SuperSCRIPSITAn Overview
SuperSCRIPSIT has many exciting and powerful features—so many in fact that some will have to be discussed in future articles. Let's begin exploring this versatile word processor by taking a look at some of its key features.
I began this article in longhand on an airplane, but I became so frustrated with the contradiction of talking about text editing when I couldn't edit text that I pitched the article for a good book until I had access to a Model III. If you are still doing things longhand and are not sure what Word Processing is, then it's time to find out what all the excitement is about. Whether you are just getting your first look at word processing, or you are already using SCRIP-SIT, we think you will find that SuperSCRIPSIT has all the "goodies" you have been looking for.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF SuperSCRIPSIT
Ten Programmable Keys. You can program each of the ten number keys to store up to 127 keystrokes for later recall or execution. Store a frequently used phrase, address, or signature block, or a sequence of commands or cursor movement under a single key to be recalled and executed as many times as you want with two simple key strokes.
Tab Lines and More. Each paragraph in SuperSCRIPSIT has its own Tab line which is used to set up the right and left margins and the tab positions for the document. The Tab line appears as the second line from the bottom on Screen 1.
Screen 1
Tab lines make it easy to highlight a quotation by using single spaced, indented copy while the rest of the document is full width and double spaced. Tab line editing includes an easy to understand set of features and the ability to save and recall as many as 11 tab lines. The stored tab lines allow instant recall of frequently used formats, and they are a boon in documents such as outlines that have complex requirements. The tab line feature makes reformatting a single paragraph fast and easy.
Features like Align Tab and Centering are easy with SuperSCRIPSIT. Align tabs allow fast entry of numeric data such as a column of prices. The align tab moves digits to the left as they are typed until a decimal point is entered. After the desimal point is entered, the decimal digits are moved to the right. The result of several entries using the align tab is a column of numbers aligned vertically by the decimal points. Any time you need information about align tabs or any of SuperSCRIPSIT's many other features, you can use the seven help screens that are available. (The seven help screens make up a seven page index of valid SuperSCRIPSIT commands.)
Pagination and the Status Line. As you type, SuperSCRIPSIT will paginate your text automatically. It keeps track of the line spacing and lines per page that you set when you created your document. We won't go into any detail now about the status line, but if you will refer to the bottom line of Screen One, you will see that the status line provides a lot of information like current line number and pitch selection as well as the current page number.
Revising a Document. Once a document is typed, SuperSCRIPSIT offers both simple cursor motion commands to move up, down, left, and right within a document and a set of advanced commands that allow movement to the next or preceding word, page number, paragraph, printed page or video page. SuperSCRIPSIT even gives you the ability to search for and replace one string of text with a new string of text.
Since SuperSCRIPSIT's documents can be as large as the available space on a disk (not to be confused with available memory), you will find that large documents are SuperSCRIPSIT's forte. In fact, a document of about 30,000 words can be stored on a data disk. For large documents, Block Action Commands become the key to easy editing. Once you define any amount of text as a block you may then delete it, copy it, move it, adjust it, search it, hyphenate it, print it, or change its line spacing.
Marking blocks is as easy as moving the cursor to the start of the block, marking the beginning and then moving the cursor to the end of the block and marking the end. SuperSCRIPSIT also has a text quantity method, or speed marking command, that will quickly define a word, sentence, paragraph, page, or all of the remaining text as a block.
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