@DATABASE Anleitung zur Comicverwaltung @MASTER dok.e @NODE MAIN Inhalt @TITLE Contents @REMARK evtl immer Nodename = Titel @REMARK $VER: Comic.e.guide 0.1 (7.06.97) $ @REMARK $Id: Comic.e.guide 1.7 1997/06/07 17:29:33 andreas Exp $ Documentation for Comic - Manager 2.1 (by Andreas Zottmann) Comic-Manager is a program for collectors of comics, magazines or novels. With different kinds of evaluations you are able to get a good survey of your collection. The most important program item concerns the printing of the data. It is possible to print the data compressed as a small book which you can take everywhere. @{" Installation " link Installation} @{" Program Items " link Programmpunkte} @{" Further Information " link Information} @ENDNODE MAIN @NODE Installation @PREV MAIN @NEXT Programmpunkte If you have the Commodore Installer, you can install the program by clicking "InstallComic". Otherwise do the following : (1-4) 1. If you have installed an older version of the Comic-Manager or the demo, you simply have to drag the program 'comic' and the documentation out of the directory 'english' into the comic directory to replace the program there. Please delete the program 'comicDemo'. After that please drag the program 'convertVor' into the same directory, and start it there. This program converts your data and can be deleted after installation. After that rename the file Voreinstellung in directory comp in Voreinstellung.alt, and rename Voreinstellung.neu in Voreinstellung. If you don't have an older version installed or if you want a new installation please do step 2-4. 2. Copy the directory 'english' to your hard disk or to an empty disk (the easiest way is to pull the drawer 'english' at the right place). 3. Rename the drawer into 'Comic'. 4. Go to your new directory 'Comic' and start the program InstComic. It creates two directories ('comdat' ist used for the data of your comics and 'comp' for management data.), and sets important parameters described below. (Please read the description before). You can delete InstComic after that, because you don't need it later. At the installation you can choose two important parameters. The parameters are a) the number of conditions When you use Comic-Manager you have to assign a condition to each of your numbers. The condition is a digit from 0 to 9 which determines the quality of the comic book. 0 is the best condition. You have to choose the number of conditions that you want. You can't change this value later, so you should be very careful, what you choose. I suggest that you first write a list for yourself with criteria a number must have to be in a certain condition. With this list you can decide how many conditions you want. The maximal possible number of conditions is 10, the minimal is 1. In the later case no conditions will be used, i.e. no information about the condition of a number is stored. b) the price unit You can choose a unit from 0.01 to 100.0. When you use prices in the Comic-Manager, they will be rounded on this unit. If you choose for example the unit 0.50 only prices like 0.00, 0.50, 1.00, 1.50 ... are possible, with the unit 0.10 0.00, 0.10, 0.20, 0.30 ... would be possible. This unit also determines the maximal price. I suggest to choose a unit of 0.10 or 0.50. The higher values should be used in countries, where the unit of the currency has a small value. Warning ! Be very careful what you choose because you can't change this values. ( The only possibility to change them is to delete the directories 'comp' and 'comdat' and to repeat the installation with InstComic. All your inputs will be deleted ! You can do this if you want to test different values before you decide which values you want to use. ) The installation is now completed. @ENDNODE Installation @NODE Programmpunkte @TITLE "Description of the program items" @PREV Installation @NEXT Information The most program items are easy to use and therefore you should try to use the program and only look up the description if you have problems. Before you want to print something the first time please choose the item @{" Printer Preferences " link Druckereinstellung} and change the values for your printer. There are two important things you should know. First you can quit the program (nearly) always with the close gadget (top left corner) or go back to the main menu with the @{" escape key " link Escape}. The second thing is that you can't use all functions of the program when you use it the first time. After you have entered some titles they should all work. @REMARK Inhaltsverzeichnis der Programmpunkte @{" Numbers " link Heftebearbeiten} @{" Titles " link Titelbearbeiten} @{" System " link System} @ENDNODE Programmpunkte @NODE Heftebearbeiten @TITLE "Numbers" @TOC Programmpunkte @PREV Programmpunkte @NEXT Titelbearbeiten The item "Numbers" includes all functions, which work with @{" single numbers " link Sprachgebrauch}. @{" Input " link Eingabe} @{" Search " link Heftsuchen} @{" Delete " link Heftloeschen} @ENDNODE Heftebearbeiten @NODE Eingabe @TOC Heftebearbeiten @PREV Heftebearbeiten @NEXT Heftsuchen @TITLE Input Here you can enter single numbers. At first you are asked for the title. You can enter it with the keyboard or select it with the cursor keys (up, down). With this keys you can go to the next or previous title in the list of existing titles. When you hold a shift key you go 10 titles forward or backward. Only those titles are accepted that you made up in @{" New Titles " link neueTitel}. There is an other way of fast input with the tab key. Enter only the beginning of the title (e.g. 