Your ini tia 1 screen appears as shown in Figure 2-3, displaying the Documents menu and no open documents, if you invoked the Word Processor through the Executive without specifying a document to be opened. If your Word Processor is invoked automatically after SignOn and no documents were open when you finished your last session or if you chose to open new documents, the screen also appears as shown in Figure 2-3.
Your initial screen can also show an open document, as shown in Figure 2-4. The screen appears this way if you specified a document name when you completed the Word Processor command form in the Executive. If your Word Processor is invoked automatically after SignOn, your initial screen display frequently looks like Figure 2-4.
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I Alice.l There were doors all around the hall, _ but they were all locked, and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle wondering how she was ever to get out again.
Suddenly, she came to a little three legged table, all made of sol id glass; there was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and Alice's first idea was that this might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but alasl either the locks were too large or i t was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the· second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high; she tried the little golden key and to her great delight, it fi ttedl Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage not much larger than a rat hole:
She knel t down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about_
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Figure 2-4. Word Processor Screen Showing a Document.
The Word Processor screen is divided into two sections:
0 the ruler display
0 the main text area
The document status line separates the two sections.
Also appearing on the screen is the cursor, a blinking underline that indicates where the next character can be entered.
If the screen displays the Documents menu and no documents, as shown in Figure 2-3, the main text area is blank except for the Documents menu. The menu is a list of command options from which you can choose. It goes away after you make a choice.
If documents are shown initially on the screen or if you open a document by making a choice from the Documents menu, the screen contains the ruler display and the document status line. The main text area contains the cursor and is blank if the document is new; or if you open an existing document, the main text area shows the first page of text.
Figure 2-4 shows how the screen appears when you are working on a document.
RULER DISPLAY
The ruler display appears at the top of the Word Processor screen. The ruler display indicates the way text will be positioned horizontally across the paper when printed. Figure 2-5 is a detailed illustration of the ruler display.
Paragraph format indicators appear display and show the position of indent points and tab stops for within which you have your cursor.
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the ruler paragraph paragraph Table 2-1 shows the symbols that can appear in the ruler display.
Margin indicators appear to show page or column margins whenever paragraph indents are not the
Table 2-1. Ruler Display Symbols.
Symbol Description
~ First line paragraph indent
~ Other paragraph indent
~ Right paragraph indent Column or page margin L Left-aligned tab
R Right aligned tab
C Centered tab
D Decimal tab
Leader dots
The horizontal position of your cursor on the screen is indicated in the ruler display by a shadow cursor. The shadow cursor does not blink as the real cursor does. As you move the cursor across the page, the shadow cursor moves too.
The shadow cursor is useful when you want to position text at an exact posit~on for setting tab stops or paragraph indents.
How to Read the Ruler Display The ruler display is divided tick marks indicate inches page.
into inches. Long across the printed If you are working with text where character spacing (referred to as pitch) changes, you can see that the spacing of the ruler display changes according to pitch. For some pitches the ruler shows measurements in thirds and £ifteenths of an inch. For others measurements are shown in halves and tenths of an inch.
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The marks on the ruler display do not represent columns of characters. They correspond directly to a measurement of the printed page.
When you set a paragraph indent or a tab stop to a certain tick mark, the associated text is aligned under this tick mark when printed. Tab stop symbols, however, cannot be shown immediately below the tick mark, so they are shown to the right of i t . The shadow-cursor is also shown to the right. For paragraph indents and margins, the ruler display symbols are shown at the outside edge of the text, like bookends. The left paragraph indent symbol and margin indicator appear to the left of the position where the first character will be printed, and the right symbols appears to the right of the position where the last character will appear.
(In Figure 2-5 you can see left-aligned tab stops at 1.5 inches from the left edge of the paper and 5.6 inches from the left edge of the paper. The left paragraph indent point is shown at 1.0 inch and the right paragraph indent is shown at 6.5 inches.)
When you are setting tab stops and paragraph indents, the symbol appears exactly at the point where the shadow cursor is positioned. (See Section 9, "Using Tabs, II and the subsection
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"Structuring Document Format, II for information on how to set tab stops and paragraph indents.)
A paragraph indent symbol qan cover up a tab symbol so that i t does not show. For example, a right-aligned tab set at the right paragraph indent point cannot be seen. Both the indent symbol and the tab symbol can cover up a marg in indicator.
DOCUMENT STATUS LINE
The document status line is the highlighted strip just above the text area. It shows the name of the current document, the number of the page on the screen, and the number of the line at which the cursor is positioned. This information is updated as the cursor is moved within the document.
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