APPLICATION NOTE #200
     DEFINING SEPARATORS IN XYWRITE III PLUS

This application note offers some tips on how you can define word,
sentence, or paragraph separators in XyWrite III Plus (version 3.53 or
later).

Defining Word, Sentence, and Paragraph Separators
The Separator (SE) Table, which you can add to your printer file(s),
allows you to define the characters you want XyWrite to recognize as
word, sentence, and paragraph separators.  XyWrite uses these
separators when you are performing certain functions on words,
sentences, or paragraphs--such as defining, deleting, spell-checking,
hyphenating, and moving the cursor.

For example, if you press ShiftF4 to define the current paragraph,
XyWrite looks for the paragraph separator before and after the current
cursor location and defines the text between those two boundaries.  If
you press CtrlS to check the spelling of the current word, XyWrite
looks for the word separators before and after the cursor location to
determine the boundaries of the word.

The default separators are:

   Word: (space) ÿ08 ÿ09 " # % & ( ) * + , / : ; < = > @ [ ] \ ` {  }
| © ª « ¬
   ÿAE ÿAF ú û ü ÿFD

   Sentence:  . ! ? ­ ¨

   Paragraph:  ÿ0A ÿ0D ÿ1A

If you want to use different separators, add an SE table to your
printer file (the SE table should be located before the PT tables).
For instructions on how to add to your printer file, see the section
labeled "Making Changes in the Printer File" in the XyWrite III Plus
Reference Guide.

The format of the SE table is:

 SE:3
 string1
 string2
 string3

In an SE table, string1 defines the characters XyWrite recognizes as
word separators.  The characters XyWrite recognizes as sentence
separators are defined in string 2, while string3 defines those
characters XyWrite treats as paragraph separators.  It is essential
that you include all three strings in any SE table you create.  You
must also use all of the characters you want XyWrite to recognize, not
simply the ones you are adding.  For example, if you want XyWrite to
recognize  (double exclamation point) as a sentence separator, the SE
table would look like this:

  SE:3
   ÿ08ÿ09"#%&()*+,/:;<=>@[]\`{}|©ª«¬ÿAEÿAFúûüÿFD
  .!?­¨
  ÿ0Aÿ0Dÿ1A

Note #1  Default Values.  Versions 3.53 and later have default values
which are different from those found in earlier versions of XyWrite.

Note #2  Unimplemented Functions.  At this time, paragraph separators
defined by the SE table are not recognized by either the Indent
Paragraph command or the Search command wildcard for separators (Alt
Shift S).