To scroll a screen at a time, press the Alt key, then use the directional control.
You can also assign different scrolling actions to each of the different directions, including any other assignable keys, through the button options settings. iSilo™ initializes the SPACE key to the Screen Down action.
screen up
By default, when you scroll up a screen, if the current first
line is partially displayed, it becomes fully displayed as the
last line after the scroll. Otherwise, the line above it becomes
the last line after the scroll. This behavior is called full
with text align. You can modify the
scroll options
settings to change the screen up behavior.
screen down line up The distance scrolled is in all cases limited to a
tenth of the height of the view area. This means that if you have
a tall image that you are scrolling in from the top, each
time you scroll up by a line, only an amount equal to one tenth
of the view height scrolls in each time.
line down The distance scrolled is in all cases limited to a
tenth of the height of the view area. This means that if you have
a tall image that you are scrolling in from the bottom, each
time you scroll down by a line, only an amount equal to one tenth
of the view height scrolls in each time.
screen left screen right line left line right One common use of links is in a table of contents, whereby it is
handy for each item in the table of contents to be a link to its
content so that you can simply follow an item to jump to the content.
This is much easier than having to search for the page or location
where the content starts.
Usually, a textual link has a visual indication such as a
dotted underline to indicate that it is a link. But it is
possible for a link to not have any such indication if the
author styled it as such.
If your device has a directional control, you can use it to first
enter hyperlink mode so that you can select the link you
want to follow. Use Right on the directional control
to enter hyperlink mode.
In hyperlink mode you can iterate across the links currently
visible on the screen. Use either Right or Down on the directional
control to move the highlight to the next link. Use either
Left or Up to move the highlight to the previous link. To follow
the currently highlighted link, just click.
When you follow a link, you also exit hyperlink mode.
While in hyperlink mode, if you decide you do not want
to follow any of the links currently visible, press the Escape key
to exit hyperlink mode.
Or if you have assigned the Hyperlink action to a button
using the button
options, you can also press that button to exit
hyperlink mode.
This allows you to easily jump back to recent jump points. If you have
jumped anywhere, then the status bar shows a left-pointing arrowhead
to indicate that you can jump back to the last location from where you
made the jump. You jump backward by using the Escape key or the
Back menu command in the Marks
sub-menu of the menu.
In addition to being able to jump back, you can also jump forward
back to the location from where you made a return jump. You jump
forward by using the Forward
menu command in the Marks sub-menu of the menu.
If you have jumped back from anywhere, then the status bar shows
a right-pointing arrowhead to indicate that you can jump forward.
You can clear the jump history by selecting
Clear History from the
Marks sub-menu of the menu. iSilo™
saves the jump history across document closes and opens.
Note that this saved information does not
include the history of jumps to external documents.
By default, when you scroll down a screen, if the current last
line is partially displayed, it becomes fully displayed as the
first line after the scroll. Otherwise, the line below it
becomes the first line after the scroll. This behavior is called
full with text align. You can modify the
scroll options
settings to change the screen down behavior.
If the current first line is partially displayed, then it
scrolls in to become fully displayed. If the current first line is
already fully displayed, then the line above it scrolls in to become
fully displayed.
If the current last line is partially displayed, then it
scrolls in to become fully displayed. If the current last line is
already fully displayed, then the line below it scrolls in to become
fully displayed.
Scrolling left a screen scrolls left a distance equal
to about 95% of the view area width.
Scrolling right a screen scrolls right a distance equal
to about 95% of the view area width.
Scrolling left a line scrolls left a distance equal
to about 5% of the view area width.
Scrolling right a line scrolls right a distance equal
to about 5% of the view area width.
links
Links, also known as hyperlinks, are words or images in
the content of the document that you can follow to jump to the
target of the link. The item you follow is also known as
the link's source. In a well-designed document, the
author will have interspersed relevant links throughout the
content of the document so that the person viewing the document
can easily jump to other relevant or interesting parts of the
document.
following a link
To jump to the target of a link, just click it.
returning from a link
Whenever you follow a link, iSilo™ adds the location
of the link's source to the
jump history. So after you follow a link and are done
reading the content at the link's target, you can immediately
return to the location from where you followed the link and
continue reading from where you left off there. By default,
you use the Escape key to jump back.
jump history
iSilo™ keeps track of jumps you have made
using any of the following methods:
For each such jump, iSilo™ remembers the point from where
you made the jump. It can remember up to 16 jumps within
a given document and up to eight jumps to external documents.
bookmarks
A bookmark marks a location in a document and has an
associated name. You can mark various locations within a
document with bookmarks and easily jump to any of those locations
at any time simply by selecting the desired bookmark from a
list. Some documents may also already have predefined bookmarks.
adding a bookmark
Use the Add Bookmark
command on the Marks sub-menu of the menu
to activate the Add Bookmark dialog to set a bookmark at the current
location.
going to a bookmark
If the document has one or more bookmarks defined, you can click
or use the Bookmarks
command on the Marks sub-menu of the menu to display a list of
bookmarks in the current document. Select a bookmark to go to the
location that it marks.
editing bookmarks
You can rename, delete, and re-order the local bookmarks for a document
by using the Edit bookmarks
command on the Marks sub-menu of the menu.
bookmark types
Bookmarks come in two types as described here:
marks
While bookmarks provide a method for
associating a name with a location in a document, marks
provide additional methods for going to specific locations
in a document.
unnamed mark
While viewing a document, you can easily mark the current location
with the unnamed mark and return to the marked location at any time
later. The unnamed mark does not require you to enter a name
for it, so it is a quick way to mark the current location.
One situation in which you might want to use it is if you want
to remember your current location before scrolling through the
document to scan for some other information. You can mark
the current location with the unnamed mark, scan for the information,
and then return to the unnamed mark. You can set one unnamed mark
per document.
mark location
To mark the current location with the unnamed mark, select
Mark Location from
the Marks sub-menu of the menu.
jump to mark
At any time later after setting an unnamed mark, you can return to the
marked location by choosing
Jump to Mark from the Marks sub-menu of the menu.