@DATABASE "AGHTW-Part4" @$VER: Amigaguide_How_To_Write_Pt4 01.06 (12.02.98) Copyright © 1997/1998 Frank P. Bunton @INDEX "AGHTW_Index/Index" @NODE "MAIN" "How To Write AG - Part 4" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Main" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS - PART 4@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This node should not normally be displayed if you started off from the index file. But in case you started off this file as an individual document, you can now access the following items:- @{JCENTER} @{" Text Attribute Commands " LINK "Attributes"} @{" Style (Bold, Italic, Underlining) " LINK "Style"} @{" The PLAIN Command " LINK "Plain"} @{" Colouring Text & Background " LINK "Colouring"} @{" The FG Command " LINK "Fg"} @{" The APEN Command " LINK "APen"} @{" The BG Command " LINK "Bg"} @{" The BPEN Command " LINK "BPen"} @{" Reverse Video Text " LINK "Reverse"} @{" The PARD Command " LINK "Pard"} @{" Justification Of Text " LINK "Justification"} @{" Line and Paragraph Indicators " LINK "LinePara"} @{" Indent Commands " LINK "Indents"} @{" The LINDENT Command " LINK "Lindent"} @{" The PARI Command " LINK "Pari"} @{" The PARD Command " LINK "Pard"} @{" TAB Commands " LINK "TabCommands"} @{" TAB Command " LINK "Tabn"} @{" SETTABS ... Command " LINK "SetTabs"} @{" CLEARTABS Command " LINK "ClearTabs"} @{" TAB Command " LINK "Tab"} @{" Miscellaneous Attribute Commands " LINK "MiscAtt"} @{" MAIN INDEX " LINK "AGHTW_Index/Main"} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Attributes" "How To Write AG - Text Attribute Commands (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @PREV "AGHTW_Part3/Macros" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS TEXT ATTRIBUTE COMMANDS Versions 39 and 40@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This group of commands, which are really a sub section of @{"local commands" LINK, "AGHTW_Part3/Local"} can be used to change the appearance of the text. They are characterised by the use of the {} brackets. Attribute commands can be used @{B}anywhere@{UB} within the text. They @{B}do not@{UB} have to be on a line of their own nor at the start of a line. There are other commands which affect the appearance of the text such as @{"FONT" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/Fonts"17} @{"WORDWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/WordWrap"} and @{"SMARTWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"} but as they do not use the {} and can be used as both @{"global and local commands" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/GlobalLocal"} they are included elsewhere. The commands available are discussed under these headings:- @{" Style (Bold, Italic, Underlining) " LINK "Style"} - Versions 39 and 40 \@{B} - to turn on Bold Text \@{UB} - to turn off Bold Text \@{I} - to turn on Italic Text \@{UI} - to turn off Italic Text \@{U} - to turn on Underlined Text \@{UU} - to turn off Underlined Text \@{PLAIN} - revert to plain text @{" Colouring Text & Background " LINK "Colouring"} - Version 40 \@{APEN} @{" - " LINK "APen"} to change foreground pen number \@{FG} @{" - " LINK "FG"} to change foreground colour \@{BPEN} @{" - " LINK "BPen"} to change background pen number \@{BG} @{" - " LINK "Bg"} to change background colour \@{PARD} @{" - " LINK "Pard"} reset all colours to defaults @{" Justification Of Text " LINK "Justification"} - Version 40 \@{JCENTER} - to centre justify text \@{JLEFT} - to left justify text \@{JRIGHT} - to right justify text @{" Line & Paragraph Indicators " LINK "LinePara"} - Version 40 \@{LINE} - to insert line indicator \@{PAR} - to insert paragraph indicator @{" Indent Commands " LINK "Indents"} - Version 40 \@{LINDENT } @{" - " LINK "Lindent"} to indent by spaces \@{PARI } @{" - " LINK "Pari"} to indent first line of paragraph by spaces \@{PARD} @{" - " LINK "Pard"} to cancel indents @{" Word Wrapping " LINK "AGHTW_Part3/Wrapping"} \@{CODE} @{" - " LINK "AGHTW_Part3/Code"} to turn off word wrapping Note - The Word wrapping section also includes the commands WORDWRAP and SMARTWRAP which do not use the {} and are really global or local commands. @{" TAB Commands " LINK "TabCommands"} TAB ** @{" - " LINK "Tabn"} to set tabs to a regular number of spaces \@{CLEARTABS} @{" - " LINK "ClearTabs"} to clear tabs set by \@{SETTABS ...