This document introduces you to the text processing facilities offered by the Con-nect editor.
The following topics are covered below:
Text processing is performed in the Con-nect editor, i.e. the "Modify Document-name" screen.
See Adding a Document for further information. After you have completed your specifications in the "Add Document" screen, you press ENTER to display the blank "Modify Document-name" screen.
To modify an existing document, issue the MODIFY command in conjunction with the document:
MODIFY Document document-name
As a result, the "Modify Document-name" screen appears.
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Cabinet LS Modify Fiber-optics and Sharks Wednesday
Folder Work File Page 1 Line 1
....+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+....50...+....60...+....70...+.
Marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the
feeding habits of sharks.
In the past two years, sharks have repeatedly attacked the new
fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding
is expensive. An average cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
Command / / used 1 % Dir + Del ,
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The name of the document which you are currently modifying is indicated to the right of the screen name. The "Modify Document-name" screen displays the following information above the text area:
- Folder
The name of the folder in which the document is stored.
- File
If the document is stored in a file, the filename.
- Page
The number of the currently shown display page (each display page consists of 16 lines).
- Line
The number of the line which is currently displayed at the top of the text.
- ....+....10....+....20....
The scale always shows you which columns of a text are currently displayed. A line can be up to 250 characters long.
See Markers for a description of all markers which can appear in the scale above the text and/or to the left of the text.
The following information is displayed below the text area:
- Used
The percentage of editor area that is currently filled with text. There is a limit to the amount of text you can enter. Warning messages automatically appear in the message line if you have used more than 85% of the editor area.
After the first warning message has appeared, you should stop editing and save the document. If you continue editing, it is later possible that you are not able to open the document (due to its size).
- Dir
The direction indicator shows the current direction of command execution. "Dir +" indicates that commands are executed in a forward direction. See the description of the DIRECTION command for further information.
- Del
The delimiter character. The default is a comma (,). The delimiter character precedes line commands to allow Con-nect to distinguish the command from the text. See the description of the DELIMIT command for further information.
Pressing ENTER displays the next display page. When you are on the last display page, pressing ENTER alternates between a full screen display of that page, and a display of only the last lines of that page. To return to the beginning of the text, you issue the TOP command.
You can use all 24 PF-keys no matter which PF-key line is currently displayed.
If the first set (PF-keys 1 through 12) is displayed, you can issue the FLIP command to display the second set (PF-keys 13 through 24) and vice versa.
The most frequently used commands are assigned to PF-keys, however, you can change the PF-key assignments of the "Modify Document-name" screen (see PF-Key Assignments for detailed information).
The HOME command is by default assigned to a PF-key. When you press that key, the cursor is placed in the command line.
Write or modify your text using the commands which are described in the following sections.
To save your text without leaving the editor, issue the SAVE command. It is advisable to save your text at regular intervals while writing or modifying it.
Whenever you leave the "Modify Document-name" screen by issuing a Con-nect command, your modified version is automatically saved by Con-nect.
There is one exception: if you use the ABANDON command to leave the "Modify Document-name" screen, all changes which you made after issuing the last SAVE command are ignored.
When you are editing your document, Con-nect creates a backup version of your document with the name "(Undo Document-name)" and stores it in your default folder.
This version is automatically updated when you press ENTER - according to the value that has been specified in the profile (see Language, Command Sequence and Autosave for further information).
When no system interruption occurs, the backup version is automatically deleted when you leave the editor with a Con-nect command. (There are some editor commands, e.g. COMPRESS, which also update this backup version.)
The backup version is not deleted, if you do not issue a Con-nect command to leave the editor (for example, if you leave the editor with a Net-Pass command), or if the system crashes. If this is the case, it is recommended that you check the "(Undo Document-name)" version of your document with the DISPLAY command. If this version contains, for example, your missing document text, you can FILE it under a new name and treat it like any other document. If this version is of no further use to you, you should ERASE it.
See also Locked Documents.
While typing your text, you can enter line commands and editor commands in the "Modify Document-name" screen. These commands are described in the following sections.
Important:
The description of commands applies to the default direction
"Dir +". For example, if you copy text, the copy is inserted below the
cursor position. If the direction is "Dir -", the copy is inserted
above the cursor position.
See the description of the ,X and ,Y commands for an explanation of how to set the X- and Y-markers.
You can also use Con-form instructions (refer to the Con-form User's Guide for detailed information). A Con-form instruction is not executed immediately. The effects become visible only after the text has been formatted with Con-nect.
You can issue any other command sequence in the command line to leave the "Modify Document-name" screen and to start another function (your text is automatically saved by Con-nect).
Important:
Always confirm your text by pressing ENTER before you
enter a line command or an editor command.
You issue a line command in one of the following ways:
Type the line command at the beginning of the line you want to act upon and press ENTER. Each line command must be preceded by the delimiter character). The delimiter must be entered in the first column of a line. You must not enter a blank between the delimiter and the line command. Most line commands are executed in the direction determined by the DIRECTION command.
Important:
Throughout this documentation the default delimiter character
is the comma (,).
Position the cursor to the line where you want to execute the command and press the PF-key which has been assigned to the command. You need not press ENTER; the command is executed immediately. Applicable commands are shown in the PF-key lines.
Caution:
You should always press ENTER after having typed a
line command at the beginning of a line. If you do not press ENTER,
but press a PF-key instead, the line command is executed at cursor position.
For example, if you enter the line command ,CX-Y and then press the PF-key
assigned to the editor command TOP, the line is split at the cursor position
and the marked text block is inserted between the split lines. After that, the
TOP command is executed.
The line command that you type at the beginning of a line automatically disappears when you press ENTER. It does not overwrite your original text.
When you enter a question mark (?) in the first column of a line, you access the Con-nect help system. As a result, a help text appears showing a list of all available line commands.
You issue an editor command in one of the following ways:
Type the command in the command line of the "Modify Document-name" screen and press ENTER.
Press the PF-key to which the command has been assigned. Applicable commands are shown in the PF-key lines. In some cases you have to position the cursor to the line you want to act upon before you press the PF-key.
