WordPerfect 6.0 -- Software Change Notice / Enhancements -- 02/14/94 (6.0b)

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DATE: February 23, 1994 PRODUCT: WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS (02/14/94 6.0b) SUBJECT: WordPerfect 6.0 -- Software Change Notice / Enhancements -- 02/14/94 (6.0b) Counters After playing the CounterEditLevelMethod macro token on a multi-level counter where the level enumeration in the token had an invalid value (something other than 1-5), WordPerfect could cause some of the levels in the counter to disappear. WordPerfect will now produce an error "Invalid counter level" when an invalid level enumeration is used in this macro token. (#41534) Counters WordPerfect was not dimming the set method option in the Counters dialog when counters did not exist in the counter list box. (#45355) Cross-References Cross-References would not automatically generate when marking both reference and target if the page numbering method used in the document was Roman numerals. (#41723) Cross-References WordPerfect would strip the soft hyphen from within a caption style when generating Cross-References. It now converts the soft hyphen to a hard hyphen when generating the reference so that it will appear. (#41728) Cursor Movement Cursoring down through paragraph styles that contained end of line codes could cause WordPerfect to lock. (#46466) Cursor Movement Paragraph styles could sometimes cause Page Down to not position the cursor on the next page. (#43218) Date Date codes that are converted from WordPerfect 5.1 now contain the two-letter abbreviation of the language in which the date code was created, (e.g., ES for Spanish). (#44446) Date Enhancement: The language that the date format was created for is now displayed in the resulting date format code in Reveal Codes using the two letter language naming convention. (#46056) Delay Codes Certain extended characters in a delay code would cause an insufficient memory error when exiting the delay code. (#43110) Delay Codes In rare instances, the formatter would insert a delay code into a substructure causing the document format to become damaged. (#43281) Dialog Manager Enhancement: The Line and Paragraph Spacing input fields will now accept up to 4 digits of precision. Previously only two digits were allowed. (#27648) Dialog Manager Enhancement: When there is a text field without a label, a one-character dashed box will appear to the left of the field, indicating that it is currently active. (#43181) Dialog Manager In Text Mode, the entry well for a text field was displaying orange when the option for that well was inactive. (#43442) Dialog Manager The entry well for the printer driver name disappeared in the Printer Information dialog when switching to Sheet Feeder Information. (#40895) Dialogs In the Network Printer Control dialog, when you tried to hold/release or cancel a print job, the confirmation dialogs did not have question marks at the end of their text. (#43208) Dialogs The macro check box in the Convert Case dialog was not positioned correctly. (#43385) Directory Tree From File Manager, after selecting to print odd pages in the Print Multiple Pages dialog, the Odd/Even Pages option would default to Even, but would still print the odd pages. (#42577) Directory Tree Searching a Directory Tree using a two- or three- character search string would sometimes not find existing matches and report non-matches as matches. This usually happened when there were several items in the tree that started with the same character as the search string. (#47403) Directory Tree When choosing Directory Tree while Novell's VLM's were running, WordPerfect would lock if you didn't have rights to the root of the drive where an existing .TRE file was located. (#48670) Display Pitch With full justification set, spaces after a tab were being justified and would display off the edge of the screen. (#44414) Document Compare Word Compare could get thrown off if there were trailing spaces at the end of a sentence ending with an [HRt] in one version that were not in the other. This would cause an unchanged sentence at a later point in the file to appear both normal and with Strikeout. Word Compare now handles these correctly. (#41308) Document Display A table in a graphics box that contained joined cells and was converted from WordPerfect 5.x could cause display and printing problems when converted to WordPerfect 6.0. (#41815) Document Display Blocking text in labels in Full Page mode with Full Page zoom would not highlight all of the blocked text correctly. (#42700) Document Display Display problems occurred in Graphics Mode when a document had a table in columns with column borders. (#43535) Document Display Display problems could occur or