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| (//**Note**: The images shown are deliberately sized with a very small overall browser for ease of understanding and referencing all of the components within the window. The typical browser window displays many more index cards simultaneously.//) | (//**Note**: The images shown are deliberately sized with a very small overall browser for ease of understanding and referencing all of the components within the window. The typical browser window displays many more index cards simultaneously.//) | ||
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| ===== Toolbar ===== | ===== Toolbar ===== | ||
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| * The [Document] group allows you to control if and how the final Document is displayed on screen, and whether it should display the summary text or the final document text in its styled form. | * The [Document] group allows you to control if and how the final Document is displayed on screen, and whether it should display the summary text or the final document text in its styled form. | ||
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| ===== Index Cards ===== | ===== Index Cards ===== | ||
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| + | {{:lostplot:manual:indexcard_0001.jpg?nolink |}}The majority of the work that you will undertake within **//LostPlot//** will be connected with an Index Card. Initially, you will create one or more Index Cards summarising the overall plan of your document, then later creating more to fill in the gaps between key turning points, move them around to change the order of events. | ||
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| + | Each index card is a self-contained component of your document and represents the summary and details of that single section. When assembled together, in the order that you specify, they form the overall document. | ||
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| + | On initial creation, an index card is assigned the [Standard] arc tag which results in them being displayed in grey. You can change the arc colour, as well as attached tags to arc colours to describe specific uses of that colour (e.g. 'Red' becomes 'Red (Peter's Arc)' etc.). The Title and Summary for the card can be changed directly on the card itself. The environmental details such as the location, time of day etc. can be changed by clicking the **__Details__** button ( ☰ ) and enter the full content editor (your final text) by clicking the **__Writer__** button ( 📇 ). | ||
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| + | Other controls on an index card allow you to move, resize and continue cards. | ||
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| ===== Document ===== | ===== Document ===== | ||
| + | {{ :lostplot:manual:document_0001.jpg?400|}} When turned on, the __**Document**__ pane takes up a portion of the right-hand side of the Workspace, from toolbar to the base of the window. The Document pane shows a fully formatted version of either the summary text in your index cards (useful during initial development) or your final document text (useful during actual authoring). | ||
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| + | The document can be placed into several modes by applying **style-sheets** to the raw text in your Index Cards. By //optionally// using MarkDown and Fountain (two popular sets of formatting codes) in your raw text, you can keep your original raw text very readable but at the same time provide information regarding how the text should be formatted in its final form. | ||
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| + | ===== Writer ===== | ||
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| + | {{:lostplot:manual:writer_0001.jpg?400 |}} The **__Writer__** is effectively **//LostPlot's//** 'word processor', but in an extremely stripped down fashion so as to focus attention on the content, rather than what the content looks like. | ||
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| + | **Writer** can be configured with different typefaces and text sizes to fit your writing environmental preferences, but these do not influence the appearance of the final document (though MarkDown and Fountain codes do). | ||
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| + | Any Writer window refers to the **__Content__** of a single Index Card at a time, but can be used to flick back and forth between cards. You can have multiple Writer windows open at the same time if you need to compare the Content of different cards. | ||
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| - | [[:start|Pergamon Wiki Home]] | + | [[:start|Pergamon Wiki Home]]\\ |
| + | [[LostPlot:home|LostPlot Home]]\\ | ||
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