This section describes the line commands in alphabetical order.
| Command | Explanation |
|---|---|
| ,C | copy a single line below the original |
| ,C(n) | copy a single line n times below the original |
| ,CX | copy the X-marked text |
| ,CX(n) | copy the X-marked text n times |
| ,CX-Y | copy the marked text block |
| ,CX-Y(n) | copy the marked text block n times |
| ,CY | copy the Y-marked text |
| ,CY(n) | copy the Y-marked text n times |
| ,D | delete a single line |
| ,D(n) | delete n lines |
| ,I | insert 8 blank lines |
| ,I(n) | insert n blank lines |
| ,J | join two lines |
| ,L | leave the text line unchanged |
| ,MX | move the X-marked text |
| ,MX-Y | move the marked text block |
| ,MY | move the Y-marked text |
| ,P | scroll the line to the top of the screen |
| ,S | split a line into two lines |
| ,W | open a window of 8 blank lines |
| ,W(n) | open a window of n blank lines |
| ,X | mark a line with |
| ,Y | mark a line with |
Enter ,C at the beginning of the line which you want to copy and press ENTER to insert the copy below that line.
For example, if you want to copy a line 5 times, you must enter ,C(5) at the beginning of the line you want to copy and press ENTER. As a result 5 copies of the line are inserted below that line.
Mark the line you want to copy with ,X and press ENTER.
You can also copy a part of the line: you must set the X-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,X command to copy the text after the X-mark (i.e. the whole remainder of that line, starting with the character at the X-mark, is copied).
Position the cursor to another line. Enter ,CX at the beginning of that line and press ENTER to copy the marked text below that line.
Mark the line you want to copy with ,X and press ENTER.
You can also copy a part of the line several times: you must set the X-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,X command to copy the text after the X-mark (including the character at the X-mark).
For example, if you want to copy a line (or a part of the line) 4 times, you must enter ,CX(4) at the beginning of another line and press ENTER. As a result, 4 copies of the marked text are inserted below that line.
Mark the text block you want to copy with X and Y.
Position the cursor to another line, enter ,CX-Y at the beginning of that line and press ENTER to copy the marked text block below that line.
You can also position the cursor to the first character of the line below which you want to place the copy and then press the PF-key which has been assigned to the ,CX-Y command.
When you position the cursor within a line and press the PF-key assigned to the ,CX-Y command, the line is split at the cursor position and the marked text block is inserted between the split lines.
You can also insert copies of your text block at different positions in the text. You do not RESET the text markers, but move the cursor to the position where you want to insert the next copy and re-issue the ,CX-Y command.
Mark the text block you want to copy with X and Y.
For example, if you want to copy a marked text block 3 times, you must enter ,CX-Y(3) at the beginning of another line and press ENTER. As a result, 3 copies of the marked text block are inserted below that line.
Mark the line you want to copy with ,Y and press ENTER.
You can also copy a part of the line: you must set the Y-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,Y command to copy the text before the Y-mark (including the character at the Y-mark).
Position the cursor to another line. Enter ,CY at the beginning of that line and press ENTER to copy the marked text below that line.
Mark the line you want to copy with ,Y and press ENTER.
You can also copy a part of the line several times: you must set the Y-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,Y command to copy the text before the Y-mark (including the character at the Y-mark).
For example, if you want to copy a line (or a part of the line) 2 times, you must enter ,CY(2) at the beginning of another line and press ENTER. As a result, 2 copies of the marked text are inserted below that line.
Enter ,D at the beginning of the line you want to delete and press ENTER.
The deleted line disappears and the following lines are moved one line upwards.
When you use a PF-key to delete a line, you must first move the cursor to the beginning of the line which you want to delete and then press the PF-key which has been assigned to the ,D command.
For example, if you want to delete 6 lines, you must enter ,D(6) at the beginning of a line and press ENTER. As a result, the next 6 lines, including the line in which you entered the command, are deleted.
Note:
You can also use editor commands to delete the marked text or to
eliminate everything except the marked text (see the descriptions starting with
the DX command).
Enter ,I at the beginning of the line below which you want to insert 8 blank lines and press ENTER.
In contrast to the ,W command, the unused blank lines are not deleted when you press ENTER.
The maximum number of blank lines which you can insert at one time is 14 (if you specify more than 14 lines, only 8 blank lines are inserted).
For example, if you want to insert 12 blank lines, you must enter ,I(12) at the beginning of the line below which you want to insert the blank lines and press ENTER.
In contrast to the ,W(n) command, the unused blank lines are not deleted when you press ENTER.
Enter ,J at the beginning of the line which you want to join with the following line and press ENTER.
If the second line is too long to fit completely in the empty space of the first line as shown in the screen, Con-nect displays a highlighted L in the left-hand margin of the first line. To scroll your text to the left, so that you can see the remainder of the line, you issue the COLUMN command (see Positioning Commands later in this section). You can leave the text as it is, or split the line so that all of the text is visible in the screen (see the description of the ,S command).
As long as you have not pressed ENTER, you can undo your changes to a text line.
Enter ,L at the beginning of the text line where you want to retrieve the original text and press ENTER.
When you move text, it is removed from its original position and transferred to a new position.
Mark the line you want to move with ,X and press ENTER.
You can also move a part of the line: you must set the X-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,X command to move the text after the X-mark (i.e. the whole remainder of that line, starting with the character at the X-mark, is moved).
Enter ,MX at the beginning of the line below which you want to move the marked text and press ENTER.
When you move a text block, it is removed from its original position and transferred to a new position.
Mark the text block you want to move with X and Y.
Enter ,MX-Y at the beginning of the line below which you want to insert the text block and press ENTER.
Mark the line you want to move with ,Y and press ENTER.
You can also move a part of the line: you must set the Y-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,Y command to move the text before the Y-mark (including the character at the Y-mark). The remaining text after the Y-mark will be moved to the left.
Enter ,MY at the beginning of the line below which you want to move the marked text and press ENTER.
If the text has more than 17 lines and you are not on the last screen page of a document, you can scroll a line to the top of the screen.
Enter ,P at the beginning of the line which you want to scroll to the top of the screen and press ENTER.
Enter ,S at the beginning of the line you want to split. Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the position where you want to split the line.
As a result the text at the cursor position and to the right of it is moved to the next line; the subsequent text is automatically shifted one line downwards.
Enter ,W at the beginning of the line below which you want to open a window of 8 blank lines and press ENTER.
When you position the cursor within the line and press the PF-key assigned to the ,W command, the window is opened at the cursor position.
