# Glossary

Auto Track

Book List window: Options menu: Use to control whether or not the Information Manager shows you where you are in the information library hierarchy.

book

An electronic book. See also bookcase and information library.

bookcase

A group of electronic books on related topics. A logical set of information (perhaps several related books) that is accompanied by a single full-text index. A bookcase and style sheets represent the minimum collection of information that can be built into an information library. See also information library.

bookcase DTD

The document type definition that defines the structure of the specification files used to build books for the Information Manager. See also document type definition.

bookcase specification

An SGML document that contains or specifies the book files, style sheets, and other SGML entities necessary to build an information library.

book list

The list of bookcases and books available from the Information Manager.

Book List window

The Information Manager dialog box that provides access to information stored in an information library for on-line display or printing.

bookmark

An Information Manager marker that users can create to annotate specific text or graphics in an information library. The Information Manager represents a bookmark as an icon in the left margin of a reading window.

Bookmark Editor

The dialog box that appears when you double-click on a bookmark icon in a Reading window. Use to view and edit existing bookmarks and notes.

browse

1) To scan a collection, such as a database, a File Manager view, a list box, or a text file, either for a particular item or for anything that seems to be of interest; implies observing rather than changing information.

2) Searching by examining and scrolling through screens or windows of data.

connector button

Query Editor: Use to include another term in a search.

Create Bookmark

Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create a blank bookmark within a section in an active reading window.

Create Note

Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create an annotated bookmark within a section in an active Reading window.

Detach Graphic

menu item: Use to copy a selected graphic image into a separate window called a Detached Graphic window.

Detached Graphic icon

An icon that marks where a graphic has been detached.

Detached Graphic window

The window dialog box that appears when you detach a graphic.

Front Panel control

Front Panel: An object in the Front Panel used as an interface to basic system services and frequently performed tasks and operations. Use the specific control name where appropriate. Controls in the default Front Panel are: the Clock control, the Calendar control, the File Manager control, the Text Editor control, the Mailer control, the Printer control, the Style Manager control, the Application Manager control, the Information Manager control, and the Trash Can control.

graphical map

A visual representation of a book's organizational structure in which the book's section titles are displayed as a graphical "tree".

Go

Reading window: Go menu: Use to navigate sequentially through an information library or to return to sections you've previously read.

hypertext table of contents

A hypertext hierarchical list of section titles. Hypertext TOCs organize sections of online book titles within the Information System.

infolib

The set of files, including SGML instances, graphics, and indexes, that comprise an information library. See information library.

Info Manager

See Information Manager.

information library

A set of bookcases, where each bookcase contains a set of books, and where each book contains sections.

Information Manager

The software application that permits you to browse and search collections of online documentation, called information libraries.

Information System

The information libraries (the data), the Information Manager (the viewer) and the Information System Developer's Toolkit (the development tools).

Information System Developer's Toolkit

The set of tools and APIs that allow Information System authors to write, process, and view information libraries.

link

A hypertext reference to a locator. The content of a link represents an active area within the Information Manager. See locator.

List Marks

Reading window: Marks menu: Use to list all of your blank and annotated bookmarks.

locator

An anchor point in a document to which hypertext links can refer. Each locator has an associated identifier that is unique throughout the information library.

Marks

Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create, edit, and delete bookmarks.

panner box

A two-dimensional interactive panner within an Information Manager Graphical Map that allows you to shift the part of the map that is visible within the reading window.

pinned window

A reading window that is marked so that the text displayed in the window is retained when a link is followed, and a new window is opened for the new text. If a window is not pinned, the Information Manager updates the text in the current reading window each time a link is followed.

Print Setup

A dialog box that allows you to specify printer settings for the currently selected printer, such as page orientation (portrait or landscape), one- or two-sided printing, or which paper tray to use. Calendar, Information Manager, Mailer, and Text Editor display this dialog box when you double-click on the Setup button in their print dialog box.

Query Editor

The dialog box that allows you to define detailed searches of an information library.

Reading window

The Information Manager window that shows the text, tables, and graphics of a particular section in a book.

Search Results window

A window that displays a list of sections that contain search matches. The Information Manager displays a Search Results window upon completion of a search.

search scope

The scope of books and types of information that an Information Manager query will search.

Search Scope Editor

The dialog box that allows you to create custom search scopes.

section

A single unit of documentation that is displayed within an Information Manager Reading window.

View

An icon and a menu item that allows you to open a Reading window on a selected section.