} \@{SETTABS ... } @{" - " LINK "SetTabs"} to set tabs to irregular settings \@{TAB} @{" - " LINK "Tab"} to output an actual tab code ** Note - The "TAB " command is also included in this section even though it is not an attribute command as it does not use the {} and is really a global or local command. @{" Miscellaneous Attribute Commands " LINK "MiscAtt"} - Version 40 \@{AMIGAGUIDE} - to insert the word AMIGAGUIDE® \@{BODY} - uncertain purpose @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Style" "How To Write AG - Style of Text (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS STYLE OF TEXT BOLD ITALIC AND UNDERLINING Versions 39 and 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This is done by including these commands:- \@{B} turn on bold \@{I} turn on italics \@{U} turn on underlining They are turned off again with:- \@{UB} turn off bold \@{UI} turn off italics \@{UU} turn off underlining For example:- \@{B}bold text \@{I}italic text and \@{U}underlined text\@{UB}\@{UI}\@{UU} The above has been used in the following line which will be in styles if you have @{"Amigaguide version" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Versions"} 39 or 40 but in plain if you have version 34:- @{B}bold text @{I}italic text and @{U}underlined text@{UB}@{UI}@{UU} The commands can be placed ANYWHERE in the text. Please read @{"Problem 8" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Problems"182}. If you are using version 40, then all of these attributes can be turned off with the single command @{"PLAIN" LINK "Plain"}. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Plain" "How To Write AG - The PLAIN Command" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS {PLAIN} Command Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} With @{B}version 40@{UB}, if you want to turn off all three @{"styles" LINK "Style"} of text at once (i.e. bold, italic and underlining) and revert to plain text you can use the {PLAIN} command. It could be used as follows:- \@{B}bold text \@{I}italic text and \@{U}underlined text\@{PLAIN} and now some plain text. which would appear like this:- @{B}bold text @{I}italic text and @{U}underlined text@{PLAIN} and now some plain text. The danger with this is that, at time of writing (December 1997), the majority of Amiga users are using Workbench 3.0 or earlier and so using {PLAIN} will result in users of version 39 continuing to see the bold, italic and/or underlining. So if this paragraph is all bold, italic and underlined then you are using version 39! Users of version 34 will not get the bold, italics and/or underlining so these last two paragraphs will be in plain as well as the demonstration line above! @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Colouring" "How To Write AG - Colouring (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS COLOURING THE TEXT AND BACKGROUND Versions 39 & 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} Colour commands are available to change both:- - The @{B}foreground@{UB} colour, i.e. the colour of the @{FG Shine}text itself@{FG Text}, with the commands:- - @{"FG " LINK "Fg"} in versions 39 and 40 - @{"APEN " LINK "APen"} in version 40 The main difference between these two is that \@{FG} uses colour names whereas \@{APEN} uses pen numbers. - The @{B}background@{UB} colour, i.e. the colour @{BG Shine}behind the text@{BG Back}, with the commands:- - @{"BG " LINK "Bg"} in versions 39 and 40 - @{"BPEN " LINK "BPen"} in version 40 The main difference between the two is that \@{BG} uses colour names whereas \@{BPEN} uses pen numbers. If you want to ensure that your colours are visible to all users of Amigas from AmigaDOS/Workbench 3.0 onwards (version 39) then you should use the \@{FG } and \@{BG } commands in preference to the \@{APEN } and \@{BPEN} commands. I will discuss how to get @{FG Back}@{BG Text}reverse video@{FG Text}@{BG back} text in @{"another section" LINK "Reverse"}. There is also a section on the @{"PARD" LINK "Pard"} command that can be used to get back to normal. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Fg" "How To Write AG - The FG Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS \@{FG } COMMAND Version 39 and 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This changes the text (foreground) colour using the names shown in the following table. These colours relate to those used in the WB3 "Palette" preferences program as follows:- WB3 Palette Colour @{U} for FG @{UU} @{U} Reference @{UU} @{B}Text@{UB} Text @{B}Shine@{UB} Bright Edges @{B}Shadow@{UB} Dark Edges @{B}Fill@{UB} Active Window Title Bar @{B}FillText@{UB} Active Window Titles @{B}Background@{UB} Background @{B}Highlight@{UB} Important Text (Note - "Back" appears to be the same as "Background".) For example:- \@{FG Text}The text will be in TEXT Colour \@{FG Shine}The text will be in SHINE Colour \@{FG Shadow}The text will be in SHADOW Colour \@{FG Fill}The text will be in FILL Colour \@{FG FillText}The text will be in FILLTEXT Colour \@{FG Background}The text will be in BACKGROUND Colour \@{FG Highlight}The text will be in HIGHLIGHT Colour This will display:- @{FG Text}The text will be in TEXT Colour @{FG Shine}The text will be in SHINE Colour @{FG Shadow}The text will be in SHADOW Colour @{FG Fill}The text will be in FILL Colour @{FG FillText}The text will be in FILLTEXT Colour @{FG Background}The text will be in BACKGROUND Colour @{FG Highlight}The text will be in HIGHLIGHT Colour @{FG Text} The actual colours that you will see will depend on how your palette preferences program is set up. If you are reading this with:- - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 39 or 40@{UB} then you will NOT be able to see the line:- The text will be in BACKGROUND Colour because "Background" is the background colour and text in the same colour is invisible!! - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 34@{UB} then all lines will be appear normal without any special colours as \@{FG} only works in versions 39 and 40. