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-<!-- DEBUGGING COMMENT
+<!--
<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
-->
@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@
than you'd think would fit onto a file card.
</para>
- <para>
- The contact editor window has two tabs,
- <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information,
- and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific
- description of the person. In addition, it contains a full
- menu bar, which is still evolving rapidly. <!-- FIXME -->
+ <para>
+ The contact editor window has two tabs,
+ <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information,
+ and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific
+ description of the person. In addition, it contains a full
+ menu bar, which is still evolving rapidly. <!-- FIXME -->
</para>
<figure id="usage-contact-editor-fig">
@@ -150,112 +150,109 @@
Title</guilabel> and <guilabel>Web page address</guilabel>,
but there are several parts of the window that are a little
more interesting.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> feature is discussed in
+ <xref linkend="usage-contact-organize">, but the remaining
+ features are described here:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Full Name</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field has two
+ major features:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can enter a name into the <guibutton>Full
+ Name</guibutton> field, but you can also click the
+ <guibutton>Full Name</guibutton> button to bring
+ up a small dialog box with a few text boxes
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Title: </guilabel></term>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ Enter an honorific or select one from the menu.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>First: </guilabel></term>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ The person's first, or given, name.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Middle: </guilabel></term>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ The middle name or initial, if any, goes here.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Last: </guilabel></term>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ The last name (surname) belongs here.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Suffix: </guilabel></term>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ Suffixes such as "Jr." or "III" can go here.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field also
+ interacts with the <guilabel>File As</guilabel>
+ box to help you organize your contacts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To see how it works, type a name in the
+ <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field:
+ <userinput>Eva Lucianne Tester</userinput>.
+ You'll notice that the <guilabel>File
+ As</guilabel> field also fills up, but in reverse:
+ <computeroutput>Tester, Lucianne</computeroutput>.
+ You can pick <computeroutput>Eva
+ Tester</computeroutput> from the drop-down, or
+ type in your own, such as <userinput>Lucianne
+ Tester, Eva</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <tip>
+ <title>Filing Suggestion</title>
+ <para>
+ Don't enter something entirely different from
+ the actual name, since you might forget that
+ you've filed Eva's information under "F" for
+ "Fictitious Helix Code Employees"
+ </para>
+ </tip>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Multiple Values for Fields</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you click on the small arrow buttons next to the
+ <guilabel>Primary Email</guilabel> field, you can also
+ choose <guilabel>Email 2</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Email 3</guilabel>. Although the contact
+ editor will only display one of those at any given
+ time, <application>Evolution</application> will
+ remember them all. The arrow buttons next to the
+ telephone and postal address fields work in the same
+ way.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</para>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> feature, which is discussed in
- <xref linkend="usage-contact-organize">, there are a few
- things you'll want to know about: the first of these is the
- <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> button.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can enter a name into the <guibutton>Full Name</guibutton>
- field, or you can click the button to bring up a small dialog
- box with a few text boxes:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Title: </guilabel></term>
- <listitem> <para>
- Enter an honorific or select one from the menu.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>First: </guilabel></term>
- <listitem> <para>The person's first, or given, name.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Middle: </guilabel></term>
- <listitem> <para>
- The middle name or initial, if any, goes here.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Last: </guilabel></term>
- <listitem> <para>
- The last name (the surname, or family name), belongs here.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Suffix: </guilabel></term>
- <listitem> <para>
- Suffixes such as "Jr." or "III" can go here.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field has one more trick
- up its sleeve: it interacts with the <guilabel>File
- As</guilabel> box to help you organize your contacts. To
- see how it works, type a name in the <guilabel>Full
- Name</guilabel> field: <userinput>Eva Lucianne
- Tester</userinput>. You'll notice that the
- <guilabel>File As</guilabel> field also fills up, but in
- reverse: <computeroutput>Tester,
- Lucianne</computeroutput>. You can pick
- <computeroutput>Eva Tester</computeroutput> from the
- drop-down, or type in your own, such as
- <userinput>Lucianne Tester, Eva</userinput>. I suggest that
- you don't enter something entirely different from the
- actual name, since you might forget that you've filed
- Eva's information under "F" for "Fictitious Helix Code
- Employees" </para>
-
- <para>
- The other feature I want to mention involves the little
- squares next to several of the fields. Click on them and
- you'll get a menu of different labels; for the fields in the
- telephone section, it's a long list involving things like
- <guilabel>Home</guilabel>, <guilabel>Home 2</guilabel>,
- <guilabel>Other Fax</guilabel>, and
- <guilabel>Pager</guilabel>. Select from among them to
- determine which four telephone numbers to display at any given
- time. Of course, these connected times mean that people often
- have more than four telephone numbers. You can display only
- four in the editor, but <application>Evolution</application>
- can remember them all for you. When you click the little
- square button for the list of labels, any that you've already
- filled in will be marked. </para>
-
- <!-- FIXME: do this whole thing right before release 0.4! FIXME.
- <variablelist>
- <listitem>
- <term>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem> <para>
- <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> Enter the person's name here
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem> <para>
-
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem> <para>
- <guilabel>Business:</guilabel>
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem> <para>
- <guilabel>Job Title:</guilabel>
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem> <para>
- <guilabel>Home:</guilabel>
- </para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
-
- -->
-
-
<!--- ############# This section isn't implemented yet either:
<sect2>
<title></title>
@@ -362,15 +359,15 @@
<para>
To mark a card as belonging to a category, click the
<guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button at the lower
- right. A dialog box will pop up with check-boxes for
- different categories in it. You can select as many or as
- few categories as you like.
+ right. From the dialog box that appears, you can check as
+ many or as few categories as you like.
</para>
<para>
Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category by:
+ FEATURE NOT IMPLEMENTED... FIXME
</para>
<para>
- If the master list of categories don't suit you, you can
+ If the master list of categories doesn't suit you, you can
add your own. Just enter the new category's name in the
text box, then click <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> and
choose <guilabel>Add to Master List</guilabel> in the
@@ -430,16 +427,18 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="usage-contact-automate">
- <title>Extra Contact Manager Tools</title>
+ <title>Contact Manager Tools</title>
<para>
- The most obvious contact manager tool is that it works with the
- mailer and the calendar to help you add new address cards
- quickly. However, it can also manage mailing lists and help
- you find directions between the locations of any two contacts.
+ The contact manager works with
+ <application>Evolution</application> mail and the calendar to
+ help you add new address cards quickly. However, it can also
+ manage mailing lists. There are more tools planned, and when
+ they arrive, <!-- FIXME --> they will be described in this
+ section.
</para>
<sect2 id="contact-automation-basic">
- <title>Send me a card: Adding New Cards Quickly</title>
+ <title>Send me a Card: Adding New Cards Quickly</title>
<para>
As noted before, when you get information about a person in
the mail or in a calendar entry, you can add it to an address
@@ -470,8 +469,9 @@
or prepare large postal mailings.
</para>
</sect2>
+<!--
<sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra">
- <title>Map It! and other extra features</title>
+ <title>Map It!</title>
<para>
Need a map or directions? Click
<guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact
@@ -479,6 +479,13 @@
map the address for you online.
</para>
</sect2>
+-->
+
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-menubar">
+ <title>Contact Manager Menubar Reference</title>
+ <para>
+ </para>
</sect1>
</chapter>