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      Sections
        Keyboard Shortcuts 
        Input/Output Help 
        Screen Capture Help 
        Editing kinemages 
        Fonts, views, and cursors 
        Measures, rotations, and updates 
        Tools Help 
        Kludges and hypertext 
        Using the mouse 
        Docking 
        Resizing windows 
        Table Help 
        3D Literacy Test Help 
        Kinemage format keywords 
        Group,Subgroup,List parameters 
        Hypertext help 
        Docking help 
      about keyboard short-cuts
      a,Aanimateb,B2animate[,]cycles Aspects
      z,Z,x,Xtrue recentering recalculation along screen Z axis
      +1*, +10*, -1*, -10*motion (ztran just quick offset)
      n,Nninty degree Y-axis rotation
      1,2,3,4zoom +.01,+.1,-.01,-.1
      9,0TBstereo offset
      toggles
      sstereo
      ccross<->wall eyed
      kkaleidoscopepperspective
      fflat scroll -vs- xy rotation with mouse drag
      honly rotate around Y axis (horizontal)
      llist/point color dominant
      edetail-at-ctrddragline move/newg wht bkg
      tcycles line widthycycles color depths
      uremote update dialog.
      shiftkey downkeep detail, move dragline, reverse animate, restrict 
      rotation to starting axis.
      mclears measure's lines from screen.
      qbigger markerswbigger text.
      ^TOP^about input and output
      Open New File...(? save if kinemage has been edited)
      Append File...to current kinemage, inc. text
      Save As...regular output, writes a file with modified kin after pruning, 
      new draws, views, etc. (special option to write only currently Visible 
      Parts)
      Save Specialwrites a file with just the New parts added with Draw_New 
      functions, Rotatable parts, of bond-rotations (can append to an old file).
      Current View with zoom,zslab,center,matrix,viewID.
      Current XYZ point picked (e.g. for PREKIN focus).

      Questions and Answers from TEXT window.
      file for 2D rendering of image by Raster3D or POV-Ray.
      pointID re: @nowfind.
      palette re: @fullrgbpalette. 
      Write PostScript File2D image as currently displayed
      Quitsuggests write if kinemage changed.
      ^TOP^about screen capture
      MACINTOSH: screen capture key push (s and 4 keys pushed together)
      shift command s 4 
      hear a shutter noise; "Picture 1" (2 ...) saved as pict file
      view in SimpleText or some other plain viewer.
      ctrl shift apple s 4 (puts picture into clipboard)

      ^TOP^about editing kinemages
      Edit imageside panel buttons toggle choices
      Draw Newlines, labels, constructions, dragged-out lines
      Draw New Setup...shortened lines, arrows, etc.
      Construct 4th line after 3 new picks based on 4-pt 'measures'
      Arrows, multiple angles, perpendiculars
      Keep Current View...adds item to VIEWS menu
      Change Colorof point or list of picked point
      Prunedeletes PLL... points, 'Punch' only one, 'Auger' many
      Superpickalso picks 'U'npickable points
      Show Object Propertiesedit data hierarchy of picked point
      Text Editabletext and caption Cut, Copy, Paste.
      (can edit and use hypertext during a session)
      Table Celledits whole cells, not cell contents.
      (table cells relate to graphics points by {pointID} )
      (group parameter 'table' invokes a table window)
      ^TOP^about display options
      KINEMAGE next kinemage or choose numbered kinemage in open file. 
      Display options 
      Multi-widthline for depth cuing,
      or One Widthlines two pixels wide,
      or Thin Lineone pixel. 't' 
      5 depths of colors & line widths or just 3. 'y'
      PerspectiveFront larger, rear smaller (vs orthographic) 'p'
      Stereo Onside-by-side images 's'
      (cross-eye vs. wall-eye 'c')
      Compare Onside-by-side pair of animated groups
      Viewing Params...stereo: angle, separation, mode...
      List Colormade dominant over point color 'l'
      Lens at ctrlist points only show in center region 'e'
      Detail Level...as a function of update rate
      White BkgColors on white background
      B&WBlack on White (use with grayscale also)
      ^TOP^about fonts, views, and cursors
      Font Sizes...: control for lectures, etc.stroked font: MAGE mimics 2D 
      rendered font output.XY Scroll: (flatland) mouse motion->xy translations 
      'f'Y rotation: only, horizontal world view 'h'Kaleidoscope: no bkg clear: 
      smears image 'k'VIEWS menu 
      Undo Pickcenterback out of bad pick.
      View#go to that numbered, (named) view.
      Set Reader's Viewtemporarily save current appearance.
      Reader's Viewgo to appearance as Set.
      Cursor cues for Display modes, pick point at left arrow tip. 
      Cursor with I-beam on noseEdit Menu: text editable!
      Cursor crossed arrows2D xy scrolling, flatland 'f'
      Cursor with upper & lower barshorizontal rotations (y axis) 'h'
      ^TOP^about measures, rotations, and updates
      measures: distance between last 2 points picked
      simple & dihedral angles from last 4 points
      highlighted lines connect up to last 4 points
      dots for average of last 2,3,4,and 5 points shown
      measured dihedrals labeled is Draw New optionFFind point by name... ; 
      GFind Again
      Empowermentssubmenu of useful quickies
      Hide Measuresclear lines, dots from screen 'm'
      Restore Bond Rotationsto initial angles.
      Rotate 90 deg +'n', -: 'N' y axis
      Rotate 90 deg +, -, other axes
      Remote Update...from prekin, probe, etc. 'u'
      XYZ pointcoord of last picked point exhibited
      gnomonon center of rotation
      Rateupdates/sec exhibited
      Count#lines on, total# points, time
      Z limit extra for ON lists. Fine step amount choice.
      ^TOP^about kludges and hypertext
      Kludges: 
      Pick Markeraxial extentions for graph correlation.
      Mickey Mouser: autorock; R: autoanimate when empowered.
      Test Kin Formatstrict kinemage format during input
      Debug Testfor programer
      Cursor Choiceco-laboratory remote control prototypes
      Hypertext control showing alternate rotamers: 
      *{rot={name 1} #.#, rot={name 2} #.# ...}* 
      abr'rot=','rot ','r '
      where 'name 1' == the bondrot identifier string seen on the slider bar
      and #.# is the new value for that rotation angle
      If Update by PROBE active, hypertext 'rot' triggers an update.
      PREKIN after version 5.74 makes hypertext commands
      for rot/mutated residues
      'Append File' will append (hyper)text to text window 
      Show Object Propertiescan delete last rot group.
      Capture the foo (besides game mode) menuTools/Kludges/foo in cavity
      Pick point for initial foo, grow in cavity, surface the foo.
      Foo will coat a surface, and not puff out into the void.
      Note: Show Object Properties: group ignorable^TOP^about using the mouse
      MAGE cursor points active tip to left, shape indicates mode.
      Clicking the mouse button while the arrow cursor tip touches
      a point, writes that point's {point ID} to the screen, and
      distance to previous picked point.
      (use single or left mouse button)

