WRITING SPECIAL CHARACTERS

The Kyan Text Editor (ED) does not allow the use of the 
keyboard graphics characters because it interprets control 
keys as commands.  For example, CONTROL-<P> pastes the 
contents of the buffer instead of printing the club-shaped 
graphics character.

If you need to use these keyboard graphics characters, you 
can get around this problem fairly easily by doing something 
like:

      Write(Chr(16)); (* print club graphic char to screen *)

And if you want to print an arrow, it requires an escape 
character first, which adds even more typing:

      Write(Chr(27),Chr(31)); (* print ESCape and right arrow 
*)

Again, my laziness prompted me to create a file, Chars.i, 
which contains a number of functions that return special 
characters.  The function name is then used in a Write or 
WriteLn statement instead of the Chr function.  The previous 
statement can now be rewritten, using the Chars.i functions, 
to be:

      Write(Esc,Rarrow);

The CHARS.PAS file, which you should rename to CHARS.I after 
downloading, does not give all of the special character 
functions, but, of course, you may add functions to the file 
if you have a list of the ATASCII (Atari version of the 
American Standard Codes for Information Interchange) 
character codes.  The file's comments describe the purpose of 
each function.

Important Hint:  If you are going to add a lot of functions 
to the file, use the CONTROL-<M> and CONTROL-<P> commands to 
move and paste the following:

	FUNCTION : Char;
	BEGIN
		:= Chr()
	END;(* *)

Then, after you have pasted the buffer into the text several 
times, you may go in and insert the function name, value, and 
comment where appropriate.


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