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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

Latest draft

From time to time the draft is updated with the latest edits incorporated, though please note that index cross references between chapters may be stale in drafts due to the way the chapters are stored. 49 of 57 (85%) chapters complete.

Chapters not yet reviewed for being up to date

These chapters are either known to be missing RISC OS 5.30 features and details, or haven’t been checked yet.
6 (Apps); 10 (Task Manager); 11 (Configure); 12 (Boot); 26 (Draw); 27 (Paint); 32 (Maestro); 37 (Hopper).

Chapters reviewed and believed to be up to date

These chapters may still contain mistakes, but their content has been refreshed to match RISC OS 5.30.
1-5; 7-9; 13-25; 28-31; 33-36; 38-49; Appendix A-G

Pending edits

Setting up networking/167
Below each of the three icons is a dot/light that is green if that type of network is defined/active, and grey otherwise.

Index/571
configuration needs sub-entry ’networking 167’ or ‘network 167’.
Index/584
network needs sub-entry ‘configuration 167’.
(p81 does point to p167 and Index has p167 for hardware/configuration and configuration/hardware which should stay). Ed: the new entries will appear when the index is next regenerated

The desktop/46
Ctrl-Alt-Select-click on the Iconise icon similarly iconises all currently open windows either to Pinboard or to Icon bar according to Configuration Pinboard ‘Iconise to’ setting. See also this page.

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.

Changing the computer’s configuration/96
The method of permanently unlocking the computer is incorrect. Instead of using the “Change Password” screen, you should visit the “Unlock” screen twice in succession: the first visit unlocks temporarily, the second visit unlocks permanently.

SparkFS/487
Refers to ‘commercial version’ but the read/write version is now free.