'mic' instead of 'Micky Maus') and press the tab key. Now the title will be completed as far as it is possible. If the title is not the only one with this beginning the completing will be done to the point where the titles differ. You can then enter the next characters and press the tab key again. (If you have an other title 'Mickyvision' 'mic' will be completed to 'Micky'.) If the title has years you can now input the volume. After that you can enter the number, the condition and the quantity. Then the cursor jumps to the first line and you can continue with the next number. If there is a value shown in the input field you can take it over by only pressing the Return key. You can stop the input of numbers by pressing @{" esc " link Escape}. If you enter a number which lays in an @{" excluded area " link Bereichesperren}, this number is included again. @ENDNODE Eingabe @NODE Heftsuchen @TOC Heftebearbeiten @PREV Eingabe @NEXT Heftloeschen @TITLE "Search a number" With this item you can first select the title of the comic from a list. Then you can input the year and the number. After that the data of this number will be shown or a message, if it does not exist. With @{" esc " link Escape} you can go back to the main menu. @ENDNODE Heftsuchen @NODE Heftloeschen @TOC Heftebearbeiten @PREV Heftsuchen @NEXT Heftebearbeiten @TITLE "Delete a number" As in item @{" search a number" link Heftsuchen} a number is selected and it's data shown. After a confirmation the number will be deleted if you haven't stopped with @{" esc " link Escape}. If you have this issue several times you will be asked how many of them shall be deleted, and which conditions. @ENDNODE Heftloeschen @NODE Titelbearbeiten @TOC Programmpunkte @PREV Programmpunkte @NEXT System @TITLE "Titles" This item summarizes all items that are concerned with @{" complete titles " link Sprachgebrauch}. @{" New Titles " link neueTitel} @{" Exclude Areas " link Bereichesperren} @{" Input Price " link Preiseingeben} @{" Extend Title " link Titelerweitern} @{" Delete Title " link Titelloeschen} @{" Evaluation " link Auswertung} @{" Change Basic Data " link Grunddatenaendern} @{" New Evaluation " link Auswertungneudurchfuehren} @ENDNODE Titelbearbeiten @NODE neueTitel @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Titelbearbeiten @NEXT Bereichesperren @TITLE "New Titles" With this subitem you can make up new titles. First you have to input the name, which must be different from all already existing titles. If you have two kinds of numbers with the same name you have to choose different names for the titels to distinguish between them. In such a case it is reasonable to use the title and subtitle or to use the title and the publishers (maybe abbreviated). The next input is the first year that is the year in which the first number of the title was published. If you don't know this year you can use the year of the oldest issue you have or use an estimation. You only need to enter this year if the title is numbered with volumes. Otherwise only type a full-stop (.) . If you have entered the first year you have to enter the last year that is the last year in which issues of this title were published. After that please input the last number that is the last number in the last year. With this inputs you have specified an area for your numbers. You can @{" extend " link Titelerweitern} this area at any time, @{" restrict " link Bereichesperren} it or @{" change " link Grunddatenaendern} it. Then you can specify the highest number in a year that is the number of issues per volume. The default value is 53, which is a wise value for numbers that are issued weekly, i.e. 52 x a year, but sometimes 53 x. When a title has volumes with different numbers of issues, choose the maximum number. If you have a title which is numbered without volumes, you can enter the first number after typing the full-stop. This should be 1, but there are titles that start with zero or with higher numbers. Then enter the last number of the title. After this specifications you can decide if you want to include the title in the default list for printing. In the item @{" Print " link Ausdruck} you can choose the titles you want to print. For example you can choose this default list, and then all this titles will be printed. It stands to reason that you can also select titles which are not in this list. Then you have to choose if the title has prices. When you type 'y' you can enter the prices immediately. That works as in @{" Input Price " link Preiseingeben}. If you have a price catalogue you can take over the values. After that you can resume with the next title or go to the main menu with @{" esc " link Escape}. A special case are titles which are numbered partly with and partly without volumes. Here it is a good policy to divide the title in two, one with and one without volumes. You can change the data you entered here in the item @{" Change Basic " link Grunddatenaendern} @{" Data " link Grunddatenaendern}. @ENDNODE neueTitel @NODE Bereichesperren @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV neueTitel @NEXT Preiseingeben @TITLE "Exclude Areas" Here you can first choose the title out of a list. Then you can enter the area that shall be excluded that is the start and end number. This item can be used, if you have a title where some numbers don't exist. This numbers will be marked especially and won't be listed as missing any more. An example is the german comic "Zack". In volume 80 there are only the numbers 1-5 and 11-32. The numbers 6-10 can therefor be excluded. This is similar for titles