Apex Language Processor(ALP)

Summary of all ALP commands

Main menus and Sub menus

D Edit Menu
Q Quick
O Onscreen
K Block
P Print Menu
ALT Menu 

General

^R Allows recalling the previously specified filename, whenever a prompt requires a filename to be specified
^U Aborts an unfinished command,or a command underway
Esc This key, can also be used for aborting an unfinished command, or a command underway

Function Keys

Set Help level F1 , F2
Invoke Spellchecker 
F3
Invoke Spellchecker setup F4
Keyboard Macros F5
Keyboard Help   F7
Save and Continue (^KS) F9
Save and goto Main Menu (^KD) F10

Cursor Commands

Character Left Left arrow or ^S
Character Right 
Right arrow or ^D
Line Up Up arrow or ^E
Line Down Down arrow or ^X
Page Up Pg Up or ^R
Page Down Pg Down or ^C
Line Start  Home or ^QS
Line End End or ^QD
Screen Top ^QE
Screen Bottom ^QX
File Start ^QR
File End ^QC
Page Number  ^QI
Word Left  ^A
Word Right ^F

Deletion Command

Delete Left Character  BackSpace or ^H
Delete Character block  Del or ^G
Delete Current Line ^Y
Delete Right Word ^T
Paste Deleted Text  (undo) ^U

File Functions

Read File ^KR
Write Block to File ^KW
Save and Continue F9 or ^KS
Save and Exit ALP ^KX
Save and go to Main Menu F10 or ^KD
Quit to Main Menu  ^KQ

File Operations

Copy File ^KO
Erase File ^KJ
Rename File ^KE
Change logged Drive ^KL
Run DOS Command   ^KR
                                                    
File Formatting Functions

Format paragraph ^B
Centre Text ^OC
Set Left Margin ^OL
Set Right Margin  ^OR
Format rest of File  ^QU
Set Ruler On / Off ^QT
Release Margin  ^OX
Set Spacing ^OS
Set Justify On / Off ^OJ
                                      
Block Commands

Mark Block start  ^KB
Mark Block end ^KK
Copy Block ^KC
Move Block ^KV
Hide/Show Marked Block ^KH
Delete Block ^KY
Format Block to a Paragraph ^N
Go to Start of the Block ^QB
Go to End of the Block ^QK
Uppercase conversion ^K"
Lowercase conversion ^K'
Sentence conversion   ^K

Search and Replace Functions

Find String ^QF
Find & Replace String ^QA
Repeat Last Find ^L
                                                  
Marker Functions

Set Marker ^K1 to ^K9
Go to Marker  ^Q1 to ^Q9
                                                   
Dot Commands

Lines per page 
.PL
n
Line Spacing
.LS
n
Left Margin
.LM
n
Right Margin 
.RM
n
Page Offset for Print
.PO
n
Page Offset Even
.POE
n
Page Offset Odd
.POO
n
Top Margin 
.MT
n
Header Margin
.HM
n
Header Text
.HE
text
Header Even
.HEE
text
Header Odd
.HEO
text
Bottom Margin
.MB 
n
Footer Margin 
.FM
n
Footer Text 
.FO
text
Footer Even
.FOE
text
Footer Odd 
.FOO
text
Omit Page Number Printing
.OP
Print Page Numbers
.PG
Page Number 
.PN
n
Page Number Column 
.PC
n
Force Page Break
.PA
Print lines on single page
.CP
n
Comment
..
text
Auto Word wrap On/Off
.AW
Justification on/off 
.OJ
on/off
Table of Contents
.TC
Mail merge data file definition
.DF
Mail merge read variables
.RV
Mail merge set variable
.SV
Set default script 
.SC
(Script mnemonic)

ALT Menu

Attr Bold, Italics, Underline, Expand, Highlight, Top Top, Low Low, Reverse
Script Set Default Script
Font AS, BN , DV, GJ , KN, ML, OR, PN, TL, TM
You can mix the attributes Normal, Expand, Double, Double & Expanded
Print Driver: Epson, IBM,LserJet, Lq_Epson, Pin24
  FF
  Page
  Lpt
Option Num_script
  Highlight
  eXpand
  Save_setup