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GALAXY LITE is a fast, RAM-based word processor that offers a wealth of
features designed to make the program powerful yet extremely easy to
learn and use. GALAXY LITE offers users a choice of using menus or
quick keyboard commands for all of the major program functions. With
GALAXY LITE you're never stuck with a cumbersome menu system for
commands you already know.
GALAXY LITE has a very short learning curve. GALAXY LITE'S logical,
easy to use, easy to learn commands are the result of considerable
research into how people really use word processors. If you have
experience using any full-featured word processing program, you'll be
up and running with GALAXY LITE in no time. If you're brand new to
computer word processing or to IBM compatible computers, you'll be
pleasantly surprised at how quickly you'll be able to learn all the
advanced features of GALAXY LITE.
In reading this text you will encounter words that you might think
are mistakes, but the example line below is correct. saVe means that if
you pull the menu down you can press V to use that option. We made this
manual an exact copy of the menu's so you would get used to the hot
menu key options.
Choose "saVe parameter file" to record the logged drive in your
parameter file. If you want to get to the right menu choice fast you
would Press F-10 D for Default and V for saVe parameter file, rather
than using the arrow keys to select the option.
GETTING STARTED
GALAXY LITE requires an IBM PC or close compatible with 192K, one disk
drive, a VGA/EGA/CGA or monochrome card and monitor, and a printer.
Before you start using GALAXY LITE, you should be familiar with your
computer. You need to know how to load DOS, how to make a copy of a
diskette, and how to load and run a program.
Your GALAXY LITE program disk includes the following files:
PKUNZIP.EXE Archive File Extractor GL1.ZIP GALAXY LITE program and
support files INSTALL.EXE Automated Installation Program VENDOR.DOC
Disk Vendors Documentation. (Shareware) ORDER.FRM Additional Order Form
README Installing/Printing Information. (Shareware)
For ease of use this text has been written to give you, the end user,
examples of the key command system. Hot Key commands do not require you
to pull the menus down. Example; To save a file you simply just press
the F2 key. Also Hot Menus may be used by just typing the capitalized
letter. To accomplish the file save you could press F10 then F for File
menu, then S for Save. The third way is to make use of the arrow keys,
simply press F10 then using the arrow key to highlight File, press
ENTER arrow down to Save file and again press ENTER.
We find that having more options is to your advantage. So in affect you
have three ways to accomplish the same goal. (1) Hot Keys (2) Hot Menus
(3) Arrow Keys. You determine which to use.
If you're using the Hot Menu keys, the capitalized letters in the menus
indicate which key press will accomplish the task you require. Example:
Menu Choice Hot Keys Hot Menu
Save F2, ^KD F10 F
You do not need to make a backup copy of your GALAXY LITE program disk,
your original disk is your backup, store it in a safe place. You cannot
use your original GALAXY LITE program disk as your working copy.
INSTALLING GALAXY LITE
1. With your computer turned off, open the door to Drive A, and insert
your DOS disk.
2. Close the door to Drive A, and turn on your computer.
3. If DOS asks you for the date, enter the date in the following
format: MM/DD/YY and then press ENTER.
4. If DOS asks you for the time, enter the time in the following
format: 8:30 or 20:30, and then press ENTER.
5. When A > appears on the screen, remove the DOS disk from Drive A and
insert your GALAXY LITE Program Disk, and close the disk drive door.
6. Type INSTALL and then press the ENTER key. Follow the instructions
on your monitors screen.
7. After installing all the appropriate files, the install program will
ask you if GALAXY LITE should add the PATH to your autoexec.bat file.
If you are unsure enter YES. This will enable GALAXY LITE to run from
anywhere on your hard disk or floppy disk computer, and find all the
appropriate files required by GALAXY LITE. It will also make a file
called Autoexec.bak which is a copy of the existing file before the
addition took place.
If you are installing GALAXY LITE on a floppy disk system you will need
two blank formatted floppy disks. If you require additional information
on formatting your disk, please refer to your DOS manual. The working
program disk should be formatted with a /S for system files copied from
your DOS disk. The second disk should be formatted without the /S
option.