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "APen" "How To Write AG - The APEN Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS \@{APEN } COMMAND Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This will change the text colour to the pen number specified by . For example:- \@{APEN 0}The text will be in pen colour 0 \@{APEN 1}The text will be in pen colour 1 \@{APEN 2}The text will be in pen colour 2 \@{APEN 3}The text will be in pen colour 3 \@{APEN 4}The text will be in pen colour 4 \@{APEN 5}The text will be in pen colour 5 \@{APEN 6}The text will be in pen colour 6 \@{APEN 7}The text will be in pen colour 7 This would appear in your document like this:- @{APEN 0}The text will be in pen colour 0 @{APEN 1}The text will be in pen colour 1 @{APEN 2}The text will be in pen colour 2 @{APEN 3}The text will be in pen colour 3 @{APEN 4}The text will be in pen colour 4 @{APEN 5}The text will be in pen colour 5 @{APEN 6}The text will be in pen colour 6 @{APEN 7}The text will be in pen colour 7 @{APEN 1} The actual colours that you will see will depend on how your palette preferences program is set up. If you are reading this with:- - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 40@{UB} then you will NOT be able to see the line:- The text will be in pen colour 0 because 0 is the default background colour and background & text in the same colour makes the text invisible!! - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 34 or 39@{UB} then all lines will be appear normal without any special colours as \@{APEN} only works in version 40 @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Bg" "How To Write AG - The BG Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS \@{BG } COMMAND Versions 39 and 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This changes the background colour using the names shown in the following table. These colours relate to those used in the WB3 "Palette" preferences program as follows:- WB3 Palette Colour @{U} for FG @{UU} @{U} Reference @{UU} @{B}Text@{UB} Text @{B}Shine@{UB} Bright Edges @{B}Shadow@{UB} Dark Edges @{B}Fill@{UB} Active Window Title Bar @{B}FillText@{UB} Active Window Titles @{B}Background@{UB} Background @{B}Highlight@{UB} Important Text (Note - "Back" appears to be the same as "Background".) For example:- \@{BG Text}The background is in TEXT Colour \@{BG Shine}The background is in SHINE Colour \@{BG Shadow}The background is in SHADOW Colour \@{BG Fill}The background is in FILL Colour \@{BG FillText}The background is in FILLTEXT Colour \@{BG Back}The background is in BACKGROUND Colour \@{BG Highlight}The background is in HIGHLIGHT Colour This will display:- @{BG Text}The background is in TEXT Colour @{BG Shine}The background is in SHINE Colour @{BG Shadow}The background is in SHADOW Colour @{BG Fill}The background is in FILL Colour @{BG FillText}The background is in FILLTEXT Colour @{BG Back}The background is in BACKGROUND Colour @{BG Highlight}The background is in HIGHLIGHT Colour @{BG Back}The actual colours that you will see will depend on how your palette preferences program is set up. If you are reading this with:- - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 39 or 40@{UB} then you will NOT be able to see the to see the text in the line:- The background is in TEXT Colour because "TEXT" is the default text colour and background & text in the same colour makes the text invisible!! There may be other colour settings in your own set up using the same colour as the background colour. If so, you will be unable to read those lines as well. - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 34@{UB} then all lines will be appear normal without any special colours as \@{FG} only works in versions 39 and 40. @{B}NOTE@{UB} that, in each line, the background colour continues into the two spaces at the start of the next line. This can be prevented by reverting to normal background colour at the @{B}end@{UB} of each line as illustrated by:- \@{BG Text}The background is in TEXT Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG Shine}The background is in SHINE Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG Shadow}The background is in