Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
by
William Shakespeare
The thirty-seventh in the "Golden Gale" series of electronic texts.
Contents
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2.4 Bookmarks:
Modifying them:
MS-DOS Shell
Grey-scale Displays
a) If you press the F ("find") key, a wide panel will appear. Key
in a word which you wish to find. Then if you want to search
for the word starting from the beginning of the book, press
Enter or Return. If you want to search for the word starting
after your currently displayed position in the book, press the
Down Arrow key.
One of two things will then happen:
EITHER the first occurrence of the word will be found, and the
passage will be displayed
OR a message will appear, saying that the word cannot be found.
b) If you subsequently press the A ("again") key, the next
occurrence of the word in the book will be found, and that
passage will be displayed. This process may be continued
until the message "No Further Occurrences" is displayed.
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e) When the Find panel first appears, anything which you typed
in last time will usually be displayed. If, at this point,
the first thing you type is a letter of some kind, the old
entry will disappear and the new letter will appear at the
left of the field. If the first thing you type is a Left or
Right arrow key, or End, or Home, the old entry will not
disappear. Note that this version of the program does not
handle "wild cards" or more than one word; future versions
may do so.
2.4 Using Bookmarks
You may display the text at any bookmark as follows: First press
the key with the | character marked on it. You may also press the
B ("bookmark") key, and then G ("go to"), but the first way is
faster. A list of all the currently defined bookmarks will appear
(or the first twenty, if there are more than twenty). Use the Up
or Down arrow keys to move to a bookmark you want. Then press
Enter or Return. The text at the point where the bookmark was set
will appear on the screen. (Press the Escape key instead of
Enter if you decide that after all you do not want to go to
any bookmark.)
Another method of displaying the text at a bookmark is to start
from the "Go To" menu as described in section 2.1 above. This menu
is displayed when you press the left or right arrow keys. Move the
highlight to the item "A Bookmark" and press Enter or Return. A
list of all the currently defined bookmarks will appear, and you
may choose from them as described above.
2.4.4 Quick Toggling to and from a Bookmark
Press the P ("picture") key at any time if you would like to see
a picture of the author. The picture is displayed automatically
when you start the program. To remove the picture from your
screen, press any key or click the mouse. If the file GGB037.PCO
is not present, no picture will be displayed.
3. Known problems
The text will reappear when you press one of the cursor keys,
but the best solution, for the time being, is to be in
non-scrolling mode before switching sessions.
b) When running on some portable computers, the fonts are the
wrong size, or smooth scrolling is jerky. This can usually
be corrected by a changing a configuration option on the
portable computer. For example, with Compaq portables, you
can obtain a setup menu by pressing F10 while the computer
is booting. Select "Video", then set "Internal Display
Features" to "Disabled". This will improve the smooth
scrolling, but it will still not be as clear as a normal
VGA, because of the inherently slow screen update speed
of most portables.
c) When running under Microsoft Windows, in a "full-screen DOS
session", the top three smooth scrolling rates may be far
too rapid. This is caused by one of your PIF file settings.
Use the PIF editor to open your PIF file. On the "Advanced
Settings" screen, under Display Options - Monitor Ports,
find the "Text" box. Make sure the box is unchecked, and
that should cure the scrolling problem.
d) The same problem with the top three scrolling rates will
occur when running in a full-screen DOS session under OS/2.
In this case you should change the "DOS Settings". Set
VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION to Off.
e) When running under Microsoft Windows, GGB037.EXE will work
normally in a "full-screen DOS session". But if you use a
"windowed DOS" session (for example if you want to "clip"
some text), press the " key to simplify the quotation marks
and dashes. An improved character set for some of the more
popular Windows fonts may be provided in a later version of
this program if there is any demand. Smooth scrolling, too,
only works in a "full screen DOS session", because of the
restricted functionality of "Windows". In a "windowed DOS"
session, the text just jumps roughly from one line to the
next. The same effect occurs in an OS/2 windowed DOS session.
f) Another problem with "windowed DOS" sessions is that sometimes
lines are blanked out in the lower half of the screen when
moving down line by line. This can be remedied, in a rough and
ready way, by pressing Page Up followed by Page Down.
g) If you run this program as a DOS application under Microsoft
"Windows", you may find that it does not respond to the mouse.
The explanation given for this is that the mouse driver
installed as part of Windows is reserved for Windows itself
and for "Windows applications". The solution is to load a
separate mouse driver in your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file.