RUNNING GALAXY LITE
Floppy Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type A: and press ENTER.
2. Insert your working copy of the GALAXY LITE program disk in Drive
A: Type GLITE and then press ENTER.
Hard Disk System:
1. After starting your computer, type cd and then type the name of the
directory you copied your GALAXY LITE files to with INSTALL. For
example, if the directory is called GLITE, you would type CD\GLITE. Then
press ENTER.
2. Type GLITE and then press ENTER.
The GALAXY LITE opening screen will appear after the program is loaded.
Please read the opening screen. A window will open at the bottom of
the screen that asks you for the name of a file to edit. You can enter
a document filename here, or simply press the ENTER or ESC key to
continue.
Filename is simply the name you give to your document. A legal DOS
filename must be used. If you have questions refer to your DOS Manual.
THE PULLDOWN MENU
This explains the use of the Pulldown Menus, activated by
pressing the F10 key. The F1 key takes you directly to the Help Menu.
The top two lines of your screen are used to display status
information. Two keys to remember are: F1: = HELP / F10: = MENU. To
Activate Menus: Press the F10 key. To leave the Menu Bar: Press the ESC
key.
GALAXY LITE offers a complete Pulldown Menu system for entering
commands. These menus allow you to use the full power of GALAXY LITE
almost immediately, without having to memorize keyboard commands.
To activate the menus, press F10. The Menu Bar will appear at the top
of the screen, and the first heading, File, will be highlighted. You
can press the left or right arrow keys to move the highlight to any of
the other menu headings. Pressing ENTER will "pull down" the menu of
commands underneath the highlighted heading. A list of GALAXY LITE
commands associated with that menu heading will appear.
Once the menu bar is activated, the menus can also be pulled down by
pressing the capitalized letter of any menu heading, whether or not
that heading is highlighted. This method automatically pulls down the
menu without pressing the enter key. The commands in a Pulldown Menu
can be executed in the same way, either by highlighting your choice
using the up or down arrow keys or by typing the capitalized letter in
each selection.
Once any menu is pulled down, the right or left arrow keys will display
the pulled down menu to the right or left of the current menu. Pressing
the ESC key causes the Pulldown Menu to disappear. The next press of
the ESC key will cause you to exit from the Menu Bar and return to the
text window.
When you become more familiar with GALAXY LITE you may find it easier
to enter commands directly from the keyboard. Most of the menu commands
have a corresponding quick command listed next to them. The quick
commands are not active while you are in the menu system, but they will
help you learn how to bypass the menu system and issue commands
directly from the text window. The quick keys that perform commands
you use often will be easy to learn, allowing you extremely fast
selections.
For example:
ALT-R for Right margin, ALT-C to Center text , F2 to Save a file
But GALAXY LITE doesn't force you to memorize every command. Press the
F1 key for help with the quick commands you use less often, or press
the F10 key to use the Pulldown Menus.
WordStar Files
GALAXY LITE can handle WordStar files with almost no exceptions. The
major difference is that GALAXY LITE ignores the WordStar "dot
commands". They will be displayed on screen unchanged, but will be
ignored during printing.
WordStar sets the high bit in many characters, including justified
spaces, the last character of every word, and the end of lines and
paragraphs.
Since GALAXY LITE can display any ASCII character on screen, a WordStar
file will appear garbled. This can be adjusted with the ALT-G, or
Graphics toggle. The Graphics toggle simply strips the high bit from
the displayed characters. The actual character is not changed, and will
be saved to disk in its original state. The GALAXY LITE "Print" command
will likewise strip the high bit of any character during printing, so
that WordStar files may be printed without any translation if the
Graphics toggle is OFF.
To display the IBM extended character set, such as the lines used for
drawing boxes, and the foreign characters, simply toggle the Graphics
ON. Your preferred setting can be saved in the pulldown Defaults menu.
