Guide to the transcription
--------------------------

This text is intended to serve as a guide to how certain fonts,
pictures etc. have been rendered in the transcription.


A chapter in the +3 manual (or for chapter 8, a 'part') has the form:

	Chapter N (or Part N)
	Chapter or 'part' name here
	
	Subjects covered...
	
		subject1
		...
		[subjectN]
	
	lots of text
	
	[optionally...]
	
	Exercises...
	
	numbered list of exercises of the form:
	
	1. .......
	2. .......
	etc.


Pictures are rendered as Big Ugly Ascii Graphics, or not at all. I
have included most of what I considered the important pictures - e.g.
the keyboard layouts in chapter 7 and chapter 8 part 1. However, do
not be surprised if a picture is wildly inaccurate or missing. I
didn't use IBM graphics characters, which may displease some PC folks,
but... tough. I routinely use devices which do not support them (i.e.
vanilla xterms, and real terminals at Uni).

Here is an extract from the text (chapter 8, part 4):


	20 FOR c=1 TO 5 STEP 3/2

...this will step the control variable by the amount 3/2 each time the
FOR loop is executed. Note that we could have simply said 'STEP 1.5',
or we could have assigned the step value to a variable, say 's', and
then said 'STEP s'.


The indented line shows how program examples are rendered. However,
other indented text is also shown this way. An indent is a single tab.

Text given in their 'computer stuff' font is given in 'single quotes,
like this'. Actually, this isn't the whole story. As you can see in
the extract above, I didn't put "FOR" in such quotes. This is because
I decided not to put single uppercase tokens in quotes, to increase
the readability of some parts of the text. To confuse matters further,
I use single quotes for lots of other purposes too (as did Amstrad).

Bold and italic text has no special indication. I originally intended
to have *bold* and /italic/ text, but forgot to do it for the first
few chapters, so I decided to carry on in the same manner. (This is
probably just as well - whenever '+3' appeared, it would have looked
like a comment - '/*+3*/'. :-))

Page numbers are not indicated. Indeed, the concept of a 'page'
doesn't exist in the transcription - the smallest unit is the chapter,
or in chapter 8, the 'part'. The 'original.contents' file does contain
page numbers from the manual, but they have no relation to this
version.