      Moving the mouse while holding the button down (dragging) rotates image 
      Starting cursor in lower 5/6 screen rotates around x,y axes,Starting in 
      upper 1/6 of the screen, rotates around z axis,Shift--Drag intiates motion 
      only around initial starting axisRotation of the image continues to be 
      coupled to the hand motion
      exactly as it started no matter where the cursor moves on the screen.
      Thus the reader (lecturer) can place the cursor where convenient
      and can ignore it thereafter. 
      Option 2D scrolling 'f'

      ^TOP^about docking
      Docking Scope: contiguous groups all ON made mobile
      6 sliders: x,y,z screen axis rotations, translations, always active
      Shift-mouse-drag rotates mobile group(s)
      Mouse scrolls while ctrl (PC:alt) key held down
      Shift-ctrl-mouse-drag translates mobile groups

      Rotations are around screen center: re Pickcenter
      except rotation center moves with Shift-ctrl-mouse-drag.
      Note: 2D scrolling mode by 'f' key toggle:
      release resets rotation ctr to screen ctr.
      Toggle 'f' to reset center after mouse-drag operations.

      (use single or left mouse button)
      Docking mode pre-empts Shift-mouse-drag,
      so not restricted to initial direction (see mouse help).
      Docking scope activates [Edit/Draw New] dock3on3 button
      pick 3pts in ref, 3 in mobile: m1-->r1, m2-->r2, m3-->r3

      The game EGAM (Docking practice) use only 3on3 docking.
      EGAM immediately anneals in the moved object and
      regenerates another free mobile object.
      The multi-egamick-docking anneals only when another object
      is selected from the button panel.^TOP^about resizing windows
      The windows can be resized and repositioned.
      If a window gets hidden behind others 
      it can be brought to the front 
      by the Show commands under the Help pull-down-menu

      A combination of moving the window by 
      dragging the window's top bar and resizing using the
      hot point at the lower right corner of the graphics window
      allows control of the size and placement of the image.

      The Mac graphics window expansion box is at the far right of its
      title bar. Large monitors may need greater than default memory size.
      Before running MAGE, Get-Info on the Macintosh File
      pull-down-menu allows increasing the Minimum and Preferred Size.

      The PC graphics and kinemage control buttons are in separate windows.
      Blindly expanding the graphics can cover essential controls.

      The X-Windows graphics, text, caption, (and rotations bars) windows 
      are arbitrarily placed (and sized) by the current X client process. 
      Drag and resize them for your convenience.

      ^TOP^about tables
      Table: specify by @group {name} table
      naturally use wordlist of points with {pointID} and 



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