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XEROX XEROX EARS Filename: (ALTODOCS)GYPSY.EARS;3 Creation Date: MONDAY, 4 AUG 1975 12:26-PDT XEROX XEROX GYPSY: THE GINN TYPESCRIPT SYSTEM Attached is a description of the user facilities of the Ginn typescript system. An almost identical system is available at PARC for playing only. People are invited to try the system and get a feel for its use. Our version is slightly obsolescent, somewhat buggy (though not dangerous to your disk), and will not be maintained in any way. It lacks many facilities one would need for the general-purpose editing done at PARCo We recommend Bravo for doing useful editing work in this building. The system is available as GYPSY.DM. You must have 550 disk pages and the "new" operating system before retrieving and unloading it. The following features differ from their document descriptions: * It runs on one disk. * Substitute operates on a source, not a target. * LOOK is a pseudonym for the CTRL key. * LOOK-L and R are unavailable for margin changing. Remark font is obtained by LOOK-R instead of by LOOK- X; remarks are always visible. LOOK-J justifies poorly. All LOOKs operate on a source instead of a target (except during typein). * Page turning using LOOK is unavailable. Printing is unavailable. * The scale at the top edge of the screen extends from the far left to 2/3 of the way across. * BW (backspace word) is the blank key alongside BS. * CUT can be done with ESC; PASTE with SHIFT-ESC. * Fast scrolling is available: hold the middle key down along with either scroll key. * Page 1 of the directory permits arbitrary files to be fetched, but they can not be formatted or paragraphed, nor may paragraphs from formatted files be pasted into them. For such documents, the left edge becomes a line select area. * To see how font changes are run-length encoded, do a LOOK-H. We have no interest in hearing about bugs at this time. If you end up in Swat or in an endless loop, Boot. If you have useful work to do, use Bravo. XEROX GYPSY: THE GINN TYPESCRIPT SYSTEM April 20, 1975 Larry Tesler Palo Alto Research Center Timothy Mott Ginn and Company Gypsy is the "typescript" component of the Ginn Publishing System being developed at PARCo It is oriented towards the preparation of the content of a book with little concern for its format. A second component of the system will be called a "pagescript" system and will deal with the makeup of pages for photocomposition. The typescript system wa