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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-1 The Last Word Professional Word Processing for the Atari XL/XE With dual 40 and 80 column displays.

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-10 If you type “Y”, the existing file will be overwritten. Typing “N” will return you to the editor without do

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-11 1.4.4 THE FILE SELECTOR What if you can’t remember which files are on the disk? LW has a file selector w

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-12 By default in LW, <RETURN> characters appear as curved arrows. You can make them invisible with: &

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2-13 2 EDITOR COMMANDS LW's commands are all accessed by key combinations. Once you become familiar with

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2-14 <CTRL+ESCAPE> Allow subsequent control key to be entered as normal text (same as pressing <ESCAPE

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2-15 2.4 MOVING AND COPYING WITH TEXT BLOCKS The following commands allow blocks of text to be marked, then m

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2-16 2.5 FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT LW has extensive search features which work both forwards and backwards t

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2-17 2.5.1 SEARCHING WITH WILDCARDS In find strings, the inverse question mark (?) will match any character,

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3-18 3 ADDITIONAL EDITOR FEATURES LW includes many features to aid in the editing of text, such as place mark

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3-19 3.4 BOOKMARKS LW has a system of invisible markers which make navigating your text simplicity itself. If

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-2 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION ...

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3-20 3.6 USER OPTIONS Several options and toggles are accessed using: <SHIFT+CTRL+U> User Options Thi

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3-21 available. Each bank has the same 16K capacity and its own set of place markers and its own filename. You c

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3-22 The “/A” switch should be appended to the filename when saving all but the first segment of a linked file.

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4-23 4 DISK OPERATIONS LW allows full manipulation of files and directories, and has support for many differen

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4-24 The following options are available on the menu, selected by pressing the highlighted letter: Spec Set

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4-25 there is, the faster the copy operation will be, so you will want to be in the bank with plenty of unused m

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4-26 4.2.1 ADDITIONAL COMMANDS There are several additional commands not listed on the disk menu. <CTRL+

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-27 5 PRINTING WITH LW LW's print processor is one of the most comprehensive of any Atari word processo

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-28 All the above commands will read any included files (see later) unless you comment out include statements.

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-29 f<[n]text> Define running footer to be printed at the bottom of each page. <n> is an OPTIONAL

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-3 5.2 KEEPING TRACK OF PAGINATION ... 5-27 5.3 EDITOR PRINT

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-30 l<n> Set the left margin. The default is 10. m<n> Margin outdent by <n> chars, as in

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-31 [<n> Left header/footer margin, default 10. This works like the l command, but sets the margin for

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-32 & Reset heading levels. This character simply resets all heading levels to their initial values of 1.

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-33 _ Hard hyphen (underscore). Normal hyphens between words allow the line to be split at that point. Use a h

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5-34 international set, they won't be represented correctly on the preview screen. This feature is set up w

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6-35 6 CONFIGURING LW FOR YOUR PRINTER You can customize LW's print styling commands to suit any kind of

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6-36 6.2.1 PRINT TOGGLES Start LW with an empty text file. In your printer manual, find the codes for "IT

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6-37 character out of the printer. However, EPSON international codes and ATASCII codes are rarely the same, so

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6-38 making AtariWriter Plus think I had one hooked up, then printing to disk and studying the output. Note that

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-39 7 MACROS LW’s Macro facility is among the most powerful of any Atari 8-bit word processor. Macros allow

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-4 8.5 CUSTOM FONTS ... 8-56 8.

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-40 7.2 RUNNING MACROS Macros are executed in one of three ways:  Pressing <ESCAPE>, then the key t

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-41 You can disable the startup macro (@) in one of several ways:  Specify the “/M” switch on its own on th

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-42 field. To actually get input from the user, you MUST include the <CTRL+L>ine Input macro command as n

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-43 keystroke to run (in the same order), ending the line with <Return>. For example, you could say:

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-44 <CTRL+Z> Set toggles and test flags. Follow with one of the characters below: U Put the keyboard i

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-45 <CTRL+N> Entered in a filename dialogue will enter name of current file without device. <CTRL+B

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-46  <CTRL+ESCAPE> or <SHIFT+ESC> allows you to enter control codes into the editor or into an i