SHADOW Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG Fill}The background is in FILL Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG FillText}The background is in FILLTEXT Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG Background}The background is in BACKGROUND Colour\@{BG Back} \@{BG Highlight}The background is in HIGHLIGHT Colour\@{BG Back} This will display:- @{BG Text}The background is in TEXT Colour@{BG Back} @{BG Shine}The background is in SHINE Colour@{BG Back} @{BG Shadow}The background is in SHADOW Colour@{BG Back} @{BG Fill}The background is in FILL Colour@{BG Back} @{BG FillText}The background is in FILLTEXT Colour@{BG Back} @{BG Background}The background is in BACKGROUND Colour@{BG Back} @{BG Highlight}The background is in HIGHLIGHT Colour@{BG Back} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "BPen" "How To Write AG - The BPEN Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS \@{BPEN } COMMAND Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This will change the background colour to the pen number specified by . For example:- \@{BPEN 0}The background will be in pen colour 0\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 1}The background will be in pen colour 1\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 2}The background will be in pen colour 2\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 3}The background will be in pen colour 3\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 4}The background will be in pen colour 4\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 5}The background will be in pen colour 5\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 6}The background will be in pen colour 6\@{BPEN 0} \@{BPEN 7}The background will be in pen colour 7\@{BPEN 0} This would appear like this:- @{BPEN 0}The background will be in pen colour 0@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 1}The background will be in pen colour 1@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 2}The background will be in pen colour 2@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 3}The background will be in pen colour 3@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 4}The background will be in pen colour 4@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 5}The background will be in pen colour 5@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 6}The background will be in pen colour 6@{BPEN 0} @{BPEN 7}The background will be in pen colour 7@{BPEN 0} (Note that this time I have included the change back to normal background colour at the end of each line to prevent the problem discussed under the @{"BG" LINK "BG"64} heading.) The actual colours that you will see will depend on how your palette preferences program is set up. If you are reading this with:- - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 40@{UB} then you will NOT be able to see the line:- The background will be in pen colour 1 because 1 is the default text colour and background & text in the same colour makes the text invisible!! - @{B}Amigaguide/Multiview version 34 or 39@{UB} then all lines will be appear normal without any special colours as \@{BPEN} only works in version 40 @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Reverse" "How To Write AG - Making Reverse Video (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS @{B}@{U}Making Reverse Video Text Versions 39 and 40@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} To get @{FG Back}@{BG Text}reverse video@{FG Text}@{BG back} text all you need to do is reverse the text and background colours using @{"FG" LINK "Fg"} and @{"BG" LINK "Bg"} before the text that is to be in reverse video and then change them back to normal afterwards. For example, the above bit of text "@{FG Back}@{BG Text}reverse video@{FG Text}@{BG back}" is set up as follows:- \@{FG Background}\@{BG Text}reverse video\@{FG Text}\@{BG Background} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Pard" "How To Write AG - The PARD Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS The {PARD} Command Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} The {PARD} command resets:- - @{" Colours " LINK "Colouring"} (background and text) back to the default colours - @{" LINDENT " LINK "Lindent"} settings back to 0 It is used as follows:- \@{PARD} The colours are reset as follows:- - APEN to 1 and FG to Text (both of which are the same thing) - BPEN to 0 and BG to Back (both of which are the same thing) In other words, it works on the colours set by all the commands:- @{" APEN " LINK "APen"} @{" BPEN " LINK "BPen"} @{" FG " LINK "Fg"} @{" BG " LINK "Bg"} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Justification" "How To Write AG - Text Justification (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS TEXT JUSTIFICATION Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} There