ie. dark background, will be in bold. This button is a toggle switch and selecting reverses its shown effect, a light background indicating that it is not selected.}
{S:X;X;0;27;02.01.06 Button 9, Italics, I}
{S:X;X;0;28;This button operates in the same manner as button 7 to apply the italic style locally.}
{S:X;X;0;29;02.01.07 Button 10, Tab stops}
{S:X;X;0;30;This is not really a button but a pad from which the appropriate tab stop can be selected and positioned in the top ruler. Tab stops and margins will be treated in depth on a later part of the series.}
{S:X;X;0;31;02.01.08 Button 11, Mark indicator}
{S:X;X;0;32;This button is also has a toggle action. If the button centre is white when it is selected, the whole of the document will be marked or selected, or if a block of text is marked, by dragging the caret across it, then the centre of the button changes to black. Any marked text areas are cleared by selecting this button when the centre is black. When a block of text is marked and the centre is black the next three buttons become operative, that is they change from grey on white to dark colours on grey indicating they can be used. Try it now, move the mouse pointer into the area of Button 11 and click select, observe that the whole of this document changes to inverse video indicating that it has been marked, or selected. Click again and it is cleared. Now move the pointer into a paragraph and click three times in quick succession which marks the paragraph, note that the button centre changes, move the pointer outside the marked area and click once and the marked area clears. Selecting or marking areas of text are treated in more detail later in the series.}
{S:X;X;0;33;02.01.09 Button 12, Camera, Copy}
{S:X;X;0;34;Activated when a block of text is marked, selecting this button causes a copy of the marked block of text to be added to the clipboard.}
{S:X;X;0;35;02.01.10 Button 13, Scissors, Cut}
{S:X;X;0;36;Also activated by the marking of a block of text, selecting this button causes the marked block to be deleted from its position and added to the clipboard.}
{S:X;X;0;37;02.01.11 Button 14, Glue pot, Paste}
{S:X;X;0;38;The third button activated when a block of text is marked is the glue pot, selecting this causes the content of the clipboard to be "pasted" in at the current caret position.}
{S:X;X;0;39;02.01.12 Button 15, Disc, Save}
{S:X;X;0;40;Selecting this button leads to the save dialogue box, here the full path name of the file is typed into the box. If only part of the file is to be saved, that part is marked before clicking on the save button, then the selection button is activated in the save dialogue box and must be selected and the file name inserted. Finally to save, select OK, note that, as usual, if the full path name is not given then the icon of the file must be dragged to a directory window.}
{S:X;X;0;41;If the whole document is to be saved under the existing full path name, then immediate saving is implemented by clicking adjust on this button. }
{S:X;X;0;42;02.01.13 Button 16, Printer, Print}
{S:X;X;0;43;As noted previously, to print the file a RISC OS printer driver must be installed, printing will be featured in a later part of the article. For the present note that selecting thisb utton leads to the Print dialogue box. Enter in this box the number of copies required, either by the arrow icons or by typing the number into the slot. There are also two radio buttons, the first All,which is the default, sends all the document to the printer whilst range enable the selection of a number of pages only for a multi-page document, in this case the first of the page numbers is entered into the left box and the last into the right. The three remaining buttons are Extra, Cancel and OK. The functions of the last two are as standard and the Extra button leads to a further dialogue box enabling the selection of more advanced printing options.}
{S:X;X;0;44;02.02 The Status Line}
{S:X;X;0;45;Immediately below the button bar is a full width slot containing a text message which is called the status line. When the caret is in the text entry window this status line indicates the page number of the displayed text. When the mouse pointer is on the button bar or in the status line this line acts as an on-line help system indicating the function of the icon that the pointer is in.}
{S:X;X;0;46;02.03 The Top Ruler}
{S:X;X;0;47;Immediately below the status line is the top ruler and below it are the associated margin and tab stops.}
{S:X;X;0;48;The default setting is millimetre but the scale can be altered by the Ruler sub-menu in the Extra sub-menu of the main menu obtained by clicking the centre mouse button when the pointer is in the text entry window. This allows the scale to be shown in inches or centimetres with a range of sub-divisions.}
{S:X;X;0;49;02.04 The Margin and Tab Stops}
{S:X;X;0;50;These are shown in blue immediately under the top ruler. The margin stops are always under the ruler and are adjustable after selection by dragging, the left margin marker is in two parts independently adjustable enabling a paragraph first line indentation to be set. The tab stops are selected from the button bar icon and positioned under the ruler by clicking select. As already noted margins and tab stops will form the topic of a later part.}
{S:X;X;0;51;02.05 The Side Ruler}
{S:X;X;0;52;Those readers who used Pipedream will note that the left hand side border is changed from the row position to a side ruler calibrated the same as the top ruler.}
{S:X;X;0;53;This also carries markers indicating the borders of the headers and footers and a row marker indicating the row position. Again this will be considered in detail with margins and tab stops.}
{S:X;X;0;54;02.06 The Text Entry window}
{S:X;X;0;55;The white area bounded by the side and top rulers is the text entry window, the area displayed is, as has been seen, adjustable by the View control menu.}
{S:X;X;0;56;02.07 The Column Border}
{S:X;X;0;57;This is not a default setting and, when selected from the View control menu, is displayed immediately below the top ruler. As implied it indicates in a dark grey band the column numbers. This will be treated later in a part dealing with setting up tables.}
{S:X;X;0;58;02.08 The Row Border}
{S:X;X;0;59;Again this is not a default setting as it is also associated with tables and is selected via the View control menu. It is a set of buttons in a column to the right of the side ruler the selected button indicating the "row" that the caret is in and selecting a button moves the caret to that position. I have put row in quotes because in a text file such as this one button covers a paragraph. We will look at this in detail later.}
