The Cartobibliography Application

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This cartobibliography application has four main parts, each presented in its own window:

• Table of Contents – This is the window that is displayed when you start up the program. Like the table of contents in a book, it lists the chapters or sections. The table of contents window provides buttons to click that bring up any particular chapter or section.
• The Cartobibliography List – This is the full list of the maps. This window shows you either the entire list (as a scrollable list) or it shows the details for any individual map. A pair of tabs let you switch between the “list mode” and the “item details” mode. This window is initially displayed when it is selected from the table of contents.
• Text window – All chapters or sections of the cartobibliography, other than the Cartobibliography List, are displayed in a text window. The text chapters or sections are displayed when they are selected from the table of contents.
• Image windows – Clicking on any thumbnail image in the Cartobibliography List window brings up a separate, resizable, window displaying a map image. A button on these windows lets you switch between displaying the image scaled to the window size or displaying the image at its full size. (Text windows can also contain links that, when clicked on, will bring up image windows.)

Use of the table of contents window, the text window, and the image windows is pretty much self-explanatory. Use of the Cartobibliography List, too, is mostly fairly obvious. However this window has a number of features and capabilities that may not be obvious, so, other than the immediately following section, the rest of this user’s guide is a description of the use and features of the Cartobibliography List.

Though the use of the text window is pretty obvious, there are a few capabilities, mostly available from the menus, that should be mentioned:

• You can print the contents of the Text window (choose Print from the File menu).
• You can change the font size of the displayed text (choose Small, Medium or Large Font from the Edit menu).
• You can select portions of the text with your mouse. Selected text is displayed with a gray background. You can copy selected text to the clipboard by choosing Copy from the Edit menu. The copied text is available to be pasted into any other application.
• You can search for text, by selecting Find from the Search menu.
• You can use the Windows menu to bring forward any of the other open windows (Table of Contents, Cartobibliography List, or any open image window).
• The text window contents may include some hyperlinks, short sections of text displayed in blue and underlined. Clicking on a hyperlink will result in one of the following things being displayed (often involving bringing forward a different window): An image (in an image window); the details for a particular map (in the Cartobibliography List window); a web page (in your web browser); a different text chapter or section (replacing the current contents of the text window).

The Cartobibliography List is the heart of the application. Read Using the Cartobibliography List to learn about the general features and usage of this window. For certain of the available features there are added help pages:

Sorting the Cartobibliography List

Filtering the Cartobibliography List

Selecting Fields for the List View

Setting User Preferences

For technical support regarding this cartobibliographic software, contact:

MapRecord Publications

60 Shepard St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

Tel: 1-617-661-3718

Fax: 1-617-868-1229

e-mail: support@maprecord.com