

                         Compose for Windows, V1.67
                                21-May-1993        

          Copyright (c) 1991-1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
                            All Rights Reserved.

You are free to use and distribute Compose for noncommercial use 
as long as:

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  * The files are not modified in any way.
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INABILITY TO USE, THIS SOFTWARE.

Please note that for reasons of economy, Digital Equipment Corporation
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Jerry Cummings

Internet: cummings@xanadu.enet.dec.com
CompuServe: 71232,2221

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Compose is a Windows application with four major uses:

        1. Allows easy mnemonic access to characters not found on your
           keyboard such as "1 2" for the  (1/2) character, "c /" for 
           the  (cents) character, "a^" for the  (a with '^' accent
           mark) character.

        2. Allows easy dialog box access to the individual characters of
           a font. This can be quite helpful for symbol and dingbat fonts.
           A listbox with all of the characters of a font is displayed;
           double click on the desired character and it will be sent
           to the current application. No more guessing or searching
           around for symbol and dingbat font reference cards.

        3. Allows easy access to the current date and time. A quick
           mnemonic sequence of keys send the characters of the current
           date and/or time to the current application.

        4. Previewing of the many scalable typefaces (commercial and
           public domain) that are available for Windows. You can preview
           a font from a window or you can preview all the characters on 
           paper by printing the entire font in the point size and style
           that you desire. Technical information about the font can also
           be printed. There is also an option to print sample strings of
           all fonts.
                

Installing Compose

        Simply unzip the Compose .ZIP file into to your desired directory,
        use Program Manager to add a new item specifying COMPOSE.EXE as the
        command and the directory in which you unzipped the file as the
        working directory. You may wish to add this to your Start Up group.


Compose Help

        Once Compose has been started, you may get an overview of what
        Compose is by selecting "Overview" from the "Help" menu.

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Files:
        COMPOSE.EXE     Executable
        CMPS_DLL.DLL    DLL for intercepting keystrokes
        CMPS_USA.DLL    United States User Interface
        COMPOSE.DAT     Data file for compose sequences
        COMPOSE.HLP     Online help (WINHELP)
        COMPOSE.TXT     This file
        COMPOSE.INI     Not part of the kit, but is created later.

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V1.33 13-Apr-1992

        Corrected minor bug in Print Font Samples. Text was getting wrapped
        inside an incorrectly sized rectangle.


V1.34 23-Apr-1992

        Print Font with Technical Info wasn't drawing good cell boxes on
        non-PostScript printers.

        Print Font now allows multiple fonts to be printed at a time.


V1.35 28-May-1992

        Finally got around to cleaning up debug kernel errors.

        Compose no longer reads/writes preferences to WIN.INI; COMPOSE.INI
        is used instead.


V1.36 01-Sep-1992

        Moved to Windows 3.1 and Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. Windows 3.0 is no longer
        supported. A noticeable downside to not supporting Windows 3.0 is that
        OS/2 2.0 users cannot use this latest release.

        Eliminated code that tried to be smart when printing font names on
        the first page of a sample font. Compose will simply use a font that
        is supposed to represent ANSI characters.

        Print Font now queues each font as a separate job instead of all
        fonts as a single job. Print Font Samples has also been modified to
        submit each page of output as an individual job. These changes reduce
        the chances of the printer running out of memory.

        If a non-compose key is pressed while the compose key is down, 
        Compose will not enter Compose mode but will pass that keystroke 
        on. For instance, with the default Compose key of the right hand 
        control key on 101 key enhanced keyboards, only a press and a 
        release of that key will enable Compose mode. Key strokes such
        as Ctrl-Home with the right hand control key will simply be passed
        on to the application.


V1.4 15-Sep-1992

        Corrected a bug where font selection was lost when going to the
        Print Font dialog box from the Peruse Screen Fonts and Choose
        dialog boxes.

        Corrected a bug where the Compose indicator would be positioned
        incorrectly if the option for not flashing the indicator was
        chosen.

        Pressing the Compose after key entering Compose mode, cancels
        compose mode, in a fashion similar to the way the Alt key works
        with the menu bar. (Esc and Backspace also cancel compose mode).

        Revamped the method used to push characters to the target window. Used
        to PostMessage(...WM_CHAR...), but this would cause problems with
        seqeunce results that had '\n' or '\t'. Compose now slips into a
        Windows Journal Playback mode to feed the application keystrokes that
        emulate using Alt/nnnn on the numeric keypad for most characters and
        emulates press the Enter and Tab keys for the '\n' and '\t'.

        Corrected Debugging Windows warnings.

        Compose now remembers its window size and position across sessions. If
        the position is off the screen (perhaps after switching video drivers),
        the window will be placed using default calculations instead.

        Fixed a dlgbox sensitive help problem and updated the Help file.


V1.41 21-Sep-1992

        Corrected bug where print dialog boxes were being removed too soon.

        Print Font now queues each page as a separate print job, not just
        each font, further reducing printer memory requirements.

        Added a somewhat simple-minded SETUP program.


V1.42 29-Sep-1992

        Added names of days and months to COMPOSE.INI. Before editing the
        text strings for days and months, you must run Compose once so that
        it can write the defaults which will serve as a guide for your edits.
        This makes it possible to change the text for days and months from
        English to another language. Some sort of dialog box for doing this
        would make sense, but I don't have the time right now.


V1.50 30-Sep-1992

        Ripped country specific UI into a DLL. Compose can now switch
        languages using the "CountryCode=USA" setting in COMPOSE.INI.
        Replace USA with a three letter code of the desired/supported
        country. Naturally, the vast selection of countries is currently
        limited to one: USA. (e.g. USA requires the CMPS_USA.DLL file).

        Converted Open and Save As dialog boxes to Windows 3.1 Common
        Dialog Boxes.

V1.51 06-Oct-1992

        Removed the automatic addition of a space to date/time strings. If
        the space is desired, edit COMPOSE.INI and change the value of
        AppendSpaceToDateTime to 1.
        


V1.52 13-Oct-1992

        Modified the COMPOSE.EXE so that it had the Compose icon in it.


V1.53 15-Oct-1992

        Compose no longer supports the little used feature of discardable
        memory. Tables of compose sequences etc., are still not loaded
        until they are explicitly needed.

        UI DLL need more heap.


V1.54 16-Oct-1992

        Reworked the guts of CMPS_DLL so that Compose will work with the
        Recorder application. For best results with recorded macros that
        utilize Compose sequences, set the recorder to playback those macros
        at recorded speed (instead of fast speed).


V1.55 23-Oct-1992

        Choose dialog box "sample" field was not updating correctly as new
        fonts were chosen.

        Ensure readable heading for Print Font output.

        Changed the Choose dialog box so that multiple characters can be
        chosen at a time. This was done by adding each selected character
        to the edit field at the bottom of the dialog box. Pressing Ok
        causes all characters in that field to be sent. Choose Copy from the
        dialog box's system menu copies all characters in that field to the
        Windows clipboard. It is still possible to double click on a
        character if you only want one character at a time.


1.60 27-Oct-1992

        Moved options from menu into dialog box.

        Added an option controlling whether or not multiple characters could
        be chosen from the Choose dialog box or not.

        Eliminated the right aligment of the Help submenu.

        Eliminated the beep that occurred when aborting a compose sequence.


V1.61 05-Nov-1992

        Fixed bug where Compose was playing back in an extremely slow and
        choppy fashion.


V1.62 11-Nov-1992

        Minor tweak for spaces in compose sequence results.


V1.63 17-Nov-1992

        Fixed problem where descenders of some small fonts were getting
        clipped.

        Fixed bug where Choose dialog box was getting snapped to the lower
        right corner of the screen whenever the font size is changed such
        that the entire dialog box is resized.


V1.64 20-Nov-1992

        Sample string for Choose and Print dialog box can be set from the
        Options dialog box.

        COMPOSE.DAT had a bad definition of the "TM" sequence.

        Miscellaneous bug fixes.


V1.65 03-Mar-1993

        Minor tweak to allow the Compose data file to be specified through
        the command line:
        
               COMPOSE C:\COMPOSE\SPECIAL.DAT


V1.66 26-Apr-1993

       Allow applications that do not handle Alt-NumericKeypad sequences
       to work with Compose in a limited fashion. This requires a new
       section in COMPOSE.INI, [ProblemAppsKeypad], which can identify
       problem apps: e.g. WINQVT.EXE=True


V1.67 21-May-1993

       V1.66 was brain damaged. The correct method for specifying
       applications that have problems with the numeric keypad is to
       add a line to the [ProblemAppsKeypad] section e.g.:

            WINQVT=1

       Note that unlike the above release note for V1.66, the application's
       filename extension should NOT be used and instead of True and
       False, 1 and 0 should be used.