with volumes, where different volumes have different numbers of numbers. In the item @{" new titles " link neueTitel} it was noted that you should choose the maximum value in such a case. For the volumes with less numbers you should exclude the not existing numbers at the end of the volume, because they would be marked as missing otherwise. For example if a title is published weekly that are 52 numbers in a year, but in some years there may be 53 numbers. So you can choose 53 numbers per year and exclude the number 53 in years that have only 52 numbers. An other case happens if a title has only numbers and the numbers don't start with 1. Here you can exclude the area from 1 to the start number minus one, but it is better to enter the correct number in the item @{" New Titles " link neueTitel} or @{" Change Basic Data " link Grunddatenaendern}. @ENDNODE Bereichesperren @NODE Preiseingeben @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Bereichesperren @NEXT Titelerweitern @TITLE "Input Price" Here you have also to select the title from a list. After that all existing numbers will be displayed, and you can input the price. After you have entered the price of a number you can enter the year and the number up to which the same price is valid. All numbers from the displayed to the entered one will get the same price. With the F1 key you can enter a new start number from which on the price should be entered. With the F2 key the next number will be shown that has an other price than the displayed one. @ENDNODE Preiseingeben @NODE Titelerweitern @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Preiseingeben @NEXT Titelloeschen @TITLE "Extend Title" Extend Title After selecting a title you can input the number up to which the title shall be extended. The place for this new numbers will be prepared. Search Last Number For the selected title the year and the number of the last number will be shown. @ENDNODE Titelerweitern @NODE Titelloeschen @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Titelerweitern @NEXT Auswertung @TITLE "Delete Title" With this item you first have to select a title, which will be deleted after a confirmation. The data of this title are lost after that. If you only want to delete a single number please use the item @{" Delete Numbers " link Heftloeschen}. @ENDNODE Titelloeschen @NODE Auswertung @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Titelloeschen @NEXT Grunddatenaendern @TITLE Evaluation @{" List Present Numbers " link Auflisten} @{" List Present Numbers " link Auflisten} @{" List Present Numbers " link Auflisten} @{" Evaluation of Condition " link AuswertungnachZustand} @{" Print " link Ausdruck} @ENDNODE Auswertung @NODE Auflisten @TOC Auswertung @PREV Auswertung @NEXT AuswertungnachZustand @TITLE List List Present Numbers List Missing Numbers List Multiple Numbers In this three items you first have to select a title. After that the present, missing or multiple numbers of this title will be listed on the screen. You have the possibility to choose a new start number with the F1 key. If you list present or multiple numbers you can also switch to an update mode with F2. Then you can update the conditions of the numbers. One number will be shown with its conditions. You can take them over with the CR key or change them by entering new values. If you press F2 a second time you will get back to the listing mode, and the listing will continue. @ENDNODE Auflisten @NODE AuswertungnachZustand @TOC Auswertung @PREV Auflisten @NEXT Ausdruck @TITLE "Evaluation of Condition" One Title Select Titles All Titles With this items you can get statistics about one title, a selection of titles or about all titles. The selection works as in @{" Print a Book : Select Titles " link AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl}. For each condition it will be shown how many numbers there are with this condition and their value. The value is @{" weighted " link GewichtungderZustaende} with a factor. After that the total number will be shown, and how many numbers are missing or multiple. The percentage of conditions will be shown with a diagram. @ENDNODE AuswertungnachZustand @NODE Ausdruck @TOC Auswertung @PREV AuswertungnachZustand @NEXT Auswertung @TITLE Print @{" Select Titles " link AuswahlbestimmterTitel} @{" Print One Title " link AusdruckeinesTitels} @{" Print a Book : Select Titles " link AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl} @{" Print a Book : One Title " link AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel} @ENDNODE Ausdruck @NODE AuswahlbestimmterTitel @TOC Ausdruck @PREV Ausdruck @NEXT AusdruckeinesTitels @TITLE "Select Titles" Present Numbers Missing Numbers Multiple Numbers You first have to select some titles from a list. The numbers of this titles will be printed as a list that means the printing will look like the lists from the item @{" List Numbers " link Hefteauflisten} . Only the present, missing or multiple numbers will be printed, depending on which item you have chosen. @ENDNODE AuswahlbestimmterTitel @NODE AusdruckeinesTitels @TOC Ausdruck @PREV AuswahlbestimmterTitel @NEXT AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl @TITLE "Print One Title" The numbers of one title will be printed as a list. @ENDNODE AusdruckeinesTitels @NODE AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl @TOC Ausdruck @PREV AusdruckeinesTitels @NEXT AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @TITLE "Print a Book : Select Titles" First a list will be shown with the existing titles. The color of each title shows whether it is selected