ThinkTank Manual
*ESCAPE: Cancels the style selection process and returns to the previous menu (PORT DIRECTION or PORT DEVICE). (Command key ESC)
The last step is actually to print or port the document. If you are printing, make sure your printer is properly connected and the power is turned on. (There’s no way for ThinkTank to warn you or continue if it’s not.) Then press the space bar to begin printing. You can interrupt it by pressing ESC.
If your computer can display both upper— and lowercase letters, ThinkTank will print your outline pretty much as it appears on your screen. However, if it can only display upper- case (capital) letters, ThinkTank will enhance your paragraphs by capitalizing the first letter of each sentence, printing all other letters lowercase. You can capitalize any other letter by preceding it with a backslash (“\“) and any series of letters by surrounding them with carets (“~“). See Box
If you are porting material to or from a text file, Think— Tank will prompt you to enter the name of the file. The file name consists of two parts:
1.the drive, which may be either a PASCAL device num- ber or a volume name; and
2.the file name, which can be up to 10 characters long (not counting any required directory names). Think— Tank will append the suffix .TEXT to the name to distinguish it as a text file.
See Appendix B for a review of PASCAL devices, volumes, and file naming conventions.
Enter the drive and file name. If your computer system consists of two floppy disk drives, you will probably need to temporarily replace the THINKTANK PROGRAM DISK with the disk for your text file. ThinkTank gives you a chance to change disks and asks you whether you have done so. It begins the port when you answer this prompt. See Chapter 5 for a summary of the text file porting process with two floppy disk drives.