s Lattice News See pages 1-3 • New Document Composition Package • Trade Show Drawing Winners Focus on C See pages 3-9 • New Lattice C Soon Spring 1988 • Training Classes Available • Lattice Views Industry Topics • Techical Q & A Focus on Amiga Lattice®News See pages 9-12, 16 • Undocumented Features of Lattice AmigaDOS C Compiler, Version 4.01 Lattice To Release New • “Compiler Companion” Available Document Composition Package • Technical Q & A Focus on RPG See pages 12-14 • New Programs Strengthen RPG II Support TM • Technical Q & A n the next few months. Lattice will be releasing HighStyle , our new Document Composition System. The new package is ideal for creating Current Product software manuals, catalogs, or other large, complex documents. It is also Version Numbers well-suited for producing memos and letters, proposals, or any document See page 15 which frequently changes content but rarely changes format. > HighStyle controls page design through more than 100 straight forward, “English-like” com- mands and functions which are embedded in the Feature HighStyle PageMaker Xerox Ventura document text files or maintained in separate “for- Manual kerning Yes Yes Yes mat” files. Pre-defined formats and designs can be Automatic paragraph leading Yes Yes Yes inserted into a document as it is being formatted, so the document’s content is kept completely separate Single word underline Yes No Yes from its design. This also ensures that memos, Automatic control of widows Yes No Yes letters, etc. appear exactly the same way each time Automatic creation of tables Yes No No they are printed regardless of who writes them. Automatic numbering of lists Yes No Yes Wayne Nartker, Lattice’s Vice President of Sales Automatic "bullet" points Yes No Yes and Marketing points out that HighStyle’ major Automatic Keyword points Yes No No strengths are its text-handling abilities compared to Automatic tabie of contents Yes No Yes Paste-Up Desktop Publishing Systems. Continued on next page... Automatic indexing Yes No Yes 1 Allows extensive text revision Yes No Yes This chart shows some ofHighStyle s special abilities not found in other desktop publishing packages. If these Graphics card/display required No Yes Yes features are important to you, call Lattice for more information today. A Lattice Works Spring 1988 HighStyle columns, pagination, and hyphenation. However, with simple commands, you Trade Show ... Continuedfrom previous page can permanently set or temporarily change these settings as well as the pro- Drawings Winne i “With HighStyle , it is not necessary to for leading, justi- reformat a design when text is added or gram defaults kerning, deleted from a document. The design of fication and other typesetting factors. any document can be completely altered HighStyle' s power, however, comes e’d like to thank each of you by changing only one or two lines, rath- from its complete programmability. Doc- who stopped by our booth at er than the tedious process of re- uments can contain an unlimited number W the various trade shows formatting the entire document.” of macro commands. You can even Lattice attended last year. We’re always While HighStyle focuses its power on “nest” macros and conditional com- glad to get the chance to meet our cus- text formatting, it does not neglect mands to reduce complex functions into tomers and find out from you what you graphics capabilities. You can create or single commands. You can also re- want to see in Lattice products. We hope alter graphic symbols with the package’s program all the commands and macros you were able to find out from us more icon editor. Any screen image can be provided in the package to completely about the wide range of products we captured with the “Snapshot” utility and customize your system. Once a docu- offer and what you can expect in coming called into the document as the docu- ment’s design is established, conditional years. ment is being printed. HighStyle will commands insure a consistent appear- As you may remember, at each show, create charts, tables, and graphs in far ance of a frequently used format regard- we were asking you to enter your names less time than any other system we’ve less of the document’s content or length. for drawings to be held for free prod- seen, and it will even generate bar Lattice has been using HighStyle ucts. Winners have already been contact- codes. internally for almost a year now. All our ed. They are: HighStyle will work on almost every new software manuals are being created computer system without requiring hard- using this system. Hewlett-Packard has Info ’87: ware, memory, or operating system also used the product to create the man- SecretDisk II upgrades to work properly. It runs under uals included with their LaserJet print- Matthew Lampell, CPCU DOS 2.1 and above. You do not need a ers. Now, Lattice will begin sharing the Western Union Telegraph Co. mouse or other “pointer device”; a product with others. Based on our exper- One Lake Street graphics card is not required; and iences, we will also offer training Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 HighStyle works just fine without other classes to help users take full advantage programs such as Windows or GEM. of HighStyle' s substantial features. ( You will need a graphics card to use the The retail price of HighStyle will be mmwmmmzm?