or not. By clicking on a title you can switch between selected and not selected. If you want to switch several titles point at the first title, hold the left mouse key, move to the last title and release the key. Below the list there are three buttons. With the 'default' button you can choose all titles you have included in the default list for printing in the item @{" New titles " link neueTitel}. With 'all' you select all titles and with 'none' none. If you have for example many titles and you only want to print a few, the easiest way is to press 'none' and select the titles. The rest is the same as in @{" Print a Book : One Title " link AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel}. @ENDNODE AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl @NODE AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @TOC Ausdruck @PREV AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl @NEXT Ausdruck @TITLE "Print a Book : One Title" The data of a title @{" (or of several titles) " link AusdruckinHeftformatAuswahl} will be printed in a compressed way. You can build a small book, which you can take on flea markets, for example as a list of missing numbers. After you have selected the title(s) you can specify which numbers shall be printed. The following items are available : o present numbers o price for present numbers o missing numbers o price for missing numbers o only double numbers o condensed price o condensed o with conditions o condensed with restricted condition You can also select several items, but not all combinations are allowed ( 50 combinations are available and more or less wise ). The items will be explained now, where the following example will be used : The title "Micky Maus" (the german version of "Micky Mouse") is to be printed. In volume 90 there are the numbers 2 to 10, 35,38,40 and 52 with the condition 1, the numbers 15 to 16, 36, 37 and 38 with condition 2 and the numbers 30, 40 to 50 with condition 3 present. In volume 91 number 2 and 3 is present with condition 0. Present Numbers : The present numbers of the selected title(s) will be printed. The example would look like this : Micky Maus <<90>> 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,15,16,30,35,36,37,38,40,41,42, 43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,52,<<91>> 2,3 The year is marked with pointed brackets and the number is printed if at least one comic is present. Missing Numbers : If this item is selected and "Present Numbers" not that would look like this : Micky Maus ... ... ... <<90>> 1,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29, 31,32,33,34,39,51,<<91>> 1,4,5,6, ... The periods are not printed, they are shown here only to indicate that there are volumes before and after the shown volumes. If "Present Numbers" is selected at the same time, the present and the missing numbers will be printed. To distinguish them, the missing numbers are printed in brackets : Micky Maus ... ... ... <<90>> (1),2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,(11),(12),(13),(14),15,16,(17), (18),(19),(20),(21),(22),(23),(24),(25),(26),(27),(28),(29),30,(31), (32),(33),(34),35,36,37,38,(39),40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,(51), 52,<<91>> (1),2,3,(4),(5),(6), ... only multiples : Only multiple numbers will be printed : Micky Maus <<90>> 38,40, condensed : If there is a series of numbers one after the other, not each one will be printed, only first to last : Micky Maus <<90>> 2-10,15-16,30,35-38,40-50,52,<<91>> 2-3 with condition : for each number the condition is printed after a colon: Micky Maus <<90>> 2:1,3:1,4:1,5:1,6:1,7:1,8:1,9:1,10:1,15:2,16:2,30:3, 35:1,36:2,37:2,38:1,40:1,41:3,42:3,43:3,44:3,45:3,46:3,47:3,48:3, 49:3,50:3,52:1,<<91>> 2:0,3:0 For multiple numbers (38 and 40) only the best condition is shown. condensed with restricted condition : This item will be explained in detail below. Price for present numbers : For the present numbers the price will be printed. This works only for titles that have prices. If in the example the numbers up to volume 90 number 30 have the price 1.00 DM (or $) and after that 3.00 DM ($) that would look like this : Micky Maus <<90>> 2 ¹·°°,3 ¹·°°,4 ¹·°°,5 ¹·°°,6 ¹·°°,7 ¹·°°,8 ¹·°°, 9 ¹·°°,10 ¹·°°,15 ¹·°°,16 ¹·°°,30 ¹·°°,35 ³·°°,36 ³·°°,37 ³·°°, 38 ³·°°,40 ³·°°,41 ³·°°,42 ³·°°,43 ³·°°,44 ³·°°,45 ³·°°,46 ³·°°, 47 ³·°°,48 ³·°°,49 ³·°°,50 ³·°°,52 ³·°°,<<91>> 2 ³·°°,3 ³·°° The price is raised after the number. Price for missing numbers : This corresponds to the last item but the price is printed for missing numbers. Price condensed : The price is often the same for large areas and so it is enough to show it only at changes. With this item selected, the price is printed at the first number in the line and then only if something changes: Micky Maus <<90>> 2 ¹·°°,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,15,16,30,35 ³·°°,36,37,38, 40 ³·°°,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,52,<<91>> 2,3 @{" Separation Signs " link Trennzeichen} : With this button you get to a screen where you can change the separation signs at your own wishes. And now to the item "condensed with restricted condition" : With this item you can combine 'condensed' and 'condition' to make another compression. Only those numbers are condensed that follow one after the other and that have the same condition. The example looks like this : Micky Maus <<90>> 2-10:1,15-16:2,30:3,35:1,36-37:2,38:1,40:1,41-50:3, 52:1,<<91>> 2-3:0 You can get a compression by choosing appropriate @{" separation signs " link Trennzeichen}. For example if you choose