WordPerfect could lock when an image was being written to the screen in Graphics Mode in very low memory situations. Now the display of an image stops if there is insufficient memory. (#46373) Document Display Enhancement: In Graphics Mode dialog boxes, the focus is now displayed as a dashed line, improving visibility. (#47825) Document Display In Graphics Mode, when using Undo to remove line numbering from columns, some line numbers would still display. (#36486) Document Display In Graphics Mode, when the height of a line changed, the entire line was not redisplaying properly. (#34837) Document Display In Graphics Mode, when word wrap occurred, the previous line would flicker and redisplay. (#34823) Document Display In Graphics Mode with the Button Bar on, part of the Page Format dialog was not clearing when editing a Header/Footer/Watermark in Delay Codes. (#40922) Document Display In Graphics Mode, if right justification was on, and a graphics box was inserted into the document with its horizontal position set to left, parts of the box would scroll to the left as you typed text. (#43982) Document Display In some situations, underline would not display properly in Graphics Mode when followed by advance codes. Now underlining will both display and print properly. (#45839) Document Display Undoing a Conditional End of Page would not cause the text to reformat correctly. (#36965) Document Display Using the mouse to exit the edit screen for an endnote would cause the endnote's text to disappear from the main document screen. (#40980) Document Display When using Courier-WP (Type 1) the underscore character was not appearing at certain point sizes. (#17845) Document Display While in Page Mode with Center Page on, each character typed would cause the entire screen to rewrite. (#38485) Document Display While in Text Mode, if you typed a character on the second page of a document with columns, and the page break between pages 1 and 2 was visible, text after the cursor would disappear. (#42869) Document Information Tabs at the beginning of the document (before any text) would cause the sentence count to be incorrect. (#44981) Document Information The number of pages Document Information reported was inaccurate in certain situations. (#45505) Document Summary Choosing to print document summaries from marked files in File Manager only printed the summary for the first file. (#44195) Document Summary Deleting the document summary did not cause the document to be recognized as having been modified. (#41804) Document Summary WordPerfect would bring up the Document Summary dialog twice if you were overwriting an existing file and cancelled out of the dialog when it came up the first time. WordPerfect now only brings up the dialog once. (#46761) Endnotes Endnotes that spanned a page break would overwrite the top of the page number if page numbering was turned on. (#46258) Envelopes If you changed the zoom percentage while in an envelope address window, the document screen was only partially rewritten when you exited the Envelope dialog box. (#35994) Envelopes In an envelope address window, if you opened a file while looking at in File Manager or while in a graphics box, you wouldn't be able to exit WordPerfect. WordPerfect now retrieves the file instead of trying to open it. (#44043) Envelopes Playing a macro that inserted text into the document and then printed an envelope would insert the envelope into the document as well as print it. It no longer inserts the envelope into the document. (#41084) Envelopes The envelope close warning dialog box had extra space to the right of the text. (#42314) Envelopes With a read-only .SET file, the default return address wasn't displayed, and envelope setup options weren't used. (#42767) Equation Editor Equation Editor text wasn't displaying when the document foreground color was the same color as the dialog combo box background. The Equation Editor text now displays in the same color as the dialog text. (#45728) Equation Editor If an Extended Search or a Search for a Bookmark found the text or Bookmark in an equation, WordPerfect could lock. (#40224) Equation Editor If you changed the selected keyboard for equations (Shift+F1, 4 from the Equation Editor) the keyboard selected was not saved correctly to the .SET file and would not be active in subsequent sessions of WordPerfect. (#43562) Equation Editor Occasionally Delete to End of Page (Ctrl+PgDn) would not work in the Equation Editor. (#41482) Equations Choosing a font for an equation or an equation box style would damage the document if the selected font was already referenced elsewhere in the document. (#47758) Equations Displaying an equation that contained a SUP or SUB command preceded immediately by a tilde (~) or backward