RagTime 7 – For experts and SMEs
Contents
Title
Preface: RagTime – a phenomenon
1 Order at all levels
Formulas Part 1: And it works
2 RagTime at school
Formulas Part 2: Variety of buttons
3 Ready for print by notes
Formulas Part 3: In full swing
4 That's quite impressive
A Palettes
B Keyboard shortcuts
C About this book
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Contents
Title
Preface: RagTime – a phenomenon
1 Order at all levels
1.1 The Foyer: A good welcome
1.1.1 Directly to your own document
1.1.2 New beginning: what first?
1.1.3 Your own project panels
1.1.4 Favourites to the Foyer
1.2 The Inventory: stronger and clearer
1.2.1 This is new and different
1.2.2 The Inventory for beginners
1.2.3 Change names and sort
1.2.4 Structure the Inventory
1.2.5 Delete? Watch out!
1.2.6 Automatically deleting
1.2.7 The padlock
1.3 The «Auxiliaries» folder
1.4 Character style sheets
1.4.1 The Normal Character
1.4.2 Linguistics: dictionaries
1.4.3 Added value with value formats
1.4.4 Inherit where you can
1.4.5 Create character style sheets
1.4.6 Tips for font formatting
1.5 Paragraph style sheets
1.5.1 Paragraphs can also inherit
1.5.2 Widows/orphans
1.5.3 Connect paragraphs
1.5.4 Margins and line spacings
1.5.5 The fixed baseline
1.5.6 Jump with tabs
1.5.7 Tips for paragraph formatting
1.6 Color style sheets
1.6.1 Preset colors
1.6.2 Individually mixed colors
1.7 Colors for the second: fills
1.8 Line style sheets
1.9 “Unit style sheets”
1.10 Ruler style sheets
1.11 Valuable RagTime
1.12 Your own value portfolio
1.13 Uniform style sheets
1.14 Formatting as you like
Formulas Part 1: And it works
2 RagTime at school
2.1 Letterhead or RagTime 7?
2.2 Watermarks as aids
2.3 Subsequent master layouts
2.3.1 Detaching master layouts
2.4 Multilingual letterhead
2.5 Addresses as share capital
2.5.1 The file with header and planes
2.5.2 Import addresses
2.5.3 Three ways to good entries
2.5.4 Formulas for correction
2.5.5 «Mid» & «Length» in formulas
2.5.6 Mail merge with selection
2.5.7 Mail merge for browsing
2.5.8 «PrintCycle» for printing labels, too
2.6 Drawing location maps
2.6.1 The drawing component
2.6.2 Not only for drawings
2.6.3 Object coordinates everywhere
2.6.4 Cleverly aligned
2.6.5 Pipelines and drawings
2.6.6 Rulers and grid
2.6.7 Drawing utensils
2.6.8 A few blocks away
2.7 And now it's the students' turn
2.7.1 The calendar is scrollable
Formulas Part 2: Variety of buttons
3 Ready for print by notes
3.1 An activity report and more
3.2 Layouts and master layouts
3.3 What is a library?
3.4 The library mentality
3.5 Double-sided master layout
3.5.1 Automatic chapter titles
3.6 Layout: getting typesetting in shape
3.6.1 The text around the image
3.7 Excursion into eccentric typography
3.8 Flowing elements
3.9 Table layout – faster than ever
3.9.1 Design precise tables
3.9.2 Individual measurement units
3.9.3 Format ranges
3.10 Organizational chart: constantly new…
3.10.1 The spreadsheet planes
3.10.2 Horizontal pipelines
3.10.3 Arrange elements
3.10.4 Screwed skewing
3.11 A simple business graphic
3.12 Graphs without spreadsheet
3.13 Prepare “Ready for printing”
3.14 Convert – but with profile
3.15 Setting for halftone images
3.16 Exposing EPS files
3.17 Much much simpler – a PDF
Formulas Part 3: In full swing
4 That's quite impressive
4.1 Hiking regions in a 3D view
4.2 A 3-D area graph
4.2.1 Change the series
4.2.2 And then the background
4.2.3 Light and perspective
4.2.4 A second view
4.2.5 The simple section
4.2.6 The duplicated view
4.2.7 Distorting the dimensions
4.2.8 Side wall with axis lines
4.3 Bar graph with photos
4.4 Multi-axis graph
4.5 Bar graph with image
4.6 The spreadsheet as graph
4.6.1 Polygons according to plan
4.6.2 Color scale for percentages
4.6.3 Calculable colors
4.7 SlideTime – not only slide show
4.7.1 “Input not allowed!”
4.8 What is different about «SlideTime»
4.8.1 Highest level
4.8.2 Quick control
4.8.3 Control with formulas
4.8.4 SlideTime functions
4.8.5 Control with time entry
4.8.6 Control short or long…
4.8.7 Overview thanks to PDF
4.8.8 Slide show with sound and film?
4.9 A page-strong document
4.9.1 Master layout for all chapters
4.9.2 The “instructions for use”
4.9.3 A whole book with RagTime
4.10 What belongs in the report
4.10.1 The paragraph numbering
4.10.2 The types of numbering
4.10.3 A paragraph number help
4.11 Footnotes and a handstand
4.11.1 Format footnotes
4.11.2 A critical footnote
4.12 Hyperlinks for jumping…
4.12.1 Page jumps are possible
4.13 HTML – that is also possible
4.13.1 HTML export as text
4.13.2 HTML export as document
4.14 Generate an index
4.14.1 The simple index
4.14.2 A “marked” trick
4.14.3 The «Index Entries Editor» palette
4.14.4 Synonyms and peculiarities
4.15 The table of contents
A Palettes
B Keyboard shortcuts
C About this book
C.1 The Authors
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