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Toggles and Special chars

You can enter the ASCII characters with the decimal numbers from 1 up to 26 by entering ^P, followed by a character key from A to Z. To get ASCII 1, enter ^PA, for ASCII 2 enter ^PB and so on.

There are a few exeptions:

Write&Set and Wordstar use some of these characters as "toggles", that means they are used in pairs. E.g. ^PS turns underlining on and off.

Besides ^PZ (Wordstar ^P@), the corresponding character images of the IBM Codepage are shown, e.g. ^PB is a face, ^PS a double exclamation mark.

If WSedit was loaded with a Wordstar file, a new item "emphasize" appears in the menu bar. With this menu, you can insert toggles and special chars with the mouse. Marking a block before using this command let you insert toggle chars in pairs.

Only the editor itself accepts ^P commands. If you want to enter these ASCII charcters into an edit field of the search dialog or the search/replace dialog, you can choose one of the following possibilities:

By default, WSedit provides syntax highlightning for the toggles but you can change this in the Highlt page of the settings notebook.

Since WSedit 1.00, Underlined, Bold and Italic can be shown Underlined, Bold and Italic instead of colored text. But some fonts have problems in showing these attributes. If your favourite font does not show these attributes or shows it in an horrible manner, you can turn back to colored normal font on the Settings notebook, Highlight page at the end of the left checkbox list.