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There are six commands on the reference card indented one
level under NEW: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, PARAGRAPH, and MODE.
They correspond to six of the options on ThinkTank’s NEW Com—
mand menu and they allow you to specify what kind of new
material to add and where. Press N (the command key for NEW)
to display this menu, which is shown in Figure 3—5.
There is a seventh option on the NEW Command Menu ——
ESCAPE —— that’s not listed under NEW on your reference card.
That’s because ThinkTank’s escape valve, which stops whatever
you’re doing, is always an option. It’s listed separately on
the reference card under “Notes.”
You can reach these NEW options only by selecting the NEW
command first. In ThinkTank terminology, these options are
beneath or under NEW; they are one level deeper or subordinate
to NEW in ThinkTank’s command structure. On the reference
card, and in ThinkTank in general, this relationship is ex-
pressed by levels of indentation from left to right.
The reference card is a map of ThinkTank
in which one level of indentation corresponds to
one level deeper in the command structure.
Now press N to select the NODE option from the NEW Com-
mand Menu. MODE disappears from the menu but a new option,
EDIT, replaces it as shown in Figure 4—1. The explanation
line reads TEXT EDITOR FOR HEADLINES. On the reference card,
EDIT is indented one level under NODE (which is indented one
level under NEW). In other words, to reach the “headline
editor” from the NEW Command Menu, you must go through NODE
first.
Notice that EDIT appears twice under “Adding Information”
on the reference card, once under MODE and once under
PARAGRAPH. As you can see from the two entries, each EDIT has
a different meaning; EDIT under PARAGRAPH gets you to the TEXT
EDITOR FOR PARAGRAPHS. Some other commands (such as DELETE
and COPY) also have more than one meaning in ThinkTank, depend-
ing on the context in which they appear. In all cases, the ap-
propriate meaning will be clear from the screen, the reference
card, and the reference guide.
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