Changes Since Reference Manual Was Printed

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Changes Since the Reference Manual Was Printed

Several features of Sketchpad were completed after the Reference Manual went to press, and are not described there. These include tables (used to collect the values of measurements) and advanced operations with text.

Tables

You can accumulate measurements you've made in a sketch into a table. Create a table by selecting one or more measurements and choosing Tabulate from the Graph menu. You can collect measurements in a table manually or automatically as the measurement changes. Tables of changing values are also created for you automatically when you create an iteration in which one or more values change.

See also
Tables
Tabulate
Iterate

Advanced Text Operations

The Merge Text command lets you merge several objects containing text (labeled objects, measurements, or captions) into a single composite caption, as described in the printed manual. Recent additions for advanced users allow you to attach a measurement or caption to a point, so that its position is determined by a geometric construction; and to create merged captions with special mathematical formatting (such as fractions, overbars, and so forth).