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User Guide small corrections
This page provides a place to log suggestions for the subediting of, and other small corrections to, a future edition of the RISC OS 5 User Guide. It may also be used to log reminders of changes in the OS or its apps that require updates in a new User Guide.
Entries made here before publication of User Guide issues 1 and 2 remain retrievable by opening previous revisions of the page. Please use that facility to check if a suggestion you have now was turned down or commented upon by an Editor of a previous issue.
The current RISC OS 5 User Guide is issue 2 (October 2020) and describes OS 5.28. It is available as a paperback book from ROOL here.
We are very grateful to all contributors to this page for making the current issue as complete and error free as it is. Thank you, everyone!
Small corrections
Please preface your entry with “Chapter Title/Page Number” with a little context either side to help locating:
User Guide, issue 2, October 2020
Administrative note: The User Guide issue 2 PDF is password-protected (you cannot copy text, so including text for “context” has to be done the hard way). Hopefully, the work-in-progress drafts will not be restricted in this fashion.
Edit/265
The third item in the table (“Reformat all lines of a paragraph to a given length”) states “Place the cursor anywhere in the paragraph”. It should instead state “Place the cursor in the first line to be reformatted”.
Draw/316
In the section “Selecting and deselecting objects”, add the text:
If you have more than one Draw window open, only one of them can be in Select mode at a time. Choosing the Select tool in a second window will cause the first window to switch to another tool. See “Working with multiple Draw files” on page 348 for details.
Draw/317
After “Anything pasted from the clipboard replaces the current selection” add the text:
If no object is currently selected, the pasted object will appear at the current pointer position.
Draw/348
In “Working with multiple Draw files” the method of copying an object is incorrect. Amend the text as follows:
Select the object you want to copy and press Ctrl-C. Now move the pointer to the destination Draw window and press Ctrl-V: the object will be pasted at the current pointer position.
The next paragraph also needs a slight amendment:
So, if you select an object in one window and click on the Select tool in another window, the first window is no longer in Select mode and the selection is nullified. This does not affect the clipboard contents in any way. Additionally clicking on the Draw icon to create a new diagram nullifies any current selection.
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