To save a file in WordStar format, with "soft" (which appear as a
backwards small i) carriage returns, set the "Format WS" choice to ON
from the Defaults Menu. If this toggle is OFF, all files will be saved
as straight ASCII files. Even with this toggle ON, GALAXY LITE will
only use "soft" carriage returns on lines that were either word
wrapped, reformatted, or were "soft" in the original file.
GALAXY LITE can convert a WordStar file to straight ASCII. The command
for this is ALT-F3. although GALAXY LITE can read, edit, and save
WordStar files with no conversion, the searching and spell checking
routines need ASCII text to work properly.
Printer Description Files
GALAXY LITE is supplied with Printer Description (PRD) files, which are
used to send the proper codes to the printer to enable Italic, Bold,
Underline, etc. To change the default PRD file, choose the "Set
printer" command in the Print Menu. If the GALAXY LITE Program Disk
does not contain a PRD file for your printer, you can use MAKEPRD.COM,
to easily create custom PRD files to address any function of any
printer.
Headers and Footers
A header or footer is text that appears at the top or bottom of every
page of a printout.
Headers are lines marked by placing the cursor in "column one" of the
line and pressing ALT-H. The highlighted "H" that appears must be in
column one of the line or GALAXY LITE will not recognize the line as a
header.
When the file is printed, GALAXY LITE will ignore the line marked as a
header until the next page. At that time up to three header lines will
be substituted for three lines of the top margin. If your top margin is
not large enough to accommodate the number of header lines you have
marked, it will print as many as will fit. Example: if you have a two
line header your top margin should be three.
Whenever you define a new header line or lines, any previous group of
header lines will be replaced by the new lines.
You can insert the current page number in the header line by placing
the # (Shift 3) character in the text of any of the header lines. You
can also use any other print attributes, such as bold or italics, in a
header line.
Footers work exactly the same as header lines but are printed in the
bottom margin area. Like headers, lines formatted as footers, with the
ALT-F character in column one, will be ignored when they are first
encountered and then print out on all subsequent bottom margins. You
can have a maximum of three footer lines defined at any time.
Whenever you define a new group of footer lines, any previous footer
lines will be replaced by the new lines. Top or Bottom margins must be
one line larger than required Header or Footer.
USING A MOUSE WITH GALAXY LITE
If you have a mouse installed and have run MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS prior
to loading GALAXY LITE, you will see a mouse cursor in the upper left
hand corner of the screen.
You can enter the Pulldown Menus by pressing any mouse button on either
the status line or the top ruler line.
There are two ways to use the mouse in the menu system:
In the first method, you "click" (press and release the mouse button)
on line one or line two of the screen. The menu bar will appear on the
screen, in the same manner as when you press F10. You then can click on
any of the top level menu items to pull down the submenu. This will
happen as if you pressed the first letter of the main menu item. You
can then click on a submenu item to select it. To leave the menu
system, just click anywhere outside the displayed menu.
In the second method, rather than clicking, you "drag" (press the mouse
button but don't release it) the mouse cursor to the menu item you
want. As the mouse cursor passes over a menu item, the submenu below
it automatically pulls down. As you drag the mouse cursor down a
submenu, the submenu choice under the mouse cursor will be highlighted.
To select a submenu item, release the mouse button when the selection
you want is highlighted. To leave the menu system, just release the
mouse button anywhere outside the displayed menu.
Clicking anywhere in the text window will move the cursor to that
position. You can change from one window to another simply by clicking
the mouse in the other window.
In the Defaults menu you can choose whether or not to display a scroll
bar on the right hand side of the text window. The scroll bar has an
"elevator" which shows your relative position in the file. Dragging
the elevator to a new position is similar to issuing a Go To Line
command. For example: if you drag the elevator to roughly the middle of
the scroll bar while editing a 1000 line file, the current line will be
changed to approximately line 500.
Clicking anywhere between the up arrow mark and the elevator is treated
the same as the Page Up command, and clicking anywhere between the
elevator and the down arrow mark is the same as the Page Down command.
Clicking on the up arrow mark or down arrow mark is treated the same as
if you pressed the up or down arrow key. Leave the mouse button down in
any of these cases to scroll continuously.
