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From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing
Summary: Manual Maker 2.20 by Craig Daymon
Message-ID: <426adb53.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 20:48:40 GMT
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In article <13651@sequent.UUCP>, george@sequent.UUCP (George Emery) writes:
> I've developed a fondness for 8.5 by 11 folded and center stapled
> when publishing short documents.  So, do any of the ST desktop
> publishing programs support printing of this format?  That is, do
> they rotate the text 90 degrees and paginate it properly for direct
> photocopying?

Yes, there is a fine SHAREWARE program called Manual Maker, version 2.20.
You can get it from the GEnie computer service. I have used it for several
months with my Mega ST4/SLM804 and it produces great half sized manuals.

MM2 is a GDOS print program with on-screen print preview and a host of
print formatting commands (like bold, italic, underscore). Right now it requires
a flat ASCII file for input, but I us MS WRITE (being GDOS based itself) to
edit using the same fonts that MM2 uses to print. That way I can view the
file while I am editing using the same GDOS fonts.

I will upload another message with moredetails such as the address to write
to get MM. I sent Craig Daymon a check for $15. BTW, Craig sends in $5 from
every contribution to the American Diabetes Assocition.

All in all, a fanastic program from a great author, Craig Daymon.

Richard Covert