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3.2.1. Insert New Book

Create a new book is possible only if no other book is right now opened.

Figure 3.7. Empty popup menu

To create a new book, follow this steps:

  1. Start Helptrix Author application or choose New from the File menu.
  2. Click right mouse button anywhere in table of content (ToC) area, popup menu will appear.
  3. Popup menu has only one item Insert Book, choose it.
  4. Book properties dialog is displayed (see figure bellow). Correctly fill the Book title and Author fields, other fields are filled with predefined values, you may change them if you want. Select main language for the book from the combo box Language with pre-defined languages.
  5. Click Insert button to insert book.

Figure 3.8. Book properties

If you want to add also some additional languages to your book, click on ">>" button in the bottom right corner. Second part of the book properties window will be displayed (see figure bellow). From the language combo box select pre-defined language. Click Add button to add language with abbreviation to list. Select language in the list and click Remove button if you want to remove language from the list.

Figure 3.9. Extended book properties

After clicking Insert button, you will be asked for the project file name (see figure bellow). Select folder and file name (Helptrix project file type) for your new project. Click Save button. In the selected folder will be also created folder with the same name as your project. In this project folder will be stored project content, so do not remove it.

Figure 3.10. Save As dialog

Now, the new book has been successfully created and displayed in ToC.