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                         ▶12◀Using GEM Write▶12◀(tm)
                                Part 3▶14◀


This tutorial shows you how to print your documents, and some of the
printing effects you can achieve with GEM Write. ▶14◀

Here are the subjects you will find in this tutorial:▶14◀

       CHANGING TYPE STYLES▶14◀
       ATTRIBUTE SYMBOLS▶14◀
       FORMATTING YOUR DOCUMENT FOR PRINTING▶14◀
       PRINTING A DOCUMENT▶14◀
       EMBEDDED COMMANDS▶14◀
       THERE'S MORE...▶14◀



▶1f◀CHANGING TYPE STYLES▶14◀

GEM Write allows you to change the appearance of the type on your
screen, and on the printed page.  First you select the text you want
to change -- the easiest method for selecting text within one window
is by dragging.  ▶14◀

          This is a sentence to use for changing fonts.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Go▶12◀ ahead and select the sentence above for practice.  Now
      move your pointer to the Menu Bar and display the Font Menu.
      Move the pointer down the menu until the Bold command is
      highlighted, and click.  ▶14◀

The text you select becomes boldface. ▶14◀

Because the selected text is still highlighted, you can make further
typestyle changes.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Go to▶12◀ the Font Menu again, and choose the Italic command.  ▶14◀

Your text now appears in italics and boldface.  ▶14◀

If you want to stop there, you can simply press F10, or click in the
document window, to de-select the text.  Or -- with the text still
selected -- you can display the Font Menu once more and choose the
Underline command, to make your text boldface, italicized, and
underlined.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Now▶12◀ select the same sentence, (unless it is still selected), and
      display the Font Menu.  This time choose the Normal command.
      The text loses its special attributes.  Click anywhere in the
      document window or press F10 to de-select it.▶14◀

If you display the Font Menu again, you will notice that the commands
are all dim.  This tells you that you can choose these commands only
when text is selected.  ▶14◀

Suppose your text is both boldface and underlined, and you want to
remove the underline only.  If you display the Font Menu and choose
Underline again, only the underline disappears and the text remains
boldfaced.  Experiment on some of the text in this paragraph.▶14◀



▶1f◀ATTRIBUTE SYMBOLS▶14◀

Special effects are turned on and off with special characters called ▶1f◀
attribute▶1f◀ symbols that GEM Write places in your text.  Normally these
are not visible, but you can see these symbols if you press Ctrl-F3.  ▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Press▶12◀ Ctrl-F3 to turn on the attribute symbols in the text.▶14◀

You can delete a font change by deleting its attribute symbols -- both
the beginning and ending symbol.▶14◀

Notice that the special symbols also includes a marker placed at the
end of each paragraph.  The paragraph-end symbol is automatically
inserted when you press Enter.  Reformatting stops when it encounters
a paragraph-end symbol. ▶14◀



▶1f◀FORMATTING YOUR DOCUMENT FOR PRINTING▶14◀

Let's try some of the Format... options in the Page Menu.  ▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Display▶12◀ the Page Menu and choose the Format... command.  ▶14◀

A dialog appears, offering you many options for the formatting of your
document.  Study these options.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Choose▶12◀ the Format... command, click on Off after the Pagination
      option, then click on OK.  ▶14◀

What happens?  If you look in the status line you will see only the
line number that the cursor is on, counting from the beginning of the
document, with no page number.▶14◀

This is because your document is no longer divided into pages.  This
mode is used to write computer programs.  Or you can use it to find
out how many lines are in your document.  Most of the time, however,
you will want pagination On.▶14◀

If you click on On after the Justification option, your document will
be right justified when you print it, although it doesn't appear
justified on the screen.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Choose▶12◀ the Format... command again, and click on 2 after the
      Line Spacing option, then click on OK.  ▶14◀

What happens to your document?  It is double-spaced, both on the
screen and when you print it. ▶14◀

You use the Page Length option to specify the length of paper in your
printer.  Conventional paper is 11 inches long, and, at 6 lines per
inch, it measures 66 lines in length.  ▶14◀