are three commands to control text justification:- \@{JCENTER} - To centre the text (Note that the American spelling is needed. The English & Australian spelling JCENTRE does not appear to work :-( \@{JLEFT} - To align the text to the left edge of the window \@{JRIGHT} - To align the text to the right edge of the window For example, these lines:- \@{JCENTER}\@{B}This line is centred \@{JRIGHT}This line is right justified \@{JLEFT}This line is back to default left justified\@{UB} would appear like this:- @{JCENTER}@{B}This line is centred @{JRIGHT}This line is right justified @{JLEFT}This line is back to default left justified@{UB} (Users of versions 34 & 39 will not see the centre and right justifications.) @{B}NOTE@{UB} - If you have two of the above commands on the same line such as in:- \@{JCENTER}This line is centred\@{JLEFT} with the intention of having the line centred and the line following it left justified then @{B}THE LAST COMMAND IN THE LINE@{UB} will take precedence!!. The above example would be @{B}left justified!@{UB} @{B}You should only have ONE justification command per line!!@{UB} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "LinePara" "How To Write AG - Inserting Line & Paragraph Indicators (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS INSERTING LINE & PARAGRAPH INDICATORS@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} There are two commands that allow you to tell Amigaguide/Multiview to act as though there is one or more line feed characters in the text. @{B}@{U}{LINE} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} This is supposed the be equivalent to inserting one @{"line feed" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/LineFeed"} character into the text display. @{B}@{U}{PAR} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} This is supposed to indicate an "End Of Paragraph" to @{"SMARTWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"}. When SMARTWRAP is active it is therefore equivalent to having two @{"line feed" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"15} characters in the text. @{B}@{U}NOTE@{UB}@{UU} I have found that {LINE} and {PAR} appear to @{"act in the same way" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/ToDo"29} as each other. @{B}With no wrapping commands@{UB} they both act as a single line feed character. @{B}With@{UB} @{"WORDWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/Wordwrap"} they both act as a single line feed character. @{B}With@{UB} @{"SMARTWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"} they both act as a double line feed character. I would much rather insert the line feeds with the return key as this will be @{B}recognised by all versions of Amigaguide@{UB} and it will avoid the uncertainty of what these two commands will really do! It also makes for far easier reading of the document while you are editing it in your word processor or text editor!! @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Indents" "How To Write AG - Indent Commands (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS INDENT COMMANDS Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} If you wish to have:- - paragraphs indented from the left edge of the display window, and/or - the first line of a paragraph indented from the rest of the paragraph then you can use these commands:- @{" LINDENT " LINK "Lindent"} @{" PARI " LINK "Pari"} @{" PARD " LINK "Pard"} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "LIndent" "How To Write AG - LINDENT Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS {LINDENT } Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This causes the paragraphs to be indented by spaces. It may be 0 or any positive number. (@{B}WARNING @{UB}- do NOT use a negative number as it causes problems!) An example of LINDENT is:- #{LINDENT 5} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) This would cause paragraphs to be set 5 spaces in from the left. The command will act on all paragraphs until another #{LINDENT } command or a @{"PARD command" LINK "Pard"} is reached. However, if the command is placed @{B}AFTER@{UB} the first paragraph then it @{B}WILL NOT WORK@{UB} on the first line of the next paragraph but will work on subsequent lines of that paragraph and on all lines of subsequent paragraphs @{B}UNLESS@{UB}:- - when using @{"SMARTWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"} - there are at least TWO line feed characters between the {LINDENT } command and the start of the next paragraph - when using @{"WORDWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/Wordwrap"} or no wrap command - there is at least one line feed character between the {LINDENT } command and the start of the next paragraph This can be achieved by using the @{"PAR" LINK "LinePara"13} command after the #{LINDENT } command as in