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WORDSWORTH HELP Put together by PARASITE of LSD! Using help USING HELP [164] To select a topic, scroll through the topic list and click the topic you want. For further information, look in your Wordworth book. Getting Help: 1. Press Help key 2. Choose Help command (Wordworth menu) 3. Click Help icon in the Toolbox 4. Press Shift-Help (remembers last topic) For 'interactive help,' press Right Alt-Help and choose the command you want help with. Numbers in square brackets (for example [164]), refer to the page number in the Wordworth book. Digita product support DIGITA PRODUCT SUPPORT [266] To contact Digita Product Support in the UK, call: 0395 270273. If you are outside the UK, contact your local Digita representative. Please have ready the following: 1. Product License Number 2. Wordworth book 3. Version number of Wordworth 4. Description of your hardware configuration Again - repeating commands AGAIN - REPEATING COMMANDS [98] Repeats the last command from the Typeface or Paragraph commands (Format menu). For example, if you select text in your document, choose Typeface command to change the typeface, then select another section of text and use the Again command to apply the same typeface. See also: Typeface formatting, Paragraph formatting. Aligning and justifying text ALIGNMENT AND JUSTIFYING TEXT [127] Wordworth aligns text relative to the left and right indents set for the paragraph. Press the Return key only to end a paragraph, not after each line of text. Wordworth automatically 'wraps' text to the next line. Changing text alignment: 1. Select text 2. Click one of the alignment icons in the Toolbox See also: Paragraph formatting. Closing a document CLOSING A DOCUMENT [107] To close a document, either: 1. Click close gadget 2. Choose Close command (Project menu) 3. Press Right Amiga-K If you close a new or modified document, Wordworth prompts you to save any changes. Copying and moving text COPYING AND MOVING TEXT [118] Copy and move text using the following commands from the Edit menu: Cut: Delete selected text and store it on the clipboard. Copy: Copy selected text to the clipboard. Paste: Insert contents of the clipboard into the active document at the insertion point. You can insert the clipboard contents repeatedly into the same document, or another Wordworth document. Using the keys: KEY DOES Right Amiga-X Cut Right Amiga-C Copy Right Amiga-V Paste Del Erase Backspace Erase Converting upper/lowercase CONVERTING UPPER/LOWERCASE [200] Select text and press Right Alt-F10 to toggle between upper and lowercase. When uppercase text is converted to lowercase, the first character of each sentence remains uppercase. Copying formats COPYING FORMATS [119] 1. Place insertion point in the paragraph format you want to copy 2. Choose "Copy format" command (Edit menu) 3. Place insertion point in the paragraph to be formatted 4. Choose "Paste format" command (Edit menu) The format includes all the information contained in the Paragraph requester (Format menu). Using the keys: KEY DOES Right Alt-F6 Copy format Right Alt-F7 Paste format Date formatting DATE FORMATTING [137] Choose "Date format" command (Document menu) to select your preferred date format. You may then insert the date into your document using the Current or "Updating date" command (Document- Insert menu). See also: Inserting the date. Deleting documents DELETING DOCUMENTS [111] Choose Delete command (Project menu) to delete a document from a disk. Select document from the list box; a dialogue box will ask you to confirm your selection. Document format DOCUMENT FORMAT [109] Click Format on the document requester (Project- Open, or Project-Save As command) to select your document format. Wordworth can open and save various formats including: Wordworth, ASCII, WordPerfect, Protext, ProWrite, and IFF FTXT (Excellence and Kindwords). Document information DOCUMENT INFORMATION [140] "Document info" command (Document menu) displays a variety of information about your document. Divided into two boxes, this contains: Upperbox: Document name, directory path, description, creation date, last saved date, by whom, revision number, editing time, date of last printout. Lowerbox: Number of: Characters, words, lines, paragraphs, pages, pictures. The information in the lowerbox can relate to all the document, or just a selection. Editing a document EDITING A DOCUMENT [31] Choose "Edit document" command (Document menu) to edit text in the main document. Use this command to return to the main document after editing a header or footer. See also: Headers and footers. Erasing text ERASING TEXT [119] Choose Erase command (Edit menu) to erase selected text. Using the