       Contents

Main Window	Description of window items

List Box Options	Description of list box

Drag and Drop	Dropped file behavior

Limitations	Size limitations

        Menu

File Open	Loads a file into memory

File Close	Deletes a file or clip from memory

File Layout Page 	Change parameters

File Setup Printer	Change paper orientation and size

Edit Paste Over	Load clipboard text

Font Title	Change title font

Font Body	Change body font


File Open
File -- Open

This presents a file selection dialog box,
and optionally loads a file into memory,
replacing any text currently in memory.

Tab Size must first be correctly set,
if the file contains tab characters.


File Close
File -- Close

Deletes the current file or clip text from memory.

When no text is loaded, the main window hides
the List Box Options and the Print Button.


Layout Page
File -- Layout Page

Columns on Page	Integer between 1 and 6

Tab Size	Spaces per tab character

Right Margin	Inches indented from printable edge

Proportional Tabs	Approximate fixed font tabs

PT Lead Spaces	Integer spaces left of Proportional Tab

Horizontal Pad Chars	Integer added to maximum line width

Minimum Points	Min body points when printing dropped files

Top Margin	Inches indented from printable edge

Print Title	Toggles title above Top Margin

Points Title	Point size of title, limited by Top Margin

WARNING : Version 10 does not trap mal-formed numbers
in the above edit-boxes.        Carefully enter nice numbers !


Columns on Page
File -- Layout Page

Columns on Page

You can vertically divide the page into from 1 to 6 columns.

Multiple columns are indicated on the main window
by red lines in the blue paper rectangle.

Multiple columns divide equally the horizontal page size,
which depends on the printer paper size and orientation.

File Setup Printer


File Setup Printer
File -- Setup Printer

This menu item calls the setup dialog of your current printer.

Use this dialog to set Paper Orientation and Paper Size,
which are modeled by the main window blue rectangle.


Edit Paste Over
Edit -- Paste Over

If the Windows clipboard contains text, it is loaded into memory,
replacing any text currently in memory.

Tab Size must first be correctly set,
if the loaded text contains tab characters.


Font Title
Font -- Title

This menu item calls a dialog to change font of the title line .

Only scaleable fonts are provided.

Title font size is set via  Points Title


Font Body
Font -- Body

This dialog selects the font for the main body of text .

Scalable fonts only are provided.

Size of the body font is selected in the main window list box.

List Box Options


Tab Size
File -- Layout Page

Tab Size

The number of spaces that a tab character represents.

For instance,  files from Windows Notepad have Tab Size 8.

This number must be correctly set
before loading text with either  :

File Open

Edit Paste Over


Right Margin
File -- Layout Page

Right Margin

This number is in inches,  with a decimal point.

It is the distance from the printable page edge,
not from the edge of the paper.          .


Proportional Tabs
File -- Layout Page

Proportional Tabs

This feature, if enabled by its check box,  cheerfully attempts
left-align tabbed text printed with proportional fonts.

Text that :
  -   occurs at a multiple of Tab Size
  -   and is preceded by the specified number of "PT Lead Spaces",
is left justified based on the font's average character width.

More often than not, this will line up the comments in C program source,
which were tabbed into place in a fixed font editor.

However, beware ocassional flocks of uppercase letters !


Horizontal Pad Chars
File -- Layout Page

Horizontal Pad Chars

This safety fudge number is added to the text maximum line width,
before calculating the maximum average character width.

If you print at the maximum font point size,
and if your text is thick with uppercase,
it will be wider than the average calculation expects,
and may fall off the page edge, or invade neighboring columns.

Combat such behavior by increasing this Pad number.


Minimum Points
File -- Layout Page

Minimum Points

This is a requested minimum body point size,
used to automatically select amoung several page/point options
when several drag-drop files are automatically printed.

Drag and Drop


Top Margin
File -- Layout Page

Top Margin

These are entered as inches with a decimal point.

This is the distance from the printable edge,  not from the paper edge.

If the title line is enabled, the title prints above this margin.

For example,  an 18 point title requires at least a .25 Top Margin.

Points Title


Points Title
File -- Layout Page

Points Title

The Print Title check box enables a page-top title line :

Date-Stamp   Path\FileName   PageNum/TotPages

If enabled, the vertical font size of the title
is the minimum of Points Title and Top Margin.
So a 36 point title requires a .5 inch Top Margin.

Top Margin


Limitations

File size is limited by available Global memory.

Maximum line length, after tab expansion, is 512 .


List Box Options
Main Window List Box Options

The list box displays only when text is loaded.
It details 4 numbers for each print option :
                          pgs 	total pages
                          pts  	body point size
                          lpp 	lines per page column
                          x%	percent used horizontal

Printing is initiated by either :
  -  selecting a list option and then clicking the Print button
  -  double clicking a list option

Befit calculates an average body character width ,
from the horizontal column dimension and max line width ;
then a max point size,  and maximun number of pages.
If the number of pages is greater than one,  it calculates
up to 5 decreasing page/point options .    .


Drag and Drop

Befit supports drag and drop files,
both as a window and as an minimized icon.

Dropping several files will initiate automatic printing ,
per the current parameters :

File Layout Page

Minimum Points

File Setup Printer

Dropping a single file in a Befit main window,
loads the file without printing.


Main Window
Main Window Items

The blue rectangle models the current
paper orientation and size per File Setup Printer

Vertical red lines indicate multiple columns.
The name of the Title Font  (if Print Title is enabled)
The name of the Body Font
Tab Size  (as a reminder to set before loading text)

If text is loaded,  Befit also displays :
File Name , Lines, Maxlen
the Print Button, and List Box Options