accent (`) and followed by a string enclosed in French braces would cause WordPerfect to lock. (#47279) Equations When retrieving a file that was not in WordPerfect 6.0 or WPG2.0 format into a Graphics Box, you would sometimes be prompted for the format of the file twice. (#40982) Error Handling WordPerfect could lock if a critical DOS error occurred while both edit buffers were full. An example of this would be getting a "Drive not Ready" error with large documents in at least two document screens. (#44454) Error Messages The fax error message "Unable to access f" was corrected to "Unable to access file." (#43569) Error Messages The fax error message "Bad phone directoy mode" was corrected to "Bad phone directory mode." (#43570) Error Messages The fax error message "Graphics file emtpy" was changed to "Graphics file empty." (#43572) Expanded Memory Using /NE in the SH{SH}.ENV file would cause WordPerfect to lock on a computer using QEMM version 7.01. (#46040) Fax Enhancement: You can now include a WordPerfect document as a fax coversheet. A sample WP coversheet document, FAXCOV.CVR, is now installed to the documents directory. For more details on customizing fax coversheets, see README.FAX. (#46570) Fax Enhancement: Using FaxDirect, you can include up to 100 fax files with Fax On Disk (Shift+F7, X, S, A). Previously, you could only include one file. (#47754) Fax Enhancement: The WordPerfect CAS Setup program will now auto-detect the COM port and class driver of the fax modem. If the configuration file does not exist, then the auto-detection will occur automatically when entering SETUP.EXE. Otherwise, the user may press 2 for Hardware Driver Setup and then press F4. When pressing F10 from within the Hardware Driver Setup, the program will check the settings to make sure they are valid. This auto-detection also works for USER specified non-standard interrupts. NOTE: The WordPerfect CAS Setup program is for setting up the FaxDirect software to be used with Class 1 and 2 fax modems. (#47753) Fax Events in the Receive Log could disappear if you entered the Log several times during a WordPerfect session. FaxDirect was not properly releasing file handles when exiting the receive log. (#47755) Fax Fax Services was misusing memory. This could cause WordPerfect to lock or generate memory errors under certain configurations when sending a fax. (#46677) Fax FaxDirect would not load the SENDFAX.FXH driver with some Sierra SendFax fax modems (such as the Zoom HC 2400s). (#47726) Fax If you were using the startup option /MONO, you could not access the phonebook dialog (Shift+F7, X, P). The screen would flash, then return to the Fax Services dialog. (#39704) Fax In the Send Log dialog, the message below the list box read "* Multiple Destinations". This would tell the user which fax entries in the log had been sent to a group, or several people. However, if you sent a fax with multiple files the fax entry would be marked as well. Now the message reads, "* Multiple Destinations/Files" to reflect which fax entries in the log have been sent to a group, or have been sent multiple files. (#48833) Fax It was possible, under some conditions, that FaxDirect would not be able to send more than one fax from within WordPerfect 6.0. FAXDIR would have to be unloaded and reloaded before another fax could be sent. (#46491) Fax Log Events could not be deleted if the *.QUE file associated with that event wasn't found. Now the *.QUE file specified by the event is tested to make sure that the event and correct *.QUE get deleted. (#47756) Fax Some internal Class 1 modems with a RC224ATF chipset sent faxes with white horizontal lines or missing text. The problem was most often associated with modems which had an ATI3 result of AF?P-C* or AF?S-C* (where "?" is a single character and "*" is several characters). The software now correctly identifies these modems so the white lines do not occur. (#45766) Fax The Fax Activity dialog (Shift+F7, X, A) didn't display the "Number of Pages" information when receiving a fax using FaxDirect. (#47089) Fax The Fax Activity dialog (Shift+F7, X, A) would display the phone number (also known as the CSID) with spaces preceding the number when receiving a fax using FaxDirect and a Class 1 fax modem. Now, spaces and double quotation marks (") are stripped from the CSID. (#47752) Fax The US Robotics Sportster modem would stop receiving after a random number of pages when using FaxDirect. A new Optional Parameter for SETUP.EXE, /TYPE=107, is now available that sends an &H3 to the modem, allowing it to receive faxes more reliably. (#47946) Fax When sending a coversheet from WordPerfect 6.0, the From Field wasn't being filled in. Now if 'Your Name:' has been entered in the WordPerfect CAS Setup program, then