keys: KEY DOES Del Erase Backspace Erase See also: Copying and moving text, Undo. Finding and replacing text FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT [141] Choose Find/Replace command (Utilities menu) to find and replace occurrences of text with new text you specify. Options: Find What: Type the text you want to find. Replace With: Type the replacement text. (If you want to just find text, ignore this box.) Whole Word: Finds whole words only. Match Upper/Lowercase: Finds only text matching upper and lowercase you typed. Search Forwards: Search forwards from insertion point through the document. Search Backwards: Search backwards from insertion point through the document. Find: Start searching. Having located text: Find: Start searching for the next occurrence. Replace: Replace. Replace, Then Find: Replace and continue searching. Replace All: Replace all occurrences. Fonts FONTS [70] Fonts, or typefaces, are designs of character sets that determine the shape of displayed and printed characters. Characters sizes are measured in points. See also: Typeface formatting. Glossary GLOSSARY [147] Choose Glossary command (Utilities menu) to save common phrases on disk, and quickly insert them into your document. Click a phrase to copy it into the Phrase box (for editing), then click Use to insert it into the document (at the insertion point). Double-click to place the phrase directly into the document at insertion point. Use the Phrase box to type your own entries and click Add to save. Click Save to save the amended glossary on disk. To restore the glossary to defaults click Revert. Headers and footers HEADERS AND FOOTERS [133] Choose "Edit header" or "Edit footer" command (Document menu) to set up your document header and footer. These will be printed in the top margin (header) or bottom margin (footer) of the page. They may be one or several lines. The insertion point will appear in the header (or footer) at the top (or bottom) of the current page. To return to the document, choose "Edit document" command (Document menu). "Head/Footer options" command (Document menu) selects: 1. Different Head/Footer On Left And Right Pages 2. Show Head/Footer On First Page of the document 3. Show Margins See also: Edit document, Page numbering, Page layout. Hyphenation HYPHENATION [148] Choose Hyphenate command (Utilities menu) to toggle between auto-hyphenation on/off. Hyphenation automatically hyphenates eligible words to improve line breaks. Indenting lines and paragraphs INDENTING LINES AND PARAGRAPHS [127] Indenting changes the width and horizontal placement of the paragraph relative to the left and right page margins. You can also indent the first line relative to the subsequent lines of the paragraph. To indent paragraphs using the Paragraph command (Format menu), see Paragraph Formatting. When you indent paragraphs using the ruler, Wordworth automatically updates indent settings in the Paragraph requester. Indenting using the horizontal ruler: 1. Choose Preferences command (Wordworth menu) and select show horizontal ruler 2. Select paragraph(s) to indent 3. Drag indent markers to desired position To drag the left indent marker independently, use the Right Mouse button. See also: Copying formats, Paragraph formatting, Rulers. Inserting the date INSERTING THE DATE [135] Choose "Insert date" command (Document-Insert menu) to insert a date at the insertion point. There are two styles: Current date (fixed); Updating date, which changes to the current date when printing. See also: Date formatting. Inserting literal characters INSERTING LITERAL CHARACTERS [136] Choose "Insert literal" command (Document-Insert menu) to insert a literal character at the insertion point. This allows the easy insertion of foreign characters and symbols. Inserting/overtyping text INSERTING/OVERTYPING TEXT [200] Press Ins (0 on the numeric keypad when in command mode) to toggle between insert and overtype.The current setting is displayed below the Toolbox, INS or O/T. Inserting the time INSERTING THE TIME [135] Choose "Insert time" command (Document-Insert menu) to insert a time at the insertion point. There are two styles: Current time (fixed); Updating time, which changes to the current time when printing. See also: Time formatting. Keyboard shortcuts KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS [200] KEY DOES Right Amiga-A .... Select all text Right Amiga-B .... Bold text toggle Right Amiga-C .... Copy text Right Amiga-D .... Edit document Right Amiga-E .... Centre text Right Amiga-F .... Find and replace Right Amiga-G .... Go to page number Right Amiga-H .... Superscript text Right Amiga-I .... Italic text toggle Right Amiga-J .... Fully justified text Right Amiga-K .... Close document Right Amiga-L .... Subscript text Right Amiga-M .... Page layout Right Amiga-N .... Paragraph format Right Amiga-O .... Open document Right Amiga-P .... Plain text Right Amiga-Q .... Quit Wordworth Right Amiga-R .... Right aligned text Right Amiga-S .... Save document Right Amiga-T .... Change typeface Right Amiga-U .... Underline text toggle Right Amiga-V .... Paste text Right Amiga-W .... Left aligned text Right Amiga-X .... Cut text Right Amiga-Y .... Show ¶ toggle Right Amiga-Z .... Undo command Right Amiga-1 .... Auto single line spacing Right Amiga-2 .... Auto double line spacing Right Amiga-3 .... 