/ icon editor $200. The complete package will in- .) Focus on C Unlike many desktop publishing sys- clude a word processor, type font man- tems, HighStyle is very easy to use for a ager, icon editor, screen image “snap- beginner. At its simplest level, anyone shot” processor, screen previewer, and Two New Versior can take the software out of the box and formatter. Also included are several begin creating highly-polished docu- icons, pre-defined forms, and examples. on the Horizon ments in a matter of minutes. Changing HighStyle will be available through the type size and style is as easy as Lattice dealers and distributors world- “ inserting commands as simple as begin wide or directly from Lattice. For further est anyone think that Lattice is largetext ,” “begin smalltext," etc.. information on HighStyle contact losing ground in the Compiler , L C HighStyle assumes automatic control of Lattice Sales at 2500 South Highland battles, we want to reassure you now design elements such as headers, foot- Avenue, Lombard, IL 60148 or call us at that the opposite is true. We have been ers, page numbering, line spacing, (312) 916-1600. devoting a huge amount of R&D into upgrading our current MS-DOS C com- piler and creating an all new compiler as Lattice Works is published by Lattice, well. Incorporated. We would like to include news from and about users. Please send comments, Within weeks, all registered users of a suggestions, and news stories to our attention. Lattice C Compiler will receive a notice Thank You. in the mail of our latest version, 3.3. The new version of the compiler runs Lattice Works will be sent to all of our under and generates code for both MS- registered customers. Please be sure to DOS and OS/2. In addition, versions of complete and return the registration card the Lattice Screen Editor (LSE) and the enclosed with your purchase. C-SPRITE debugger which also run under both OS/2 as well as MS-DOS are now being bundled with the compiler. i ) SideTalk AmigaDOS C Development System Roger Stone Douglas Campbell s Utah Valley Community College Hebco Electronics Inc. 400 Catalpa, #302A 8939 Edwards Road Midvale, UT 84047 Cincinnati, OH 45209 RPG II Development System RPG II Development System Diana Nischan J. Eatherly Programming Supervisor of Systems DRC 11 Grammes Road 1828 L Street, NW Allentown, PA 18103 Washington, DC 20036 AmiExpo, New York: 3X Show, Washington, DC: AmigaDOS C Development System RPG II Development System Harry Lewis, President Kenneth Berlin Blue Bell Design, Inc. American Society for Training & Dev. 524 White Oak Road 1630 Duke Street, Box 1443 Blue Bell, PA 19422 Alexandria, YA 22313 COMDEX/Fall: Based on the attention Lattice SecretDisk II received at these past shows, we are planning to exhibit at several trade Kyle Keenia shows in 1988. We’ll announce our trade NI Industries show schedule in an upcoming issue of 5215 W. Boyle Avenue Lattice Works and look forward to seeing Los Angeles, CA 90039 you there. Dan Knopoff selects winners from those of you who registered for free product drawings. We look forward to seeing you at our booths again at the trade shows where we will exhibit in 1988. mode, or you can run the compiler in er; you will be able to obtain this new s ofLattice C OS/2 protected mode to create programs product through the update service that run under MS-DOS. The versions of Continued on next page ... the compiler, LSE and C-SPRITE run under either OS/2 or MS-DOS. A “The new package will “switch” on the compiler determines Other features of Version 3 . 3 include whether it will generate code for MS- provide a complete compliance with emerging ANSI C stan- DOS, OS/2, or “family mode” programs programming environment dards, improved embedded system sup- which run under both. port, enhancements to the standard consisting of the best tools “We have made a strong commitment libraries, as well as bug fixes and other ” to our C Compiler and C programming available. advances in the compiler. The price also tools,” added Wayne Nartker. “In terms has been improved with this latest ver- of features and value, this version keeps sion’s suggested retail price being low- the Lattice C Compiler even with the ered to $450.00.