

                   Write&Set 0.99k for OS/2
               Wordstar compatible Wordprocessor

                      www.WriteAndSet.com

for OS/2 and eCS                         September 2009


This archive file contains two programs:

***WSedit:*** Wordstar 4 like Freeware Editor which reads 
Wordstar 4-7 and ASCII (ISO and IBM codepage) and writes 
Wordstar 4 and ASCII format.

***WSformat:*** A Freeware/Shareware formatting and printing 
program for Wordstar and WSedit files.

Running the two programs simultaneously offers you the look- 
and-feel of a single program: "Write&Set".

Write&Set is a full-featured wordprocessing program with 
spell checking, contents creation, footnotes, index, embedd
ing graphics and a lot of more. It is an alternative concept 
of word processing for people who don't like Winword-like 
programs. Word processing with Write&Set divides the job of 
producing a document in two parts: editing unformatted text 
and - later - formatting and printing. These two parts of 
the job are done by separate programs: WSedit is the 
'editor' and WSformat the 'typesetter'. This concept simpli
fies word processing and enables you compiling a single 
document with hundreds of pages without any problems. Never
theless, both programs are designed to work together like 
dialog windows in a single program.

WSformat is Freeware if you want to compile smaller 
documents than 10 printed pages. For larger documents, 
WSformat is Shareware. If you do not register WSformat and 
wait a while, you are no more able to format documents which 
are larger than 10 pages. This is the only Shareware limi
tation. You are allowed to send WSformat to friends or to a 
publishing house for printing your formatted document. The 
registration key rests on your computer. WSedit is a normal 
Freeware.

This archive file contains a third program: the Hypermake 
commandline compiler (www.hypermake.com). You can execute 
this program from the WSformat menu (Make - RTF, Make - 
HTML) to convert WS files to RTF (Rich text format) and HTML 
(for web pages). The WSformat registration key can be also 
used here.

---------------------- Installation ------------------------

Unpack the archive file to a new directory, e.g:
C:\Programs\WriteSet

The two programs WSedit and WSformat are now located in 
subdirectories:
C:\Programs\WriteSet\WSedit C:\Programs\WriteSet\WSformat

Now simply run the INSTALL.CMD program in the WriteSet 
directory. INSTALL creates file associations and program 
icons on the desktop for WSedit and WSformat. INSTALL does 
not copy files. Running INSTALL a second time deinstals the 
program objects.

--------------------------- Usage --------------------------

WSedit is a text editor which can be used like other 
editors. In addition to CUA editor commands like Ctrl-Ins 
for "paste marked block into clipboard", WSedit supports all 
Wordstar Ctrl Commands like Ctrl-KB "mark beginning of 
block". To get an overview, press Ctrl-J. "Ctrl" is abbrevi
ated ^. If you read and write files with file extension TXT, 
WSedit is an ASCII text editor. If you read and write files 
with the extension WS or FMT, WSedit is compatible to the 
Wordstar (DOS) file format.

The WSformat 'format' function reads the raw-text WS file 
edited by WSedit and writes an FMT (formatted) file. The 
"formatted file" makes a big difference to Latex: In Latex, 
there's nothing between the raw text and the final printout. 
In the FMT file, which can be also viewed using WSedit, the 
right margin is now fixed, the page breaks are apparent, and 
words at the end of the line which require hyphenation are 
displayed accordingly. You are able to make final changes by 
hand on the "formatted file", e.g. optimizing page breaks by 
hand.

WSformat let you preview and print your FMT file.

---------------------- The first steps ---------------------

After successful installation, take a look at the WSedit and 
WSformat help files. In the WSformat docu "Installation" 
chapter, it is described how to make user and language 
specific settings, e.g. loading the hyphenation algorithm 
for your language. Both WSedit and WSformat documentations 
are available in the WS file format, see DocuSrc directory. 
(WS files with an "e" at the end refer to english, with a 
"g" to german language.) You are encouraged to format, 
preview and print these files.