6 lpi single line spacing Right Amiga-4 .... 6 lpi 1½ line spacing Right Amiga-5 .... 6 lpi double line spacing Right Amiga-6 .... 8 lpi single line spacing Right Amiga-7 .... 8 lpi double line spacing Right Amiga-period .... Glossary Right Amiga-hyphen .... Hyphenate toggle Right Amiga-# .... Preferences Right Amiga-? .... Help (These commands are not available if the pointer is positioned over the colour palette or horizontal ruler.) KEY DOES Ins .............. Insert/Overtype toggle Right Alt-NumL ( . Number lock/Command toggle Right Alt-\ ...... Swap adjacent characters Home ............. Move to first line on screen End .............. Move to last line on screen Alt-Home ......... Move to first line in document Alt-End .......... Move to last line in document PgUp ............. Move up a page PgDn ............. Move down a page Up Arrow ......... Move up a line Shift-Up Arrow ... Move up a page Alt-Up Arrow ..... Move to first line in document Down Arrow ....... Move down a line Shift-Down Arrow . Move down a page Alt-Down Arrow ... Move to last line in document Left Arrow ....... Move left one character Shift-Left Arrow . Move to start of word Alt-Left Arrow ... Move to start of line Right Arrow ...... Move right one character Shift-Right Arrow Move to end of word Alt-Right Arrow .. Move to end of line Alt-PrtSc ........ Print a screen dump Del .............. Delete character on right of insertion point Shift-Del ........ Delete to end of word Alt-Del .......... Delete to end of line Backspace ........ Delete character on left of insertion point Shift-Backspace .. Delete to start of word Alt-Backspace .... Delete to start of line Shift-Space bar .. Non-breaking space ALT-Space bar .... Non-breaking space KEY DOES F1 ............... New document F2 ............... Open document F3 ............... Close document F4 ............... Save as document F5 ............... Print document F6 ............... Edit document F7 ............... Edit header F8 ............... Edit footer F9 ............... Document information F10 .............. About Wordworth Shift-F1 ......... Thesaurus Shift-F2 ......... Spell checker Shift-F3 ......... Speech Shift-F4 ......... Preferences Shift-F5 ......... Quick print Shift-F6 ......... Head/foot options Shift-F7 ......... Numbering format Shift-F8 ......... Time format Shift-F9 ......... Date format Shift-F10 ........ Palette Right Alt-F1 ..... Place picture Right Alt-F2 ..... Insert page break Right Alt-F3 ..... Insert page number Right Alt-F4 ...... Insert current time Right Alt-F5 ..... Insert current date Right Alt-F6 ..... Copy format Right Alt-F7 ..... Paste format Right Alt-F8 ..... Again Right Alt-F9 ..... Rulers & Toolbox on/off Right Alt-F10 .... Convert case KEY DOES HELP ............. Wordworth help Shift-HELP ....... Help, last topic Alt-HELP ......... Interactive help KEY DOES - in requesters: Enter ............ OK button (or equivalent) Esc (Escape) ..... Cancel button Tab .............. Move to next text field Shift-Tab ........ Move to previous text field Return ........... Move to next text field Shift-Return key . Move to previous text field Down Arrow ....... Move to next text field Up Arrow ......... Move to previous text field Line spacing LINE SPACING [127] Choose Paragraph command (Format menu) to set the line spacing, which is measured in points. You may select from the requester or type a specific line spacing. The first three radio buttons (auto single, auto 1½, auto double) set line spacing based on the size of the current typeface. Mailmerging documents MAILMERGING DOCUMENTS [182] This allows you to combine a document with information from a database. 