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- Documentation for !Thoughts Version 1.36 October 1990
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- Introduction
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- An ideas processor is an application designed to aid you in
- planning, either a letter or a project of some kind or any other
- textual document which may need some planning.
- An ideas processor is centred around a hierarchical structure of
- text under the following headings:
- TITLE
- HEADING
- SUB-HEADING &
- POINT
- Text can be manipulated freely between these headings, and then
- edited. The resulting ideas can then be printed and used as an
- aid for the creation of a document.
- You may be asking why bother? Well an ideas processor can
- actually save valuable time by reducing drafting and editing time
- which can result in a much clearer end document.
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- Directions for use
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- On loading you are presented with the icon on the icon-bar,
- clicking MENU will produce the menu with the info and quit
- options.
- Clicking SELECT or ADJUST on the icon will produce the main ideas
- window, where all your ideas will be shown.
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- Creating ideas
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- To create a new set of ideas click MENU in the ideas window, and
- a menu should appear. You may then select either Title, Heading,
- Sub-Heading, or Point, enter the text and press return or click
- on the icon to finalize the idea.
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- Editing
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- To edit an item you must first select it by either clicking with
- SELECT or ADJUST on the item you wish to edit, or enter its
- number manually from the first option in the select menu. Once an
- item has been highlighted it may be edited in one of these ways:
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- 1)Insert:-Enter the text you wish to insert before the currently
- selected item in the insert option on the select menu and press
- return etc. The text will be inserted at the status of POINT. To
- promote see the promote option.
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- 2)Delete:-Click SELECT or ADJUST on this option to delete the
- currently selected item.
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- 3)Copy:-Enter a number in the copy option in the menu to copy
- the currently selected item to, and press return etc.
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- 4)Swap:-Enter a number in the swap option in the menu to swap
- the currently selected item with, and press return etc.
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- The following two options are in the rank submenu:
- 5)Promote:-Click SELECT or ADJUST on this option to promote the
- currently selected item up one rank.
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- 6)Demote:-Opposite of above.
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- To change the currently selected item re-enter it via the title,
- heading, sub-heading, or point options on the enter menu.
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- Colours
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- Screen colours may be selected at will for Highlight (foreground
- highlight colour of text), Marker bar (background highlight
- colour), Backgound (window background) & Foreground (foreground
- text colour).
- To change defaults at start up see instructions for config file
- below.
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- Printing
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- To print a some or all of your edited ideas, move into the Print
- submenu and enter to number from which you wish to start from and
- the number on which you wish to finish on. To start printing
- click on the OK option.
- A dialogue box will appear to confirm selection. If the printer
- is not on line or connected, then an error message will appear,
- and by clicking OK you can then try to reprint.
- To change settings see instructions for config file below.
- N.B. Printing directly from !Thoughts through the RISC OS drivers
- is not yet possible.
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- Filing
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- Loading and saving is performed in the usual RISC OS manner, ie.
- You may either drag the icon to the directory viewer that you
- wish to save the file in, or the full name may be entered in the
- icon that displays the filename.
- Saving is only performed up to the currently selected item.
- As well as a normal save option, a save text option is also
- provided to save your current set of ideas as an ASCII text file
- suitable for loading into !Edit, Impression, or 1st Word+ etc.
- When using the save text option to save data, text may be
- directly passed to a text editor (!Edit) without going through a
- file first, however this is not possible when using the normal
- save option.
- NOTE:- Textfiles may NOT be loaded back into !Thoughts, so be
- careful when using this option to save data.
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- Configuring settings
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- By pressing shift and clicking on the !Thoughts icon and clicking
- SELECT the application directory should open to reveal a set of
- files one of which is named Config.
- This file contains configured options for the printer & screen
- colours. The current values may be substituted as needed.
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- Examples & Demos
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- The disk contains two demonstrations of what !Thoughts can do,
- one is a text file and the other is a loadable example file for
- you to play about with, to help you to learn to use the package
- to its full potential.
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- Updates & Problems
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- For latest versions and queries with software write to:
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- G. Rampton
- 367a Finchampstead Road,
- Wokingham,
- Berkshire,
- RG11 3JU.
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- If you yourself make any improvements or suggestions for
- improvements then I would be interested to hear from you.
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