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- I N D E X E R
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- by e.g. bell
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- DISCLAIMER: This program is to be used with a word processor that supports
- PETASCII code. It works great with THE WRITE STUFF and SpeedScript because
- they support the PETASCII mode, even though their default mode is Screen
- Code. I know nothing about other word processors so all I can say at this
- point is: PLEASE GET THE WRITE STUFF! Life here at the Tower would be so
- much simpler if we could depend upon every LOADSTAR subscriber having the
- best word processor ever written for the C-64 or C-128. TWS sells for less
- than $25 (with many users' groups offering hefty discounts). The bottom
- line is: if you don't know whether your word processor supports PETASCII
- and will work with INDEXER, we don't either. TWS can be purchased from
- Busy Bee Software, P.O. Box 2959, Lompoc CA 93438. See THE ILLUSTRATOR II
- review on Side One for more reasons for getting TWS.
-
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- Surely you don't think we would publish an ed bell program without 100
- or so blocks of documentation? This Read It file is just to give you a
- quick overview of INDEXER; the actual docs are in a PETASCII, printed-to-
- disk, formatted file called "indexer docs", and yes, it's over 100 blocks
- long. It's more than just a docs file; it's a tutorial on many aspects of
- printing with your computer.
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- INDEXER can save you a lot of time and work. ed uses it for creating
- an Index and Table of Contents for the extensive docs he writes for his
- complex programs. You will probably find it more useful for making an
- Index and Table of Contents for your longer writings (your novel? your
- Pulitzer Prize-winning essay?). Or you may use it to make some of the
- documentation on other LS 128 programs from the past more readable and
- handy.
-
- An Index is a list of words or phrases, in alphabetical order, found
- at the back of a book or article. The Index shows which pages address the
- subject of the word or phrase so you can quickly look them up. The Table
- of Contents is a list of "chapter" headings shown at the beginning of the
- text with page numbers for quick lookup.
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- If the text you're indexing is long, you can imagine how much work it
- would be to read through it for EACH word in the Index list, compiling page
- numbers. INDEXER does it at machine language speed, then creates a
- separate file of the Index. The program then gives you the option to print
- it out in a nice, easy to read format. It does the same for the Table of
- Contents.
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- The docs for INDEXER are on the disk in PETASCII format, ready to be
- read or printed by your word processor, if it allows you to load SEQ
- PETASCII files. To load the file with THE WRITE STUFF, do this:
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- (1) Press CTRL-A for ASCII mode.
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- (2) Press CTRL-L for Load.
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- (3) Delete the dash and enter "indexer docs,s,r".
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- (4) Press CTRL-A after the file has loaded.
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- (5) Press UP-ARROW then choose PRINT.
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- (6) Set the left, right, top and bottom margins to 0.
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- (7) Select SCREEN.
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- After printing to screen you can send it to the printer by choosing
- PRINT, then PRINTER. It will print out a nicely formatted set of
- instructions for INDEXER, complete with page numbers and chapter headings.
- Once you have printed out the documentation, you will find how to use the
- program to make a Table of Contents and Index for the docs. The files
- "table of content" and "index" are already on the disk, as is the
- "indexer.wordfile" file which was created with TWS. This word file is used
- by INDEXER to make the "index" file.
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- With TWS you can add "table of content" to the front of "indexer docs"
- and append "index" to the end, giving you a professional-looking manual for
- the program when you print it out.
-
- By the way, the "t." files on LOADSTAR 128 (like the one you're
- reading now) are created with TWS and printed to disk in PETASCII format.
- The only difference between "t.indexer boot" (this file) and "indexer docs"
- is that our files are in the PRG format, formatted for 78 columns, and have
- no page numbers at the bottom. We let our Menu System do the formatting as
- it's printed. "indexer docs" has page numbers and is formatted for normal
- margins.
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- If you don't have TWS (or a good word processor that you know well)
- then you won't have much use for INDEXER anyway.
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- ed has written a powerful support program for a word processor. It is
- NOT a word processer itself, but it is a handy program that LOADSTAR 128 is
- proud to present.
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- FT
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