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t ! ! ewsletter • Contents • News and Announcements News and Announcements Image Writer LQ Rework Program ... 97 • lmageWrlter LQ Rework Program If you purchased an Apple ImageWriter LQ between Reviews and Services August 1987 and March 7, 1989, you may be interested in Claris MacWrite II for Mac ............ 98 a recent Apple announcement: Apple may exchange your OmniPage LQ for a reworked LQ. Text Recognition Software ..... 101 The Electronic Whole Earth ......... 107 Apple has made the ImageWriter LQ quieter and elimi­ Training Resources .................... 110 nated the line squishing that some owners have encoun­ tered on the top and bottom 1.5-inch of the page. The Columns sound improvement lowers the frequency of the sound by about 500Hz (which is significant when printing dense Connections E-Mailing Mac Documents graphics). In other words, the noise will not be quieter in certain applications, but the frequency of the noise will be (BinHex) .......................... 103 reduced. The reworked ImageWriter LQ also comes with Engineering Services Notes ........ 109 Ma Micro Notes a HyperCard stack that guides the user through setting up the printer for various paper paths. dBASE to Paradox Rle Transfer ....... 105 This ImageWriter LQ rework program is appropriate for DOS CONRG.SYS Rles .......... 106 Book Center Notes customers who experience the following two problems when using continuous tractor-fed paper on their May IT Tech Fair ................... 110 Macintosh Changes .............. 111 ImageWriter LQ printers: line registration problems at the Ashton-Tate Orders ............... 111 top and bottom 1.5-inch of the page and printer noise. MacWrite Upgrades and Trade Ins .................. 111 There is no charge for this reworked printer, and it comes And Books, Too ......................... 111 with a 90 day warranty. (Note that "reworked" means the printer is not necessarily brand new. Instead, it means the The Microcomputer Newsletter is published monthly by the printer has had the appropriate engineering changes made Microcomputer and Workstation Systems Group (a/k/a to it.) Microcomputer Group), a part of the Univers~y of Minne­ sota's Academic Computing Services and Systems depart­ Where Do You Go for the Exchange? ment (ACSS), with funds provided by the Minnesota Book The exchange (rework) program is handled through Center. The Univers~y of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons should have equal access to ~s pro­ ACSS's Engineering Services group. The customer brings grams, facil~ies, and employment without regard to race, the printer to Engineering Services and gets a reworked religion, color, sex, national origin, handicap, age, veteran printer in exchange. status, or sexual orientation. Direct comments and sub­ scription cancellations, changes, and add~ions to the If you think you are a candidate for a reworked editors at the address on the closing page. This newsletter ImageWriter LQ, contact Engineering Services at 625- is an information resource for the University of Minnesota; 1595. If your LQ qualifies for the rework program (its subscriptions are free but are mailed only w~hin U.S. serial number is less than 183101013), you can expect The Microcomputer Newsletter does not represent any about a 2 to 4 day wait before you get the reworked manufacturer, distributor, or retail outlet and cannot be printer. responsible for any error or change in price, description, or availabil~ w~h respect to any product or service. © 1989 University of Minnesota Claris' MacWrite II allows you to preview full pages on the screen in reduced size, but does not allow you to edit your text in this view. for the Macintosh Many of the oldtimers on the Macin­ Editing Documents tosh scene remember MacWrite as the With MacWrite II you can work on more than one docu­ Mac's first word processing package. ment at a time; each document appears in a separate Mac'W'r;teo® 11 MacWrite gradually fell out of favor as window. MacWrite II can open most popular Mac word more advanced packages came to processing programs' documents directly, including market. One reason for MacWrite's fall from grace was WriteNow, Microsoft's Word, Write, and Works, as well as Apple's reluctance to upgrade and improve the package. old MacWrite documents. If you want to incorporate an This sluggish development stemmed from the fact that existing document or a picture into the MacWrite II Apple needs the enthusiastic cooperation of third party document you are editing, you can use the Insert File software developers to make the Macintosh successful. feature and incorporate the existing file into your docu­ Since third party software developers were reluctant to ment (including MacPaint and PICT files) without resort­ compete directly with Apple software, Apple decided to ing to the Clipboard or Scrapbook. We would like to see stop enhancement of the MacWrite package. Eventually this step-saving feature in more word processing software. Apple spun off a new company ( Claris) to handle develop­ ment of the original Apple applications (including, Mac­ While MacWrite II's Size menu lists font sizes from 7 point Paint, MacWrite, MacDraw, and others). Because Claris is to 72 point, you can select any size of font from 2 to 500 strictly a software company, they must sell state-of-the-art point; although at 500 point we usually could fit only one software to survive. While Claris recently discontinued the character on a page. You use the Size menu's option original version of MacWrite, they also released a completely named Other to specify font sizes not listed in the menu. new word processing program (MacWrite II). In this review we will look at MacWrite II release l.Ov l. With MacWrite II you can search for and replace text based on a variety of criteria. You can search and replace based on the text alone or based on the text and the text's type­ Overview face attributes (font, size, and style). For example, you As you might expect, MacWrite II has all the usual Macin­ may wish to change all occurrences of Whole Earth Catalog tosh word processing features, including search and that are bold text and change the style to italic. This is replace, cut, paste, undo, and use of the Clipboard to insert easily accomplished with the Use Attributes feature in text and graphics. MacWrite II documents can include MacWrite II's search and replace function. pictures and text, a variety of fonts and point sizes, headers, footers, columnar formatting, on-screen display of page MacWrite II gives you a great deal of control over docu­ breaks, automatic page numbering, special style sheets, ment formatting. As with most Mac word processing stationery formats, and footnotes or endnotes. software, you use a ruler to specify tab stops, margins, line spacing, and the like. If you want to format your docu­ The philosophy behind MacWrite is "what you see on the ment so that it looks like a newsletter (i.e., multiple screen is what is printed." In fact, on the screen your columns of text), you specify the number of columns you document appears as if it is a piece of paper. While you want in the Format menu's Page dialog box. After you edit, you can see the top and bottom margins of your page have told MacWrite you want several columns, your text is on the screen; and you can see a grey strip separating the displayed (as it will print) in side-by-side columns. You can bottom of one piece of "paper" from the top of the next edit these columns on the screen. This contrasts with the piece of"paper." This treatment is similar in spirit to how current version ofWord; while Word can print multiple WriteNow displays pages on the screen. However, columns of text, you cannot see and edit the page on the MacWrite II goes further and also allows you to display screen exactly as it will print. pages side-by-side on the screen. This display feature is useful if you have right- and left-handed pages (such as in a If you want a header or a footer to appear on each page of book where the page numbers appear on different parts of your document, select Insert Header (or Insert Footer) the page for alternate pages). This side-by-side feature is from the Format menu. A blank header is then placed at especially useful if you have a large monitor. If you have a the top of each page in your document. You can enter any traditional-sized monitor, you can still view two pages side­ text that you want to appear in the header. We found this by-side, but the pages are reduced to fit on your screen. scheme to be delightfully intuitive since the header appears This reduction makes most type appear rather small, but if where you expect it to, rather than in a separate window you have a steady hand on the mouse, you can still edit (as is the case with Word). To change something in the your text in the reduced size view. This contrasts with the header, use the mouse to point and click on the header current version of Microsoft Word (version 3.02) which text. At all times you can see the effect of the header (or footer) on your page's format. This is another illustration of MacWrite II's intuitive user interface. One of our biggest complaints about Word has been that it is loaded BOOK. You do this by returning to the desktop and with special modes and hidden features whose effects are selecting the MacWrite II icon; then choose Get Info from not clear until you actually print your document.

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