the texts "a", "b", "b", "c" for the conditions 0-3 that means that you condense the conditions 1 and 2 to a single condition : Micky Maus <<90>> 2-10:b,15-16:b,30:c,35-38:b,40:b,41-50:c,52:b, <<91>> 2-3:a This method is useful, if you only want a coarse partition of your present numbers, for example in two conditions a and b for "condition is ok" and "number is in bad condition" so that you can easily find the numbers that you want to buy a second time. In the last example much information shall be summarized. The items "Present Numbers" an "condensed with restricted condition" are selected. The "missing numbers" are printed too so that you can mark a new number as soon as you get it. The price is also to be printed, so "Price for Present", "Price for missing" and "Price condensed" is also turned on. As described above we are now only interested if a number is good enough or not. The conditions are 0 in very good condition, like new printed 1 in good condition 2 not so good, but can be accepted 3 bad condition, not good enough to collect that means we can use the separation signs "g" for 'good' (0-2) and "b" for 'bad' for the condition 3. The example then looks like this : Micky Maus ... ... (47) ¹·°°,(48),(49),(50),(51),(52),<<90>> (1),2-10:g,(11),(12),(13), (14) ¹·°°,15-16:g,(17),(18),(19),(20),(21),(22),(23),(24),(25),(26), (27) ¹·°°,(28),(29),30:b,(31) ³·°°,(32),(33),(34),35-38:g,(39),40:g, 41-50:b ³·°°,(51),52:g,<<91>> (1),2-3:g,(4),(5),(6),(7),... ... In this screen the menu @{" Defaults " link Voreinstellung} is active. Klick on the "OK" button when you are ready. While the text is processed the titels are shown. When the processing is done a message is shown that says that you shall position your printer so that it is at the beginning of a new page. Then press a key. The printing is done in four text blocks on a page. This blocks are the pages of the printed book. Take each (big) page and fold it horizontally in the middle. Then cut each page in the middle along the fold. _____________ _____________ | | | | | xxxxx xxxxx | | xxxxx xxxxx | | xxxx xxxxx | _____________ | xxxx xxxxx | | xxxxx xxxx | lay one | | | xxxxx xxxx | |_____________| on top | xxxxx xxxxx | | | --> _____________ --> | xxxx xxxxx | | xxxx xxxxx | | | of the | xxxxx xxxx | | xxxxx xxxxx | | xxxx xxxxx | other |_____________| | xxx xxx | | xxxxx xxxxx | |_____________| | xxx xxx | |_____________| Now you can fold the half pages vertically and lay one on top of the other in the right order. The order is as you get the pages from printing. Be careful that all pages have the same orientation and that the text shows to you. The first printed (half) page is the lowest, the next lays on it and so on. If you are not sure look for titles in the left block of the text. They are sorted alphabetically. You can also look at the last numbers in the last line in the left block. The next page has the following numbers in the first line or the next title. When you have sorted the pages you have to stitch them in the middle (vertically). Now you have a book with a quarter of the size of one print page. If you don't get a corresponding printing that can indicate that you made wrong inputs in the item @{" Printer Preferences " link Druckereinstellung}. @ENDNODE AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @NODE Trennzeichen @TOC AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @PREV AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @NEXT AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @TITLE "Separation Signs" Separation sign means here the text which is printed before or after a certain event. There are the following fields : separation sign for years : What shall be printed before and after the year ? Defaults are the pointed brackets that appeared already in the example : "<<" and ">>". If you change that for example to "vol.{" and "}" the years in the example would be printed as vol.{90} and vol.{91} resp. separation sign for missing : The defaults are "(" and ")". separation sign for the price : The defaults are " " and "", the raising of the price is not influenced by the entered text. A wise example is " " and " DM" or " " and " $". After that you can enter a text for each condition that will be printed instead of the condition. The defaults are "0", "1", "2", ... that is the condition. A good policy is to choose a numbering, for example roman numerals "I", "II", "III", "IV", ... or letters "a", "b", "c", ... . It is also possible to condense some conditions, if you think that a coarse partition is enough for the print, for example "a", "a", "b", "b", ... will condense the conditions 0-1 to a, 2-3 to b and so on. You can only change the separation signs that are needed that means that if you don't print prices for example, you can't enter separation signs for the price. The length of the separation signs is restricted to 10. After you entered all signs you get back to the previous screen. @ENDNODE Trennzeichen @NODE Voreinstellung @TOC AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @PREV AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @NEXT AusdruckinHeftformateinTitel @TITLE defaults In the menu 'defaults' there are already some predefined selections. There is also one menu item 'new' with which you can insert a new selection in this menu. After you have selected 'new' you have to choose the place of your new selection (in the menu). Choose it with the menu or by entering the number (0,1,2,...). After that you can enter a name, and then you get back to this screen to select the wished items. When you klick "OK" you can enter the @{" separation signs " link Trennzeichen} and then the preferences are saved. (The @{" separation signs " link Trennzeichen} can be different for each item in this menu.) Now you can choose this item in the menu. With the item 'delete' you can select an item which is deleted. @ENDNODE @NODE Grunddatenaendern @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Ausdruck @NEXT Auswertungneudurchfuehren @TITLE "Change Basic Data" After you have selected a title you can change the inputs you made in @{" New Titles " link neueTitel}. If you want to take over some values you can do this by simply pressing the return key. In the field "name" you can choose a new name for the title which must not exist already. In the field "year" you can change the start year, for example to insert some years before your currently used first year, or to delete some volumes. It is also possible to enter a first year for a title that had no years up to now. You can use that for example if a new title is numbered only with numbers (1,2,3,...) in the first year and in the next year it is continued with volume 2, # 1,2,3... . You have to be careful, if you change from 'without volumes' to 'with volumes' or reverse, because the numbers are interpreted in a different way. For example if you have a title with 12 numbers per year that begins in year 80, the numbers (80) 10 and (81) 1 will have the numbers 10 and 13 after you have changed the first year to '.' (no year). If you change the number of issues per year, in each year numbers will be inserted or deleted. If you change the first number the difference will be deleted or inserted. The item 'default for printing' can be changed without any problems and when you set 'with price' to "y" you should enter the price with the item @{" Input Price " link Preiseingeben}. With the item "change file" you can specify if the file shall be changed. In almost every case "y" is correct. If you enter "n" the file is not changed, but the data in the file is interpreted in an other way. If we use the same example as above and you change the first year from 80 to 90 and say "n" to changing the file, the volumes 80-89 are not deleted, but the data are interpreted as if everything starts in year 90. That means that you will have the numbers (90) 10 and (91) 1 instead of (80) 10 and (81) 1. Warning ! Be careful when you use this item. By wrong usage it is possible to change your data so that it gets useless. @ENDNODE Grunddatenaendern @NODE Auswertungneudurchfuehren @TOC Titelbearbeiten @PREV Grunddatenaendern @NEXT Titelbearbeiten @TITLE "New Evaluation" With this item you can start a new evaluation that means the values that are presented to you in the item @{" Evaluation of condition " link AuswertungnachZustand} are computed. Usually you don't need this item, because these values are actualized each time you change your data and saved when you select @{" Save " link Sichern} or @{" Save & Exit " link SichernEnde}. You can use this item if you couldn't quit the program normally (e.g. at a power breakdown). @ENDNODE Auswertungneudurchfuehren @NODE System @TOC Programmpunkte @PREV Titelbearbeiten @NEXT Programmpunkte @TITLE System @{" Screen and Font " link ScreenundFont} @{" Printer Preferences " link Druckereinstellung} @{" Change Path " link Pfadwechsel} @{" Weighting Factor for Conditions " link GewichtungderZustaende} @{" Save " link Sichern} @{" Save & Exit " link SichernEnde} @ENDNODE System @NODE ScreenundFont @TOC System @PREV System @NEXT Druckereinstellung @TITLE Bildschirmmodus und Zeichensatz By clicking on "Screen mode" you can select the screen mode for the program. The mode is stored as @{" Tooltypes " link Tooltypes}. With "Workbench screen mode" the screen mode of the Workbench is used. The screen mode selection is only available for OS 2.1 or higher. With the other buttons you can select the used fonts. The "Text Font" is used for normal texts, the "Headings Font" is used for headings, the "window title font" for the window title and the menus. You can choose any font you want, my suggestion is : font for text and window title : Opal 12 font for headings : GCTimes 30 The selected fonts are also stored in @{" Tooltypes " link Tooltypes}. @ENDNODE ScreenundFont @NODE Druckereinstellung @TOC System @PREV System @NEXT ScreenundFont @TITLE "Printer Preferences" Here you can choose some regulations for the @{" printing " link Ausdruck}. Normally the defaults set at installation time should be ok for any printer, so you only need to change settings, if you want to change the standard look (e.g. use an other font). What you have to check are the last three lines (number of lines...). This is described in the last two paragraphs below. In the first lines you can enter some control sequences that are sent to your printer at certain events. To the right of this lines there are cycle gadgets, with which you can select "def", "esc" or "raw". "def" stands for default that means standard commands are used. You can use the other two selections if you want to change the typography, for example by choosing an other font. If you have selected "esc" you can enter an escape sequence that is a text that starts with "Esc", for example Esc[4m stands for underline. There can be more than one escape sequences in a line, which can be separated by blanks. You can find a list of the possible escape sequences in the AmigaDos handbook oder in the handbook to Workbench 2.1 or 3.1. The third possibility is "raw". With this selection your inputs are sent directly to the printer, not using the printer