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This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.

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File size:	129E bytes
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                          A QUESTION OF STYLE

WELL done with EUGs #45 to #50 and sorry it's taken me a while to get
back in touch with EUG. I do have a few suggestions to make though:

1. This is a personal preference, but text is easier to read when left-
   justified only, and also when words aren't split over lines (except
   where they're hypenated anyway, as in "left-justified" just there).

2. You say in the submissions section that paragraphs should be 
   separated by a blank line, but not many are! I usually indent para-
   graphs which are part of the same section, and use blank lines
   between tables/concluding remarks, etc. And when I'm writing the
   instructions for games.

3. I think it's a positive thing to use tab stops for neatness, PROVIDED
   they're padded out before submission. This is easy to do in VIEW, by
   *SPOOLing out the text displayed with the SCREEN command, and then
   editing out the page breacks and the VIEW A2.1 Bytes Free. Say we had
   a text file called 'rhubarb', then:
      *SPOOL rhubarb2
      SCREEN
      *SPOOL
      NEW
      READ rhubarb2

4. What happened to the feature that could interpret VIEW highlight code
   and present text emboldened/underlined (or was it bold and italics?)?
   I found this useful when referring to variable names, filenames and
   assembler labels. Not to worry though. I have stuck to my traditional
   method of putting them in single quotes, e.g. 'X%' or 'FILE1' or 
   'loop'. It just makes them easier to distinguish them from prose.

5. Encourage readers to send in commentaries on variables, what the
   PROCedures do, and so on, as in ELECTRON USER. My philosophy is that
   users should know about the programs they are using - as opposed to
   money being made out of their ignorance as seems to be sadly the case
   in the modern PC world.

I HOPE my criticisms are constructive (as opposed to destructive!). One
final thing is my surname's spelt DewhUrst and not DewhIrst! Aside from
my nitpicking, keep up the good work on the magazine. If there's any
trouble with my programs, let me know. The only problem I can foresee is
compatibility with the Electron, as I write my games on a BBC Model B. 
Perhaps I should keep my eyes peeled for an Elk if I'm to take this 
seriously!
                                                    Christopher Dewhurst
          29 Scot Hay Road, Silverdale, Newcastle-u-Lyme, STAFFS ST5 6RQ
                                                       Tel: 01782 712554
                                            Email: u7c92@ugc.keele.ac.uk

SOME of these important points for improvement can be explained away by
the correction of the !ELECTRON USER GROUP! information section. The
ones hardest to answer, however, cannot so here goes...
   All the text files on the EUG disks are in the VIEW word processor 
format and read in with special code written by Richard Dimond. When a
word gets split over a line, this is really just due to how the text is
transcribed when put on disk. Typed directly in this way without justi-
fication avoids soft spaces, and does much the same as the SCREEN 
command. (That this formatting causes blank lines when the code is shown
in Mode 6 is a problem currently being worked on.)
   There were previously rather dated details on How To Submit to EUG in
the information file. The EUG text is now presented as it is because the
three-space-in for a new paragraph and first word of a section in CAPI-
TALS is what retro magazines like ELECTRON USER always adhered to. It's
part of the move towards a more professional publication BUT if there's   
a chorus of disapproval, it will be rethought.
   The highlighted text looked very nice on screen but tended to cause
problems with certain printers, which substituted lots of upside down Us
(or printed nonsense characters) for each control code they encountered.
As text written without them can then also be *TYPEd if necessary, I had
to take a decision whether to write printer drivers or dispense with the
control codes. I chose the latter.
   The last suggestion is certainly a nice idea and would help those new
to BASIC computing to pick up a few programming tips without wading 
through User Guides and Reference Manuals. Although it relies on readers
writing STRUCTURED programs! USBORNE SOFTWARE published two professional
adventure programs in paperback books containing the most horrible code 
imaginable. There was a bug in the version EUG entered and, despite days
of comparison between the two, it still remains hidden!
   Apologies for the misspelled name. It appears correctly in the EUG
records and must have been a slip of the pen when addressing the disks!
                                                              (The) Dave

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*
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*
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*
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