Typing - Canon Cat Reference Manual

Typing
Typing
on the Cat is
like typing
on
a
typewriter.
You
can
begin
typing
as soon
as
you
see
the
blinking cursor. What
you type
is
always inserted; text
is
never destroyed by
typing,
as
it can be in some
word processors.
Space is
made
for
the.new
text by pushing the old text
forward. Line
endings and page endings adjust automatically.
I{ord
Wrap
Word wrap automatically
ends the
line
for you
when
you
come
to
the
right margin while
typing. A
word
is
a
sequence
of printing characters plus one or two
following
spaces.
If
a
word
runs
into the right margin, word wrap
moves the
whole word to
the
indent of the
following line.
If
there is text
ahead
of
the
cursor, line
and page endings
adjust automatically.
When you
erase
characters, the text
unwraps. Unwrapping
is
the exact reverse
of wrapping. Line
and
page
endings
adjust
automatically.
Character
Set
For each type
of
Cat
keyboard
there
is
a
particular
set
of
characters
which
can be both typed and
printed.
Some
characters
-
automatic page breaks,
for
example
-
al'e
not real
characters
in
the
same sense as
a character
you
have typed,
though they
are
displayed on the
screen.
International Keyboard
Set
Your keyboard has
been set
up to
correspond
to
the
conventions
of
the country where you bought
your
Cat.
Intemally,
every Cat
has
all
the
keyboard
layouts used
in
other countries.
See
Screen
2 :
Machine
S
etup, page
97,
for
information
on
activating
these
keyboard layouts. Appen-
dixA,
page I14,
has
complete
charts
for all
Cat
keyboards.