Scalar 1 User’s Guide media/book_thumbnail.png @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,900,400italic,900italic); body { font-family: 'Lato', Arial, sans-serif; background: url(http://scalar.usc.edu/works/guide/media/background.png) no-repeat center top #f8f8f8; font-size: .92em !important; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: 'Lato', Arial, sans-serif; } #content { line-height:160%; } h5 { font-size:1em; } table.figure { border: 1px solid #ccc; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lato', Arial, sans-serif; } .figure th, .figure td { padding: 10px; vertical-align:top; border: 1px solid #ccc; } .figure th { background-color: #eee; } table.center, td.center { text-align: center; } .cover { min-height: 60px; } a { color: #2f93bd; } .scalar_logo_wrapper { line-height: 100%; } 2013-03-26T09:22:09-07:00 Main Menu 1 2013-03-26T09:35:33-07:00 5 Getting Started Explains account and book creation, and some interface basics. <p>Welcome to Scalar! This path will help get you up to speed with creating a Scalar account, creating your first book, and learning the basics of the Scalar interface. </p> plain draft 2014-09-25T20:22:55-07:00 1 2013-03-28T14:04:06-07:00 4 QuickStarts A path of all QuickStart content in this user's guide. This path gathers all of the QuickStart material from the entire user's guide in one place. plain draft 2014-09-15T10:40:53-07:00 1 2013-03-26T10:14:28-07:00 8 Working with Media How to get the most out of your use of media in Scalar. <p>Scalar is designed to allow you to bring media seamlessly into your books for the purpose of presentation, discussion, and analysis. This path includes information that will help you get the most of your use of media in Scalar.</p> plain draft 2014-08-19T15:46:30-07:00 1 2013-03-26T12:54:31-07:00 3 Working with Content Creating and editing content in Scalar. plain draft 2013-03-27T16:00:44-07:00 1 2013-03-27T10:30:01-07:00 2 Working with Structure How to use Scalar's many options for structuring publications. <p>A Scalar book is much more than a collection of discrete pages; it's the relationships between those pages and their media that ultimately give the book its shape. Scalar is flexible in the way it enables you to organize your content, taking the building blocks of online publishing (sequenced posts, tags, and more) and applying them in new ways.</p> plain draft 2013-03-27T10:39:08-07:00 1 2013-03-27T10:40:16-07:00 5 Advanced Topics Exploring Scalar's more advanced features. <p>In this section we'll cover some of Scalar's more advanced features.</p> plain draft 2015-07-30T17:47:22-07:00 1 2013-07-23T16:48:30-07:00 10 Custom Styling Users who wish to change basic stylistic features of Scalar books can insert code from the sections below into the Custom Style field found in the Scalar Dashboard under the "Book Properties" tab. plain draft 2013-09-02T13:30:08-07:00 1 2014-07-01T12:00:54-07:00 3 Third Party Plugins and Platforms In this section, you'll find a listing of third party plugins or platforms which we recommend for use within, or as an supplement to, Scalar projects. plain draft 2014-07-05T20:12:32-07:00