Archive Magazine 1997/ARCHIVE_97.iso/text/hints/vol_09/issue_09

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Hints and Tips
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Impression shortcuts Ö I used to find it difficult in Impression to
remember which was which of the two key shortcuts for super- and
subscripts, <shift-ctrl-J> and <shift-ctrl-K>, until I decided to let
<J> stand for ÉJumpæ and <K> for ÉKneelæ. Now I have no problems anymore
with that!
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(Similarly, for kerning, thereæs <shift-U> and <shift-J>, so I think of
<U> for ÉUpæ and then as <J> is below <U> on the keyboard, thatæs easy
to remember. Then there is <shift-E> which Expands the gap between
letters and <shift-R> which Reduces it. Ed.)
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Christian Puritz <[e-mail]>
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Marcel help Ö Because I send and receive so many emails, Marcel soon
begins to slow down due to the huge mail files created. (I checked my
ÉSentæ file today and it had 190 messages in it, covering the last two
weeks.) I therefore have to Éemptyæ it reasonably regularly. Also, I was
rather exercised by the fact that I wasnæt archiving my in-coming emails
Ö just replying to them and deleting them. What happens if I want to
refer to them again later? I would be interested to hear other peopleæs
solutions, but mine is as follows...
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On a separate hard disc, in a ÉBackupæ directory, Iáhave two text files;
SentEmails and Received. All Iádo is double-click the SentEmails file
which loads into Edit and then drop the Marcel Sent file into it, press
<f3> and save it again. This works because, although Marcel mail files
have a different filetype, they are basically just textfiles. Finally, I
delete the Marcel Sent file. Next time I send an email, Marcel notices
there is no Sent file and prompts me, and I let it create a new one. I
do a similar thing to archive the incoming email by dropping Marcelæs
INBOX file into a textfile called Received in the same backup directory.
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I suppose you could do a similar sort of backup system within Marcel,
but the files would have to be kept within the Marcel directory. So, you
could put a backup Marcel file called, say, S, in a sub-directory of the
Mail directory called, say, Z. You would then open the Sent file in
Marcel, Select All and then Move To Z.S and then click on the Ébinæ in
the Sent file display.
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The drawbacks with this are (a) it only works if using a subdirectory,
i.e. you canæt put it on a different hard drive and (b) you have to
actually open your Sent file in Marcel (rather than in Edit) which, with
190 messages, can take quite a few seconds. Also, if you ever tried to
open the Z.S file with hundreds of messages in it, youæd need to go for
a long tea-break. You can, of course, open a Marcel file in Edit by
holding down <shift> and double-clicking, but if your finger slips off
the shift key or if you forget to press it, the resultant hold-up can be
very frustrating!
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Ed.
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Sibelius lyrics Ö In Sibelius, lyrics below a stave can be deleted by
clicking on a word until it goes red ... then pressing Édeleteæ. When
the word extends over more than one note, it is followed by a Élyric
lineæ (word_______,). Usually, clicking turns the word and the lyric
line red at the same time.
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I deleted a word... but the lyric line remained black. Clicking on this
lyric line did not turn it red for deleting, and the more I clicked, the
longer the lyric line extended! It reached the end of the piece, and I
thought I was stuck with it and would have to type the piece again.
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Then, by chance, I clicked on the extreme righthand end of the lyric
line... Four pages of lyric line turned red... and I deleted it. Phew!
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John VEG Mitchell, Wishaw
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