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NEW! File Versions Save up to 99 versions of each file opening a file for which other versions exist • You can specify the conditions that must be met (difference in file size, date, etc.) before this auto prompting is activated dialog to see all available versions of the selected file versions to save In addition, Nota Bene’s existing autosave function has also been enhanced document you edit (and not only for a particular window), insuring easier retrieval the new version-control option is disabled |
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NEW! ActionTips Popup instructions tell you what your next steps/available options are after: All ActionTips can be individually disabled/enabled to suit your own level of knowledge of the program |
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NEW! InfoTips Popup information about existing elements is activated as you move the cursor over, or click using the mouse, on: All InfoTips can be individually disabled/enabled to suit your own level of knowledge of the program |
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NEW! Instructional Videos 20 instructional videos which you can play on your computer are now available • Write files using academic styles • Enter records in Ibidem • Cite records from Ibidem • Create note-taking files • Create and search textbases • Create and use hyperlinks RealOne) player capable of handling the WMV format web |
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NEW! Draft View A dramatic new draft view lets you concentrate on your writing by showing more of your text: if double, etc.) Essential layout elements are retained: • Use actual face and size • Use system face and size (configurable) But unnecessary page elements are suppressed: The new draft view makes writing and editing easier than ever before—it lets you see as much of your actual text as possible, with fonts, indentation, multilingual characters, etc. intact, but with page borders and other non-body text elements suppressed. Best of all, it shows you all the text on a line, breaking lines to fit the size of the editing window, not based on how the printout will look, so you never need to scroll the screen horizontally to read everything you’ve written. (This makes it especially useful for comparing two documents in side-by-side windows.) |
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— With Instant Access Commands Draft View gives you a wealth of options for how commands are displayed. They can be: markers are off]) Page-Line View) up space) up more space) All commands are color-coded by category (horizontal vs. vertical formats, page elements, etc.) If InfoTips are on you can: View) • That exact command • Commands in the same category Instant Access Commands give many of the benefits of Codes View, without losing formatting, multilingual text, and more |
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NEW! Clipboard A new multilevel clipboard is at your fingertips: operations items: • Shows size & contents of each entry • Entries get updated in real time as you work • Clipboard can remain open as you work Once you start using it, you’ll find the multilevel clipboard to be even more useful than you could have imagined |
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NEW! Cross-File Search Search or replace across files • Page-Layout or Codes and open file and then re-find original place • Total files searched • Files containing matches • Number of matches last search, and later go to the desired file directly, without repeating search |
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NEW! Line Numbering Automatically number lines, specifying: • Options can vary for even/odd pages • Whether numbers restart on each page • And if first line should always be numbered alphabetic letters, etc.) |
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ENHANCED! Frameworks NB’s powerful academic style manuals, frameworks, and outlines are now much easier to use: • Headings use yellow bracket icon • Body text uses green bracket icon • Both are better positioned & don’t overlap • Headings or body text • Spacing between contiguous headings • Blank body text regions • Blank lines before headings at top of page • Provides easy access to all options • Remains open as you edit easier • Can select partial element (without getting warning message) • Can paste only text (stripping commands) when pasting into file without framework |
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ENHANCED! Views — Page Layout (old “Graphics”) View symbols similar • Counters vs. regular numbers • Automatic dates vs. fixed dates • System variables (e.g., current filename) • Different kinds of tabs, spaces, hypehns • and more... — Codes View — Easy Find Cursor easier!) directionality — Screen Colors colors (Still long for the DOS yellow on blue? You got it!) |
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NEW! Instant Orbis Orbis—NB’s note/idea retrieval system—has long remained the hidden wonder of NB. We’re making Orbis so easy to use that you will no longer be able to ignore it. You can now make everything you write in Nota Bene (or copy from the web) instantly searchable simply by saving the file —no manual setup of any kind is required! Bring all of your computer past (up to two decades worth of notes, papers, book-length manuscripts, interview transcripts, character sketches for novel, and much more) into your present, almost without blinking. Enhance your memory, and spur your imagination like never before. Those already benefiting from Orbis can now: NB! capacity was 1024) marking |
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NEW! Instant Cite Locating a work in Ibidem has never been so effortless. Or so quick. Put the cusor on an author’s name (as it already exists in your text), and right click or press [Ctrl]+[F7]. Voila! Ibidem will show you all works by that author, ready for you to cite. Or right click some other word, or press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[F7], and look up the selected word in some other field (Title, Keyword, Annotation, etc.) in Ibidem, directly from your document. BEFORE: search option NOW: |
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NEW! Custom Cites Trying to cite a work that doesn’t fit into any mold (an archival work, for example)? Or which Ibidem formats differently than you would like? Follow these easy steps. 1. Let Ibidem generate its best guess (A new Alt Cite field is created in the database, based on the currently selected style) 2. Customize this Ibidem-generated format for: • First occurrence in file • All subsequent occurrences • Reference list (Add “##” where the page number goes) 3. When citing, check the “Cite Instead” box The result will be a customized “dynamic” cite, which can be converted into a different style if the citation format of the document changes, or properly updated (full vs. shortened form) as you edit the file, but which will look exactly the way you want it to. You can now also cite: |
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ENHANCED! Note Files Note files linked to Ibidem records—containing summaries, arguments, quotations, etc., linked to the active bibliographic record, and which are suitable for inclusion in an Orbis textbase —are becoming more versatile by the minute: with an icon in Ibidem’s Table View particular page references to any paragraph in note file more easily (as file is saved) show popup InfoTip with full bibliographic reference generated bibliography location |
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NEW! . . . in Lingua • Resizable • Printable • Shows other shift states automatically as those shift keys are pressed (while typing in NB) • IPA and old German characters • Original PC characters now work on XP final) form characters • Easier keyboard entry • Enhanced search options |
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• Foreground color prints • Background color doesn’t • Error shown in red box • Go to next error AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING The list of new and enhanced features is 43 single-spaced pages long. You may even find that the new or improved feature that dazzles you most isn’t even listed here! In the words of one user: “There are a lot of nice new features mentioned in your readme page, but I'll single out one that may seem small but will be immensely useful: that's the overlap of the last line from the preceding page when scrolling down (or, presumably, up).” OUR MOST AMBITIOUS UPGRADE EVER. SO YOU CAN WORK BETTER. NOW. |
