

                   Gear Sub-Menu F2 Detailed Help Notes


        "Coordinate x-y help"
        Produces a graphic display that shows the screen coordinate
        system.   It shows the screen boundaries and the present plot
        boundaries and their coordinates.

        "Left margin of plot"
        Allows the user to move the left margin of the plot
        if you want to!  It is possible to move information
        off (or onto) the screen that is displayed to the
        right of the plot.  Not normally used but it may be
        useful.

        "Right margin of plot"
        Allows the user to move the right margin of the plot
        if you want to!  It is possible to move information
        off (or onto) the screen that is displayed to the
        right of the plot.  Not normally used but it may be
        useful.

        "Title for horizontal axis"
        Allows the user to change the bottom title on the x-axis.
        Whatever string the user types in will be displayed on the
        plot.  (79 chars max.)   The upper title of the plot
        is automatically generated from user input on the first
        page.  Normally this is "gear inches".

        "X-position of title"
        Allows the user put in the x-coordinate of where the
        x-axis title will be displayed on the display.

        "Y-position of title"
        Allows the user put in the y-coordinate of where the
        x-axis title will be displayed on the display.

        "2nd horizontal label."
        Allows the user to change the bottom title on the x-axis.
        Whatever string the user types in will be displayed on the
        plot.  (79 chars max.)   The upper title of the plot
        is automatically generated from user input on the first
        page.  Normally this is "cog".

        "Beginning (lowest) gear inch"
        Allows the user to customize the plot to the kinds of
        ratios they are using.  Enter a little less than the
        smallest gear inch ratio you are using.  For example
        if you have a granny 27 inch gear then you might
        put in 20 here.  If you are a racer with legs of
        iron and titanium knees then you might put in 40
        if the lowest you have is a 42 inch gear.

        "Ending gear inch value."
        Allows the user to customize the plot to the kinds of
        ratios they are using.  Enter a little more than the
        highest gear inch ratio you are using.  For example
        if you have a 100 inch gear then you might enter
        110 here.

        "Divisions on x-axis"
        Determines how many tick marks will be generated
        on the x-axis.  To pick nice numbers one might
        want to put a tick mark every gear inch so one
        would subtract the "Beginning..." from the
        "Ending..." above and enter it here.  For example
        if "Beginning..." was 20 and "Ending..." was 100
        then 80 would make one tick mark per gear inch.
        160 would make a tick mark every 1/2 gear inch
        etc.

        "Automatic tick mark update"
        This is a software switch that controls whether
        "Division on x-axis" above will be updated when
        "Beginning..." and/or "Ending..." values are
        changed.  Each tick will always be set to
        1 gear inch apart when this is on but the user
        may then change "Division..." manually even
        with this on.  Since some may would rather do
        things themselves they can turn this feature
        off and the only time "Divisions.." will change
        is when they do it themselves!

        "No. x-axis divisions before a label"
        Determines how many tick marks will be skipped before a
        label will be displayed.  This can be used to prevent
        overwriting of the horizontal labels.