Fill the blank lines with text - the lines which remain empty below the text you have just added are automatically deleted when you press ENTER.
Note:
The following applies to both the ,W and the
,W(n) commands. When you add or modify text below
the window, the empty lines in the window are not deleted when you
press ENTER. If the blank lines are to be deleted automatically, you
should enter text only within the window and then press
ENTER.
The maximum number of blank lines in a window is 14 (if you specify more than 14 lines, a window of only 14 blank lines is opened).
For example, if you want to open of window of 4 blank lines, you must enter ,W(4) at the beginning of the line below which you want to open the window and press ENTER.
Fill the blank lines with text - the lines which remain empty below the text you have just added are automatically deleted when you press ENTER.
Before you can copy or move text, you must mark the line(s) to be processed. Press ENTER to confirm your current text before you set the text markers.
Enter ,X or ,Y at the beginning of a line and press ENTER to mark the whole line.
As a result the marked line is highlighted and an X or Y appears to the left of the text.
You can also position the cursor to the first column of a line and press the PF-key assigned to the ,X or ,Y command to mark the whole line.
Position the cursor within the line and press the PF-key assigned to the ,X command to mark the text from the X-mark to the end of the line.
As a result the line in which you set the marker is highlighted and an X appears to the left of the text. Furthermore, an X appears in the scale above the text to indicate the column in which the X-marker has been set.
Note:
If you position the cursor in the first column and press
the PF-key assigned to the ,X command, the whole line is marked. The X
does not appear in the scale. You cannot mark a text block
which starts in column 1 and ends in the same line.
Position the cursor within the line and press the PF-key assigned to the ,Y command to mark the text from the beginning of the line to the Y-mark.
As a result the line in which you set the marker is highlighted and an Y appears to the left of the text. Furthermore, an Y appears in the scale above the text to indicate the column in which the Y-mark has been set.
Note:
If you mark two separate lines with X and Y and if the markers are
in the same column, a Z appears in the scale above the text to indicate the
column in which both the X-mark and the Y-mark have been set.
A text block must be delimited with two markers: X which marks the beginning, and Y which marks the end of the text block. To set the markers, you proceed as described above. The marked text block is highlighted, and the markers X and Y appear to the left of the text.
If you want to mark a text block, the X-mark must be located before the Y-mark in the text. Otherwise, two separate lines are marked.
Caution:
Moving or deleting scales (see the description of the editor
command SET) affects the text following
the scale (text margins etc.). Thus, you should only mark that part of a text
which belongs to a scale, i.e. do not mark a text block with X and Y if a scale
is also included in this part of the text.
If the text block starts and ends within a line, the markers must be set with the PF-keys. In addition to the X- and Y-markers which appear to the left of the text, X and Y also appear in the scale above the text to indicate the columns in which the text block begins and ends.
You cannot mark a text block which starts in column 1 and ends in the same line.
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Marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the
feeding habits of sharks.
X In the past two years, sharks have repeatedly attacked the new
Y fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding
is expensive. An average cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
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If the text block starts and ends within the same line, a Z appears to the left of the text. If the X- and Y-markers have been set in the same column (of two separate lines) a Z appears in the scale.
Note:
The Y-mark alone can be used exactly as the X-mark to mark a single
line (or part of a line), even if a text block is indicated by the X- and
Y-marks. For example, you can enter ,CX to copy the X-marked text and ,MY to
move the Y-marked text.
To re-assign the text markers, you move the cursor to the desired text line and issue the ,X or ,Y command. As a result, this line is marked with an X or Y; the previous mark disappears.
To cancel all current text markers, you issue the editor command RESET.
This section describes the editor commands in alphabetical order.
| Command | Explanation |
|---|---|
| ABANDON | leave the editor without saving the modifications |
| CENTER | center a text line |
| CHANGE | search for a character string and replace all occurrences of it with another character string |
| CLEAR | clear the edit area |
| COMPRESS | compress a marked text block |
| COMPRESS n | compress a marked text block (n being the right margin) |
| CONFORM | access the Con-form prompting window |
| COPY name | copy another document into the text |
| DELIMIT parameter | change the delimiter character for line commands |
| DIRECTION parameter | change the direction of command execution |
| DX | delete the X-marked text |
| DX-Y | delete the marked text block |
| DY | delete the Y-marked text |
| EX | eliminate all text before the X-mark |
| EX-Y | eliminate all text except the marked text block |
| EY | eliminate all text after the Y-mark |
| INPUT parameter | open a window to insert text at specified positions |
| NEWPAGE | specify a page break |
| NEWPAGE n | specify a page break and assign number n to the new page |
| ORIGINAL | return to the version of the document text last saved |
| QUIT | save text and leave the editor |
| RENAME name | rename the current document |
| RESET | reset the text markers |
| SAVE | save the text without leaving the editor |
| SAVE name | save and edit the current text under a new name |
| SCAN | scan the text |
| SCAN = | continue scanning the text |
| SET | define margins for word wrapping and set tabs |
| SHIFT | shift a marked text block 3 columns to the right |
| SHIFT +n | shift a marked text block n columns to the right |
| SHIFT -n | shift a marked text block n columns to the left |
| SPLIT name | work with two documents in a split screen |
| TELEX | check text for incompatibilities with the telex format |
| UNDO | ignore the last changes to the text |
If you decide to discard your last changes to the document text, you can abandon the editor without saving these modifications. All changes which you made after issuing the last SAVE command are ignored.
When you ABANDON the empty "Modify Document-name" screen (for example, after having created the document using the command sequence "ADD Document"), an empty document is filed in the folder you specified.
Enter ABANDON in the command line and press ENTER to leave the editor without saving your text.
Enter CENTER in the command line to center a text line.
Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the line you want to center.
When you use a PF-key to center a line, you must first move the cursor to the line to be centered and then press the PF-key which has been assigned to the CENTER command.
You can search for a specified character string (for example, a word or a part of a word) and replace all occurrences of the specified string with another character string. The string is only found, if the whole string is on the same line.
This function always replaces the specified character string in the whole text (or in the marked text block). There is one exception: if you mark the "Confirm Change" field, the function starts on the currently displayed page.
Enter the CHANGE in the command line and press ENTER to access the "Change" window.
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Marine biologists have charted s ! Change !
feeding habits of sharks. +---------------------------------------+
! !