1. Set up your document, using field names where you wish merged text to appear (enclose all field names with the characters «fieldname»). KEY CHARACTER Right Alt-9 « Right Alt-0 » 2. Choose Print command (Project menu) and click Merge on the requester. You will be asked to select the data file with which you wish to merge, the document(s) will then be printed, with each copy having the field names replaced with the information from the database. Margins MARGINS [131] "Page layout" command (Document menu) sets the left, right, top, & bottom margins for the entire document, and margins for headers & footers. If you select facing pages, the left and right margins become Inside & Outside (they are mirrored on left and right pages). See also: Indenting lines and paragraphs, Page layout. Measurement units MEASUREMENT UNITS [131] The default measurement for the rulers is inches, and so any figures you enter will be in inches. To change the measurement, Choose "Page layout" command (Document menu) and click the current measurement on the requester to step through the alternatives. New document NEW DOCUMENT [105] New command (Project menu) opens a new document window with a blank page. A new window will use the current preferences. See also: Closing a document, Opening a document, Saving a document, Preferences. New shell NEW SHELL [157] "Open a new shell" command (Wordworth menu) opens a new Cli/Shell window on the Workbench screen. Use this to perform standard AmigaDOS commands. Nonbreaking space NONBREAKING SPACE [202] Press Shift-Space bar. A character, which appears as a space but behaves like a character preventing word wrap. Opening a document OPENING A DOCUMENT [105] Open command (Project menu) displays a requester, from which you select a document to open. To specify the document format (other than Wordworth) click Format. See also: Closing a document, Document format, New document, Saving a document. Page breaks PAGE BREAKS [135] Wordworth automatically repaginates your document. You can also manually paginate by choosing the Insert-Page Break command (Document menu), or press Right Alt-F2. Page layout PAGE LAYOUT [131] "Page layout" command (Document menu) sets the page size and margins for a document. See also: Margins, Measurement units. Page numbering PAGE NUMBERING [135] Choose Insert-Page Number command (Document menu) to insert page numbers into a header or footer. Choose "Numbering style" command (Document menu) to change the style and page number. See also: Headers and footers. Palette PALETTE [163] Palette command (Wordworth menu) provides different colour schemes. To select a colour scheme, click one of the palette names in the list box. Alternatively, click one of the colour boxes and vary the colour using the scroll bars. Alternatively, click Col in the Toolbox or press Shift-F10 to select the palette. Paragraph formatting PARAGRAPH FORMATTING [127] Choose Paragraph (Format menu) to change the format of a selected paragraph(s), including alignment, indents, line spacing, paragraph spacing and default tab spacing. Each group in the requester has a Mixed button; any group with Mixed set will be ignored. This means you can alter the alignment, line spacing and so on, without affecting other items of the paragraph's format. See also: Aligning and justifying text, Copying formats, Indenting lines and paragraphs, Line spacing, Page layout, Typeface formatting, Tabs. Placing a picture PLACING A PICTURE [150] Choose "Place picture" (Utilities menu) to load a picture into your document. Wordworth accepts any standard Amiga IFF graphics file. These pictures may be any resolution or size, from 2 to 64 colours, or 4096 colours (HAM). Pictures are placed on the document, at the top of the page. To relocate, drag the picture using the mouse. Multiple pictures may be inserted into a document, even on the same page. Playtime PLAYTIME [155] Choose Playtime (Wordworth menu) to relax with Wordworth's simple puzzle. CLICK DOES Left mouse button Moves squares Right mouse button Juggle squares Close gadget Quit and return to document Preferences PREFERENCES [157] Choose Preferences (Wordworth menu), the first requester allows you to customise the window display. Click Next for the second requester which allows you select document options. Click Use to accept and use the changes Click Cancel to exit without using the changes Click Save to save the changes to a preferences file on disk. When you save, all preferences are saved including: Preferences requester, printing options, current typeface/style, paragraph format, document format, page size, margins, measurement units, header/footer options, numbering style, time & date formats, show ¶ status, Workbench status (open/closed), speech options, spell checker drawer and screen palette. Printing PRINTING [167] Choose Print (Project menu) to select the print method, paper type, range of pages to print, number of copies to print, and how to arrange the printed pages. Click Next for the second requester to select your printer driver and various options relating to the printer. Click Print to start printing the document Click Merge to merge