+This section covers some of the typographical and language conventions +used in this manual. +
- - -This section covers some of the typographical and language conventions used in this manual.
Keyboard bindings are shown like this: s or x. Ctrl-x means "press the Ctrl, keep it pressed and then also press the x key. You may also see key combinations such as Ctrl-Shift-e, which mean that you should press the Ctrl key, then while keeping it pressed also press the Shift key and then while keeping them both pressed, finally press the e key.
-Note that different platforms have different conventions for which modifier key (Control or Command) to use as the primary or most common modifier. When viewing this manual from a machine identifying itself as running OS X, will see Cmd- where appropriate. On other machines you will see Ctrl-
++Keyboard bindings are shown like this: s or x. +Ctrl x means "press the Ctrl key, keep it pressed and then also +press the x key. You may also see key combinations such as +e, which mean that you should press the key, then while keeping it pressed also press the + key and then while +keeping them both pressed, finally press the e key.
++Note that different platforms have different conventions for which modifier key +(Control or Command) to use as the primary or most common modifier. When viewing +this manual from a machine identifying itself as running OS X, you will see +Cmd where appropriate (for instance in the first example above). +On other machines you will see Ctrl instead. +
+Menu items are indicated like this: Top > Next > Deeper Each >-separated item indicates an item on a nested (sub) menu.
+Menu items are indicated like this:
+Top > Next > Deeper. Each ">"-separated item
+indicates one level of a nested (sub-)menu.
+
Choices in various dialogs, notably the Preferences and Properties dialog, are indicated like this: Edit > Preferences > Audio > Some Option Each successive >-separated item indicates either a (sub) menu or tabbed dialog navigation. The final item is the one to choose/select/deselect, etc.
+Choices in various dialogs, notably the Preferences and Properties dialog, are
+indicated like this:
+Edit > Preferences > Audio > Some Option.
+Each successive item indicates either a (sub-) menu or a tabbed dialog
+navigation. The final item is the one to choose or select.
+
+If you are requested to deselect an option, you will see something like
+this:
+Edit > Preferences > Audio > Some other
+Option.
+
-Important notes about things that might not otherwise be obvious are shown in this format
Many times the term context-click is used to indicate that you should (typically) right-click on a particular element of the graphical user interface. Although right-click is the common, default way to do this, there are other ways to accomplish the same thing - this term refers to any of them, and the result is always that a menu specific to the item you clicked on will be displayed.
+Important notes about things that might not otherwise be obvious are shown in this +format. +
+ ++Hairy issues that might cause things to go wrong, lose data, or impair sound +quality is displayed in this way. +
+ +We refer to mouse buttons as Left, Middle and Right. Ardour can use additional buttons, but they have no default behaviour in the program.
++We refer to mouse buttons as +Left, Middle and +Right. Ardour can use additional buttons, but they have +no default behaviour in the program. +
+ ++Many editing functions are performed by clicking the mouse while holding a +modifier key, for example Left. + +
+Many times the term context-click is used to indicate +that you should (typically) right-click on a particular element of the graphical +user interface. Although right-click is the common, default way to do this, there +are other ways to accomplish the same thing - this term refers to any of them, +and the result is always that a menu specific to the item you clicked on will be +displayed. +
+When the manual refers to the "pointer", it means the on-screen representation of the mouse position or the location of a touch action if you are using a touch interface.
- ++When the manual refers to the "pointer", it means the on-screen representation +of the mouse position or the location of a touch action if you are using a touch +interface. +
+ ++Ardour supports hardware controllers, such as banks of faders, knobs, or buttons. +
+