In the past two years, sharks ha ! from ________________________________ !
fiber-optic telephone cable off ! to ________________________________ !
is expensive. An average cable r ! _ Confirm Change !
least $150,000. ! !
! _ Absolute !
! _ Only between X and Y Marks !
! _ With no Value !
! !
! 1__ Start at Column !
! 250 End at Column !
! !
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Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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Specify the following information in the "Change" window:
- from
The character string that you want to replace. It can be up to 25 characters long. Upper case and lower case are not treated as equivalents.
You can search for a word which is delimited by blanks, punctuation marks, special characters or a text margin. You can also search for a string of characters which contains special characters. (See the description of the SCAN command for examples.)
Caution:
The change function considers only character strings which do not exceed one line in the document text; i.e. this function does not find a character string that you enter in the "from" line (e.g. "John Eshberry"), if it starts in one line of the document text and continues in the next line.- To
The character string which you want to substitute for the above string. It can be up to 25 characters long.
Caution:
If the character string contains an underscore character (_), this function only works if the underscore character is at the beginning or within the string (for example, "_string" or "str_ng"). You cannot specify a single underscore character.- Confirm Change
Optional - you mark this field if you want to decide at every occurrence whether you want to replace or skip the found character string.
If you mark this field, this function starts on the currently displayed page and replaces text towards the end of the document (the direction indicated at the bottom of the screen is of no importance).
When you press ENTER to close the "Change" window, the first occurrence of the character string is highlighted. A message appears at the bottom of the screen and you must chose one of the following options:
Skip
You can mark this field and press ENTER to skip the current occurrence and proceed to the next;Quit
You can mark this field and press ENTER to quit the change function. When you quit the change function (either by marking this field or by pressing the PF-key which is assigned to the QUIT command), all changes already made are undone.Replace with
Con-nect supplies the character string you specified in the "Change" window in this line. You can press ENTER to confirm that the character string is to be replaced and to proceed to the next occurrence.You can also replace the current occurrence with another character string which you can type in this line.
- Absolute
Optional - you can mark this field to search for a part of a word. As a result, Con-nect locates and replaces character strings that are contained in words.
The following description applies if you have also marked the "Confirm Change" field: if there are successive occurrences of a string that you want to replace within the same word, the whole word is highlighted. Example: you want to replace each X with another string - Con-nect encounters the word "XXXX" and highlights it. You press ENTER to replace the first X with the specified string. As a result, the rest of the word is highlighted and the character immediately to the left is suppressed (that does not mean that the character is deleted) to indicate the next occurrence which is to be replaced in the next step.
- Only between X and Y Marks
Optional - you can mark this field to locate and replace text in the marked text block.
- With no Value
Optional - you can mark this field and leave the "To" line blank to delete the character string at each occurrence.
If you did not mark the "Confirm Change" field, an asterisk (*) will automatically be entered in the first column of a line if the whole line has been replaced with no value.
- Start at Column
Optional - you can determine the columns between which you want to locate and replace text. You specify the column in which the change function is to start.
You can enter a number between 1 and 250.
- End at Column
Optional - you can specify the column in which the change function is to end.
You can enter a number between 1 and 250.
After you have completed your specifications, press ENTER to close the "Change" window and to start the search.
If you did not mark the "Confirm Change" field, all occurrences of the specified character string are replaced at once.
If word wrapping has not been activated (by issuing the SET command), each line in which a character string was found and replaced is marked with a highlighted R to the left of the text.
If you mark "Confirm Change" or "With no Value", no marker will appear.
If word wrapping has been activated, the marker S appears, since word wrapping can cause the replaced character string to be wrapped to a new line. After the process of replacing has been completed, Con-nect automatically scans the text for the character string that you entered in the "to" line and marks each line containing this character string. Thus, the lines which contained the string before are also marked with S. However, the marker appears only if the whole string is on the same line.
Enter CLEAR in the command line and press ENTER to clear the edit area (i.e. to display the blank "Modify Document-name" screen).
The blank "Modify Document-name" screen still shows the same document name above the edit area. When you issue a command to leave the blank "Modify Document-name" screen, the "Save Document Text" window appears (see the description of the editor command QUIT for further information).
For example, if some of your text lines are only 20 characters long, and others 55, you can compress a text block to make your text look more uniform.
Mark the text block you want to compress with X and Y.
Enter COMPRESS in the command line and press ENTER to compress the marked text block.
As a result Con-nect fills a short line with text from the beginning of the next line, and so forth, to make the right-hand side of the text as uniform as possible. The text markers disappear after the execution of the COMPRESS command.
If you specify this command without a parameter, the right margin for the compressed text block is column 76.
Notes:
You can specify a right margin for the compressed text block (i.e. a right margin other than column 76). The right margin (n) can be any column between 30 and 250; n must be greater than the longest word in your text.
Mark the text block you want to compress with X and Y.
Enter COMPRESS n in the command line and press ENTER to compress the marked text block.
Con-form features include: automatic creation of indexes, tables of contents, lists of figures, footnotes, page numbering and macros. See the Con-form User's Guide for detailed information on Con-form.
Enter CONFORM in the command line to access the Con-form prompting window which contains a list of Con-form instructions. Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the line after which you want to insert the marked Con-form instruction(s).
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....+....10...+....20...+....30. +---------------------------------------+
Marine biologists have charted s ! Mark to Select / Modify Parameter !
feeding habits of sharks. +---------------------------------------+
! __ .lm 0 set left margin !
In the past two years, sharks ha ! __ .rm 70 set right margin !
fiber-optic telephone cable off ! __ .pl 60 set page length !
is expensive. An average cable r ! __ .ls s single line spacing !
least $150,000. ! __ .ls d double line spacing !
! __ .op hyp=e hyphenation English !
! __ .op hyb=4 chars before hyphen. !
! __ .op hya=4 chars after hyphen. !
! __ .hp on hyphen connection on !
! __ .hp off hyphen connect. off !
! __ .fi on fill in lines !
! __ .fi off no line filling !
+---------------------------------------+
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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You can press ENTER repeatedly to page through the list in the window.
Mark the Con-form instruction(s) you want to include in the current text with any character. You can modify the instructions shown in the window by typing another value over the provided parameter. You can press ENTER to display further Con-form instructions.
Issue the QUIT command to close the window and to include the marked Con-form instruction(s) in your text.