ADDING GRAPHIC CHARACTERS
Graphic characters may be included in your text by finding the
appropriate ASCII value of the graphics required. This may be
accomplished by obtaining an ASCII chart. Most printer manuals have a
chart.
Press and hold the ALT key and type the decimal value associated with
the ASCII character you require on the numeric keypad. For example if
you need the English pound symbol £ you press and hold the ALT key down
at the same time you type 1,5,6, on the numeric key pad. Then release
the ALT and the graphic pound sign will appear. This function may also
be handy for making boxes etc. Macro's can be used to store these
graphics symbols or whatever you create for later use.
QUICK COMMANDS
FORMATTING:
ALT-C......Center Line ALT-L......Left Margin
ALT-J......Justify On/Off ALT-R......Right Margin
CTRL-B.....Reformat Paragraph re-adjust text within new margin.
PRINT CODES: Insert these codes before and after the text you
wish to format:
ALT-B......Bold ALT-I......Italics
ALT-D......Doublestrike ALT-T......Superscript
ALT-F......Footer ALT-U......Underline
ALT-H......Header ALT-V......Subscript
ALT-F1.....User Patch CTRL-ENTER.Page Break
ALT-F2.....User Patch
CURSOR MOVEMENT:
CTRL <--...Word Left CTRL -->...Word Right
CTRL-PgUp..Top of File CTRL-PgDn..Bottom of File
CTRL-HOME..Top of Screen CTRL-END...Bottom of Screen
Tab........Automatic Tabs
WINDOW SELECTION:
ALT-W......Switch Windows ALT-Z......Zoom Windows
ALT-S......Exit to DOS window ALT-X......Close Window,
Exit GALAXY LITE
UNDELETE:
ALT-F9.....Undelete Character ALT-F10....Unbackspace Character
ESC........Undelete line
FUNCTION KEYS:
F1.........Help F2.........Save File
F3.........Open File F4.........Directory
F5.........Find F6.........Find and Replace
F7.........Block Begin F8.........Block End
F9.........Print a File F10........Pulldown Menus
MISC KEYS:
ALT-F3 Convert WordStar files to ASCII
^F2 save file As
^F9 repAginate document
WordStar Commands
The symbol ^ is used to indicate a Control key combination. For
example, to enter "^K" from your keyboard, depress the key marked
"CTRL", and while that key is depressed, press the "K" key.
^A...Word Left ^B...Reformat Paragraph
^C...Page Down ^D...Character Right
^E...Up Line ^F...Word Right
^G...Delete Character ^H...Destructive Backspace
^I...Tab ^J...Insert Page Break
^K...Block Commands ^L...Repeat Lat Find/Replace
^M...Insert Line ^O...Onscreen Commands
^P...Insert CTRL Character ^Q...Quick Commands
^R...Page Up ^S...Character Left
^T...Delete Word Right ^V...Insert On/Off
^W...Go To Top of File ^X...Line Down
^Y...Delete Line ^Z...Go To Bottom of File
^QA..Find and Replace ^OG..Toggle Graphics
^QB..Go To Top of Block ^OH..Toggle Windows
^QF..Find ^OI..Go To Column
^QI..Toggle AutoIndent ^OK..Change Case
^QJ..Go To Marker (Or ^Q1..9) ^ON..Go To Line
^QK..Go To End of Block ^OO..Open Second Window
^QS..Go To Beginning of Line ^OW..Toggle Word Wrap
^QY..Delete Text To End of Line ^OY..Close Second Window
^KB..Mark Block Begin ^KQ..Abandon File
^KC..Copy Block ^KR..Read Block From Disk
^KD..Save File ^KS..Save File
^KH..Toggle Block Hide ^KV..Move Block
^KK..Mark Block End ^KW..Write Block To Disk
^KL..Spell Check ^KX..Exit GALAXY LITE
^KM..Set Marker (Or ^K1..9) ^KY..Delete Block
Not True WordStar Commands
^QG.. Graphics ^OS..Undo Limit
^KG..Run A DOS Program ^OM..Go To Marker
^OL..Left Margin ^OR.. Right Margin
^KP..Print file