Article writer package for Contrast. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The two programs PREVIEW.EXE and COLUMNS.EXE are utilities for persons who wish to write articles for Purple's diskmag Contrast. Preview. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Preview allows you to see your article, as it will actually look when displayed with Contrast's text viewer. The viewer display texts in a very attractive way, by using different colors, fonts etc. To use these features, you can place codes in your text. Then use the previewer to check if your texts really look the way you wanted them to. The following codes can be used: Chars per line: Contrast displays 25 lines of text per screen. You can choose between using 80 chars per line, or making two columns per page, each with 38 chars per line. The default is 80 chars per line. To select a format, the first code in your text must be the number of chars per line. Write the number of chars in ^. Example: ^38^ The program Columns can change a text of a random format, into a text with 38 chars per line (see the section about Columns). Columns. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Columns takes a text with a random number of chars per line, and changes it into a nicely formatted text with 38 chars per line. Columns will generally ignore all spacings and linefeeds. If you want to split your text in sections, you can do this, simply by putting in a blank line. You can also make forced line breaks in the text. Just write the code ^BREAK^. ^BREAK^ works the way pressing enter works in a normal text editor. All lines, except the ones wich ends with a break, will be justified. Example: If you use columns on this little piece of text: Columns will generally ignore all spacings and linefeeds.^BREAK^ If you want to split your text in sections, you can do this, simply by putting in a blank line.^BREAK^ It will look this way: ^38^Columns will generally ignore all spacings and linefeeds. If you want to split your text in sections, you can do this, simply by putting in a blank line.