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<!-- $XConsortium: glossary.sgm /main/4 1996/09/26 18:36:51 cdedoc $ -->
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<Glossary Id="INFOUG.Gloss.div.1">
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<Title>Glossary</Title>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Auto Track</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Book List window: Options menu: Use to control whether or not the
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Information Manager shows you where you are in the information library
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hierarchy.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>book</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An electronic book. See also <emphasis>bookcase</emphasis> and
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<emphasis>information library</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A group of electronic books on related topics. A logical set of
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information (perhaps several related books) that is accompanied by a
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single full-text index. A bookcase and style sheets represent the
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minimum collection of information that can be built into an information
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library. See also <emphasis>information library</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase DTD</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The document type definition that defines the structure of the
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specification files used to build books for the Information Manager. See
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also <emphasis>document type definition</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase specification</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An SGML document that contains or specifies the book files, style
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sheets, and other SGML entities necessary to build an information
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library.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>book list</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The list of bookcases and books available from the Information Manager.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Book List window</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The Information Manager dialog box that provides access to information
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stored in an information library for on-line display or printing.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>bookmark</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An Information Manager marker that users can create to annotate specific
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text or graphics in an information library. The Information Manager
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represents a bookmark as an icon in the left margin of a reading window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Bookmark Editor</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The dialog box that appears when you double-click on a bookmark icon in
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a Reading window. Use to view and edit existing bookmarks and notes.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>browse</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>1) To scan a collection, such as a database, a File Manager view, a list
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box, or a text file, either for a particular item or for anything that
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seems to be of interest; implies observing rather than changing
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information.
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</para>
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<para>2) Searching by examining and scrolling through screens or windows of
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data.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>connector button</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Query Editor: Use to include another term in a search.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Create Bookmark</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create a blank bookmark within a
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section in an active reading window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Create Note</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create an annotated bookmark within a
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section in an active Reading window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Detach Graphic</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>menu item: Use to copy a selected graphic image into a separate window
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called a Detached Graphic window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Detached Graphic icon</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An icon that marks where a graphic has been detached.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Detached Graphic window</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The window dialog box that appears when you detach a graphic.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel control</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Front Panel: An object in the Front Panel used as an interface to basic
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system services and frequently performed tasks and operations. Use the
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specific control name where appropriate. Controls in the default Front
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Panel are: the Clock control, the Calendar control, the File Manager
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control, the Text Editor control, the Mailer control, the Printer
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control, the Style Manager control, the Application Manager control, the
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Information Manager control, and the Trash Can control.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>graphical map</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A visual representation of a book's organizational structure in which
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the book's section titles are displayed as a graphical "tree".
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Go</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Reading window: Go menu: Use to navigate sequentially through an
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information library or to return to sections you've previously read.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>hypertext table of contents</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A hypertext hierarchical list of section titles. Hypertext TOCs organize
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sections of online book titles within the Information System.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>infolib</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The set of files, including SGML instances, graphics, and indexes, that
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comprise an information library. See <emphasis>information
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library</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Info Manager</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>See <emphasis>Information Manager</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>information library</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A set of bookcases, where each bookcase contains a set of books, and
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where each book contains sections.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Information Manager</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The software application that permits you to browse and search collections
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of online documentation, called information libraries.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Information System</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The information libraries (the data), the Information Manager (the viewer)
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and the Information System Developer's Toolkit (the development tools).
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Information System Developer's Toolkit</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The set of tools and APIs that allow Information System authors
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to write, process, and view information libraries.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>link</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A hypertext reference to a locator. The content of a link represents an
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active area within the Information Manager. See
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<emphasis>locator</emphasis>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>List Marks</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Reading window: Marks menu: Use to list all of your blank and annotated
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bookmarks.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>locator</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An anchor point in a document to which hypertext links can refer. Each
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locator has an associated identifier that is unique throughout the
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information library.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Marks</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create, edit, and delete bookmarks.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>panner box</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A two-dimensional interactive panner within an Information Manager
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Graphical Map that allows you to shift the part of the map that is
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visible within the reading window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>pinned window</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A reading window that is marked so that the text displayed in the window
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is retained when a link is followed, and a new window is opened for the
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new text. If a window is not pinned, the Information Manager updates the
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text in the current reading window each time a link is followed.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Print Setup</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A dialog box that allows you to specify printer settings for the
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currently selected printer, such as page orientation (portrait or
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landscape), one- or two-sided printing, or which paper tray to use.
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Calendar, Information Manager, Mailer, and Text Editor display this
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dialog box when you double-click on the Setup button in their print
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dialog box.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Query Editor</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The dialog box that allows you to define detailed searches of an
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information library.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Reading window</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The Information Manager window that shows the text, tables, and graphics
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of a particular section in a book.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Search Results window</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A window that displays a list of sections that contain search matches.
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The Information Manager displays a Search Results window upon completion
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of a search.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>search scope</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The scope of books and types of information that an Information Manager
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query will search.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>Search Scope Editor</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The dialog box that allows you to create custom search scopes.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>section</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A single unit of documentation that is displayed within an Information
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Manager Reading window.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry><glossterm>View</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An icon and a menu item that allows you to open a Reading window on a
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selected section.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</Glossary>
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