If you did not position the cursor to a specific line in the text before you issued the CONFORM command, the instruction(s) are inserted below the line which was displayed at the top of the screen when you issued the CONFORM command (from where you can move them to other positions).
You can copy any document from your cabinet into the document you are currently modifying. The COPY command must always be entered with the name of a document from your cabinet.
Enter "COPY name" in the command line. If the name of the document contains blanks, you must replace the blanks by the blank substitute character.
Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the position where you want the copy to be placed.
When you use a PF-key to copy another document into your text, you must enter the name of the document you want to copy in the command line, move the cursor to the position where you want the copy to be placed, and press the PF-key which has been assigned to the COPY command.
The delimiter distinguishes line commands from the running text.
Enter "DELIMIT parameter" in the command line and press ENTER to change the delimiter.
Valid parameters are:
, ; < > ( )
From now on you have to issue the new delimiter character with a line command. For example, if you entered the semicolon (;) as parameter and want to delete a line, you must enter ;D.
You must not use those special characters as delimiter characters that are used in your TP-monitor, Net-Pass or Natural.
Caution:
The period (.) is not a valid delimiter character. It is the
Con-form escape character which must be different from the one preceding a
Con-nect line command.
Con-nect's default direction is "Dir +". The direction is important with the following commands:
,C (copies text)
,I (inserts blank lines)
,M (moves text)
,W (opens a window of blank lines)
SCAN
SET
For example, in the forward direction (Dir +) the ,CX-Y command copies the marked text block below the line where you entered the command. Copying it in the backward direction (Dir -) places the copy above the line where you entered the command.
Enter "DIRECTION parameter" in the command line and press ENTER to change the direction. Valid parameters are: + (forward) and - (backward).
Mark the line you want to delete with ,X and press ENTER.
You can also delete a part of the line: you must set the X-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,X command to delete the text after the X-mark (i.e. the whole remainder of that line, starting with the character at the X-mark, is deleted).
Enter DX in the command line and press ENTER to delete the marked text.
Mark the text block you want to delete with X and Y.
Enter DX-Y in the command line and press ENTER to delete the marked text block.
Mark the line you want to delete with ,Y and press ENTER.
You can also delete a part of the line: you must set the Y-mark with the PF-key which is assigned to the ,Y command to delete the text before the Y-mark (including the character at the Y-mark).
Enter DY in the command line and press ENTER to delete the marked text.
Set the X-mark.
Enter EX in the command line and press ENTER to eliminate all text before the X-mark.
Mark a text block with X and Y.
Enter EX-Y in the command line and press ENTER to eliminate all text except the marked text block.
Set the Y-mark.
Enter EY in the command line and press ENTER to eliminate all text after the Y-mark.
For example, if you are writing a text and you are still waiting for information which is to be included in the text, you can enter a special character at every position in the text where text is still missing.
Enter a special character (e.g. @ or #) at every position in the text where you want to insert more text later.
When you want to insert the missing information in the text, you enter "INPUT parameter" in the command line and press ENTER. The parameter must be identical with the special character that you used in the text.
As a result, Con-nect searches for the special character and opens a window of eight blank lines at the first special character. If the special character is in the middle of a text line, the line is split at that position.
Insert the required text. Press ENTER to delete the remaining blank lines and to move to the next occurrence of the special character.
After you have passed a special character (either by inserting text or by pressing ENTER to close the window) it disappears.
Caution:
You must not use those special characters as parameters that are
used in your TP-monitor, Net-Pass, or Natural. Do not use "&" as parameter,
if you used this character to identify Con-form variables.
Enter NEWPAGE in the command line to specify a page break within your text.
Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the line after which the new page is to start.
The page break will not be put into effect until you print your text. However, it is indicated by the following notation at the point where the new page is to begin:
* * * * ( ) * * * *
To delete a page break which you specified with the NEWPAGE command, you must copy the line before the page break below the original with the ,C command and press ENTER.
Enter ,D(2) in the copied line and press ENTER to delete the copy and the next line containing the page break information.
Tip:
It is recommended that you use the Con-form instruction .NP to start
a new page since page breaks which you specify with Con-form can be deleted by
typing over them.
For example, if you want to assign the number 3 to the new page, you must enter "NEWPAGE 3" in the command line.
Do not press ENTER immediately. You must first move the cursor to the line after which the new page is to start.
Enter ORIGINAL in the command line and press ENTER to return to the last saved version of the document text.
Your text is automatically saved when you issue the QUIT command or any other Con-nect command (except ABANDON) to leave the "Modify Document-name" screen.
However, when you issue a command to leave the blank "Modify Document-name" screen or to save the empty document, the "Save Document Text" window appears:
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! Save Document Text !
+---------------------------------------+
! !
! !
! The Edit Area is currently !
! empty !
! !
! !
! Mark to: _ attempt RECOVERY !
! _ retrieve ORIGINAL !
! _ ABANDON !
! _ save empty Document !
! !
! !
+---------------------------------------+
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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Mark one of the following fields and press ENTER:
- attempt RECOVERY
The backup version of your document with the name "(Undo Document-name)" is re-displayed in the "Modify Document-name" screen. If you do not modify the default value, this version is automatically updated every 10th time you press ENTER (see the description of the editor command UNDO for further information).
- retrieve ORIGINAL
The last saved version of the document is re-displayed in the "Modify Document-name" screen.
- ABANDON
Abandon the editor without saving the changes which you made after issuing the last SAVE command.
When you abandon the empty "Modify Document-name" screen, an empty document is saved.
- save empty Document
the empty document is saved and the command that you issued to leave the blank "Modify Document-name" screen is performed.
The RENAME command must be entered with the new name you want to give your document. If you want to enter a new name which contains blanks, you must replace the blanks by the blank substitute character.
There will be no copy of the document with the old name.
Enter "RENAME name" in the command line and press ENTER to rename the currently displayed document.
Note:
You can also rename a document in the "Info" screen.
Enter RESET in the command line and press ENTER to reset (cancel) the current X- and Y-markers.
Your text is always saved when you leave the editor with a Con-nect command (e.g. by issuing the QUIT command). There is one exception: if you use the ABANDON command to leave the "Modify Document-name" screen, all changes which you made after issuing the last SAVE command are ignored.
Enter SAVE in the command line and press ENTER to save your text without leaving the editor.
