                                   PRINTING

    There are three basic modes for printing with PC-TYPE+:

    (1) Printing the current file you are editing -

        In this mode, while the file is being printed, the characters are
        displayed on the screen AS THEY ARE BEING SENT.  You cannot do any
        normal editing functions while in this mode.  You may abort the
        printing process by pressing Ctrl\.

    (2) Printing a file which resides on disk -

        In this mode, while the file is being printed, you may continue
        your normal editing session.  Everything is normal except that you
        will not be able to change defaults.  You may abort the printing
        process by pressing Ctrl\.  PC-TYPE+ will inform you when the
        printing is completed.
                              Press the PgDn Key

                             PRINTING (Continued)

    (3) Printing a file without actually being inside PC-TYPE+.  This mode
        is similar to mode (1) above, except that you specify /PRINT in
        the command you issue to DOS when calling PC-TYPE+.  This mode is
        included so that you may print files from Batch files.


        In modes (1) and (2) above, you will always enter the "PRINT
        OPTIONS" panel described below.  In mode (3), you will not enter
        this panel unless additional information is needed.  All print
        options will normally be picked up from the defaults.

        A sample command for mode (3) would be to type

                          pctype /print sample.file

        after the DOS prompt.
                              Press the PgDn Key

                           The PRINT OPTIONS Panel

    You may get to the PRINT OPTIONS Panel in two ways:
    (1) Press Shift F3
    (2) Go to the Command Line - type "PRINT" - and press the Enter key.

    Press Shift F3, and then press Esc.

    Most of the time you will make very few changes, if any, to the
    screen.  Any changes to the fields on this panel may be set
    permanently through the MODIFY DEFAULTS sub-panel labelled "Printer
    Output Options".  (See HELP file DFLTS_SV).

    When you have filled in any changes to the printing information, and
    you are ready to go, then press the F10 key to commence printing.

    We will discuss briefly each field in the PRINT OPTIONS Panel below.

                              Press the PgDn Key

                                FILE to PRINT

    The first field on the panel looks as shown below.

      Enter Complete FileSpec of input file to print (Blank = THIS FILE)
         ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

    If you are going to print the file you are currently editing, just
    leave this field blank.  If you are going to print a file which
    resides on disk so you can continue your editing while the file is
    being printed, then you should enter the total path and filename,
    e.g.,
                          d:\pctyp2\doc\chapter.one

    If you are printing a file from a batch file, then the default for
    this field should be blank.


                              Press the PgDn Key

                             WHERE to SEND OUTPUT

    You will normally be sending your printed output to your printer.
    Sometimes, however, it is convenient to print the file to a disk file.
    For example, you may have a printer at work which you want to use for
    printing but you are at home.

    If you want to send the information immediately to the printer, then
    the second field, shown below, should be left blank.  If you want to
    save the printed information to a disk file, then enter the full path
    and filename in this field.

      Enter Complete FileSpec of print output file (Blank = TO PRINTER)
         ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

    If you print the file to a disk file, all the printer escape codes
    WILL BE INCLUDED in the file.

                              Press the PgDn Key

                           PRINTING PART of a FILE

    If you want to print a few lines or pages, then tab to the first field
    shown below and press the Up or Down arrow to change the "T" displayed
    to a "P" for partial file.  Then Tab to the next field and use the Up
    or Down arrows to define if you want to print by line or by page.

    Based on the line or page selection you make, enter the first line or
    page number in the next field.  If you leave this field blank, then
    printing will start at the beginning of the file.  In the next field
    enter the number of pages or lines to print, or leave it blank to
    print to the end of the file.

             Print Total File or Part of File?  Select "T" or "P":  T
      If Part of File, locate by Line or Page?  Select "L" or "P":  L
                             First Line/Page to print (Blank=Bgn):  0
                    Number of Lines/Pages to print (Blank=To End):  0

                              Press the PgDn Key

                               GENERAL OPTIONS

    If you want to print more than one copy, enter the number you want to
    print in the field:
                      Number of Copies:   1

    If you want to Single, Double, or Triple Space, move to the field
    below and press the Up or Down Arrow till you get the selection you
    want.
                               Spacing:  Sng

    If you are feeding sheets in one at a time and you want the printing
    to stop at the end of each page, then move to the field below and
    press the Up or Down Arrow until the word "Yes" appears.

             Pause at end of each page:  No


                              Press the PgDn Key

                          "Headers/Footers: On/Off"

    The information in the header and footer definitions will be displayed
    if this field is ON, and will not be displayed if this field is turned
    OFF.  However, the number of lines defined for the Header and Footer
    in the "Vertical Print Page Format" sub-panel of MODIFY DEFAULTS
    will always be printed.

    If you defined 6 header lines and 5 footer lines per page, then if you
    turn this field OFF, you will get 6 blank lines at the top of each
    page and 5 blank lines at the bottom.

                      "FormFeed at End of Print: Yes/No"

    PC-TYPE+ will ALWAYS print the TOTAL page.  If you want an additional
    page ejected when ALL the printing is completed to make it easier to
    tear off, then turn this option ON.

                              Press the PgDn Key

                     "Number Extra Spaces at Left:  0"

      ┌─┬──────────┐  Suppose you had your Margins set at column one
      │ │xxx       │  inside PC-TYPE+, and when you print your file
      │ │xxxxx     │  it is way over to the left of the page.  You can
      │ │xxxxxx    │  add "n" extra spaces to each line as shown at the
      │ │          │  left by tabbing to the field above and entering
      │ │          │  the number of extra spaces ("n") you want placed
      │ │          │  at the beginning of each printed line.
      │ │          │
      ├─┼──────────┤
    -│n│-        │
      │---page---│
                             "MAIL Merge: On/Off"

    (See the HELP file MAILMERG for details about this option).  Suffice
    it to say here that all the above options apply to Mail-Merge.

                              Press the PgDn Key

                            TRY PRINTING THIS FILE

    Press Shift F3 and leave the first field blank to print this file.
    You may as well save the printing to a file, it's faster that way, so
    enter some file specification where you have room on a disk in the
    second field.  Then press F10 and watch how PC-TYPE+ will print your
    file.


    NOTE: If the "Number of Copies" option is greater than one, or if the
          Mail Merge Option is ON, then PC-TYPE+ will need some additional
          disk space to store some temporary files.  After you press F10
          and either (or both) of these options are as mentioned, you will
          be asked to supply the disk drive designator where sufficient
          room exists to hold the file being printed before printing will
          begin.


                     Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu

