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*   WordRider Text Editor for Ti-89 by Ladislav Vitasek *
*   Web: http://wordrider.net - latest version          *
*   Mail: info@wordrider.net - questions/suggestions    *
*   Forum: http://wordrider.net/forum                   *
*   Last change: 04th November 2006                     *
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Content:
  I.   What is WordRider 
 II.   System requirements 
III.   How to run Wordrider 
 IV.   Known bugs and Limitations
  V.   FAQ
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I. What is WordRider
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Welcome to the website dedicated to open source text editor 'WordRider' which helps
with creating TxtRider's text format(HibView and uView compatible) in calculator TI-89/92+/V200.

WordRider is similar to applications such as RidEdit, MadCoder's Text Editor or Okin's Word.
WordRider brings full support of TxtRider view-tags and more user convenience with working TI-89/92 text format.
WordRider editor is "almost" WYSIWYG.

Features
    * you can easily change font sizes, alignments, margins, 
      word wrap, math expressions and insert line separators or breakpoints
    * really easy work with breakpoints and inserting special characters
    * 89i, 92i, 9xi pictures support
    * image importer plugin - easy converting JPG, GIF,... into calc image
    * math expressions are distinguished by color
    * multilanguage environment
    * free software
    * open source code under GNU GPL license
    * support for Java Look&Feels and themes
    * always updated - checking for new version
    * OS platform independent
    * and much more...

At http://wordrider.net (documentation section) you can find a list of shortcuts in Adobe PDF format and additional information.

Visit the WordRider forum at http://wordrider.net/forum

All suggestions are welcome!

II. System requirements
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Recommended configuration:
    * Windows 2000/XP/Linux(core 2.4)* or higher operating system
    * Pentium 500MHz processor
    * min 1024x768 screen resolution
    * 35 MB of free RAM
    * 5 MB free disk space
    * Java 2 Platform - version at least 1.5 installed
Other operating systems were not tested although I expect it will work fine elsewhere as well.

III. How to run Wordrider
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Please make sure that you have Java 2 platform (at least version 1.5) installed.
You can also obtain it at http://java.sun.com. More info can be found also in the FAQ section.

    * Windows users
      Unpack zipped file into chosen directory. Run wordrider.exe in main folder. 
      Java binaries will be detected automatically and WordRider will start.
    * Linux users
      Unpack gzipped file into chosen directory. 
      Java binaries should be registered in /etc/bashrc. Start Wordrider by using launch.sh.
    * For all operating systems
      You can start WordRider manually by using command line and call java binaries directly.
      java -jar wordrider.jar

Viewing text files in the calculator
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For viewing generated text files you will have to install PreOS(kernel OS) and Hibview
and/or TxtRider(text viewers - one of them) into your calculator.
You can intall them easily. For beginners - see tutorials at the documentation section at http://wordrider.net

IV. Known bugs and Limitations
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KNOWN BUGS
This version has no known bugs at this time (not for long... ;-)).
If you find a possible bug, please let me know at bugs@wordrider.net (or post item in the forum at http://wordrider.net/forum) as soon as possible.
The correction will be included in the next release.

LIMITATIONS
Problem: Some characters are not displayed.
Details: See our FAQ section "Why WordRider doesn't support ..."
Solution: Use an alternate character. 

V. FAQ
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- Why WordRider?
WordRider is a successor of applications such as RidEdit, MadCoder's Text Editor  or Okin's Word.
I created it because I needed an application for creating text files for my favorite calculator fast and easily.
I decided to share WordRider because it can be useful to the others.

- What is TxtRider?
TxtRider is a text reader for Ti-89/92 written by Marc Teyssier. 
It views text files created in text editor(e.g. Ti-OS editor or WordRider), 
but is faster and allows text formats such as: underline, vector, the insertion of picture, pretty-print expression etc.

- Is WordRider compatible with Hibview(the successor of TxtRider)?
I can say : Yes. WordRider (since version 0.74) fully supports Hibview format.

- Why doesn't WordRider support all of TxtRider's characters?
WordRider is written Java which has no support for bitmap fonts (*.fon) so I had to use True Type Font. 
It's almost impossible to create your own True Type Font (it's really hard) so I selected TI92PlusPC (ti-92p.ttf) 
which is included in every installation of TI-Connect or TI-GraphLink software (distributed with every calculator). 
Unfortunately this font doesn't fully support all TI-89 characters (usually characters with a code < 20). Therefore if you use an unsupported character (file is saved from another application) you will see empty rectangles instead of special characters.

- How do I register java binaries globally on Linux?
You must place the correct path to the installed binaries in your /etc/bashrc configuration file.
for example:
PATH=/j2sdk1.5.0_08/bin:/j2sdk1.5.0_08/jre/bin:$PATH

- Can I run WordRider on Microsoft's Virtual Machine?
The latest version of WordRider requires at least version 1.5 of the Java 2 platform,
and therefore will not be compatible with Microsoft's Virtual Machine.

- Where can I find more pre-made text files?
Please see the Links section at http://wordrider.net.

- I see empty rectangles instead of special characters. Is it a bug?
No, it isn't.See question "Why WordRider doesn't support all TxtRider's characters?"

- What is "word wrap"?
This feature allows automatic line returns without splitting words.

- I like WordRider. Can I donate money for development?
Yes, of course! :o) We are students and we must pay for domain, webhosting, bills for our girlfriends etc... 
so if you want to donate to WordRider please contact us at info@wordrider.net or see http://wordrider.net/donation.html.