and print the document Click Save to save your options Click Cancel to ignore any option changes and exit From the keyboard: Press F5 to select the print requester. Press Shift-F5 for quick print (by-passes the print requester) See also: Mailmerging documents. Quit - exit from Wordworth QUIT - EXIT FROM WORDWORTH [117] The Quit command (Project menu) ends a Wordworth session and returns you to the Workbench. If you quit without saving changes to a document, glossary, Wordworth asks whether to save changes. Revert to previous document REVERT TO PREVIOUS DOCUMENT [111] Choose Revert (Project menu) to revert to the last saved revision of your document. Rulers RULERS [100] Normally, there are two rulers in a Wordworth window, one vertical and one horizontal. The horizontal ruler displays the current indent and tab settings for the current paragraph. The default measurement is inches, but you can change this using the "Page layout" command (Document menu). The rulers (and Toolbox) are toggled on/off by pressing Right Alt-F9, or individually from the Preferences command (Wordworth menu). Saving a document SAVING A DOCUMENT [108] The Save command (Project menu) will save to disk using the current document name. The "Save as" command (Project menu), before saving to disk, allows you to specify the: 1. Document name 2. Drive and directory to store the document. 3. Document file format (that is, a different format to the normal Wordworth style). See also: Closing a document, Document format, New document, Opening a document. Saving a selection SAVING A SELECTION [120] The "Save selection" command (Edit menu) allows you to save selected text to disk as a document. You can specify the: 1. Document name 2. Drive and directory to store the document. 3. Document file format (that is, a different format to the normal Wordworth style). See also: Document format. Screen saver SCREEN SAVER [155] Choose "Screen saver" (Wordworth menu) to operate Wordworth's screen saver, which can protect your monitor. Enter the time delay before you want the Screen saver to operate (in minutes). The screen is restored as soon as you move the mouse or press a key. Scroll bars SCROLL BARS [89] Scroll bars are switched on/off by choosing Preferences (Wordworth menu). There are two scroll bars on a Wordworth window, one vertical and one horizontal. Scroll bars have two main functions: 1. To display the length and width of your document. The solid box in the scroll bar proportionally represents the window size, and the whole length of the scroll bar being the page width, or total length of the document 2. To provide an easy way to move about the document. You do this by moving the mouse pointer over the solid box, and drag it to where you want to move in the document. You can also click in the scroll bars either side of the solid box and the screen will move in pages in the appropriate direction At the bottom of the vertical scroll bar are four small arrows. CLICK TO Top arrow move to the top of the document Second arrow scroll up Third arrow scroll down Bottom arrow move to the bottom of the document Selecting text SELECTING TEXT [32] Selecting with the mouse: TO SELECT DO THIS Any amount of text Drag over text A word Double-click word A line of text Triple-click line To cancel a selection, click on the text. Selecting with the keys: Pressing Ctrl while moving the insertion point with the arrow keys selects text starting from the current position. To select the entire document, press Right Amiga-A, or choose "Select all" (Edit menu). See also: Copying and moving text, Save selection. Show special symbols SHOW SPECIAL SYMBOLS [139] "Show ¶" command (Document menu) hides or displays special symbols which represent the end of each paragraph (¶), spaces (grey dots), and tabs (arrows). Speech SPEECH [148] The Speech command (Utilities menu) allows you to select a male, female, robot or natural voice; you can also set the pitch and speed. Speech can used for the entire document, selected text, or talk-while-you-type. Speech is cancelled by pressing any key, or clicking the mouse; the speech will stop at the end of the next sentence. Spelling checking and dictionaries SPELLING CHECKING AND DICTIONARIES [143] Use the "Spelling checker" command (Utilities menu) to check the spelling of a selected word or the entire document. 