See the next section if you wish to use the ÒEdit readings databaseÓ feature, which is for accessing the readings for editing purposes, NOT just for one chart.
In both cases, for one chart or whole database, when you edit readings you are editing the main central readings database! The only difference is that in one case you can only see the readings selected for a chart, while in the other case you see all the readings in the readings database.
Before printing out the readings for a chart for giving to a person it is often important that you review all their readings and edit the typos or foreign-sounding ancient Indian conceptions and general manner of speaking.
I find that to do basic typos editing for a complete set of readings takes only about 20 minutes once you know how to use the editing window. To fully edit the readings into modern ideas and
concepts takes much longer. Therefore, you may end up using the readings more for your own study than handing out.
I personally do hand them out as is with typos and misspellings edited out, but I include a standard introduction which is meant to prepare them for the strange things they may encounter like "dear to the king" and "cattle wealth".
To edit the readings for a chart, you begin by pulling the chart up on the main charts window. Make sure the chart has a list of readings previously saved.
Click on the first reading in their list of readings just to select it.
Click the edit button near the readings list (not the main edit chart button). This button indicates Òedit the readingsÓ.
Editing the Readings
-this is so that our editing here is saved in the standard verses within the program. You need to say ÒUserÓ so that the program will know to mark your verses that you edit and create separately so that you can control them, preserve them as your own, export them in a group from the program, and import them into future upgrades, and so on. So, please, answer this little question about ÒUser or EmployeeÓ correctly and donÕt take it lightly, for your sake.
You will then come to the readings editing window for a single chart.
On the left lower half is the original wording of the selected verse. When you first open the window, whatever verse you selected in their reading list will appear. The main idea here is to: 1. edit the verse text (lower left part of window shown above) with your mouse and typing, 2. select a division or category on the right bottom section that is best for this reading- this is completely subjective or Òup to youÓ. You will see how these sections are used when printing the readings printouts.
3. click "Save and Next",
-which saves what you just typed in this verse, and pulls up the next one. In this way, you walk through the readings editing them as you see fit.
If you save/next along through them- you will notice the line pointer moving down through the list of readings shown on this window in the middle top area. You can also click on a line in this list to go straight to editing that particular verse.
By the way, typing Command-S or Control-S on the PC will also do the Save and Next function for you and is easier/quicker than clicking the button each time.
You can click on "Positive" or "Negative" if you wish. This is for selecting out only the "good readings" for extra sensitive cases.
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You are given the following option window when printing readings from the Print menu:
So, if you mark the readings yourself as to whether they are positive or negative in overall tone, then you can filter out either of these two classifications.
Note: If you do not do the work of marking them by editing each one and marking it as pos. or neg., then the above choice given when printing readings reports should NOT be used- in that case, use only ALL. In other words, the programÕs built in readings have not yet necessarily been classified in either of the pos. or neg. categories correctly, so you should not use the feature unless you do the work of first marking the readings correctly.
In the upper right corner are the TAGSand they are also editable. However, unless you know how
to tag, you had better not change them or the reading will stop appearing where it should. Tagging is a large science covered briefly in the next section.
The "SHOW NON-FINALS ONLY" checkbox will skip over showing you readings that have
already been edited by someone and marked with the FINAL Editing checkbox. There are many
such readings in the database that have been "edited". However, keep in mind that "edited" is a very loose term to us here so far, and as such those readings it skips may contain very strange Indian phrases and/or concepts. It is better that you personally edit them ALL if you are providing a readings printout to a client. So, I recommend you DONÕT check ÒSHOW NON FINALS ONLYÓ.
The other buttons do just what they say:
Next >>and Back <<do not save - they just go forward and backward through the list of readings.
The Add New button makes a copy of the current verse and just sits there. It is as if nothing happens when you click it. Actually however, a new copy of the present verse is made and is displayed directly, so it looks to the human like nothing happened. If you edit it and click Save and Next, or just Save, the new copy is saved into the main database of verses.
The Add to my file of Readings checkbox is very important! You should check this checkbox if you have edited the verse you are on and wish to keep your work for later use. If that is so, the verse needs to be marked Òas yoursÓ so that the program can give you management of this verse and all the others like it that you choose to mark Òas yoursÓ.
The idea here with this feature is to give you a way to keep your editing work through our upgrades. You see, whenever we send you an upgrade of the program, it comes withe a new ÒdatafileÓ which contains our database of readings.
Editing the Readings
Since youÕve edited your database this feature gives you a way to export just your edited readings out of your current program, and then consequently into a newly installed upgrade copy of our program. When your verses which were exported out of your old program are imported into the new copy of the program, they will overwrite that same verse in our database, thus, your old work will be brought forward into the new copy of our program, thus guaranteeing you
longevity of the hard work you put into editing readings.
So, be sure to check the Add to my file of reaidngs checkbox if you did substantial work on any verse.
The Yoga field is for entering the name of a Yoga if there is one for the verse you are working on.