[Coco] Re: OS-9 word processors

[Ray Watts]

Fred,   I would like to know the exact syntax you used for the T/S Spell 
macro.  Many years ago I put together a menu operated word processor 
with the VED, VPrint, T/S Spell combo patterned after a Delphi upload by 
James Pottage called VWord, but with many improvements.  Pottage had 
used Spell in his setup and the command line was much shorter than for 
T/S Spell.  When I tried to use the longer command line in the macro, it 
wouldn't accept it (too long).  I tried various methods of nesting 
shorter macros, but none worked.  As a result, I always had to use T/S 
Spell from the command line in the menu.

BTW, I made up sets of Superscript and Subscript fonts (half the lower 
case letters are missing ... too hard to do in 3X5) and had a set of 
Italics.  By formatting the text into a graphics window, I had a true 
WYSIWYG formatted preview of the document.  WMenu from Alpha's Tools II 
was used as the heart of the word processor.

Cheers,   Griz


Frederick D Provoncha wrote:

>I have a copy of T/S Spell, and the Ved word processor. The two work very
>well together. I even wrote a little macro under Ved that allows me, with
>a simple keystroke combination from within Ved, to perform a spellcheck
>using T/S Spell on the document I'm currently working on in Ved. Pretty
>slick. I like T/S Spell. Very useful, though it's a little slow when used
>in a graphics window.
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>Fred Provoncha
>Stansbury Park, UT
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