1. Select word or part of your document you want to check. To check the entire document, do not select text 2. Choose "Spelling checker" 3. Click "Check word" or "Check document" to begin checking from the insertion point. A word not matching an entry in the Collins or "User dictionary" (Utilities menu) is displayed in the requester 4. Type the correct word in "Change to" box and click change Wordworth will also check for double-words (for example, had had). See also: Preferences. Subscript SUBSCRIPT [124] The Subscript command (Format menu) allows you to use subscripted characters when entering text. You may also select text and then use the command to apply the subscript style. Subscripted text is below the base line of normal text. See also: Superscript. Superscript SUPERSCRIPT [124] The Superscript command (Format menu) allows you to use superscripted characters when entering text. You may also select text and then use the command to apply the superscript style. Superscripted text is above the base line of normal text. See also: Subscript. Swap adjacent characters SWAP ADJACENT CHARACTERS [200] The "Swap adjacent characters" command is chosen by pressing Right Alt-\. It swaps the two characters before the insertion point. Tabs TABS [100] There are four tab styles in Wordworth: Left, Right, Centre and Decimal. The current tab style is highlighted above the Toolbox. To change the style click the appropriate tab icon. Default tab stops are set at regular intervals for all paragraphs in a document. When you set a tab, Wordworth removes all default tab stops to the left of the new tab. Setting tab stops using the ruler: 1. Select paragraph(s) to insert tabs 2. Click a tab icon to select the style 3. Click on the ruler where you want to set the tab To move, drag the tab across the ruler To remove, drag the tab from the ruler. See also: Paragraph formatting, Rulers. Thesaurus THESAURUS [145] Use the Thesaurus command (Utilities menu) to check synonyms and parts of speech of a selected word. 1. Select word you want to check. To check any word, do not select text 2. Choose Thesaurus 3. A synonym or parts of speech matching an entry in the Collins Thesaurus are displayed in the requesters 4. Click Replace Time formatting TIME FORMATTING [137] Choose "Time format" command (Document menu) to select your preferred time format. You may then insert the time into your document using the Current or "Updating time" command (Document- Insert menu). See also: Inserting the time. Toolbox TOOLBOX [96] The Toolbox is the block of icons situated at the left side of a document window. You can click icons in the Toolbox to perform various operations. They include: text alignment and line spacing, Help, Undo, Again, Typeface, Col (palette), and the colour, which displays the current foreground and background colours. Below the Toolbox are two text displays which show Insert/Overtype status, and keypad Command/Numeric mode. The Toolbox can be toggled on/off from the Preferences command (Wordworth menu), or press Right Alt-F9. Typeface formatting TYPEFACE FORMATTING [125] Choose Typeface command (Format menu) to select the typeface with which you wish to type text. Or select text and choose Typeface to change the type style. Text may also be made Plain, Bold, Italic, or Underlined by choosing the Typeface command or the style commands in the Format menu. Undo-undo command UNDO-UNDO COMMAND [118] The Undo command (Edit menu) will undo the previous command. Undo can be selected from the keyboard by pressing Right Amiga-Z. Windows WINDOWS [85] Wordworth is a multitasking word processor and displays each open document in a separate window. Command actions affect only the current document. Open document windows are listed on the Project menu, and the total number of documents is limited only by the memory of your Amiga. All Wordworth windows follow the Amiga protocol, and just like Workbench, they can by resized, overlapped, moved and so on. Each window is a separate process (task) which means for example, when one window is printing or spelling checking, you can continue working in the other windows. Choosing Quit (Project menu) will close down all open windows. Workbench open WORKBENCH OPEN [156] A check mark (tick) next to the "Workbench open" command (Wordworth menu) indicates whether or not the Workbench screen is open. The Workbench may be toggled open/closed. Closing Workbench can save up to 40K of memory, and is a good idea if you only have 1MB of RAM available. However, Workbench will only close if there are no programs running (Workbench disk directory windows excluded). WORDWORTH BOOK AMENDMENTS - THIS IS ALSO THE READ.ME ---------------------------------------------------- The Quick reference card mentioned in the book does not exist and references to it should be ignored. Line 5 of the poem on page 29 should have the return character after the word philosophy. Step 3 page 40. Before typing poem as the document name you need to delete the existing entry using the backspace key, delete key or right Amiga-X. HARD DISK INSTALLATION ---------------------- For