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A comprehensive User Guide for RISC OS 5 is now available and can be downloaded inPDFdownloaded as a PDF form for personal use or, if you prefer a printed copy, can be purchased from the Miscellaneous Merchandise downloads page.
If The you intention prefer is to publish a printed new copy edition of the User Guide, Guide this to can coincide be with purchased each from stable the release ofMerchandiseRISC page. OS, so if you have any suggestions or corrections to feedback please visit theUser Guide update submissions? page or use the Reader’s Comments form on the back page.
Chapter contents
The User Guide contains chapters on the following subjects:
Part 1: Beginner’s concepts
- The RISC OS desktop
- Using the mouse
- Using the keyboard
- Windows
- Menus and dialogue boxes
- Using applications
- Files and directories
- Switching off the computer
Part 2: Managing the desktop
- The desktop
- Managing the desktop
- Changing the computer’s configuration
- The Boot application
- Using discs
- Other storage devices and filing systems
Part 3: Networking
- Local networks
- Setting up networking
- OmniClient
Part 4: Printing
- Setting up printers
- Printing your files
- PrintEdit
- FontPrint
Part 5: RISC OS applications
- RISC OS applications
- Using colour in applications
- Using fonts in applications
- Edit
- Draw
- Paint
- Alarm
- Help
- Chars
- CloseUp
- Maestro
- SciCalc
- Squash
Part 6: RISC OS diversions
- Blocks
- Flasher
- Hopper
- Madness
- MemNow
- Meteors
- MineHunt
- Patience
- Puzzle
Part 7: RISC OS utilities
- T1ToFont
- HForm
- ChangeFSI
- Usage
- Patch
- SparkFS
Appendices
- The command line
- Built-in application options
- BBC BASIC
- RISC OS file types
- Old-type screen modes
- Removing a disc defect
- Character sets
- Error messages
Obtaining the User Guide
A PDF version of the User Guide can be downloaded from the Miscellaneous downloads page.
If you prefer a printed copy of the User Guide, this can be purchased from the Merchandise page.
Updates and corrections to the User Guide
The intention is to publish a new edition of the User Guide to coincide with the next stable release of RISC OS, due later in 2020.
If you have spotted any errors in the existing User Guide, or if you have any suggestions for new material suitable for inclusion, you should in the first instance add your comments to the User Guide small corrections page.
A more structured approach to User Guide updates – as shown on the old User Guide update submissions? page – may be adopted as work progresses towards a new release, but for the time being all changes should be logged on the User Guide small corrections page.
Guidelines for textual submissions
Please read and adhere to the Tech Pubs Style Guide – for example, the text needs to use the correct tense, with no Americanizations, and you certainly don’t want no double negatives.
Please avoid putting too much work into the formatting of the wiki pages; ROOL will need to redo all of this when the work is folded into the master document so anything more than a gentle hint in the wiki pages will just create more work for ROOL (unformatting it all first).
Guidelines for image submissions
Before capturing screenshots you must
- Install the Manuals theme which is based heavily on the Sovereign desktop theme with alternative window furniture
- Use Homerton 12 point as the desktop font
- Disable the Wimp’s background tiling for all screenshots
- Turn off the iconise icon
- Capture in EX1 EY1 screen modes
These settings must be used for the whole manual to be consistent and for there to be consistency across the whole range of RISC OS books that ROOL publish. They are chosen so the icons are easily visible and print well in greyscale.
Images should be supplied in 24bpp colour PNG format and have no bleed area around them. Where menu trees are open the void space is solid white, not transparent.
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