GALAXY LITE Version 1.0 Spelling Checker ---------------- Press ^K^L, or select Spell check from the Block menu to begin checking the spelling of your document. If there is a block marked, the spell check will cover the marked block only. If no block is marked, checking will begin at the cursor position. If you press any key during a spell check, you will be asked if you wish to abort the spelling check. When GALAXY LITE encounters a word not in its dictionary, you will be shown a menu of possible corrective actions: Skip once --------- Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for now. Ignore for this document ------------------------ Continue the spelling check, ignoring the unknown word for the rest of the spelling check. Useful for proper names, etc. List soundalike words --------------------- Show a menu of possible replacement words for the unknown word. Highlight the correct word and press ENTER to correct the misspelled word. GALAXY LITE uses a technique called soundex to build the list of replacement words. If the misspelled word is phonetically close to the correct spelling, GALAXY will almost always suggest the correct spelling as the first choice in the list. If you have transposed letters GALAXY will sometimes be unable to suggest meaningful alternatives. When replacing a word in your document, GALAXY LITE will attempt to match the capitalization as follows: If the misspelled word is all lower or all upper case, the replacement word will be all lower or all upper case. If the misspelled word is mixed upper and lower case, the replacement word will have its first letter capitalized, and the rest of the word will be lower case. Edit from keyboard ------------------ You will be prompted to type in the correct spelling. After you have retyped the word, GALAXY LITE will check the spelling again. Add to dictionary ----------------- If this is a word that will appear often in your documents (your company's name, for example), you can add the word to your auxiliary dictionary. GALAXY LITE uses four dictionaries: An internal list of 500 common words. GALAUX.DIC: Your auxiliary dictionary. An ASCII file, one uppercase word per line, with a leading and trailing space. Created automatically when you choose "Add to dictionary" during a spelling check. This dictionary is held in memory during the spelling check and will not be loaded if there is less than 20K of free memory. GALRAM.DIC: An ASCII file containing approximately 3000 of the most common words in the English language. This dictionary is held in memory during the spelling check, and will not be loaded if there is less than 48K of free memory. The spelling check will operate correctly with or without the RAM dictionary, but not as quickly. GALMAIN.DIC: The main dictionary file, approximately 45,000 words (10,000 words in the Evaluation Version) , compressed. Mouse support ------------- If you have a mouse installed and have run MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS prior to loading GALAXY LITE, you will see a mouse cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. You can enter the pulldown menus by pressing any mouse button on either the status line or the top ruler line. There are two ways to use the mouse in the menu system: In the first method, you "click" (press and release the mouse button) on line one or line two of the screen. The menubar appears on screen, in the same manner it does when you press F10. You then can click on any of the top level menu items to pull down the submenu. This will happen as if you pressed the first letter of the main menu item. You can then click on a submenu item to select it. To leave the menu system, just click anywhere outside the displayed menu. In the second method, rather than clicking, you "drag" (press the mouse button but don't release it) the mouse cursor to the menu item you want. As the mouse cursor passes over a menu item, the submenu below it automatically pulls down. As you drag the mouse cursor down a submenu, the submenu choice under the mouse cursor will be highlighted. To select a submenu item, release the mouse button when the selection you want is highlighted. To leave the menu system, just release the mouse button anywhere outside the displayed menu. Clicking anywhere in the text window will move the cursor to that position. You can change from one window to another simply by clicking the mouse in the other window. In the Defaults menu you can choose whether or not to display a scroll bar on the right hand side of the text window. The scroll bar has an "elevator" which shows your relative position in the file. Dragging the elevator to a new position is similar to issuing a Go To Line command. For example, if you drag the elevator to roughly the middle of the scroll bar while editing a 1000 line file, the current line will be changed to approximately line 500. Clicking anywhere between the up arrow mark and the elevator is treated the same as the Page Up command, and clicking anywhere between the elevator and the down arrow mark is the same as the Page Down command. Clicking on the up arrow mark or down arrow mark is the treated the same as if you pressed the up or down arrow key. Leave the mouse button down in any of these cases to scroll continuously. Print options ------------- You can now designate a starting and stopping range of pages to print. Default setting is to start with Page 1 and stop with Page 1000. To print a single page, enter the same page number for both the start and stop page. Note: if the top and bottom margin are set to zero GALAXY LITE does not keep track of pages, and the entire document will print. You can specify LPT1, LPT2, or FILE as the device to print to. For FILE, you will be asked the name of the file to print to. If you name an existing file you will be asked to confirm overwriting the file. Other changes ------------- Reformat and word wrap now compensate for any print formatting characters in the line. Home key positions cursor at Left margin, not column 1. Alt-F3 will convert a WordStar file to ASCII. Although GALAXY LITE can read, edit, and save a WordStar file with no problems, the search and spell check routines only work on ASCII files. Corrected problem finding GALITE.INI and GLITE.MSG support files when a default data directory was set. Starlite Software Co. P.O. Box 370, Port Hadlock, WA 98339. (800) 767-9611 Orders. (206) 385-9611 Information Fax, (206) 385 9612