driver. You can choose this item, if you want to enter commands from your printers handbook. At the right top there is a button, with which you can toggle between "Hex" and "Escape". If it is set to "Escape" you can enter the escape sequences as described above. If it is set to "Hex" you can enter a sequence of hexadecimal numbers. (Printer handbooks sometimes write the commands in this format.) The example Esc[4m would be 1B 5B 34 6D. The following control sequences can be entered : normal font : Here you can enter the control sequence for the font for normal printing. small font : The selected font will be used for printing a book. line feed : The command to go to the beginning of the next line. printer reset : Says how to reset the printer. This is used at the start of printing. raising on : The command for raising the text. raising off : The opposite of the previous command. The raising is used for printing the price at @{" Print a book " link AusdruckinHeftformateinHeft}. If your printer doesn't support raised text you should use suitable @{" separation " link Trennzeichen} @{" signs " link Trennzeichen} to make it easier to distinguish between price and numbers. In the last three fields you can enter how many lines a page has for normal or small font and how many characters fit on one line with the small font. If you don't know this numbers you should make a test print and count the lines and columns. To the right there are two fields where you can enter the top and the lower border of a sheet, that is the number of rows above or below the printable area. This values are only needed, if you have a printer which uses nonequal borders. If your printer uses endless paper, the printable area is equal to the full sheet. Therefor you should set the values to 0. In this case some empty lines are inserted at the bottom of the page. @ENDNODE Druckereinstellung @NODE Pfadwechsel @TOC System @PREV Druckereinstellung @NEXT GewichtungderZustaende @TITLE "Change Path" When you start the program the data are expected in the current directory, and new data are created there. With this item you can change to another directory, for example to save further data (This directory should contain a directory 'comdat'). Before you end the program you should go back to the start directory. This item is only for users who work with @{" floppy disks " link Diskettenbetrieb}. Hard disk owners should ignore it and store their data in a single directory. @ENDNODE Pfadwechsel @NODE GewichtungderZustaende @TOC System @PREV Pfadwechsel @NEXT Sichern @TITLE "Weighting Factor for Conditions" The prices for numbers are normally only valid for numbers in top condition. Numbers in weaker conditions are worth less. In this item you can enter a value between 0.0 and 1.0 as weighting factor for each condition. If you use for example the weights 1.0, 0.5 and 0.2 for conditions 0 to 2, a number with price 2.00 has the value 2.00, 1.00 or 0.4, depending on the condition it has. The factors only influenced the item @{" Evaluation of condition " linkAuswertungnachZustand}. @ENDNODE GewichtungderZustaende @NODE Sichern @TOC System @PREV GewichtungderZustaende @NEXT SichernEnde @TITLE Save With this item you can save your data. You can select it after some time of input. @ENDNODE Sichern @NODE SichernEnde @TOC System @PREV Sichern @NEXT System @TITLE "Save & Exit" The data are saved and then you quit the program. @ENDNODE SichernEnde @NODE Information @PREV Programmpunkte @TOC MAIN @NEXT MAIN @TITLE "Additional information" @{" Using floppy disks " link Diskettenbetrieb} @{" Usage with low memory " link BetriebmitgeringemSpeicher} @{" Files " link Umfang} @{" Conditions for using the program and making copies " link Nutzungsbedingungen} @{" Author " link Author} @{" Requirements for running the program " link Voraussetzungen} @{" Limits and restrictions " link Leistungsgrenzen} @{" Errors " link Fehler} @{" Tooltypes " link Tooltypes} @{" Upgrades from version 1.0 " link Aufsteiger} @{" History " link History } @ENDNODE Information @NODE Diskettenbetrieb @TOC Information @PREV Information @NEXT BetriebmitgeringemSpeicher @TITLE "Using floppy disks" The program can be used on systems without a hard disk. This will reduce the speed of the program and maybe you have to change disks often. If you need more than one disk for you data please create a new directory 'comdat' on the new disk, in which the data will be stored. You should organize your disks in a way that the title files are distributed alphabetically on the disks. With this organization you can find the titles easily and you don't have to swap the disks too often at items that work on one title after the other (e.g. @{" Print " link Ausdruck}). @ENDNODE Diskettenbetrieb @NODE BetriebmitgeringemSpeicher @TOC Information @PREV Diskettenbetrieb @NEXT Umfang @TITLE "Usage with low memory" On Systems with low memory it is possible that you have to temporally store data while using the item "Print a book". You can do this on your hard disk or an an empty floppy disk. @ENDNODE BetriebmitgeringemSpeicher @NODE Umfang @TOC Information @PREV BetriebmitgeringemSpeicher @NEXT Nutzungsbedingungen @TITLE Files The comic manager contains the following files and directories ( + some icons ) ReadMe.first : please read this before you install the program LiesMich.zuerst : (the same in german) InstallComic.info : starts the installer Comic.install : installation script .Product-Info : product information convertVor : program that converts data from version 2.0 to v2.1, (used during installation) deutsch (dir) : Comic-Verwaltung (german) Comic.guide comdat (dir) : empty, but must exist ! comp (dir) comic : Comic-Verwaltung InstComic english (dir) : Comic-Manager Comic.e.guide : documentation (AmigaGuide) comdat (dir) : empty, but must exist ! comp (dir) comic : Comic-Manager InstComic : needed during installation @ENDNODE Umfang @NODE Nutzungsbedingungen @TOC Information @PREV Umfang @NEXT Author @TITLE "Conditions for using the program and making copies" The program package comic-manager may be freely distributed, but it must be complete that means all files which are listed at @{" Files " link Umfang} must exist. The program is shareware. It may be used free (i.e. without paying) for a small data base, that is up to 300 numbers. For users with a larger data base, who are using the program frequently, the shareware fee is set to 30,- DM. Please send this fee with your address to the @{" author " link Author}. Some sentences for motivation : The program is not restricted in version 2.1, i.e. full functional. Why should you pay something for it _ Answer : 1. The program is worth this amount ! (Else you would shurely not use it frequently. ) 2. It is cheap. 30 DM (currently about 20 $) can be afforded by every collector. @ENDNODE Nutzungsbedingungen @NODE Author @TOC Information @PREV Nutzungsbedingungen @NEXT Voraussetzungen @TITLE "Author" My Address is Andreas Zottmann Stiftsgasse 7 D 91174 Spalt email : andreas_zottmann@sepp.de @ENDNODE Author @NODE Voraussetzungen @TOC Information @PREV Author @NEXT Leistungsgrenzen @TITLE "Requirements for running the program" The program runs with 1MB memory on each amiga with OS 2.0 or higher. I recommend a hard disk and a printer. @ENDNODE Voraussetzungen @NODE Leistungsgrenzen @TOC Information @PREV Voraussetzungen @NEXT Fehler @TITLE "Limits and restrictions" The speed of the program is mainly determined by the used floppy or hard disk drive. The maximum number of titles is about 4 billions that means it is only restricted by the size of the memory. For each title you can have a maximum of 65535 different numbers. This number reduces, if you exclude some areas. For each number and condition you can have 15 issues at most, for example you can have "Micky Maus, year 80, number 2" not more often than 15 times in condition 0. (That means the program is not suitable for a publishing house to manage their stock.) The numbers may be in the range from 0 to 99999, or 1 to 400 for volumes. Years are possible from 0 to 99, if a title has more than 100 volumes you have to divide it into two titles. @ENDNODE Leistungsgrenzen @NODE Fehler @TOC Information @PREV Leistungsgrenzen @NEXTTooltypes @TITLE Errors The program has been tested for errors. If you find another one nevertheless please describe it exactly and send your description to @{" me " link Author}. The following items should be included : o The type of your computer (A500, A1200, A2000, A4000, ...) and processor (68000, 68020, 68030,...) o at which item did the error occur, and how did you get there (describe your inputs until the error occurs) o error messages if there are any Known errors : o The name completion at item @{" Input " link Eingabe} may not work well with titles that have spaces or umlauts. You then have to type more characters. o If you get an error at the item @{" Extend Title " link Titelerweitern} (e.g. when the disk is full) the extension is only done as far as possible. It can happen that you get wrong numbers at @{" Evaluation of conditions " link AuswertungnachZustand} after such an error so that you have to do a @{" New Evaluation " link Auswertungneudurchfuehren} for this title. The author takes no responsibility for any kind of errors in the program. You use the program on you own risk. @ENDNODE Fehler @NODE Tooltypes @TOC Information @PREV Fehler @NEXT Aufsteiger @TITLE Tooltypes The following tooltypes are supported : STDCOLOR when this tooltype is set, the standard colors of you workbench are used. HEADFONT TEXTFONT SCREENFONT Fonts used by the program. You can select the fonts in @{" screen and fonts " link ScreenundFont} or via tooltypes. Entrys must must have the format TEXTFONT=name|size where name is the font name (e.g. Opal) and size the font size (e.g. 12). SCREENMODE This entry can only be set by the program item @{" screen " link ScreenundFont} @{" and fonts " link ScreenundFont} . The one possible manipulation of this tooltype from outside is to delete the entry. Then the screen mode of the workbench is used. @ENDNODE Tooltypes @NODE Aufsteiger @TOC Information @PREV Tooltypes @NEXT History @TITLE "Upgrades from version 1.0" Unregistered users of version 1.0 have the possibility to order a program for further 10 DM with which they can convert their data for the new version. If you want this program please specify this in your order. @ENDNODE Aufsteiger @NODE History @TOC Information @PREV Aufsteiger @NEXT Information @TITLE "History" V 1.0 : release in the PD series Franz on disk 110 programmed in AmigaBasic V 2.0 : Aminet moved to M2Amiga, lots of improvements, better performance V 2.1 : new program item for selection of screen mode and font release of unrestricted version @ENDNODE History @NODE Escape @TITLE "Escape Key" With the Escape or Esc key you can get to the main menu from (almost) every place in the program. @ENDNODE Escape @NODE Sprachgebrauch @TITLE Speech Some remarks to the used words : "title" here stands for one kind of comics, "number" for a single number. For example "Micky Mouse" is the title and "Micky Mouse 80, Nr. 5" is one number (year 80, number 5). @ENDNODE Sprachgebrauch