The Grafstate editor
The Grafstate work space has two parts—the document panel on the left and the margin on the right. When you launch Grafstate, the document panel with contain a blank editor.
The editor
| The editor |
The Grafstate editor has the following buttons∶
Icon | Description |
|---|---|
Increase the font size. | |
Decrease the font size. | |
Insert code into the editor. \\\\  You can type Grafstate code directly into the editor or you can use the Insert menu to help you generate the code using templated and examples. | |
Update the document. The code in the editor will be added to the document. \\\\ The changes you make in an editor are not part of the document until you select update. | |
Close the editor. \\\\ You are not able to close an error message. You must resolve the error and update the code. |
Using the Insert option
The Insert menu offers the following instructions∶
Item | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Open a blank editor. | ||
| Insert text in one of the visual formats (e.g., bold, italic, etc.). \\\\ You can read about formatting text . | ||
| Compose a math expression (e.g., fractions, square roots, etc.). | ||
| Insert a figure (e.g., tables, plots, etc.) | ||
| Insert a computational structure. A computational structure is a process that can be simulated given an input string. \\\\ You can read about computational structures . |
Opening an editor
There are three ways to open an editor∶
| 1 | You can edit a section of the document by double clicking on that part of the document. An editor will with the Grafstate code for that section. When you are finished editing the code, click the update button or type ctrl-enter . |
| 2 | To open a blank editor select |
| from the Edit menu located at the top of the Shell. |
| 3 | Press the keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-b to open a blank editor |
Editing a section of the document
In addition to editing the code for a document section (by double clicking), you can right-click on a document section to access the following options∶
Item | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Insert a new section before the selected section. | ||
| Opens the editor for this section. | ||
| Add the selected section to the margin. \\\\ The section can be removed from the margin by clicking Unpin. | ||
| Copy the code for this section to the clipboard. \\\\ You can insert a blank section and paste the code from the clipboard. | ||
| Remove the selected section from the document. |