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The on-line help is kept as simple as possible, because it
is possible to read this user manual as HTML document,
including hyper-links and with an index and a table of contents.
It is not our intention to duplicate everything in the
form of on-line help built-in in the editors. There is a collection
of Help menu entries
and each Help menu entry pops up a text view dialog.
The on-line help contains the basic bare minimal that you have
to know to be able to work with the editor. From the on-line help dialog you can save
the text to a file, print it as PostScript or you can copy some
of it to the clipboard. Furthermore, there is a Find command.
The Help menu of the editors contains the following topics:
- Getting Started
advises what you can do best when you start up this tool for
the first time.
- Introduction to Tool
tells something about the software specification technique
that this tool is intended to support.
- Main window
explains the functions of all the components that you see in the main
window.
- Mouse commands
explains what mouse acrobatics you need to create and update the
document of your dreams.
- Edit menu commands
explains the function of each command in the edit menu.
- File menu commands
explains loading from file and saving to file.
- Print & Page commands
tells how you can print or export as PostScript, including
how you change the page layout and set the printer options.
- Miscellaneous commands
contains some other things that are worth to mention like fonts,
find and replace, zooming, etc.
- Version
reveals when and by whom TCM is made.
- Copyright.
TCM does not have copyleft but copyright.
See question A.12 in the FAQ.
- Change Log.
Show the change log, i.e. the differences between the consecutive
versions of TCM.
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Frank Dehne,Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11/17/1997