the From field will have the specified name placed in it. (#47083) Figure Editor If an error occurred while saving an image from the Image Editor, a zero byte file was left on the disk. (#42579) File List Choosing File List (F5) in the Play or Record Macro dialogs will now automatically contain the *.WPM mask. (#29451) File Manager Choosing the Parent directory of a subdirectory with an extension in the name was placing the cursor at the top of the list in the Parent directory instead of on the subdirectory. (#43259) File Manager Enhancement: The Descriptive Names and Types Display List Mode has been changed considerably. Instead of displaying only the Descriptive Name and Type in the main window, and displaying the file information in the small window below, the main window now displays 21 characters of the Descriptive Name, 7 characters of the Descriptive Type, the entire filename, and the file information. The small window below now displays more of the Descriptive Name and Type. Some of the controls at the bottom of File Manager had to be rearranged slightly to accommodate the new dialog layout. QuickFinder Results also uses the Descriptive Names and Types Display Mode. In QuickFinder mode, the main window displays the part of the path, the filename and the file information. The small window shows more of the path. (#46001) File Manager Enhancement: In previous releases, changing the File Manager Sort options changed them permanently. You can now change them temporarily. This was accomplished by removing the Sort by option and adding Sort to the Setup button. Changing options in the File Manager Sort/Setup dialog box will change them for the remainder of the WordPerfect session, unless you select Save Defaults to Setup File. A Create Dir option was added which allows you to create a directory without having to use Change Default Dir. (#46157) File Manager Enhancement: A new option, Use Descriptive Name Speedup File, has been added to the File Manager for use in Descriptive Names and Types Display List mode. When this option is checked, listing files is faster because WordPerfect reads the descriptive names and types from the Speedup file rather than by opening each file. The Speedup file, named WP{WPC}.DNS, is stored in the directory whose files you are listing. To create a Speedup file for the current directory, change the Display List Mode option in File Manager Sort/Setup to Descriptive Names and Types, and check the "Use Desc. Name Speedup File" option. Then, in File Manager, use the Scan button to actually create the Speedup file. Near the lower left corner of File Manager, the date and time the .DNS file was created/updated is displayed (e.g., Speedup Scan: 11/13/93 12:03p). If you don't have write rights to the directory, the list will be built by opening each file, and File Manager will display "None" instead of the date and time of the .DNS file. The network administrator can create the .DNS file for the users, and then WordPerfect will read the .DNS file from the read-only directory. After a speedup file has been created, the Scan button becomes a Rescan button so that you can update the .DNS file. (#45963) File Manager When a directory was removed, the file count decreased by 1 even though the number of files stayed the same. (#45466) File Manager When copying or moving a locked WP5.x document, you were prompted for the file's password twice. Now you will be prompted only once. (#46580) File Manager With Original Backup on, when replacing a file on a full disk, the backup file (.BK!) wasn't returned to its original file name. Now, after clearing the disk full error, the backup file is returned to its original filename. (#46662) Find Enhancement: File Manager's Find feature has been combined with QuickFinder searching. (#39787) Find Performing a Find on certain file types would cause WordPerfect to lock. For example this could happen if the search encountered a file that had an Undo code in a certain place in the document. (#43194) Find While creating a new index, if you didn't exit from the Index Filename field, the .IDX portion of the filename was not added, causing you to get errors when trying to generate the index. Now, when you try to exit the Create Index Definition dialog box without the .IDX portion of the filename, you will be returned to that entry field. When you exit it, the .IDX will be added. (#46735) Floating Cells A Hard Return was deleted from a floating cell upon moving out of the floating cell when 'Formula Recognition at Document Level' was on and you typed a formula into the floating cell from the document editing screen. (#41605) Floating Cells Calculating a floating cell containing a formula using any of the date functions could cause a date code elsewhere