A limited number of fonts are available in Multiplan; it does, though it have
several print options, including (a) printing with or without coordinates, (b)
printing with or without cells, and (c) printing in condensed or draft form.
If you wish, you can vary the font used in Multiplan by moving the text into a
MacWrite document:
1. Simply cut or copy the desired cells.
2. Quit and eject Multiplan.
3. Without rebooting, insert the MacWrite disk.
4. Start up an application.
5. Paste in your model.
6. Customize the type style of the text as you wish.
MacPaint also accepts graphics created in MS-BASIC. To move such a document
into MacPaint:
1. Enlarge the MS-BASIC output window to its full extent.
2. Run your graphics program.
3. Key in SHIFT-COMMAND-3. This dumps the screen to disk.
4. Open and modify the resulting Screen file in MacPaint.
5. Move the MacPaint document to MacWrite.
Though the MS-BASIC editor only uses the clipboard for single lines, MS-BASIC
programs can write many lines of text to the Clipboard. At present, MS-BASIC
does not write graphics to the Clipboard, but it does have text-only access to
the Clipboard's facilities through the device name CLIP:. Here is a pair of
programs to demonstrate the use of CLIP:; note that the programs do file I/O
with text created by the program.
10 REM Writes to Clipboard 10 REM Gets data from Clipboard
20 Open "CLIP:" for output as #1 20 Open "CLIP:" for input as #1
30 For i=1 to 10 30 While not EOF (1)
40 Write#1: ,"Hi, I'm Macintosh!" 40 Input #1,A$
50 Next i 50 Print A$
60 Close #1 60 Wend
70 Close #1
You can also use MS-BASIC to manipulate Multiplan data. The working solution
elaborates upon the Clipboard example shown above. See Appendix H of the
MS-BASIC manual for more details.