Notes for Dan Hollis' HARDWARE.TXT file in Atari Works format.

Filename: ST_HREGS.STW  -  AW formatted version of HARDWARE.TXT

          ST_HREGS.FMT  -  AW stylesheet for ST_HREGS.STW


Fonts used:  Bitstream Arrus Black    36 pt.
             Bitstream Charter Black  14 pt.
             Classical Garamound Bold 12 pt.
             Monospace 821            11 pt.
             Swiss 721                11 pt.
             Bitstream Charter        10 pt.
             Humanist 521             10 pt.


Suggestions for printing:  This document was created with the intention 
of printing on both sides of the paper.  Since Atari Works currently 
does not utilize features conducive to this you will need to take steps 
in order to successfully print both sides and maintain a high quality 
output.

The following procedure may be considered a royal pain in the ass.  
However, if done correctly, you will be rewarded with a document that 
rivals professionally created texts.

First, the page layout assumes your printer is setup so that an ascii 
text w/o formatting will have a left margin at the left edge of the 
paper.  In other words, any hardware switches in your printer for 
margin settings should be set to off or 0.  The tractor feed should be 
adjusted so that the first mark on the paper bail lines up with the 
left tear perforation.  The paper should also be aligned so that the 
first line of print will be at the top of the page.  Make a note of 
what this lines up with on the printer.  You will need to turn the 
paper over and align it as close as possible to where it was when you 
began.  You may want to print a few lines using the printers self-test 
or an ascii text dump to check your alignment.

Next, if your using continuous paper, make sure you have enough paper 
to print 17 pages plus a leader sheet at the beginning and one at the 
end.  Before printing the text, test the output by having AW print 1 
copy starting at page 3, and ending at page 3.  If you are satisfied 
with the way it is aligned, then tear off the page you just printed, 
leaving enough paper for a leader and if necessary, a trailer and turn 
it over and reinsert to test the back.

Before printing the backside you must go into Page Setup and reverse 
the left and right margins so that left becomes .75" and right is 
1.25".  Then go into Header/footer and reverse the left and right sides 
by changing #L to #R and #R to #L.  Now, after checking your printer 
alignment and making sure the paper is rightside up and correct 
orientation, tell AW to print 1 copy starting at page 4, and ending at 
page 4.  If all goes well, you are ready to proceed, otherwise retrace 
your steps and see what went wrong.  Most mistakes are the result of 
the paper being inserted backwards, upside down, or misaligned.

Once you have a decent test copy its time to load your paper and do it 
to it.  Check your paper alignment.  Check the Header/Footer to see 
that the ones on the first is #L and second is #R (remember we changed 
them during the test run).  Likewise do the same in Page Setup.  Left 
margin should be 1.25", right margin .75".

Now we are ready to print.  A good print spooler, such as CodeHead's 
ramdisk/spooler from the Codehead Utilities is really helpful for this 
type of printing.  Since AW has no way to automatically print both 
sides of the paper we are going to have to print one page at a time.  
With a print spooler, this is not as bad as it sounds.  From the print 
dialog, tell AW to print 1 copy, starting at page 1, ending at page 1.  
Part way through the print job, AW will finish dumping to the spooler 
and remove the print in progress alert box.  You may now call up print 
and tell AW to print 1 copy of the next page.  Remember to input the 
ending page as well as the starting page.  Also remember you are only 
printing odd number pages this go around.  If necessary, keep a 
scratchpad to help you remember what page you're on.  You should be 
able to input all of the pages by the time AW is a third to half way 
through printing, depending on buffer size and printer speed.

Afer all pages have printed, eject the final page and tear it off.  
Carefully inspect the pages for duplicates, ommissions, bad printouts, 
etc.  If you find problems you can still use the good pages by making 
notes of where to either skip or eject pages when doing the other side.  
That way only the screwed up pages need be redone entirely.  

Carefully, fold the paper and insert it into the tractor.  You did 
remember to leave the leader page intact, didn't you?  Check and double 
check that you loaded the paper blank side out, top of page first, and 
recheck paper alignment.

Before starting the backside, remember to go into Header/footer and 
reverse the #L and #R on both header and footer.  Do the same with Page 
Setup by reversing Left and Right margins - change left to .75" and 
right to 1.25".  Now you can start printing again.  This time however, 
print only even numbered pages, one at a time.  Refer to your notes if 
you had any pages that were skipped, duplicated, or otherwise messed 
up.  Hint: reprint any bad pages starting with the backside, after 
completing the main run.  That way you will have one less change to 
make in the Header/footer and Page Setup dialogs.

Hopefully, the next version of Atari Works will include an option for 
printing both sides without having to do all these gymnastics.  But for 
the time being, excellent results can be achieved this way.

                              Bob Semaan
                              Semtek