RISC OS (3) manuals

Hi,

There used to be 2 manuals with Acorn’s machines (RISC OS3). Are these manuals still available? Perhaps in digital form?

I’m looking for the right command syntax for drawtext. With drawtext you could utilise fonts, colums etc… within a draw-text-box. Since it’s been ages that I used draw I can’t remember these commands anymore. Old age I presume.

Thanks in advance,

Manu

The two manuals with RISC OS 3 were the User Guide and the Application Guide.
Later RISC OS 3 computers came with one combined manual. Combined as in ‘one print binding’ but the actual manuals remained the same i.e the second manual started half way through with second page 1.
I’m sure drawtext must be documented somewhere for RISC OS 3.5 and onwards but I don’t know and all my manuals are at work.
Where we have I think every RISC OS printed manual that came with any RISC OS 3 and later computers.

Do you mean the Draw text area object? That’s documented in PRM4-468

I assume you actually mean the Draw textarea commands, for formatting etc. within a text area, which have been there since Draw was first available? They’re documented here RiscWorld Vol 4

Last time I checked, the text markup needs to terminate with a new line or Draw complains – I couldn’t see that mentioned in the RiscWorld link above, so thought I’d mention it.