Events > Instructions

• You can present instructions to be followed by the reader either at the beginning of the text or at the end of any paragraph of the text to be read. Technically speaking, the two types of instructions differ:
  
  
  • The instructions presented at the beginning of the text are obligatory. The default setting is "Click to start!" You can replace this with the instructions of your choice by using the Tools > Test Parameters > Start Instructions tab command.
    
    
  • The instructions dispersed in the text are not obligatory. They can be written such that the reader sees them at the beginning of a new paragraph or a new section (ex. "In this paragraph, pay particular attention to Peter's arguments."), or immediately after the presentation of a questionnaire present in the text (ex. "End of questionnaire. Attention, the text continues.") Instructions of this kind are not added to a text in the same manner as are Start Instructions. Rather, they are attached to a specific textual segment and as such, they can be treated as analogous to images, questionnaires or paragraphs - all those elements falling under Events. Contrary to the three other kinds of events, however, instructions must be attached to the textual segment that they precede (rather than the one they follow).
    
    
    
    

  Adding Instructions
  

• Adding instructions can be done in the vertical or horizontal view (cf. Note). Here are the steps when in the vertical view. Select in the integrated editor of Zigzag Generator, the textual segment to which the instruction should be attached by using the mouse (the segment will change color):
  
  
  
  
• Next, select one of these three options:
  
  
  • Select the menu Events > Instructions.
    
    
  • Using the contextual menu on the mouse (right click), select Instructions.
  • Click on the button on the toolbar.
    
    

• If the segment to which the instruction will be attached is not the last segment of the paragraph, a window called Instruction will appear. Click on Yes.
  
  
  
  
• A window called Add Instructions will appear. Type your instructions and then click on OK.
  
  
  
  
• Adding of instructions will be shown in the integrated editor of Zigzag Generator by the appearance of boxed letter C .
  

  
  
  
  
  
  Modifying or Deleting Instructions

• To modify pre-existing instructions, you must first select the segment to which the instructions are attached (it will change color).
  
  
  
  
• Next, select one of these three options:
  
  
  • Select the menu Events > Instructions (the option is checked!).
    
    
    
    
  • Using the contextual menu on the mouse (right click), select Modify / Delete Instructions.
    
    
    
    
  • Click on the button on the toolbar.
    
    
    
• The window Modify / Delete instructions will appear. To modify the instructions, make the desired changes and click on OK. To delete the instructions, click on Delete.
  
  

Note. It is just as easy to add, modify or delete instructions in horizontal view as it is in vertical view. However, the point of attachment of a given instruction to a segment is more easily identified in the integrated editor of Zigzag Generator in the vertical view. In the horizontal view, scroll down the text with the help of the horizontal scroll-bar on the bottom of the screen until you find the segment to which the instructions are linked. Then, proceed as you would in vertical view, using one of the three options mentioned above.

 

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