From 7b0608e90aacab01b941ee26e159a9e73e80454c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reinout Hoornweg Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:39:45 +0100 Subject: Update to user-manual: SettingUpPreferences - The manual now mentions the different tabs for General and Tec settings. - New options since previous release are added to the manual. - Defaults for thresholds and GFlow/GFhigh are mentioned. Signed-off-by: Reinout Hoornweg Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 4ee022bb6..93125fe96 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -311,33 +311,62 @@ Setting up preferences ---------------------- Subsurface has the ability to modify the preferences you want. By -using menu 'File - Preferences' you will be presented a pop-up with the -'Units'. You are free to choose what is your preference, with other -words, use Metric or Imperial. +using menu 'File - Preferences' you will be presented a pop-up. The pop-up +has two tabs: 'General Settings' and 'Tec Settings'. + +The General Settings allow you to select units, columns to be shown, the +font used for the divelist and the default file that contains the data. + +The Tec Settings offer extra columns to show, settings for more graphs and +information to be shown in the dive profile and settings for GFlow and +GFhigh. + +In General Settings you are free to choose what your preference are for the +units to be displayed, with other words, use Metric or Imperial. + +You can set the following options with 'Units': -You can set the following options: - Depth: Your diving depth in Meters or Feet - Pressure: The pressure of your tank(s) in Bar/Ato or PSI (Pressure Square Inch) - Volume: The volume of your tank(s) in Liter or CuFt (Cubic Feet) (At sea-level pressure) - Temperature: The temperature of the water in Celsius or Fahrenheit - Weight: The weight of your weight system in kg or lbs -In the main screen, you did see in Area 3, some information. In the -Columns options, you can enable/disable options you would like to show +In the main screen, you did see in Area 3, some information. With the +'Show Columns', you can enable/disable options you would like to show there: + - Show Temp: Shows the temperature of your dive - Show Cyl: Shows the cylinder(s) of your dive - Show O2%: Shows the O2% of your dive - Show SAC: Shows the SAC of your dive (Surface Air Consumption) - - Show OTU: Shows the OTU of your dive (Oxygen Toxicity Units) - Show Weight: Shows the total weight carried - Show Suit: Shows the suit you were wearing -You can also change the default setting whether your dives are grouped -by dive trips (the algorithm makes educated guesses) or whether you'd -prefer to do any grouping of dive trips manually +With 'Divelist Font', you can change the font used in the dive list, + +And you can use 'Default XML Data File' to specify which file contains the +data the program will use by default. + +The other tab holds the 'Tec Settings' +You can select more columns to be shows with 'Show Columns': + + - OTU The number of Oxygen Toxicity Units + - maxCNS The maximimum Central Nervous System oxygen toxicity + +The 'Profile Setting' allow you to show extra information in the dive profile: + + - Show pO2 graph Show a graph of the oxygen partial pressure (with a threshold, default 1.6) + - Show pN2 graph Show a graph of the nitrogren partial pressure (with a threshold, default 4.0) + - Show pHe graph Show a graph of the helium partial pressure (with a threshold, default 13.0) + - Show MOD Show the Maximum Operating Depth of the used gasmix (for the given max. ppO2, default 1.6) + - Show EAD, END, EADD Show Equivalent Air Depth (considering N2 and O2 narcotic), Equivalent Nitrogen Depth (considering just N2 narcotic) and Equivalent Air Density Depth + - Show dc reported ceiling in red Show the ceiling as reported by the divecomputer + - Show calculated ceiling Show the ceiling as calculated by Subsurface + - 3m increments for calculated ceiling The calculated ceiling is not continuous, but increments in 3m steps + - GFlow Set the Low Gradient Factor (default 30) + - GFhigh Set the High Gradient Factor (default 75) -And, you can change the font used in the dive list, I will give an example here: @@ -358,9 +387,6 @@ I would like to see the: - Show O2% - Show SAC -As a beginning diver, I don't need to track my OTUs. So I leave this -one not enabled. - Clicking OK on the dialog stores these settings. [[S_HowFindDeviceName]] -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2