PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

WINDOW
TEDIT Topics
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Screen Window as a View
of Your Text
Window is all or part of a screen (from one line to the full screen) that
displays a file you are editing. This screen window is generally 79 columns
wide. In Figure 2-10, for example:
Figure 2-10. Your File and a Window (View)
A full screen window
into your file
Date: January 1, 1989
To: Ginger McRob (Illustration Coordinator)
From: Oliver Twist, Almeda Greer, and David Fost (TEDIT Documentation Committee)
Subject: Conceptual and Technical Drawings for the TEDIT Reference Manual
The members of the TEDIT Documentation Committee would like to schedule a meeting with you
discuss the constraints of the conceptual and technical drawings for the TEDIT Reference Ma
Some of the drawings will need three levels of screening and some way of showing a file as
terminal screen. This example (supplied and drawn on the computer by the writer) shows the
the some of the drawings.
Text in your file
______________________/
| ...text... |
| |
| _________Screen window
| ___________/ |
Cursor | | text.. | | ___All text between the cursor and the status
position --------><----------------/ line is a window of text.
| | . | | |
| | . | | |
| | . |<------
| |===========| |
| |status line| |
| | | |
| ----------- |
|______________________|
1) $MEMOVOL.MEMOSUB.MEMOFILE 15/41 1:79+ B30.
We need to know whether illustration has the time and resources to do these types of drawin
to know immediately so we can either think of different ways to present the art or readjust
If we change the art layout, the organization of the manual will be dramatically affected.
Specifically, we need to know the following:
1. Does the three screen-overlay present a problem?
Your file may be not
only longer but wider
than what can fit into
the window.