|2-Article Formats






|1-For issue 8 of The Word



                            by Freak of NFA

|1-Plain ASCII Text



Send your articles in Plain ASCII text format, with no control codes or
escape codes or anything like that, because the magazine engine will
joyfully ignore them and print a load of gobbledegook for you, hurrah!

Your articles shouldn't really be any more than 72 characters wide as
we'll simply format them to the correct width, which means you needn't
worry about getting stuff exactly right.  Tabs are not supported either.

The suggested program for typing stuff in is CygnusEd Pro 3.0 as it
supports everything and more besides, and saves out ASCII text free from
control codes and other crap.

To emphasise text you have the following...

|1-Big text!



This function of the mag takes one line from your article and prints it
in Coop.24 in the centre of the screen, it is pixel perfect so no need
to wonder how many spaces you'll need...  :)

In order to display a line of Big Text you simply have to ensure that
the first three characters on the line are "|1-" and that your text that
you want displaying immediately follows this, so for example:

|1-This is Big Text...



is created by the line "|1-This is Big Text..." at the VERY LEFT EDGE of
your screen, i.e the "|" characters MUST be first on the line.  Don't
forget that Big Text requires THREE lines to be printed, so leave a
couple of empty lines after your big display.

|2-Big Big Text!







In addition to the big text you also have WindsorDemi.60 to play with,
which requires 7 lines, or 8 if you have decenders.  Similarly the text
is triggered with the prefix "|2-", so the above title is created using
the line "|2-Big Big Text!" in your document.

|1-Clip Art


^13^^520
Clip art is available but it's really annoying and fiddly at
the  moment  and so it's best to leave it to us to put stuff
in  for you.  If you see an item of Clipart that you want in
your  article  then  leave  us a note like "<<smiley clipart
here!>>"  and  we'll  insert it for you.  We DO read all but
the longest of articles before including them, so they should be found,
I'll use CygnusEd to search for the "<<" string, so if you use it, it
will be found.

|1-Picture/IFF submissions



Although we specify an AGA machine for The Word, it's actually only for
the extra processor speed that you get from the 020 processor, and not
the AGA chipset (Although the AGA extension is out now so this may
change in the future), and so any IFF adverts that you send should be
done in Original Chipset mode, or NON-AGA if you prefer.

Please don't send Interlaced or Overscan images either, as the former
sometimes crashes the picture routine, and the latter is a bugger to
display properly, and I can't be bothered, so there.

|1-Music Modules



Standard Soundtracker or Med format please (Med's will converted to ST)
and with no fancy timing tricks or anything like that...  We need two
modules for each issue of The Word.

|1-Loading Pics



Two loading pics are also needed for every issue, again they should be
NON-AGA, Original Chipset images, preferable either arty or pooting
orientated, you get the drift eh?

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