Tutorial

There are six commands on the reference card indented one level under NEW: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, PARAGRAPH, and MODE. They correspond to six of the options on ThinkTank’s NEW Com— mand menu and they allow you to specify what kind of new material to add and where. Press N (the command key for NEW)

to display this menu, which is shown in Figure 3—5.

There is a seventh option on the NEW Command Menu ——

ESCAPE —— that’s not listed under NEW on your reference card. That’s because ThinkTank’s escape valve, which stops whatever you’re doing, is always an option. It’s listed separately on the reference card under “Notes.”

You can reach these NEW options only by selecting the NEW command first. In ThinkTank terminology, these options are beneath or under NEW; they are one level deeper or subordinate to NEW in ThinkTank’s command structure. On the reference card, and in ThinkTank in general, this relationship is expressed by levels of indentation from left to right.

The reference card is a map of ThinkTank

in which one level of indentation corresponds to one level deeper in the command structure.

Now press N to select the NODE option from the NEW Command Menu. MODE disappears from the menu but a new option, EDIT, replaces it as shown in Figure 4—1. The explanation line reads TEXT EDITOR FOR HEADLINES. On the reference card, EDIT is indented one level under NODE (which is indented one level under NEW). In other words, to reach the “headline editor” from the NEW Command Menu, you must go through NODE first.

Notice that EDIT appears twice under “Adding Information” on the reference card, once under MODE and once under PARAGRAPH. As you can see from the two entries, each EDIT has a different meaning; EDIT under PARAGRAPH gets you to the TEXT EDITOR FOR PARAGRAPHS. Some other commands (such as DELETE and COPY) also have more than one meaning in ThinkTank, depending on the context in which they appear. In all cases, the appropriate meaning will be clear from the screen, the reference card, and the reference guide.

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