U.S. Geological Survey

Using Tkme

  1. Installation
    1. Create a shortcut
    2. Running from the command line
  2. File operations
    1. Creating a new record
    2. Open an existing metadata record
    3. Saving, closing, and quitting
  3. Parts of the interface
    1. Menus
    2. Structure window
    3. Value window
    4. Help window
    5. Output preview
  4. Moving around in the record
    1. Mouse actions
    2. Keyboard shortcuts
    3. Expanding and collapsing the outline
  5. Editing the structure
    1. Adding elements
    2. Adding all sub-elements
    3. Cut, copy and paste elements
      1. Within the record
      2. From another document
    4. Duplicate an element
    5. Prune empty elements
    6. Reordering elements
  6. Editing the text
    1. Cut, copy, and paste text
    2. Wrap vs. Hardwrap
    3. Revert
    4. Global search and replace
  7. Snippets
    1. Saving snippets
    2. Retrieving snippets
    3. Places you can get useful snippets
    4. How and where snippets are stored
  8. Help
    1. About each element
    2. Output preview
      1. Update the preview
      2. Using line numbers
      3. Search for text
      4. Jump to element at cursor
    3. Changing the fonts

Not using Tkme

  1. ArcCatalog
  2. SMMS
  3. Text editors


Using Tkme
Peter Schweitzer, U.S. Geological Survey