in the document to return the result of the floating cell instead of the correct date. (#46831) Floating Cells If you accessed the "Edit Table Name" dialog from a floating cell, then exited the dialog without changing the name or reference, the "Duplicate table or floating cell name" and "Invalid name" errors were generated. Now, when accessing the dialog, no errors are displayed on exit if no changes are made. This change also allows you to change the case of any letters in a name (for example, you can now change the name "test" to "TEST".) (#45181) Floating Cells When creating the nth floating cell in the document, and the default nth floating cell name had already been used, the "Duplicate table or floating cell name" warning dialog could be displayed multiple times. Now, a unique name will be chosen for the floating cell and no warning will be displayed. (#44036) Font Characters added by WPFI with a character width of 0 (e.g., some diacritical characters in Graeca and Hebreca fonts) would not display/print in WordPerfect. WPFI now adds these characters with a width of 1 so that they will display/print in WordPerfect. However, characters with a width of 1 in Type 1 fonts do not display/print in sizes below 30 points. (#46887) Font The CommercialScript (Type 1) font was changed so that descenders would not display clipped at the bottom. (#13773) Font Matching Fonts in documents created in WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows would not best-fit properly, even when the same fonts were available in WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS. Now best-fitting of fonts in documents created in WPWin is more precise, especially for TrueType and Type 1 graphics fonts and for device fonts in documents formatted using WordPerfect printer drivers. (#47903) Font Matching When using Small Caps, many international characters (like [1,171]) would print as normal capital letters. (#47147) Fonts (WPFI) If a font was added that had some characters mapped both normally and in the user-defined section of unicode, the user-defined characters would overwrite the normal ones. For example, the Albertus TT font by MonoType would print the period and the double quote character as a triangle and a summation symbol, respectively. (#43784) Footnotes Extraneous [HRt]s would be inserted into the document when blocking the page and changing the Footnote Separator Line. (#31231) Footnotes Footnotes would print on top of a graphic box if the box was set to be centered vertically on the page and the footnote was set to print below the text. The footnote will now be positioned below the box. (#35217) Footnotes If the position of Footnotes in columns was changed (between Bottom of Page and After Text), the text would not redisplay correctly in Page mode. (#29068) Footnotes Using a font attribute anywhere on a page that has a footnote continued message would both view and print that attribute on words other than those that were marked. (#48514) Format Inserting text in front of a [Lft Mar] or [Lft Mar Adj] code with Auto Code Placement turned off would cause the cursor to display in the wrong place. (#22266) Formatter A document that had Widow/Orphan turned on could cause WordPerfect to lock at times when there was a widow at the top of a page and a graphic on the page above. (#46269) Formatter A line of spaces following a Column Off code would cause WordPerfect to lock if center justification was on. (#48757) Formatter If the formatted page number code was in a substructure such as a header, then the page number set code would be ignored. (#43005) Formatter In certain situations, trying to add or delete reverted formatting codes to a paragraph with styles could cause WordPerfect to lock. (#45831) Formatter In some instances paging up and down in a document with Widow\Orphan turned on could cause WordPerfect to lock. (#46443) Formatter Editing a file from WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows with indexes in it could cause WordPerfect to lock. (#44614) Formatter Scrolling through a document with [Cancel Hyph] at the beginning of the line could cause WordPerfect to lock. (#46262) Formatter Scrolling through a file that contained a graphic inside of a paragraph style could generate the error message "!PTMRK Error, maximum number of markers exceeded" and cause WordPerfect to lock. (#45705) Formatter Typing on the last page or next to last page in a document that has endnotes without an endnote placement code was very slow. (#42328) Formatter When using full justification and center/align, if the line of text extended into the right hyphenation zone it would cause the next line of full justification to format incorrectly. (#43823)

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