Wordworth to look its best, you should have the Times and Helvetica fonts installed on your hard disk. These are provided on the Extras disk that comes with your Amiga Workbench disk. If the fonts are not in your hard disk's FONTS: drawer you will need to copy them into the FONTS: drawer from the Workbench Extras disk using the Shell (CLI), using the following command: copy "Extras 1.3:fonts" FONTS: all ENHANCED LASERJET (DESKJET) SUPPORT ------------------------- When using an HP LaserJet compatible laser printer, with the HP_LaserJet printer driver, you can now take advantage of the printer's built-in TmsRmn and Helve fonts, when using NLQ or Draft mode printing. To do this type in your document on screen using the Times or Helvetica fonts. Keep the line spacing to either 6 or 8 lines per inch. When you print the document using NLQ or Draft modes the printer will use its TmsRmn fonts for the Times text, and Helve for the Helvetica text. The font sizes are mapped like this:- Times 11-13 Printed using TmsRmn 10 Times 15-24 . . TmsRmn 14 (if available) Helvetica 9 . . Helve 8 Helvetica 11,13 . . Helve 12 (if available) Helvetica 15-24 . . Helve 14 (if available) All the styles, bold, italics, underline etc. are printed, as are the standard NLQ fonts, Pica, Elite, Condensed, and Enlarged. Note that Wordworth does not yet provide true support for proportional printer fonts (like TmsRmn and Helve) so although the document will print out using these fonts, right aligned, centred, justified, and some tabulated text may not be laid out correctly on the page. However the support for these fonts is still very useful for writing left-aligned documents like letters, with the professional look that the fonts provide. If you use a DeskJet printer you should also be able to achieve the same effect by using the HP_DeskJet driver and typing your documents in using the fonts described above. MAILMERGING WITH MAILSHOT PLUS ------------------------------ If you use Mailshot Plus for creating name and address data files for use with Wordworth's Mail Merge feature the data files should be saved out from Mailshot Plus in the following manner:- From the FILE menu, select File Type of TEXT. Enter ^m for the Record separator (replacing ^j^j). Select SAVE to save the file. From within Wordworth you should select Mailshot Plus format from within the Merge Data File Format requester when using Mail Merge and deselect the 'Includes Header Record' check box. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ------------------ ÿWilliam Wordsworth was born on the 7th April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumberland, England. He grew up in the beautiful lake district that was later to provide inspiration for much of his poetry and philosophy. His early boyhood was marred by the tragedy that was to accompany him throughout life. When he was just eight years old his mother died, followed by his father five years later. From a young age, he was very aware that the way in which he lived would have a profound influence upon his creativity. He later put many of his experiences into the largely autobiographical poem, The Prelude, recognising that this was an unconventional method of writing poetry: "A thing unprecedented in literary history that a man should talk so much about himself. Strong contemporary opinion held that to use poetry to describe normal, everyday occurrences was to demean the form. Wordsworth, on the contrary, used poetry to exalt the everyday and commonplace, believing it represented the truest part of human nature. In his poems: "Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity. . . in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. At the age of 17, Wordsworth was admitted to Cambridge University, and his first published poem: Sonnet: On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress was published in the same year. In 1790, with a college friend, Robert Jones, Wordsworth made the first of many walking tours to France, also visiting Switzerland. From this first visit, Wordsworth formed an attachment to France and a love for the country that was to stay with him all his life. After graduating, Wordsworth moved to France. He had an affair with Annette Vallon in the spring of the following year at Blois. On Dec 15th 1792, she gave birth to his illegitimate daughter Caroline. In 1793, Wordsworth returned to England. From the following year he stayed with his sister, Dorothy, who lived with him for most of her life, even after his marriage. In 1795 he was left 900 by Raisley Calvert, whom he had helped to nurse during a long sickness. This was a considerable amount of money, and whilst he had never been poor, he became