Atari XL User Manuals

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION

  5
  • OVERVIEW OF THE LAST WORD

    5
  • ABOUT THE MANUAL

    6
  • STARTING LW

    6
    • LOADING LW FROM SPARTADOS X

      6
  • BASIC OPERATION

    7
    • THE EDIT SCREEN

      7
    • TEXT BANKS

      9
    • SAVING AND LOADING TEXT

      9
    • THE FILE SELECTOR

      11
    • BASIC CONFIGURATION

      11
    • LEAVING THE PROGRAM

      12
• EDITOR COMMANDS

  13
  • CURSOR MOVEMENT

    13
  • TEXT ENTRY MODES

    13
  • INSERTING AND DELETING TEXT

    14
  • MOVING AND COPYING WITH TEXT BLOCKS

    15
  • FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT

    16
    • SEARCHING WITH WILDCARDS

      17
• ADDITIONAL EDITOR FEATURES

  18
  • COUNTING WORDS

    18
  • EDITED TEXT INDICATOR

    18
  • TABULATION

    18
    • TABULATION MODES

      18
  • BOOKMARKS

    19
  • TEXT AND DOCUMENT MODES

    19
  • USER OPTIONS

    20
  • EDITING MULTIPLE FILES

    20
  • HANDLING LARGE FILES

    21
• DISK OPERATIONS

  23
  • DISK OPERATIONS FROM THE EDITOR

    23
  • THE DISK MENU

    23
    • ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

      26
    • SUBDIRECTORY FEATURES

      26
• PRINTING WITH LW

  27
  • PREVIEWING TEXT

    27
  • KEEPING TRACK OF PAGINATION

    27
  • EDITOR PRINT COMMANDS

    27
  • EMBEDDED COMMANDS

    28
    • STAGE 1 COMMANDS

      28
    • STAGE 2 COMMANDS

      32
    • CREATING HANGING INDENTS

      33
  • OTHER PRINT FEATURES

    33
    • INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS

      33
  • CONFIGURING THE PRINT FORMATTER

    34
• CONFIGURING LW FOR YOUR PRINTER

  35
  • PRINTER DRIVERS

    35
  • CREATING A PRINTER DRIVER

    35
    • PRINT TOGGLES

      36
    • CONTROL STRINGS

      36
    • INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS

      36
    • STYLES

      37
• MACROS

  39
  • LOADING MACROS

    39
  • RUNNING MACROS

    40
    • AUTORUN MACROS

      40
  • WRITING AND EDITING MACROS

    41
  • SPECIAL MACRO COMMANDS

    41
    • DISABLING THE SCREEN FROM MACROS

      44
    • SPECIAL CHARACTERS

      44
    • ENTERING OTHER COMMANDS FROM MACROS

      45
    • THE SPECIAL MACRO FONT

      45
    • KEYBOARD CONVENTIONS FOR MACROS

      45
  • CREATING AND EDITING MACROS

    46
  • EXAMPLE MACROS

    47
• CONFIGURING LW

  50
  • CONFIGURATION OPTIONS IN THE EDITOR

    50
  • .CFG CONFIGURATION FILES

    51
    • THE DEFAULT DRIVE

      52
  • THE LW.SYS FILE

    53
    • CONFIGURATION USING A SUPPORTED DOS

      53
    • CONFIGURATION USING OTHER DOS PACKAGES

      54
    • THE SEARCH PATH

      55
    • THE KEYBOARD BUFFER

      56
  • USING MULTIPE TEXT BUFFERS

    56
  • CUSTOM FONTS

    56
  • CUSTOMISING THE KEYBOARD

    57
    • THE KEYBOARD TABLE

      57
    • REMAPPING COMMANDS USING MACROS

      59
    • 1200 XL KEYS

      60
• DOS PACKAGES AND LW

  61
  • MEMORY REQUIREMENTS

    61
  • ATARI DOS 2.5

    61
  • ATARI DOS XE

    61
  • MYDOS 4.5

    61
  • DISK-BASED SPARTADOS

    62
  • SPARTADOS X

    62
    • THE SPARTADOS X “LWPATH” ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE

      63
    • SPARTADOS X MEMORY CONFIGURATIONS

      63
• LW COMMAND SUMMARY

  65
  • EDITOR COMMANDS

    65
  • SPECIAL KEYS

    67
  • MACRO COMMANDS

    68
• PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS

  69
• PROGRAMMER'S TECHNICAL NOTES

  71
  • ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ADD-INS

    71
  • MEMORY USAGE

    71
  • PROGRAM DESIGN

    72
  • DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

    73
  • WHY LW CAME INTO BEING

    73
  • DEVELOPMENT

    76
  • CORRESPONDENCE

    77