On behalf of ERLI, congratulations and thank you for your purchase of an ERLI Electronic Reference Library for the Apple® Newton® MessagePad®.

ERLI Electronic Reference Libraries are complete, unedited electronic versions of the printed paper books. Every effort has been taken to make using ERLI's Electronic Reference Libraries both fast and simple.

REQUIREMENTS:

ERLI Electronic Reference Libraries require an Apple Newton MessagePad 100 or 110. A PCMCIA card is recommended.

INSTALLATION:

To install the ERLI Electronic Reference Library you must have access to either an Apple Macintosh® or a Windows PC computer and software that downloads Newton packages to the Newton MessagePad. Please follow the instructions which came with the software you are using to download these packages.

Each ERLI Electronic Reference Library contains one utility package, called SmartButtons.pkg, and at least one book packages, identified by the word “Book” or the letters “BK” in the Newton package filename.

FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE, install the SmartButtons.pkg utilities package in the Newton’s internal memory and install the book package, or packages, on the Newton’s PCMCIA card.

Purchase of an ERLI Electronic Reference Library entitles you to install the utilities and book packages on only one Newton MessagePad at a time. Installation of any of the ERLI software packages on more than one Newton at a time constitutes illegal software duplication and is subject to prosecution. One duplicate of the install disk should be made in case the original install disk is damaged or becomes unusable.

USING THE REFERENCE LIBRARY:

Once successfully installed, the names and icons of each of the installed reference books will appear in the Newton’s Extras Drawer. To run the reference book you simply tap on its icon.

When the package is first run you will see the title page 
(this example is for Current Clinical Strategies’ Obstetrics & Gynecology book:

A header bar is present at the top of each page of your new reference book.

USER DEFINABLE BUTTONS

The very top of this header bar is made up of nine “smart” buttons which you may define to launch any books or applications present on your Newton.

To define any of these smart buttons:

1)  Place your MessagePad stylus on the button you wish to define and hold it down.

2)  After a second, the Newton will beep and you will be presented with a window.

      - In that window the bottom line is “Button Name,” where you write in the three of four letter
        abbreviation of the book or application you want that button to launch.

      - The top line in that window is “Application.” Place your stylus on the word “Application”
         and hold it down. After a second, you will be presented with a list of the books and
         applications available on your Newton. Tap on the one you want that smart button
         to launch.

NOTE: If you define a smart button for an application other than an ERLI reference book, when you tap on the button to launch that other application, the ERLI reference book will close completely. The smart buttons function is provided to you as a convenience so that you may easily and quickly switch between numerous ERLI reference books.

TABLE PAGE

Tap on the Table Page button and you will move to a page listing all the tables available in the book you are currently using. Each one of these listings is actually a button which you may tap to travel immediately to that table.

PAGE HISTORY

Tap on the Page History button and you are presented with a listing of all the pages you have recently seen in the current book. Up to 22 pages will be listed with the actual ERLI reference book page number preceding the page listing. This history function resets each time you close one book to open another, or if you launch another Newton application.

LOCATION HEADER

The titles, which are white letters reversed out of a black bar, indicate the book you are currently in and the section you are currently viewing. The Location Header can also be used to review multiple topics discovered using the Key Search function (see Key Search).  

KEY SEARCH

This is one of the most powerful searching features found on ERLI’s Electronic Reference Libraries. Tap on the key search button and a search window appears showing a list of topics located above a keyboard.

Tap the letters of the topic you want to find on the keyboard-- with the addition of each letter the list of topics above the keyboard changes. Once you see the name of the topic you want, tap on it and you will jump to the first page of that section. If, when you tap a letter on the keyboard, you hear the Newton’s beep sound, there are no references which match the sequence of letters you are spelling. Use the delete key on the keyboard or tap on the button with the wavy line and begin your search again.

Some topics in the list are followed by a diamond. The diamond denotes that two or more subtopics exist for that particular topic. When you tap on one of these topics you are presented with a second window showing the subtopics available.

Simply tap on the subtopic you want and you will immediately jump to the first page of that section. 

If you want to see the list of subtopics again, simply tap on the Location Header and the list of subtopics will be presented again.

A-Z SEARCH

Tap on the A-Z button and the top bar of buttons on your Newton screen is replaced with the letters of the alphabet.

Tap on the first letter of the topic you wish to find and you will be presented with the list of topics which begin with that letter.

If [--Next--] appears at the bottom of the topic list, then there are more topics to be listed than will fit on the Newton screen. Tap on the word “Next” to move to the next screen of topics.

Similarly, if [--Previous--] appears at the top of the list of topics you can tap on it and move back to the previous list of topics.

When you find the topic you want, simply tap on the name and you will jump immediately to the first page of that section.

BROWSING
The Newton has built-in tools to help you browse the ERLI Electronic Reference Libraries.

Each time you tap on the up-arrow you will move backward one page in the reference book.

Similarly, when you tap on the down-arrow you will advance one page in the reference book.

When you tap on the dot, in between the up and down arrows, you will be presented with the table of contents for the current reference book.

Another movement tool is found on any page which is too large to fit entirely on the Newton screen. Typically, these oversized pages are tables or charts.

To view the hidden areas of the table you simply tap on the direction arrows in the browser diamond. Tap on the right arrow and the view screen moves to the right. Tap on the down arrow and the view screen moves down, and so on.

Searching for information in one of ERLI’s Electronic Reference Libraries is fast, flexible and easy. You can search through topics lists or let the Newton do the searching for you. You can move manually, page-by-page through the reference book and you can scroll in all directions on important tables. The ERLI Electronic Reference Libraries are designed to give you fast, trouble free access to thousands of pages of critical information.

WARNINGS

Because of limitations in the Apple development software used to create these books, the “Mark This Page” function should not be used. Also, any functions which print, fax or beam should not be attempted.

PRODUCT SUPPORT

If you have problems installing this ERLI product, please contact the maker of the software you are using to download the package to the Newton. If you are have problems using this ERLI Electronic Reference Library, please contact ERLI Technical Support at 817-336-5751 or fax your question to 817-732-2872. You may also e-mail your questions, problems or suggestions to ERLI at erli@metronet.com or mail ERLI at Education Research Laboratories, Inc., 226 Bailey Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas 76107.

Users of any ERLI product indemnify Education Research Laboratories, Inc., its agents, employees and licensees, and hold them harmless from and against all claims, demands and proceedings and from any costs, loss, liability and expense arising from any claims, demands or proceedings.

Macintosh, Newton and MessagePad are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All trademarks appearing in this documentation or in the ERLI products are acknowledged.

Copyright © 1995, Education Research Laboratories, Inc.

SHAREWARE

For your convenience, a number of shareware software items may be included on the install disks. These items are included at the permission of the authors. If you use any of this shareware software, please support the authors and promptly pay the shareware fee. The shareware software is provided simply as a convenience to you.