Protext v6.7 full feature list
Word Processing
Add column or row of figures
* simply move the cursor over numbers on screen to add them up
Block operations
* move, copy, delete, save, print, count words in block
* define a block with keyboard or by dragging mouse
* copy line
Box manipulation
* move, copy, or delete any box as well as blocks
Cursor movement
* by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, screen, page, to
start or end of text, start or end of line, to line or column or
page number, to place marker, margin, previous position
Deleting text
* forwards or back by character, word, to start/end of line, to
start/end of sentence, marked block
Displays
* makes full use of all available displays including 43 or 50 line
displays where available, text and graphics displays
Editing
* switch between insert/overwrite as required
* convert character or word to upper or lower case
* swap adjacent characters
File selector
* large window 'point and shoot' file selection
* Amiga and ST have option to use other file selectors
* mark several files for copying, deleting or loading
* shows number and size of marked files
* directory map
Find & replace
* very powerful and fast with many options. All or part of text,
forwards/backwards, whole word or part, wildcards, ignore
spaces, case specific or not, nth occurrence, find control
codes, single key for next/previous find
* position cursor on a word, find that word forwards or backwards
* search all open documents or files on disk
Glossary
* abbreviations for commonly used phrases, glossary editor
Help
* easy to use and helpful on screen help
* full topic list
Hyphenation
* automatic hyphenation
* soft hyphens and non-break hyphens
Macros
* string any sequence of commands together on a single key
* easy to use macro recording
* load and save macro files
* macro editor
Markers
* block markers, 10 place markers, multiple markers
Menus
* pull down menus, dialogue boxes and alert boxes, menus may be
used with mouse or keyboard.
Multi-file editing
* up to 36 documents in memory, copy text between them
Split screen
* view two files simultaneously, variable size windows
Status info
* clear status line gives useful information including filename,
page line and column, marker settings and options, current style
Symbols
* line drawing
* useful symbols available with simple keystroke
Time and date
* enter into the text with a single keystroke
Undelete
* retrieve text deleted in error
Languages
Accents
* acute, breve, caron (h cek), cedilla, circumflex, diaeresis
(umlaut), double acute, grave, macron, ogonek, overdot, ring,
tilde. Various special characters such as l-slash are provided.
Characters provided for these languages
* Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German,
Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak,
Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh.
Dictionaries
* French, German and Swedish dictionaries available.
Keyboard layouts
* USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway,
Portugal, Iceland.
Layout and Formatting
Document settings dialogue
* set margins in inches or cm
* headers and footers
* document formatting options
Footnotes and endnotes
* any number of lines, automatically formatted, endnotes may be
printed at any point in the document. Footnote style.
Formatted layout
* any number of ruler lines to define document layout, unlimited
line width.
* widow and orphan elimination
* blank line suppression
Formatting
* automatic reformatting either as you type or on moving cursor
* format paragraph or whole text, centre line, word wrap on/off,
right justify on/off
Headers and footers
* up to 9 lines of text, different even and odd headers and
footers possible, automatic page numbering (decimal or Roman).
Separate styles for header and footer.
Indent tabs
* indent a paragraph without inserting a new ruler line
Inter-paragraph space
* you can leave 1« lines between paragraphs
Line spacing
* any multiple of 0.01 line
Margins
* all margin sizes variable, separate even and odd margins
Paragraph numbering
* any number of levels possible, Roman numeral option
Preview
* print to screen to check layout
Spaces
* soft spaces and non-break spaces
Styles
* set up a font name, point size, font spacing and control
codes
* style editor
* special style codes to revert to previous and default style
Tabs
* any number of normal, decimal and centre tabs on ruler line
Wysiwyg
* on-screen bold, underlining, italics
Printing
Background printing
* Simultaneously print and edit
Fonts
* Proportionally justifies any mixture of printer fonts
* Scalable fonts
* Variable line spacing
* Font sensitive underlining
Newspaper-style column printing
* automatically formats text into separate columns (snaking)
Printer drivers
* wide range of dot matrix, inkjet and laser printers
* PostScript driver included
Printing options
* single sheets/continuous, first and last page to print, number
of copies, quality/draft, to screen printer or file, odd or even
pages
* proper quotes
Printing styles
* bold, italics, quality, subscript, superscript, underline,
colours, others depending on printer
Typewriter mode
* direct printing for envelopes etc.
Spelling checker, Thesaurus and Auto-Correct
Auto-Correct
* Automatically replaces words as typed
* Use for spelling corrections or abbreviations
* Capitalises proper nouns and sentences
* Fixes two capitals at start of word
* Learn correction while spell checking
Dictionary
* 110,000+ word Collins dictionary
* includes legal and medical supplements
* very fast phonetic word suggestion
* anagrams and find word pattern.
Spell checking
* spell check as you type or check whole text or block
* spell ignore marker
* spell check on/off or change language at any point in text
* repeated word and capital letter checks
Thesaurus
* 43,000 entry points and 827,000 responses
* select synonym from list to insert into text
* inflects words and gives parts of speech
User dictionary
* user dictionary - add words to the dictionary or create your own
* user dictionary editor
* exclusion dictionary - veto words in main dictionary
General Features
ASCII files
* saves 3 different ASCII file formats
Automatic timed save
* configurable time interval
Calculator
* built in floating point calculator
Command line
* alternative to menu for command entry, previous commands are
stored and can be recalled with cursor keys, access to system or
DOS commands and other programs
Configuration
* most features and settings can be configured to your preferences
with the easy to use configuration menus
Disc utilities
* copy files, erase, rename, type, create directory, change
directory, remove directory
Exec files
* store a sequence of commands in a file to enable automation of
any process
File conversion
* flexible file conversion utility for other WP files
File finder
* scan disk to find location of a file or files
File sorting utility
* with special options for names and addresses
Graphics import
* PCX, GIF, GEM IMG and Amiga IFF
* scaling, centring, inversion
* pre-processing of image for rapid printing
* graphics viewer (colour or mono)
* colour printing
Index
* automatically generated from marked text
Number lines
* add or remove line numbers
Program mode
* program editing mode suppresses formatting
* auto indent mode ideal for source code and configurable tabs
Table of contents
* automatically generated from headings in text
Word count
* quick count at any time
* document analysis including frequency of use and number of words
used
Special options
Sticky key option
* Protext may be used with one-finger key presses
WordStar keyboard option
* for those familiar with the WordStar interface
Mail merge and Programming language
The most comprehensive mail merge program available. Use it for
labels, personalised 'standard letters', club membership lists, and
much more:
* read data from files from any database or spreadsheet program
* ask for variables from keyboard
* display message while printing
* include file for printing
* reformat whilst printing
* conditional printing and repeat-until loop constructs
* numeric calculations and string expressions including substrings
* commands to record information to a separate file
* full date and day calculations
* operators +,-,*,/,<,>,<=,>=,=,<>,IN,NOTIN,AND,OR,NOT
* functions ABS, DATENUM, DAYOFWEEK, EXISTS, FILELEN, FRAC, INT,
ISDATE, ISNUM, LDATE, LEN, LWR, ROUND, SDATE, UPR
* Roman numeral output - upper or lower case
* self incrementing variables
* special variables for time and date
* mail merge directly from Prodata files
Documentation
* 190 page User Manual
* 160 page Reference Manual
System Requirements
*IBM PC compatible MS-DOS 3.0 or later, Windows 95 or Windows NT
640K RAM, hard disk. Uses XMS or EMS memory if available.
*Atari ST with at least 1Mb RAM, Atari TT
*Commodore Amiga with at least 1Mb RAM