The "SAVE name" command must be entered with a new and unique name. If you want to enter a new name which contains blanks, you must replace the blanks by the blank substitute character.
Enter "SAVE name" in the command line and press ENTER to save the current text as a new document under the specified name.
The original document is filed without the changes you made after the last SAVE command.
The copy of the original document (including all changes you made after the last SAVE command) appears in the "Modify Document-name" screen under the new name.
Caution:
When you add a document and enter text without issuing
the SAVE command (you issue the "SAVE
name" command instead), the original
document will not contain any text.
You can search for a specified character string (for example, a word or a part of a word). Each occurrence of the character string that is found on the current page is indicated with a highlighted S in the left text margin.
The string is only found, if the whole string is on the same line.
This function searches in the direction which is indicated at the bottom of the screen (either "Dir +" or "Dir -"). It always starts on the currently displayed page.
Caution:
The scan function considers only character strings which do not
exceed one line in the document text; i.e. this function does not find the
specified character string (e.g. "John Eshberry"), if it starts in one line and
continues in the next line.
Enter SCAN in the command line and press ENTER to access the "Scan" window.
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Marine biologists have charted s ! Scan !
feeding habits of sharks. +---------------------------------------+
! !
In the past two years, sharks ha ! for ________________________________ !
fiber-optic telephone cable off ! !
is expensive. An average cable r ! !
least $150,000. ! !
! _ Absolute !
! _ Only between X and Y Marks !
! !
! !
! 1__ Start at Column !
! 250 End at Column !
! !
+---------------------------------------+
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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Specify the following information in the "Scan" window:
- for
The string of characters that you are searching. The string can be up to 25 characters long. Upper case and lower case are not treated as equivalents.
You can search for a word which is delimited by blanks, punctuation marks, special characters or a text margin. (For example, if a word in your text is enclosed in double quotes, you need not put the string in double quotes when you enter it in the "for" line.)
You can also search for a string of characters which contains special characters (e.g. Mr. O'Toole).
For example, if you enter "optics" in the "for" line, the character string "fiber-optics" will be found in the document text, since the specified string is delimited by a special character and a blank.
If you enter special characters in the "for" line, strings containing these characters are only found in the document text, if the special character is preceded or followed by a blank (or another special character). For example, if you enter "-optics" (preceded by the hyphen), the string "fiber-optics" will not be found in the document text; in this case you must mark the "Absolute" field.
- Absolute
Optional - you can mark this field to search for a part of a word (e.g. a part of a word which is delimited by letters or numbers).
- only between X and Y Marks
Optional - you can mark this field to scan only the marked text block (the scan function starts on the currently displayed page).
- Start at Column
Optional - for example, if you are creating tables, you can restrict the search to certain text columns. You specify the column in which the scan function is to start.
You can enter a number between 1 and 250.
- End at Column
Optional - you can specify the column in which the scan function is to end.
You can enter a number between 1 and 250.
After you have completed your specifications, press ENTER to close the window and to start the scan. Con-nect searches the subsequent text and stops at the first occurrence of the string. On this display page, all further occurrences of the specified string are indicated by a highlighted S in the left margin.
Note:
If the direction is "Dir -", the first found occurrence of the
string is at the bottom of the display page.
To continue the search, you must enter "SCAN =" in the command line and press ENTER to proceed to the next display page which contains the specified string. If you use this command frequently, you may wish to assign it to a PF-key.
Word wrapping enables you to enter text without regard to line length or text margins. It also enables you to change the line length of an already existing text.
For example, if you are modifying your document by inserting, splitting and joining lines, your text is likely to contain lines of irregular length. As soon as word wrapping is activated by specifying the left and right margins, Con-nect re-arranges the line layout automatically within those margins.
If you want to use word wrapping and want to include certain Con-form instructions in your text later, the left margin must be 1. Some of the instructions which require 1 as left margin are the following: .FI, .JU, .HYP, .LM and .RM.
You can also specify up to 5 columns for a table by defining their positions and choosing the tabulator characters.
Enter SET in the command line to access the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window. Do not press ENTER immediately. If the direction is "Dir +", you must first move the cursor to the line before the one with which you want to start the function. If the direction is "Dir -", you must first position the cursor on the line with which you want to start the function.
Note:
You can also move the cursor to the appropriate line and press the
PF-key which has been assigned to the SET command.
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Marine biologists have charted s ! Add Tabulators and Margins !
feeding habits of sharks. +---------------------------------------+
! !
In the past two years, sharks ha ! Left Margin ___ Character < !
fiber-optic telephone cable off ! Right Margin ___ > !
is expensive. An average cable r ! Tabulator ___ _ !
least $150,000. ! ___ _ !
! ___ _ !
! ___ _ !
! ___ _ !
! !
! !
! !
! !
+---------------------------------------+
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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To activate word wrapping you must specify the following information in the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window (see Word Wrapping below):
- Left Margin
Enter the number of a column (see scale).
- Right Margin
Enter the number of a column (see scale); the maximum is 249.
The difference between the left margin and the right margin must not be exactly 75. For example, you must not enter "1" for left margin and "76" for right margin; or "2" for left margin and "77" for right margin.
If you only specify the left margin (and no right margin), Con-nect automatically enters a right margin. The right margin is the number of the column of the left margin plus 76.
- Character
The characters < and > cannot be changed. They are used to indicate the text margins used for word wrapping.
To arrange your text in columns you must specify the following information in the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window:
- Tabulator
Enter the tabulator position (i.e. the number of the column; see scale). You can specify up to five tabs.
- Character
You must not use special characters as tabulator characters that are used in your TP-monitor, Net-Pass, or Natural.
You cannot specify both soft tabs and hard tabs at the same time.
Set soft tabs
To set soft tabs you specify a tabulator character (any non-alphabetic character except < and >). You must choose a different tabulator character for each soft tab, e.g. @, /, &, #, or * (see Soft Tabs below for further information).If you specify a tabulator character twice, all tabs will be hard tabs and will be indicated by a slash (/) in the scale.
Set hard tabs
If you do not specify a tabulator character or if you specify the same character twice, Con-nect enters a slash (/) as the tabulator character for hard tabs (see Hard Tabs below for further information).You can only specify hard tabs, if you specify at least two tabulator positions - at least two tabulator characters must be the same. If you specify only one tabulator position (for example, by entering a slash), this will be a soft tab.