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-47 7.6 EXAMPLE MACROS The best way to illustrate the creation of macros is with some useful examples. DUAL

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-48 A screenshot of the completed macro is shown below. Save the macro as “FONTSET.MAC” and then load it wit

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7-49 <CTRL+ESCAPE>. If you need to make corrections, type <CTRL+CAPS> again to turn off control mode

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-5 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LAST WORD Welcome to THE LAST WORD, the brand new 80 column word pr

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-50 8 CONFIGURING LW You can configure LW so that it always loads with the settings you prefer. You can even

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-51 8.2 .CFG CONFIGURATION FILES CFG files contain user preferences such a screen colours, screen width and r

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-52 Flags (ON/OFF) Argument Comments Default 80COLUMNS ON ¦ OFF Set 80 / 40 column mode ON PAGEWAIT ON ¦ OFF S

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-53 8.3 THE LW.SYS FILE The LW.SYS file is read once when LW first starts up. The information in the file is

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-54 assuming there were at least four free banks on the target machine – LW would allocate one bank for the mac

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-55 running LW under an unsupported DOS, you MUST create a custom LW.SYS file containing the following line: B

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-56 for any reason you want to ensure that the default DOS drive is searched, include “D:” (without quotes) as

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-57 8.6 CUSTOMISING THE KEYBOARD LW allows you to customise the keyboard in two ways: by using macros, and b

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-58 Key Normal Shift Ctrl Shift+Ctrll 0 108 64 76 128 12 192 200j 1 106 65 74 129 10 193 200; 2 59 66 58 130 12

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-59 By working out where in the table the key combination you want to redefine resides, you can totally remap t

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-6 1.2 ABOUT THE MANUAL This manual assumes basic familiarity with the Atari screen editor and keyboard. Com

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8-60 Looking again at our Windows cut and paste shortcuts, consider the following macro (we’ve already loaded th

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 9-61 9 DOS PACKAGES AND LW LW works with and configures itself for many of the popular DOS packages for Atari

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 9-62 This DOS works well with LW. Subdirectory names are preceded by a colon on the disk menu, and traversal of

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 9-63 OFF” at the SDX command prompt before loading the program. You could write a batch file as follows: KEY OF

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 9-64 As with DOS 2.5 and MyDOS, LW will automatically detect the number of RAM banks not used by DOS and will gr

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10-65 10 LW COMMAND SUMMARY Below is a complete list of every command in the LW editor and print formatter. I

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10-66 COMMAND FUNCTION MACRO EQUIVALENT SHIFT+CTRL W Set Screen Mode and Width INVERSE CTRL W CTRL X Exit to DOS

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10-67 10.2 SPECIAL KEYS These characters have special meanings when entered on the command line unless preced

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10-68 10.3 MACRO COMMANDS The following commands are only available from within macros and are entered in inve

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 11-69 11 PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS These commands affect the printed document, and are entered in inverse vide

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-7 work with LW. This means you can’t run SpartaDOS X and LW on a machine with less than 128K. With SpartaDOS

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 11-70 COMMAND FUNCTION DEFAULT VALUE LEFT ARROW Add-in #3 RIGHT ARROW Add-in #4 * Add-in #5 % Add-in #6

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-71 12 PROGRAMMER'S TECHNICAL NOTES This section first outlines LW's memory map, then goes on to d

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-72 One thing which has allowed LW to be crammed into such a small amount of code is the placing of almost al

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-73 as critical a factor as it has always been with LW. After many years trying to get the Atari Macro Assembl

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-74 SpartaDOS utilities, and a Macro Assembler, it was always my ambition to write a word processor for the At

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-75 Although I’d always considered version 2.1 of LW the “final” version, people soon came up with new things

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-76 So what’s next for The Last Word? With the advent of video enhancements such as VBXE, larger memory capac

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12-77 12.7 CORRESPONDENCE Any enquiries, bug reports, etc, should be addressed to me, Jonathan Halliday at jo

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-8 You can get the 80 column display back by performing the same procedure in reverse: type <SHIFT+CTRL+W&

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1-9 1.4.2 TEXT BANKS If you have a machine with at least 128K of RAM running SpartaDOS X, DOS 2.5 or MyDOS, LW