increasingly affluent. He also met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in this year, and formed the basis of the friendship that would later result in the publication of the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads. The poems that Wordsworth had begun to write were revolutionary for many reasons. Most significantly, he succeeded in moving away from the conventional poetry written by his contemporaries. He hated stylized and flowery poetry, and the use of rhetoric for the sake of rhetoric. Wordsworth wanted to write simply, for the commemoration of nature and of humanity. In the preface to Lyrical Ballads , he wrote: "The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men." This may appear strange to the modern reader when considering, for example, I wandered lonely as a cloud,' perhaps the most famous of Wordsworth's poems. The metaphors he uses may not sound as if they relate to the voice of the common man, yet this poem illustrates the second half of his inspiration, celebration of nature, in a very personal manner. William Wordsworth was a strange mixture of realist and idealist. Although his life-philosophy was based upon a deep love for nature and for the common man, he himself came from more affluent society, and considered himself superior to those he romanticised, describing a poet as: "A man . . . endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." In spite of this, it was his greatest ambition to be simply: "A man speaking to men. In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson, with whom he had five children (two died in infancy and one later in life). His brother John was killed in 1804. In spite of his natural emotional distress, Wordsworth remained a prolific writer. More than any other poet, he illustrated the nature of the early English Romantic Movement. The date usually given to the origin of the movement is 1798, the same year that Wordsworth and Coleridge completed their first edition of Lyrical Ballads. The Romantic Movement was characterised by revolution - political and poetical: Through his poetry, Wordsworth responded to the changes taking place in his society - namely, the repressive measures introduced by the English government in response to the Revolution in France. He stood at the forefront of English intellectuals who supported the French Revolution and felt that it represented a shift in the power balance towards the working classes, and would therefore be desirable in England. He reacted strongly against the move away from rural life towards the greater urbanisation of the population believing that uniformity of industrial occupation and the desire for more technical information were killing off the finer instincts found in mankind - the purer feelings characterised by a rural idyll. In 1835 his sister Dorothy had a complete mental breakdown, from which she never recovered. This seemed to mark a turning point in his life. He lost much of his radicalism, and conformed more and more with the social position he occupied, rather than with his youthful ideals. In 1843 he became poet Laureate. Two years later he attended the Queen's Ball in London. Both of these actions were considered by the second generation romantic poets - Keats, Shelley and Byron, as a betrayal of what the Romantic movement stood for. On the 23 April 1850, at the age of 80, Wordsworth died. By using the imagery of nature, Wordsworth had striven to rediscover something that he felt his generation had lost. He believed: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity". As he grew older, however, his emotions and passions had mellowed and his verse grew more akin to that he had earlier rejected. Even his earlier poetry was not seen by everyone as being merit-worthy. Due to the originality of its form and content, Wordsworth's contribution to literature was not always recognised. Hazlitt, a contemporary writer and critic, said of his poems in 1825: "The vulgar do not read them: the learned . . . do not understand them, the great despise [and] the fashionable . . . ridicule them. Today, Wordsworth's enormous contribution to poetry is generally recognised. His work may appear rhetorical and artificial by modern standards - after all it is two hundred years old - but he created the potential for a true form of poetry for the people. A poetry that can be used as a common language of emotion and perception and that does not depend upon education or social status, either for creation or comprehension. His best known poem is probably "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host, of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze On 23rd April, 1850, at the age of 80, William died. End.