This program is share-ware. You are free to experiment with it but for
serious use you should send $10, DEM 20 or the like to the author of this
program. 

The address is:

Heinrich Pesch
Tiistilnkuja 1 E 50
SF 02230 Espoo, Finland

This is the first version of the program. There will be bugs in it.
When you registrate as a user you will recieve the newest version with
more features. It is highly recommended to registrate!

Warning! If this program crashes somehow there have been conflicts
in RAM between 2X2.PRG and maybe RAM-disks or accessories.
Reset without RAM-disks or accessories.


        The purpose of 2X2.PRG
        ----------------------

A normal Epson-compatible printer for A4-paper can print up to 136
characters/line with condensed pitch (17 chars/inch)
The normal ST-monitor can display 80 chars/row using normal system-fonts.
Using a GEM-based wordprocessor a window can display up to 78 chars
inside inner window-borders.

So what?

Of course any wordprocessor can handle, let's say 160 characters or
233 chars. In order to read the characters outside a GEM-window you
JUST click on the horizontal scroll-bar. Easy, isn't it?


If you don't want to play around with the horizontal scroll-bar 
you can use 2X2.PRG.
Any normal textfile will be formatted into two columns of 60 characters 
each. When output to the printer you save about 50 % paper!
Output to screen is possible and still readable at least on the SM124.

Start the program, load any ASCII-file using the LOAD-function and
cut the lines anew into 60-char-chunks. For each line you can select
the proper place for word-division. Place the cursor under the first
character of the next line and press return.



For example the line:

"This is an example of a line in an ASCII-file."
                                          ^

By pressing RETURN when the cursor-arrow is as shown, the line splits
into:

"This is an example of a line in an ASCII-
file."



You can abandon this formatting any time by pressing ESC.

When the file is processed, you can view it on the screen or send it
to the printer. Condensed pitch is used.

The text is arranged on the screen as 34 lines in two columns:

page 1:

line1                                           line35
line2                                           line36
.                                               . 
.                                               . 
line34                                          line68

page2:

Line69                                          line103


When output to printer there will be 68 double-lines on each sheet.

The processed file can be saved to disk as "name.2X2".

You can load these .2X2-files any time and view them on screen (the
text is surprisingly readable!) or print them out.

Just try it out!

This is not meant to be a word-processor. For small corrections
after processing you can load the .2X2-file into your word-processor
and polish them up. TEMPUS will also print them quite nicely.



This program is meant to be used with all kind of languages, that's why
I didn't put any automatic word-division-algorithm into it.
At the same time manual division gives you more freedom.
You can decide for yourself where is the best place to split a word.

Feel free to make any suggestions about further development of 2X2.prg!
I don't know if this program is of any use to anybody. There it is and
it was fun to do.