the following (but I @{"prefer the use of real line feeds" LINK "LinePara"31}):- .... end of paragraph #{LINDENT 5}#{PAR} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) Start of new paragraph to be indented by 5 .... @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Pari" "How To Write AG - The PARI Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS {PARI } Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Commands@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} This is @{B}supposed@{UB} to cause the @{B}first@{UB} line of a paragraph to be indented by spaces relative to the @{"LINDENT" LINK "Lindent"} number. For example:- #{LINDENT 3} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) #{PARI 2} The above lines are @{B}supposed@{UB} to cause an overall paragraph indent of 3 from the left edge with a first line indent of 5 (3 + 2) from the left edge. However, I have not been able to get it to work for anything but the very first paragraph of a node and then only if @{"SMARTWRAP" LINK "AGHTW_Part3/SmartWrap"} is active. It is supposed to accept negative numbers so that:- #{LINDENT 3} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) #{PARI -2} would cause an overall paragraph indent of 3 from the left edge with a first line indent of 1 (3 - 2) from the left edge. If anyone knows how to get this to work properly then please let @{"me" LINK "AGHTW_Boring_Stuff/Author"} know! @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "TabCommands" "How To Write AG - TAB Commands (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS TAB COMMANDS Version 40@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} A @{B}TAB@{UB} character is the @{"ASCII code" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Ascii"} number 9. Some word processors and text editors will insert the ASCII code 9 into the text when the TAB key is pressed. Others will, instead, insert a number of space characters to take the next character of text to the next tab stop. These days, the better word processors and text editors (such as @{"AMIS" LINK "AGHTW_Boring_Stuff/HowWrote"8}) will insert the tab code but display a number of spaces giving you a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") effect. Tab stops work so as to count a set number of character spots from the left edge of the display window @{B}NOT@{UB} a set number of spaces after the previous text character. Thus, if all tab stops are set to 8 (which is the Amigaguide default) then each successive tab stop would be:- Characters From Next Text Character Left Edge That Appears At This @{U} Are Skipped @{UU} @{U} Position Number @{UU} 1st Tab 8 9 2nd Tab 16 17 3rd Tab 24 25 4th Tab 32 33 etc. This is illustrated by:- 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 a ab abc abcd abced abcdef If tab stops were to be set to the irregular amounts of 3 10 17 22 27 45 instead of the default uniform number of 8 then the display would be like this:- 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 a ab abc abcd abced abcdef There are four Amigaguide TAB commands which allow you to:- @{" TAB " LINK "Tabn"} - set the number for regular tab stops in lieu of the default 8 @{" SETTABS ... " LINK "SetTabs"} - set a number of irregular tab stops @{" CLEARTABS " LINK "ClearTabs"} - clear tabs set by \@{SETTABS ...} @{" TAB " LINK "Tab"} - insert an actual tab code If the document author does not use any tab commands, and/or if the reader is using versions 34 or 39, then Amigaguide will default to a regular 8 characters for each tab code. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Tabn" "How To Write AG - TAB Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS TAB Version 40 - LOCAL or GLOBAL Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} This command allows you to set the number of spaces output by a TAB code. It is not really an attribute command but I have grouped it with the other tab commands (which are attributes) as it logically fits in with them. It is used as follows:- #TAB (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) where is the number of space characters to be used in lieu of the TAB code. The tabs are set at regular intervals of . (Compare this to @{"SETTABS ..." LINK "SetTabs"} which can be used to set irregular tab settings). For example:- #TAB 2 will replace the default 8 with 2 (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) #TAB 5 will replace the default 8 with 5 All TABs will be given this number UNLESS the {SETTABS ...} command is used in which case the TAB command appears to be ignored. If used as a @{"Global" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Global"} Command then it will be used in ALL nodes unless there is a @{"Local" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Local"} @{B}TAB @{UB} or @{"SETTABS ..." LINK "SetTabs"} command. If used as a @{"Local" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Local"} command, then it only has effect in that node. