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- * Main Menu Help
-
- Add news item - This option lets you add a new news item.
- Delete news item - This option lets you delete a news item that is already
- present.
- Edit news item - Lets you edit the text of an existing news item.
- View news items - This option brings up the news viewer, which lets you
- see the news items. The items appear similar to how
- they would appear in the ANSI output file.
- Colour Edit - This option lets you change the text colour, background
- colour, line colour and header colour of any news item
- present.
- Write Ansi/Ascii - This option will write the output ANSI and ASCII files
- to the disk / hard disk. The ANSI/ASCII files will only be
- created if you choose this option.
- Setup - This option lets you change the setup of ZeroNews.
- Quit to OS - Quit to the Operating System.
- * Add News Item Help
-
- To navigate across the screen, use the arrow keys. The <HOME> and <END> keys
- take you to the beginning or end (respectively) of each line.
-
- The <DELETE>, <BACKSPACE> and <INSERT> keys work also.
-
- The <TAB> key takes you five spaces forward across the line.
-
- The <ESCAPE> key finishes the entry of text, and you will then be asked if
- you wish to save the text or not.
- * Edit News Item Help
-
- To navigate across the screen, use the arrow keys. The <HOME> and <END> keys
- take you to the beginning or end (respectively) of each line.
-
- The <DELETE>, <BACKSPACE> and <INSERT> keys work also.
-
- The <TAB> key takes you five spaces forward across the line.
-
- The <ESCAPE> key finishes the editing of text, and you will then be asked if
- you wish to save the text or not.
- * Setup Help
-
- 1 - This option lets you change the character that will be used as the line
- when the ANSI/ASCII files are written. The default is a line (#196), ─ .
- 2 - This option lets you change the prompt that appears on the bottom of
- each message. The prompt is 'Press Enter' by default.
- 3 - This option lets you change the justification of any news items that
- you write AFTER you change this option.
- 1 = Left (default), 2 = Centre, 3 = Right.
- 4 - If you run Ezycom, set this to true. If set on then this will include
- some Ezycom codes in the output ANSI/ASCII files.
- 5 - You can change the output ANSI filename with this option.
- 6 - You can change the output ASCII filename with this option.
- * View News Help
-
- Use the arrow keys to to go forward or backward through the news files.
-
- The <HOME> and <END> keys take you to the beginning of the news items or
- to the last of the news items, respectively.
-
- The news files are displayed in the colours that will be used in the ANSI
- and ASCII output files.
- * Colour Edit Help
-
- To change the colour of the news item, choose what you want to change:
-
- Foreground colour - The foreground colour of the normal news text
- Background colour - The background colour of the entire news item
- Line colour - The colour of the lines in the news bulletin
- Header colour - The colour of the header of the news bulletin
-
- Once you have chosen which option you would like to change, use the up and
- down arrow keys to cycle through the list of colours available for that
- choice. Press enter when the arrow is next to the colour you want.
-
- Please note: Black is located at the bottom of the Background Colour List.
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