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I spotted this listing on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324929780925

It contains the McGraw-Hill Assembler in a proper box - I remember seeing it mentioned in Colin Opie's book, but have never seen a copy before.
It would be good if it could be preserved or at least an image of the box added to the QL Wiki (no I am not volunteering!)

I have that package. It also contains a SuperBASIC editor with an extension to add or delete a line of text. The text is contained in an array. See "sedit" from TT.

Bought it. Seller won't send to Germany though so it'll wait for me in the UK for who knows how long.

Add an image to the wiki you say. You'll be lucky!

*little rant alert* I haven't been able to add an image to the wiki or reliably edit/add text since September 2020, since changes were made to the hosting, server, or whatever it was. Just checked again and it's still playing up and giving me "403 Forbidden" errors all over the place. And when it does work it doesn't allow certain ASCII characters so you have to go through removing brackets, hyphens, & symbols etc etc until you can work out which one it is throwing a wobbly at.

See if you can add an image to a random page Rich or Ralf (I can't even do anything in the media manager, it hangs and often tells me I don't have the rights or totally crashes with the usual 403 Forbidden)...

Also, try an edit an old page that contains lots of text and different characters - add some other odd characters, quote marks, @, \ | ` etc and see if it'll let you save it.

I've given up on it completely, because frankly it's completely unusable (for me at least).

I've passed this upstream again. Sorry Chr$ but it's all above us at the host. All we can do is keep hassling

Cheers,
Norm.

Chr$ wrote:See if you can add an image to a random page Rich or Ralf

Ok, I can try to put an image there, but it would be good, if someone can make the page (as I do not know how).

I unfortunately can't put all the things of the mdv there, as it is very old and not newly felted. I only know about "room_bin" for the SuperBASIC Editor (agaim, see TT's "sedit" in Quanta libs). Perhaps they are listed in the manual. I will have a look.

RalfR wrote:Ok, I can try to put an image there, but it would be good, if someone can make the page (as I do not know how).

Try this Ralf: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/download ... dating.pdf Section 5.10.

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:Try this Ralf: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/download ... dating.pdf Section 5.10.

Ah, LaTex, isnt it?

Oh yes indeed! I used raw LaTeX for that one, but these days, I use LyX as my editor. The output is brilliant. (But feel free to disagree!)

Cheers,
Norm.

I got a bit tired of the "Computer Modern" serifed fonts that are used by default by most LaTex styles (Perhaps the name has grown a bit too inappropriate after 40 years?). I tend to use the sans-serif fonts these days that still look a bit more modern, even today (and are surprisingly close to what Sinclair used to use in their manuals).

NormanDunbar wrote:The output is brilliant. (But feel free to disagree!)

No, I have this fount always taken as the best! Otherways: The "Syntax" fount, used by Sinclair is of course more to the QL, isn't it? Do you have a Metafont Syntax?