-------------------------- Tutorial ------------------------

If you are not familiar with Write&Set, I recommend the 
Tutorial. If you start WSformat for the very first time, the 
Lesson 1 will be started automatically. Later, you can reach 
lesson 1 from WSformat, menu item File - Select, and then 
click to Lessons_English and then to 1_FormattingPrint
ing.ws.

------------ Wordstar (DOS) users please note --------------

Since Write&Set 0.99b, you need not anymore to rename your 
Wordstar files to get a file extension ".WS". If you want to 
use your un-renamed Wordstar files with arbitrary file 
extensions or no file extensions in WSedit and WSformat, 
please do the following:
O  Start WSformat, Settings, Settings Notebook, page 
   Program, and turn on the checkbox "accept arbitrary file 
   extensions as WS files".
O  Open an arbitrary file with the file extension ".WS" with 
   WSedit (e.g. one of the tutorial files) and press Ctrl-OO 
   to get the settings notebook, page "File", and turn on 
   the checkbox "default setting for other file types". This 
   means, file extensions which are not known are treated as 
   "Wordstar unformatted".
O  To open a Wordstar file (unformatted) without the ".WS" 
   extension from the commandline, use the parameter "/.WS" 
   in addition to the filename. "/.FMT" opens a Wordstar 
   file in formatted state.
   C:\> WSEDIT filename.xxx /.WS

----------------------- WSedit 0.99k -----------------------

O  Line drawing with cursor keys (IBM codepage only): Simply 
   press Ctrl-Alt-Cursor keys for single lines and Shift- 
   Alt-Cursor keys for double lines. Edge characters are 
   calculated automatically.
O  Bugfix: Malfunction with block operations within indented 
   paragraphs (snow characters)
O  Bugfix: program hangs when using "Undo" after text inser
   tion (paste from clipboard, Ctrl-KC, Ctrl-KV)

-------------------- WSformat 0.99k ----------------------

O  In the settings notebook, there is a new setting "preview 
   in separate thread". Windows Vista does not tolerate 
   running preview in an own thead, while all other operat
   ing systems work better when having an own thread.
O  Bugfix: Malfunction when bold printing within indentions
O  Bugfix: Preview wrong page enumeration in title bar

----------------------- WSedit 0.99h -----------------------

For bug reports, please read the help file.

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99h:

O  Ctrl-OD "show printer chars": without printer chars text 
   an be edited now (restricted, because printer chars 
   remain on previous position)
O  Ctrl-B and Ctrl-OG indention gets calculated correctly 
   when using with printer chars
O  Ctrl-QA "search/replace" affects only running text and 
   not dot commands. New command Ctrl-QN affects dot 
   dommands only
O  Tab key in overwrite mode jumps to tabulator positions
O  right-orientated columns with ".tb#10,#20", while the 
   numbers behind ".tb" relates to the last character in the 
   column
O  undo/redo keycode is now Ctrl-Backspace (Alt-Backspace 
   still works, but forces a system beep in Windows)
O  "File - New Window" did not work (Windows version only)
O  Ctrl-U "paste trash buffer" created an additional single 
   space (Windows version only)
O  and a lot of minor bugfixes, not worth to mention.

---------------------- WSformat 0.99h ----------------------

O  right-orientated columns with .tb 10,#25 while #25 marks 
   column of the the rightmost character of the text column 
   (also implemented in WSedit)
O  GIF graphic file format implemented also in OS/2 version
O  negative page numbers allowed; header and footer lines 
   with negative page numbers are not printed
O  (OS/2 only) improved font size calculation in Preview
O  (Windows only) Help format MS HTML-Help (required for 
   Vista). If you rename the CHM file, old help is shown on 
   Windows Versions before Vista. The archive contains both 
   help formats.

O  more sophisticated conditional statements with parenthe
   sis and nested if conditions allowed
O  new dot command .GH graphic height allows dimensioning 
   bitmap text graphics related to the line height; 
   Metafiles did not work within the .BT command because of 
   missing size values

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Author: Martin Vieregg, info at hypermake.de
