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COMMENT EDITOR
This file contains information about the comment editor for Main Menu
options 4 and 5, Subjects and Synonyms, respectively. The comment editor is
the part of The CONSTITUTION Notebook Program that lets you type in your
thoughts concerning interpretation of the Constitution. Your comments can
be typed in the rightmost column of the secondary screen for Subjects. Your
comments for Synonyms are entered in the rightmost column of the Synonym
screen.
Accessing the Comment Editor
Accessing the Comment Editor is slightly different for Subjects and
Synonyms. A procedure for each follows.
To access the Comment Editor for Subjects, proceed as follows:
1) Select Main Menu option 4.
2) Access a topic. (Highlight a selection and press ENTER.)
3) Press the TAB key until the flashing cursor appears in the top left
corner of the rightmost column of the screen.
To access the Comment Editor for Synonyms, proceed as follows:
1) Select Main Menu option 5.
2) Access a topic.
a) Press the TAB key once. The highlighting moves to the second
column.
NOTE: If the Highlighting does not move to the second column, it
is because no Synonym headings have been created. To create a
Synonym heading, select a word of interest in the left column and
press ENTER. Then start at step a.
b) Highlight the desired heading.
c) Press ENTER.
3) Press the TAB key until the flashing cursor appears in the top left
corner of the rightmost column of the screen.
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Exiting the Comment Editor
To exit the Comment Editor, press the TAB key or the ESC key. In either
case, the flashing cursor disappears from the rightmost column and
highlighting appears in the leftmost column.
NOTE: On older computers, a delay up to 15 seconds can occur when you exit
the comment editor. This delay is normal for the TCN program. Your
computer is not locked up. This delay never occurs when you only browse
comments without making changes. It occurs as a seminar gets full of
comments. If you add or delete one or more lines of comments in one of the
first titles (as determined by where it is displayed) in the list of titles,
the delay is most pronounced.
Using the Comment Editor
The following material describes modes of the Comment Editor and actions of
the various keys.
The Comment Editor operates in an insert mode or a strikeover mode
controlled by the INSERT key. An underline cursor indicates insert
mode. On most computers strikeover mode is indicated by a rectangular
cursor. On some computers, the strikeover cursor is a line at the top
of the letter and another line at the bottom of the letter.
Each letter you type appears where the cursor is and the cursor is
moved to the right one space or to the next line.
In the insert mode, when you type a character, text beginning at the
cursor and the cursor itself moves one space to the right and the
character you typed appears where the cursor was. When appropriate,
words are wrapped to the next line and the cursor moves to the next
line.
In the strikeover mode, when you type a character, the character you
type replaces whatever was there and the cursor moves to the right one
space or to the next line.
If you press the ENTER key in the insert mode, a new line is created
with text at and to the right of the cursor on it. If the line is not
wrapped properly, place the cursor past the end of the last word on it
and press the DELETE key.
If you press the ENTER key in the strikeover mode, the cursor is moved
to the beginning of the next line. If you press the ENTER key while
the cursor is on the last line of your comments, a new line is created.
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To delete a character in either mode, place the flashing cursor under
the character and press the DELETE key. Use the BACK SPACE key to
erase the character to the left of the cursor.
To delete a blank line in either mode, place the flashing cursor
anywhere on the line and press the DELETE key. If the last line of
your comments is a blank line, it cannot be deleted.
To control the position of the flashing cursor without typing text, use
the HOME, END, PG UP, PG DN, and the cursor movement (arrow) keys.
Until you enter comments for a topic, only the ENTER key, the right
arrow key and the down arrow cursor keys will move the cursor.
If you have two or more lines of comments (even if they are blank), the
HOME key and the END key will move the flashing cursor to the first and
last line, respectively, of your comments. The column is not affected
with the END key. The HOME key moves the flashing cursor to the first
character in the first line.
If the flashing cursor is not in the first column of the first line,
the left arrow key (or CTRL-L combination) will move the cursor to the
left one space or up one line.
If the flashing cursor is not on the first line of comments, the up
arrow key will move the cursor toward the first line one line at a
time. The cursor stays in the same column.
Until you have 14 or more lines of comments, the PG UP key and the
PG DN key have no effect.
Once you type 14 or more lines, the PG UP key will move the text 13
lines toward the first line. If the first line of comments is on the
screen, the PG UP key has no effect. The cursor stays in the same
column on the same line of the screen.
Once you type 14 or more lines, the PG DN key will move the text 13
lines toward the last line. If the last line of comments is on the
screen, the PG DN key has no effect. The cursor stays in the same
column on the same line of the screen.
Suggestions for Content of Your Comments
While the cross referencing functions of The CONSTITUTION Notebook Program
limit you strictly to internal parts of the Constitution, the Comment Editor
does not so restrict you.
In your comments, you can interpret indexes related to the current
topic.
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You can cite other topics indexed in the same seminar.
You can cite other topics indexed in different seminars.
You can cite topics indexed in other versions or portions of the
Constitution.
You can cite relevant Court cases or Supreme Court cases.
You can cite titles, authors, and pages of relevant research material.
Saving Your Comments
To save your comments, press the ESC key until the Main Menu appears. If
desired, you can access your comments again for further editing. Do not
turn your computer off after entering comments until you exit from The
CONSTITUTION Notebook Program using Main Menu option 1. If you do, results
are unpredictable.
Printing Your Comments
To print your comments, press the TAB key as required to highlight the title
of your topic and press the F7 key. Your comments are printed following the
title of the topic, the list of related words, and the list of indexed
phrases.
Exporting Your Comments
To export your comments, press the TAB key as required to highlight the
title of your topic and press the F5 key. Prepare the appropriate disk
drive if exporting to a floppy drive; enter a drive specifier, path,
filename and extension and press ENTER. Your comments are exported to the
file you specified. The format of the export file is the same as the
printout obtained using the F7 key as described in the preceding procedure.
That is, your comments follow the title of the topic, the list of related
words, and the list of indexed phrases.
When accessing the exported file with a word processing application, specify
carriage return at the end of lines if prompted for this information.
If you erroneously press the F5 key, press the ESC key to exit without
exporting a topic. Control of the program resumes with the highlighting on
the title of your topic.
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