General Description
This is the user defined version of wordsquare. You may select the words that you wish to have hidden in the wordsquare and then the computer will generate the wordsquare and dump it to your printer. You may then photocopy it and print it. I run a request service for this at school and it satisfies the requests from other departments admirably. Of course this does presuppose that you have a printer. If not then you will have to save this program till you acquire one. You can always use the next program meanwhile. Note that the printer defaults to a serial Epson set at 9600 baud with line feed not activated. These printer settings are at lines 70, 80 and 90. If you have a parallel printer then change line 70 to *FX5,1 - you will have to decide if you wish to suppress any characters as in line 90. The BBC User guide helps here.
Details Description
Lines 10-172 Clear variables. Lines 70 to 90 sets up printer. (These values may be changed depending on what sort of printer is being used.) In this section of the program, the cursor is turned off and the cursor keys disabled. Procedure calls.
180-240 Save array spaces and give X(N), Y(N) directional operations - e.g. vertical, horizontal, backwards etc. (eight different directions).
250-570 User to enter up to twenty words, each no more than seventeen characters in length. Errors can be deleted in the usual way. Only uppercase alpha characters will be accepted.
580-940 Prints user data to screen.
950-1050 Prints grid to screen.
Educational Notes
See comments on next wordsquare program.