
                   Write&Set 0.95 for OS/2
               Wordstar compatible Wordprocessor

                      www.WriteAndSet.com         

                          May 2003

for OS/2 Warp 3, 4 and eCS

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 
hyphenation, 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.

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 an 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. It does not modify 
the WS file in any way. 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.

WSformat let you preview and print your FMT file.

---- WSedit program description ------

WSedit has got the following properties:

- native OS/2 and Windows, later also Linux, of course supporting 
  long filenames
- reading WS4 and WS5-WS7, writing WS4 format
- CUA key support
- detail behaviour appropriate to WS4/5
- holding different user settings dependent on the file extension 
  of the text file
- when working with an unformatted file, text is reformatted if 
  the window width is changed (word wrap)
- switching between different screen fonts (for the whole 
  document)
- no 80 column limit
- paragraph formatting with soft characters ("snow characters") 
  like Wordstar
- nearly no file size limit (there seems to be a limit at 
  approximately 20 MB)
- supports workgroups (one person has write access, the others 
  can only read)
- contents tree in a separate window like a directory tree to 
  navigate in large documents
- command highlightning
- marking lines with Hard Return and Soft Return in the rightmost 
  column
- multi undo, undo slider window
- TXT Import and Export (ANSI and DOS)
- highlightning spell-checking function where you can let analyse 
  your own already spell-checked files to get a personal 
  dictionary
- translation functionality if you download separate translation 
  files 
- Macro recorder for Function keys
- read and write also TXT files
- last but not least, very fast and stable.


---- WSformat program description ------

WSformat is a formatting and printing program for Wordstar (DOS) 
files.

Wordstar Compatiblity: WSformat accepts all Wordstar (DOS) files, 
but does not support all Wordstar DOS functions, i.e., those 
which were added after Wordstar Version 4. Instead, some extended 
functions (such as generating tables of contents or handling 
footnotes) are implemented in a WSformat-specific way. Basic 
Wordstar 5-7 'symmetrical sequences' are recognized (indentions, 
for example).

WSformat supports hyphenation, the creation of end notes and 
footnotes, generation of tables of contents and indexes, line 
drawing, embedding graphics in text and allows conditional 
statements. In contrast to the older DOS Wordstar versions, 
document preview and printing use functions provided by the 
Windows (or OS/2) operating systems. This means you have access 
to the printers and type fonts which are installed on the 
operating system.

The WSformat command syntax is very similar to that of Hypermake. 
From a WS file, Hypermake will generate an equivalent file in 
RTF, Winhelp, HTML, IBM Help or Microsoft HTML-Help format.

---- Information for german users ----

When starting WSedit and WSformat the first time, both programs
query the user language. WSedit is completely translated to
german language; in WSformat, only error messages are translated
yet.

---- 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. You are encouraged to format, preview 
and print these files.

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

If you are neither familiar with Write&Set nor with Wordstar,
I recommend the Tutorial: Open the TUTORIAL folder, run WSformat,
drop the file 1_FormattingPrinting.ws to the WSformat dropdown
field and press the "unform edit" button.

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Author: Martin Vieregg   Martin@hypermake.de

www.WriteAndSet.com
