There are three ways to print out the information seen in
AMPLINEX.
You can print out an AMPLINEX file as it is displayed on the
screen from within AMPLINEX; you can print the files themselves as you would
any other text file; or you can load the files into your own word processor and
re-format them as required before printing.
1) To print a file from within AMPLINEX choose the 'SET
PRINT ON/OFF' option from the Introduction menu. This allows you to toggle a
software 'print switch' on or off. If the switch is set ON then any AMPLINEX file
which is displayed on the screen will be sent to the printer. This will continue
until you set the switch off again using the same Introduction option. An
asterisk is displayed at the top of the screen next to the issue number when
the print option is ON and the print status is shown at the bottom right of the
screen as text is displayed within AMPLINEX.
It is now also possible to print out part of a file from
within AMPLINEX. There are two ways to do this:
a) To print a single page of an AMPLINEX file, make sure the
'print switch' is OFF and then select the menu option which displays the file. When
the page you wish to print is displayed, and the 'Press RETURN to continue'
prompt is showing at the bottom of the screen, press the letter 'P' on the
keyboard. The page being displayed will then be sent to the printer. Pressing
RETURN will then continue to display the file without printing.
b) To start printing part-way through a file, you can turn
on the 'print switch' by pressing the CTRL and 'P' keys together when the
'Press RETURN to continue' prompt is displayed. Subsequent pages which are
displayed will then be sent to the printer. The 'print switch' can be turned
off again in the same way.
2) If you prefer to print the parts you require outside of
AMPLINEX - all the data is held in files on the AMPLINEX disc. The files are in
directories named according to the sections in which they appear and the file
names can be seen at the foot of the screen as they are displayed in AMPLINEX
so you can make a note of the ones you require.
The file directories allocated to each section of AMPLINEX
are as follows:
$. for Music
A. for the Introduction and Adverts
F. for Features
H. for Hints and Tips
I. for Instruments
N. for News and Reviews
Q. for Questions and Answers
U. for Utilities
In addition to the text files, the AMPLE instrument
definitions can also be printed directly from within AMPLINEX. Music and
utility programs written in AMPLE can only be printed by LOADing the programs
into the Studio 5000 and using the WRITE command (see Studio 5000 User Guide page
100).
3) If you wish to re-format the text before printing you
should load the files into your word processor. The files contain unjustified
text restricted to 38 columns width. The files contain only printable ASCII characters
except for a control code (ASCII 11) which marks the screen page breaks. View
treats these as left margin tabs and if necessary they can be removed with a
C/^L// command.
Two utilities have been published in AMPLINEX to aid with
the re-formatting of text files:
In AMPLINEX 003 'Hints and Tips' (H.ints003) there were
instructions for a Wordwise segment program to automatically format AMPLINEX
text files. The segment itself was included in AMPLINEX 004 (H.WWconv).
In AMPLINEX 005 there was a utility to print formatted
80-column text direct from an AMPLINEX text file. The instructions (U.print/i)
and the BASIC program (U.print80) are both within the 'Utilities' section. A modification
to this program (to provide a wider margin) was included in the 'Hints and
Tips' section of AMPLINEX 006. See also the Update section of AMPLINEX 008 for
a note concerning BASIC 1 users.
Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990
