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- RUSSIAN WORD PROCESSOR - Vers. 2.1 - Oct.1988
-
- by Bill Tavolga
-
- This program transforms your PC keyboard into a Cyrillic alphabet
- typewriter as used by the Russian language, and serves as a basic word
- processor.
-
- The hardware must include graphics support (CGA, EGA, VGA, or
- Hercules, etc.). So far only one printer type is supported. Any
- Epson or Epson compatible that uses the Epson escape code sequence to
- access double density printer graphics will work.
-
- Run program RUSS. The file RUSS.FNT should be on the same disk or
- directory path. If not, you will be asked to enter the path, complete
- with backslashes, etc. At first the entire font is shown, and you proceed
- by pressing any key. The keyboard layout based on the most frequently
- encountered PC keyboard is shown on the bottom of the screen, and there
- are 16 blank lines available on the page window. If you have EGA or VGA
- color graphics (650x350), then you can request the option that will give
- you 32 lines per page. All standard 33 Russian letters (lower and upper
- case) are available, as well as digits 0 to 9. In addition the rarely
- used ("old Style") dotted i and "yatz" are available (the bar and
- backslash key). Most standard punctuation marks are on the top row of the
- keyboard (shifted numbers). The / key produces a ?. The shifted , . / keys
- produce three commonly used symbols in Russian texts: the double < and >
- used as speech quotation marks, and a long dash, also used to denote speech
- but more often it indicates the non-existent present tense of the verb to be.
- The keyboard layout is visible at all times, and you can also get a printout.
- A counter on the bottom line shows the cursor location by column and line
- number.
-
- The keypad is used for most editing functions:
- Left & right arrow keys move cursor within line limits.
- Up & down arrows move within text limits,
- scrolling line-by-line to next or previous page.
- Home & end keys move to left or right ends of line.
- PgUp & PgDn keys move to top or bottom of text page,
- scrolling to next or previous page.
-
- Backspace deletes character to left of cursor and pulls in text.
- Del key deletes character at cursor and pulls in text.
- Enter key creates new line below cursor (compare with F3).
- Ins key toggles from overwrite to insert mode and back, and "INS"
- appears in lower right corner when insert is active.
-
- The ESC key exits the program, and special function keys do the
- following:
- F1 = Clears the text on the selected line.
- F2 = Deletes the selected line and pulls up text.
- F3 = Inserts new line above cursor.
- Note: Enter key creates line below cursor.
- F4 = Deletes all text.
- F6 = Prints full text centered on 8.5 x 11" paper.
- A 6-line page break is printed every 60 lines.
- F7 = Saves the text in file name provided.
- F8 = Retrieves text and replaces existing text.
- File must have been previously saved by this program.
- F9 = Prints Cyrillic (Russian) font in accordance with
- keyboard layout.
-
- There is no wrap-around facility, and the line length is a
- maximum of 49 characters. The page window is 16 lines (32 in the EGA/VGA
- option). The maximum document length is 300 lines. The keyboard layout
- is based on that of the usual PC computer. However, the key positions
- may differ slightly in different models and brands, especially the
- location of the tilde key. The position of the backslash is even more
- variable.
-
- The present version of the program is a significant improvement over
- the previous version 2.0 in the addition of upper case for the accented i
- and yeh, additional punctuation, and the two "old style" characters. This
- version will retrieve texts saved with version 2.0. Many bugs, both major
- and minor have been fixed, and the 32-line EGA/VGA option added. The program
- tested with several kinds of Hercules-type monochrome graphics boards, but
- there may be some out there that will give trouble.
-
- A sample Russian text file is included: RUSS.TXT
-
- This is a Shareware program, and if you find it useful, a
- registration fee of $15 would be appreciated. You will be apprised of
- changes and updates. The keyboard equivalents will be especially subject
- to change, as I get more information on any trends toward standardization.
- Your comments would be greatly valued, and efforts will be made to support
- printer formats other than Epson. Please send registrations, comments,
- questions, etc., to:
-
- William N. Tavolga
- 5151 Windward Ave.
- Sarasota, FL 34242
- (Phone: (813)-349-6221)
- (CIS : 76360,45)
-
- The author is not responsible for any damage, inconvenience, or
- hair loss associated with the use of this program. Vasha d'yelo.