Testing & Editing Options blocks

Testing:

As you are designing your <<*Options/Optional*>> text blocks, you will want to test the action and integrity of your work. This can be done 'the long way' by assembling the document that contains the blocks you have created. The document assembly routine automatically activates all <<*Options/Optional*>> text blocks.

However, you can tell Pathagoras to process a text block which is currently on your screen (or a copy of it, since you may not want to experiment with the original text) without going thru the entire document assembly process. Here are two ways:

1.	Place the cursor to the immediate right of the closing marker and press <Alt-G>.

2.	Click the Pathagoras dropdown features menu. Select the Edit/Clause Creation Tools item and then click the button labeled 'Process.'

Before testing, we suggest that you paste a copy of the text block into a new document. If you run one of the 'process' <Alt-G> on the original, you can 'undo' the processing by repeated presses of <Ctrl-Z> ( Window's 'undo' keystroke).

Structural Integrity Checker: Pathagoras has tools that can review a source document (whether final, or simply 'under construction') to see if you are complying with 'the rules.' apply its compositional rules against the structure of a particular document. So instead of simply live testing to see if everything works, you can run the 'Structure Checker' and study its results. To activate the Structure Checker, click the Editing/Clause Creation Tools|General Editing Tools. Select the "Structure Tools" tab and click the <Check Structure> button.

When test using any of the above techniques, all options blocks will be processed, starting from the top down. If you wish to test just a single block, copy and paste that block to a separate document and run the test.

Because all text within <<*Options/Optional*>> text blocks is 'plain text, you do not have to have Pathagoras loaded on your system in order to create them. You can create and fully edit them anywhere. This allows ‘at home’ and third party editing.