After you have completed your specifications, press ENTER to close the window. As a result, a new scale, indicating the new margins or tabulators, is displayed at the cursor position.
To activate word wrapping and thus to change the line length, you must specify the left and the right margin in the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window. The left margin is indicated by < in the new scale; the right margin is indicated by >.
Existing text is wrapped within the specified margins starting with the line in which the new scale appears. Word wrapping is not active in a range of text in which hard tabs have been defined.
Note:
You can modify the margins for word wrapping in the new scale (by
entering SET in the command line, positioning the cursor in this scale and
pressing ENTER). You type the new specifications over the
specifications which are shown in the window.
Con-nect takes words from successive lines to fill up short lines, continuing this process line for line until the end of the text. If a line in the text extends beyond the right text margin, Con-nect carries the excess words over to the next line. There is one exception: if a word is too long to fit between the text margins, it is not wrapped.
When you specified a line length which is longer than the screen display, each line which exceeds the screen display is marked with L to the left of the text.
You can continue writing new text without regard to the line length after you have set the margins for word wrapping. Each time you press ENTER, the new text is wrapped according to the margins you specified.
To change the margins for another part of the text, you must issue the SET command again and specify the new margins.
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Marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the
feeding habits of sharks.
....+... < ...+....20...+....30...+....40...+... > ...+....60...+....70...+.
In the past two years, sharks have
repeatedly attacked the new fiber-optic
telephone cable off the Canary Islands.
The marauding is expensive. An average
cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
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Note:
Word wrapping does not include automatic hyphenation.
When working with soft tabs, word wrapping can also be activated. However, word wrapping is not active in lines in which soft tabs have been defined. Text which is not prefixed by tabulator characters is wrapped within the specified margins.
To define soft tabs, you enter the tabulator positions in the "Tabulator" lines of the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window. You must specify a different non-alphabetic tabulator character (except < and >) for each soft tab.
The following example shows you how to enter the margins and soft tabs:
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Marine biologists have charted s ! Add Tabulators and Margins !
feeding habits of sharks. +---------------------------------------+
! !
In the past two years, sharks ha ! Left Margin 5__ Character < !
fiber-optic telephone cable off ! Right Margin 60_ > !
is expensive. An average cable r ! Tabulator 10_ & !
least $150,000. ! 20_ * !
! 40_ # !
! ___ _ !
! ___ _ !
! !
! !
! !
! !
+---------------------------------------+
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Caution:
If you specify a tabulator character twice, these tabs will be
hard tabs.
The positions of the soft tabs and the character you specified for each tab are indicated in the new scale.
You arrange your text in columns by entering the text in the line where it is intended to appear and by prefixing it with the specified tabulator character.
If you put blanks between the tabulator character and the following text, the blanks are also moved to the specified tabulator position.
If you enter text without a tabulator character, it is not tabulated.
You must enter the prefixed text in the correct sequence. For example, you must not enter the tabulator character for column 40 before the one for column 10.
Caution:
If a soft tab causes the text to be shifted beyond column 250,
that text is lost.
Each time you press ENTER the prefixed text is moved to the specified tabulator position and the tabulator character disappears from the text (the prefixed text in the example below will be tabulated as soon as you press ENTER).
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....+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+....50...+....60...+....70...+.
Marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the
feeding habits of sharks.
In the past two years, sharks have repeatedly attacked the new
fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding
is expensive. An average cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
... < .. & ...+... * ...+....30...+... # ...+....50...+... > ...+....70...+.
Depth Ft. Cable No. of Sharks
----- --------- -------------
&1,000 *10,000 #150
&2,000 *15,000 #100
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Notes:
To define hard tabs, you must enter the tabulator positions in the "Tabulator" lines of the "Add Tabulators and Margins" window. You must specify at least two tabulator positions and must not use different tabulator characters (you need not enter tabulator characters).
Caution:
If you specify only one tabulator position, this will be a soft
tab.
The positions of the hard tabs are indicated by a slash (/) in the new scale. Word wrapping is notactive in text lines with hard tabs.
If you have set hard tabs, all text you enter following the new scale line is arranged in the columns you specified. You press the tab key to move to the first tabulator position and enter your text; you press the tab key again to move to the next tabulator position, and so on.
After you have completed the table you should reset the tabulators again (i.e. you issue the SET command once more and delete the specifications for the hard tabs in the resulting window). If you do not reset the tabulators, all text will continue to be entered in columns, i.e. each tabulator position is preceded by a blank which cannot be deleted.
If you want to include a table in the middle of your text and issue the SET command to specify the positions for the hard tabs, already existing text following the new scale is not arranged in columns.
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....+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+....50...+....60...+....70...+.
Marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the
feeding habits of sharks.
In the past two years, sharks have repeatedly attacked the new
fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding
is expensive. An average cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
... < .. / ...+... / ...+....30...+... / ...+....50...+... > ...+....70...+.
Depth Ft. Cable No. of Sharks
----- --------- -------------
1,000 10,000 150
2,000 15,000 100
....+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+....50...+....60...+....70...+.
What is it about fiber-optic cable? Marine biologists accompanying
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Note:
When you modify the tabulator positions in the new scale (by
entering SET in the command line, positioning the cursor in this scale and
pressing ENTER), already existing text is not moved to the
new tabulator positions and all old hard tabs are still active.
Mark the first line of the text block with ,X and the last line with ,Y. Press ENTER.
Enter SHIFT without the parameter in the command line and press ENTER to shift the marked text block 3 columns to the right.
Caution:
You must not issue either of the SHIFT commands if the
SET command has been issued anywhere in the document text.
In contrast to the COLUMN command (see Positioning Commands) which only scrolls the text, the SHIFT commands actually move the text to a new column.
Mark the first line of the text block with ,X and the last line with ,Y. Press ENTER.
Enter "SHIFT +n" in the command line and press ENTER to shift the marked text block n columns to the right.
You can replace n with any number between 1 and 99.
Mark the first line of the text block with ,X and the last line with ,Y. Press ENTER.
Enter "SHIFT -n" in the command line and press ENTER to shift the marked text block n columns to the left.
You can replace n with any number between 1 and 99.
