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'And/Or', 'A/K/A' and other slashes

'And/Or', 'A/K/A' and other slashes

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   Pathagoras relies heavily upon slashes as separators for Options and for multiple-choice variables. But what if you really want a slash to be seen as a slash and not a separator?

•What if you want 'a/k/a' or 'and/or' to be seen by the program as intact 'words,' not multiple-choices?
•When you are painting your Pathagoras markers, you don't want the slashes in designated terms to be painted?
•The 'Negative Optional' function allows you to set out a block of text to the 'right' of a slash that will be used if you answer 'No' or 'False' to a preceding Optional block prompt asking 'Do you want to keep this text?'. But what if you know ahead of time that you don't want certain phrases that use slashes to trigger the negative optional choice?

   Pathagoras maintains what we call the 'A/K/A List' to effect the above challenges. At installation, the list contains the terms: 'a/k/a' , 'f/k/a', 'and/or' and '/100'other snippets, you can augment the 'A/K/A' list to include other text elements that you want 'unpainted.' To do so:

1. Click the Utilities/Settings screen and then select the 'All Settings' button at the top of that screen.

2. Cick the Miscellaneous Settings tab.

3. Click the 'A/K/A' button to display the current list of 'ignore' snippets. These snippets will be displayed in a Notepad (plain text) file for easy editing.

4. Add your snippet, following the pattern of the existing entries. Then save and close the text document (do not change its name) and you are all set.

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informationPathagoras provides another approach to making sure that a slash is seen as a slash, not a divider.     If your multiple-choice variables or your Options text blocks contain 'natural' slash terms, use the separator '/OR' (no quotes, capitals mandatory) as the separator. That tells Pathagoras that the separator in that text block is '/OR' and will ignore simple slashes.