Help System Overview
The Cosmo Create help system is a set of HTML pages. These pages live
locally on your system in the /usr/share area. Some things to
know about while using the help system:
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The help cards are organized into two main categories: tasks and reference. The tasks
are all the items that appear in the middle section of the help menu
(such as Creating a New Document, Creating and Editing Links, and so
on) and their associated help cards; they describe how to do
things. The reference cards describe the various pieces of the Cosmo
Create interface; there are reference cards on the tool bar, the
palettes, and so on.
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A number of graphical Quick
Reference Cards provide a quick overview of the more
complicated parts of the Cosmo Create interface, such as the Background
& Text Colors dialog.
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You can quickly access the help cards for different parts of the
interface with the Click for Help item in the Help menu. Choose Click
for Help, and then click in the portion of the interface you want help
on.
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Actions are frequently in shorthand in the help cards. For example,
instead of saying "Pull down the File menu and choose Open..., the
instruction is simply "Choose File > Open."
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You can also access an HTML
Tag Reference and the CosmoCreate man
page and release
notes from the Help menu.