
                  Write&Set 0.96 for Windows
               Wordstar compatible Wordprocessor

                      www.WriteAndSet.com         

                          June 2003

for Windows98-ME/NT-XP

German Readme.txt -> Liesmich.txt

This archive file contains two programs:

***WSedit:***
Wordstar 4 like Freeware Editor which reads Wordstar 4-7 and 
ASCII (ISO and IBM codepage) and writes Wordstar 4 and ASCII 
format. 

***WSformat:***
A Shareware formatting and printing program for Wordstar and 
WSedit files. 

Running the two programs simultaneously offers you the 
look-and-feel of a single program: "Write&Set".

Write&Set is a full-featured wordprocessing program with 
spell checking, contents creation, footnotes, index, embedding 
graphics and a lot of more. It is an alternative concept of word 
processing for people who don't like Winword-like programs. Word 
processing with Write&Set divides the job of producing a document 
in two parts: editing unformatted text and - later - formatting 
and printing. These two parts of the job are done by separate 
programs: WSedit is the 'editor' and WSformat the 'typesetter'. 
This concept simplifies word processing and enables you compiling 
a single document with hundreds of pages without any problems. 
Nevertheless, both programs are designed to work together like 
dialog windows in a single program.

If you do not register WSformat and wait a while, you are no more
able to format documents which are larger than 4 pages. This is
the only Shareware limitation. You are allowed to send WSformat to 
friends or to a publishing house for printing your formatted 
document. The registration key rests on your computer. WSedit is 
Freeware.

This archive file contains a third program: the Hypermake
commandline compiler (www.hypermake.com). You can execute this
program from the WSformat menu (Make - RTF, Make - HTML) to
convert WS files to RTF (Rich text format) and HTML (for web
pages). The WSformat registration key can be also used here.

----------Installation----------

Unpack the archive file to a new directory, e.g:
C:\Programs\WriteSet

The two programs WSedit and WSformat are now located in 
subdirectories:
C:\Programs\WriteSet\WSedit
C:\Programs\WriteSet\WSformat

Now simply run the INSTALL program in the WriteSet directory. 
INSTALL creates file associations and program icons on the 
desktop (and in the Windows Start Menu) for both programs. 
INSTALL does not copy files.

If you use an old version of WSedit and WSedit crashes while
starting, please delete the WSedit.dta user settings file.

----------Usage-----------

WSedit is a text editor which can be used like other editors. In 
addition to CUA editor commands like Ctrl-Ins for "paste marked 
block into clipboard", WSedit supports all Wordstar Ctrl Commands 
like Ctrl-KB "mark beginning of block". To get an overview, press 
Ctrl-J. "Ctrl" is abbreviated ^. If you read and write files with
file extension TXT, WSedit is an ASCII text editor. If you read
and write files with the extension WS or FMT, WSedit is compatible
to the Wordstar (DOS) file format. 

The WSformat 'format' function reads the raw-text WS file edited 
by WSedit and writes an FMT (formatted) file. The "formatted file" 
makes a big difference to Latex: In Latex, there's nothing between 
the raw text and the final printout. In the FMT file, which can be 
also viewed using WSedit, the right margin is now fixed, the page 
breaks are apparent, and words at the end of the line which 
require hyphenation are displayed accordingly. You are able to 
make final changes by hand on the "formatted file", e.g. 
optimizing page breaks by hand.

WSformat let you preview and print your FMT file.

---- The first steps -----

After running INSTALL, take a look at the WSedit and WSformat 
help files. In the WSformat docu "Installation" chapter, it is 
described how to make user and language specific settings, e.g. 
loading the hyphenation algorithm for your language. Both WSedit 
and WSformat documentations are available in the WS file format, 
see DocuSrc directory. (WS files with an "e" at the end refer to 
english, with a "g" to german language.) You are encouraged to 
format, preview and print these files.

---- Tutorial ------------

If you are not familiar with Write&Set, I recommend the Tutorial. 
If you start WSformat for the very first time, the Lesson 1 will 
be started automatically. Later, you can reach lesson 1 from 
WSformat, menu item File - Select, and then click to 
Lessons_English and then to 1_FormattingPrinting.ws.

----- Improvements in Write&Set 0.96 --------

Write&Set is now completely translated to german language.

In WSedit, double-Strng commands like Ctrl-KX are working now
even if the second letter is not pressed with Ctrl together.

Then I've made some minor improvements and bugfixes both
on WSedit and WSformat, see WSedit and WSformat documentation.

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Author: Martin Vieregg   info@hypermake.de

www.WriteAndSet.com