Caution:
For example, if the text has been shifted to column 10 and you
issue the command "SHIFT -20", the text can only be
shifted 10 columns to the left (to column 0) since there are no negative
columns. If the text is shifted beyond column 235, that text is lost.
You can work with two documents simultaneously; both are displayed on your screen (i.e. a split screen) and you can use full editing facilities with both texts.
Enter "SPLIT name" in the command line and press ENTER to split the screen.
The SPLIT command must be entered with the name of an existing document from your cabinet. If the name of the document contains blanks, you must replace the blanks by the blank substitute character.
You can also enter the document name in the command line and press the PF-key which has been assigned to the SPLIT command.
As a result, the document which was current when you entered the SPLIT command is displayed in the top half of the screen. The document whose name you specified with the SPLIT command is displayed in the lower half.
The active document (the one you can modify) is always highlighted. Whenever you want to switch to the other document, you issue the SPLIT command again, this time without a name. You can use the positioning commands to move around within the active document.
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fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding
is expensive. An average cable repair is laborious and costs at
least $150,000.
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The computer animation that is used to demonstrate the feeding
habits of sharks will be available by the beginning of next month.
Enter a command, press a PF-key, or enter * to display commands
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You issue the QUIT command to close the currently active document. As a result the inactive document is displayed in full size in the "Modify Document-name" screen.
If you want to copy text from one document to the other, you must proceed as follows:
Activate the document containing the text you want to copy, and mark the required text with the X- and Y-marks.
Activate the other document, enter COPY in the command line, position the cursor to the point where you want to place the text and press ENTER.
If you want to send your document as a telex, you can activate the telex mode to check for lines or characters in your written text which are not compatible with the telex format. Con-nect checks the whole text and notifies you with an appropriate message, if incompatible lines or characters are found. You must make the necessary changes to your text after each message and press ENTER to continue checking.
It is recommended that you activate the telex mode after you have finished editing your document. However, if you want to use the telex mode while editing your document, you must not enter a line command (such as ,W or ,X) at the beginning of a line since a line command is in this case executed at the cursor position. Instead, you should assign the line command to a PF-key.
Enter TELEX in the command line and press ENTER to activate the telex mode.
To deactivate the telex mode, you must enter TELEX once more and press ENTER.
Note:
If you do not want to complete the process of checking, and if there
are still incompatible characters or lines in your text, you must deactivate
the telex mode.
Con-nect creates a backup version of your document with the description "(Undo Document-name)" and stores it in your default folder. If you do not modify the Con-nect default value, this version is automatically updated every 10th time you press ENTER. When no system interruption occurs, it is automatically deleted when you leave the editor with a Con-nect command (there are some editor commands, e.g. COMPRESS, which also update this backup version).
You can modify the default value, for example, to have the "(Undo Document-name)" version of the document updated every second time you press ENTER. See Language, Command Sequence and Autosave for a description of how to modify the default value.
Enter UNDO in the command line and press ENTER to return to the latest version of "(Undo Document-name)".
Note:
You can also enter ORIGINAL in the command line to ignore all
changes which you made after entering the last SAVE command.
When you write a document, you can enter variables in the text. The variables must be preceded by the variable character; the default is an ampersand (&).
To replace the variables with the appropriate values, you must FORMAT the document and mark the "System Variables" field in the "Format Document-name" screen (see the description of the FORMAT command in section Documents).
The values with which the following variables are replaced are those shown in the "Display User Address" screen.
| Variable | Explanation |
|---|---|
| &YFNAME | Last name |
| &YFINI | Middle initial |
| &YFFNAME | First name |
| &YFSTRP | First line of home address |
| &YFNMBRP | Second line of home address |
| &YFCITYP | City of home address |
| &YFZIPP | Postal code of home address |
| &YFCNTRYP | Country of home address |
| &YFTELEPHP | Home phone number |
| &YFORG | Company name |
| &YFTITLE | Title (e.g. Manager) |
| &YFDEP | Department |
| &YFLOCW | Location |
| &YFNMBRW | First line of work address |
| &YFSTRW | Second line of work address |
| &YFCITYW | City of work address |
| &YFZIPW | Postal code of work address |
| &YFCNTRYW | Country of work address |
| &YFTELEPHW | Work phone number |
| &YFEXTW | Work phone extension number |
| &YFCOUNPHW | Country code for work phone |
Note:
In the case of standalone, shared or public cabinets, the value for
&YFNAME is taken from the description of the cabinet. &YFINI and
&YFFNAME are not valid.
The values with which the following variables are replaced are taken from the user's profile.
| Variable | Explanation |
|---|---|
| &YFLANG | Con-nect language code |
| &YFCABID | ID of the cabinet being used |
| &YFDOCNAME | Name of the document containing the variable |
The following example shows how to use the Con-nect system variables in a text which also includes Con-form instructions and Con-form variables (see the Con-form User's Guide for further information):
.FI OFF .SV CO=ACME .TI 2 TO: All &CO Employees FROM: &YFFNAME &YFNAME DATE: &$DT .FI ON;.JU ON .SL 1 We are pleased to announce that &CO will again be holding a fall grill party. We are inviting all interested employees to volunteer for the talent show which will follow. Contact me at extension &YFEXTW if you want to show off your talents! .SL 1 You will receive information regarding the date and location next week.
When the text above is formatted, it looks like the following:
TO: All ACME Employees FROM: Sonya Long DATE: 14. 9.93 We are pleased to announce that ACME will again be holding a fall grill party. We are inviting all interested employees to volunteer for the talent show which will follow. Contact me at extension 2316 if you want to show off your talents! You will receive information regarding the date and location next week.
The following markers can appear to the left of the text:
| Marker | Explanation |
|---|---|
| L | the marked text line is longer than the screen display |
| R | a character string has been replaced in this line |
| S | a character string has been found in this line |
| X | the X-mark has been set in this line |
| Y | the Y-mark has been set in this line |
| Z | the X- and Y-marks have both been set in this line |
The following markers can appear in the scale above the text:
| Marker | Explanation |
|---|---|
| X | the X-mark has been set in this column |
| Y | the Y-mark has been set in this column |
| Z | the X- and Y-marks have both been set in this column |
You can enter the following positioning commands in the command line of the "Modify Document-name" screen. Some of these commands may be assigned to PF-keys.
You can enter the following commands in the command line of the "Modify Document-name" screen: