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title = "Conventions"
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description = "Conventions used in this Ardour tutorial"
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#pre = "<b>1. </b>"
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Below are some basic conventions we have adopted in this manual.
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## Mouse Clicks
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Ardour requires a two-button mouse to run (or the emulation of that on
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your system in some other way). A **click** is assumed to be a left
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button mouse click. A **right-click** refers to the right-hand button on
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the mouse. A **Ctrl**, **Cmd** or **Apple** key pressed with a mouse
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click is not the same and may in fact give a different result.
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## Key Names & Combinations
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The names of keys to be pressed are written in quotation marks and
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italicised, like this:
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**Ctrl**, **Return**, **Backspace**, **R**
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Key combinations are written like this:
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**Ctrl + X**
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or
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**Apple + X**
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## Menu Navigation
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Many functions are accessible in Ardour by clicking on the various menu
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items. Additionally, you may need to access functions through the menus
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of macOS, Ubuntu or other Linux distributions. To illustrate this, we use
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two conventions: the first is illustration via screenshots (images), and
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the second is through a syntax like this :
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`View > Zoom > Zoom to Session`
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The above example is shorthand for "first click on the _View_ menu, then
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choose the _Zoom_ item of the list, and then click on _Zoom to Session_".
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## Glossary Words
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This tutorial does not assume any previous knowledge of computers or
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audio editing, so terms which might be unfamiliar to the general reader
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are capitalized throughout this manual, and are listed in **boldface**
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the first time they are used in a chapter. Glossary words are also
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defined in-line the first time they occur in the manual, and are
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included in the glossary at the end of this tutorial.
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