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^1|               ^4by   O D Y S S E Y   S O F T W A R E                ^1|
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|^1               ^2Designed & Coded by Ben Ashley, 1992                ^1|
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^6 Bwrite  is the latest program from Ben Ashley, AKA Odyssey Software.
^6It  is an Ascii/Ansi writer, that is , it can be used to create fancy
^6text  screens  without the use of a text editor and elaborate control
^6codes.

^6 The  whole  thing  is  controlled by clicking on icons to place text
^6characters anywhere on the screen using the mouse pointer.

^1 If  you've  ever  played around with a text editor, or even fonts in
^1DPaint,  then  you  will  have  found  out that characters other than
^1appear  on  your  keyboard  can  be  printed by using combinations of
^1keypresses - this is where some of the funny patterns are made around
^1the titles in TA.

^2 Let's take the `X' key....

^6 There's  lower  case  `x'  Upper case `X' using <SHIFT> If you press
^6<ALT>  +  x  then you get `×' which is the multiply sign, then if you
^6press <ALT> + <SHIFT> + x you get `÷'

^2These can be combined to form patterns....

^1 x×x×x×x    ^2xXxXxXxX   ^3÷x÷x÷x÷÷   ^4X÷X÷X÷X÷ ^5××XX××XX××  ^6and so on.

^5 In a text editor this has to be done a line at a time working across
^5the  screen  one character at a time and using <RETURN> at the end of
^5each line.

^2 With  Bwrite,  you select your character from a window at the bottom
^2of  the  screen, click on the colour you want, then `paint' it on the
^2screen as easily as using DPaint brushes.

^1 You  have an are of 78 characters and 23 lines to work on, the width
^1has  been set to the standard width for displaying with standard text
^1readers, word processors etc.

^4 The program controls are housed on a series of panels - a main panel
^4displays  all  the  stuff  to  create your screen, and sub-panels are
^4called up to load/ save/ enter text etc.

^4The main panel works as follows
 
^1LOAD/SAVE - Here you can load either an ascii or an ansi file.  The
^1program  will  get  upset  if you ask to load ascii, then try to load
^1ansi,  so  remember which you want.  You can of course, save out your
^1file with the relative suffix .asc or .ansi to aid memory.

^1CLEAR - This clears the current display.

^1PUT  -  This  is  a nifty function!  If you decide that the colour on
^1your  display  is  wrong,  this  allows  you  to  select a colour and
^1recolour  the existing characters on the screen without selecting the
^1character  from  the panel.  This is useful for converting ascii text
^1files to coloured ansi files.

^1TEXT  - This allows you to enter a line of text and display it on the
^1screen at a chosen point using the mouse pointer.

^1UP/DOWN
^1LFT/RGT-  Moves  the complete image, 1 character to the Left/Right/Up
^1Down.  This function is at present rather slow, but it does allow you
^1to move your image to the exact place you'd like it to be.

^1IMPORT - Use this to import Standard ASCII files from Wordprocessors,
^1etc.

^1QUIT   -   Lets you get out of Bwrite.

^1 The  characters are selected from a window at the bottom of the main
^1panel.  You simply click on your choice which is displayed ina box on
^1the right of the panel.  This box also shows the current colour.  The
^1strip of characters can be scrolled left and right and offers lots of
^1weird looking characters as well as standard letters and numbers.

^2 Bwrite  offers  a  choice  of  8  colours which are displayed on the
^2panel.  Click to select, and you're off!  The palette is set to these
^2colours,  but  the author says that if the files are loaded to use in
^2other packages, these can be changed.

^5 Ben has many improvements planned for the future including a palette
^5modifier,  a full document facility so that you can work on more than
^523 lines and a better save function.

^7 BWRITE is available, cost £3.00p from:-

^7                          Odyssey Software
^7                           331 London Road
^7                             Stoneygate
^7                              Leicester
^7                               England
^7                               LE2 3NE


^7      Tel: (0533) 705630                         Fax: (0533) 704673

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