The "Text begins on:" and "Text ends on:" variables let you specify
the first printing line and the last printing line on a page, counting
from the top of the page.  If you specify text beginning on line 5 of
the printed page and ending on line 60, you are instructing the
program to print a total of 55 lines on each page.  This is the number
of lines that will appear between page breaks on your screen.  ▶14◀

The Left Margin variable allows you to change the margin on the
printed page.  This number is added to whatever left margin you set
with the ruler.  For example, if you set a left margin of 5 on the
ruler and then enter the number 5 after the Left Margin variable here,
your document will have a left margin of 10 when it is printed.  We
recommend that you use only the Left Margin variable here in the
Format... options for setting the printed left margin of your
document, and leave the left margin in the ruler at column 1.▶14◀

Experiment with these options to see how easy it is to change them.▶14◀



▶1f◀PRINTING A DOCUMENT▶14◀

GEM Write lets you print your document either in draft or final copy
form -- through the Print Draft and To Output commands.  If you
display the File Menu and choose Print Draft, your document is printed
starting from the cursor's location.  Draft printing does not include
pictures or text attributes like underlining, but it does include
formatting features like headers and footers (we'll come to these
soon).  You will find draft printing very fast. ▶14◀

If you have your printer connected and turned on, try printing this
tutorial now using the Print Draft command.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Move▶12◀ your cursor to the first line of this document.  Display
      the File Menu and choose the Print Draft command.  If you want
      to stop printing, press the F10 key.▶14◀


You can also print your document in final form -- including all
attributes and pictures -- using the To Output command in the File
Menu.  When you select To Output, there is a slight delay while the
output file is prepared, and then you see a list of files available
for printing.  ▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  Go to▶12◀ the File Menu again, and select Start Output.  In the
      dialogs that follow you will be able to specify whether you
      print your file now, or save the output file for later printing
      and return to GEM Write.  You can also "spool" your file for
      printing.  In addition, you will have a choice of output device,
      and you can specify the number of copies that you want.  ▶14◀

(NOTE:  if you encounter problems printing -- such as seeing numbers
in your text where you expect boldface or italics to begin -- refer to
your GEM Desktop manual and check that your printer driver matches
your printer.) ▶14◀



▶1f◀EMBEDDED COMMANDS▶14◀

Embedded commands are GEM Write commands to the printer that you
place in the text of your document.  They always begin with two
periods (..) in columns 1 and 2.▶14◀

  ▶12◀=>  In the▶12◀ blank line after this paragraph, type ..page.  Make sure
      the dots begin in column 1, and do not include any spaces.▶14◀


What happened?  There should be a page break line above this
paragraph.  When GEM Write encounters the ..page command, it treats
the line following it as the start of a new page.  When you print, the
paper will advance to the top of the next page, just as if it were an
automatic page break.  You use this command just before the start of a
new chapter or section in your text.  ▶14◀

Another embedded command, ..(comment), allows you to insert comments
in your document that will not be printed.  (None of the command lines
beginning with ".." are printed or counted in the page length.)  You
do not need to include the word comment in your comment line.  For
example, if you want to remind yourself that a particular document was
a draft copy you could type:▶14◀

 ..First Draft, revise before mailing▶14◀

as the first line of the document (starting, of course, in column 1).
This line would never be printed or counted in number of lines on that
page but would still be there as a reminder to you nonetheless.▶14◀

The other embedded commands are designed to help you achieve the best
possible appearance when you print you document.  The ..HEAD and
..FOOT commands, for example, allow you to put headers and footers on
every page of your document, and you can include the page number
automatically if you want.  For information on these additional
embedded commands, see Section 5 of the GEM Write User's Guide.▶14◀




▶1f◀THERE'S MORE...▶14◀

This concludes your on-screen GEM Write tutorials.  We suggest that
you print the tutorials so they are always available for reference.  ▶14◀

GEM Write has many other features and capabilities which are described
in the User's Guide; continue with sections 4, 5, and 6 to learn more.▶14◀

Good luck -- we hope you enjoy using GEM Write!▶14◀
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