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "SetTabs" "How To Write AG - {SETTABS ...} Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS @{B}@{U}{SETTABS ...} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} \@{SETTABS ...} sets tabs to irregular settings as compared to @{"TAB " LINK "Tabn"} which sets them to regular settings. It overrides the default tabs and the tabs set by the #TAB command for all text appearing in the node AFTER the #{SETTABS ...} command. It is used in this way:- #{SETTABS ... } (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) where is the number of character spots to be used for each successive TAB code. The "..." means that you can use as many numbers as you like. The first TAB code will use the first , the second TAB code will use the second and so on. Each is the number of spaces from the start of the @{"physical line" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Physical"}. For example, if you used:- #{SETTABS 3 10 17 22 27 45} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) you would get the effect @{"demonstrated earlier" LINK "TabCommands"36}. Each new logical line will start again at the first . If there are more TAB codes in the line than there are s in the {SETTABS ...} command then subsequent TAB codes will use the default 8 character spots or, if a @{"TAB " LINK "Tabn"} command is in effect, to the number specified by the TAB . @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "ClearTabs" "How To Write AG - CLEARTABS Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS @{B}@{U}{CLEARTABS} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} This command is used like this:- #{CLEARTABS} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) This will reset all TAB settings set by the @{"SETTABS ..." LINK "SetTabs"} command to the TAB settings set by the @{"TAB " LINK "Tabn"} command or, if no TAB command is in effect, to the default TAB setting of 8. {CLEARTABS} has no effect on tabs set with @{"TAB " LINK "Tabn"} @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "Tab" "How To Write AG - TAB Command (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS @{B}@{U}\@{TAB} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} @{JLEFT} This command will output an actual TAB Code - i.e. ASCII code 9. This will be expanded by Amigaguide to the default 8 character spots, or to the number set up by the @{"TAB " LINK "Tabn"} or @{"{SETTABS ...}" LINK "SetTabs"} commands. As far as I can see, there is no point in using this command if your text editor can insert the TAB code (@{"ASCII" LINK "AGHTW_Part5/Ascii"} code 9) into the document. Example:- There is a tab code between the arrows -->#{TAB}<-- (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) This will appear like this:- There is a tab code between the arrows -->@{TAB}<-- 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Note that the tab has put the <-- after the 6th tab stop:- 6 tabs times default 8 = 48 @{B}Note@{UB} - if you are using Amigaguide @{B}version 34 or 39@{UB} then there will be @{B}NO GAP@{UB} between the --> and the <-- because the {TAB} command will be @{"ignored" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Unrecognised"}. For the benefit of users of version 34 & 39, the above two lines would look like this:- There is a tab code between the arrows --> <-- 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 There IS a gap between the two arrows --> <-- because I have used actual spaces instead of the \@{TAB} command to let you see what would happen if you were using version 40. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE @NODE "MiscAtt" "How To Write AG - Miscellaneous Attribute Commands (Pt4)" @TOC "AGHTW_Index/Contents" @NEXT "AGHTW_Part5/Problems" @{B}@{U}@{JCENTER}HOW TO WRITE AMIGAGUIDE DOCUMENTS MISCELLANEOUS ATTRIBUTE COMMANDS@{UB}@{UU} @{JLEFT} @{B}@{U}{AMIGAGUIDE} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} This command is used as follows anywhere in the text:- #{AMIGAGUIDE} (remember that @{"# = @" LINK "AGHTW_Part1/Important"}) This command displays the word "AMIGAGUIDE" with the ® symbol, i.e. "AMIGAGUIDE®". The above is done without the {AMIGAGUIDE} command for the the benefit of users with Amigaguide lower than v40. For the benefit of users of Amigaguide v40, here it is with the command: @{AMIGAGUIDE} Note that the command displays it in bold print. @{B}@{U}{BODY} - Version 40 - Local ATTRIBUTE Command@{UU}@{UB} I have seen it stated that this command will restore normal format to text. As yet I have not found any way in which it can be used. Please let @{"me" LINK "AGHTW_Boring_Stuff/Author"} know if you know how to use it. @{JCENTER}=== End of Text === @ENDNODE