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The user begins by selecting a legend category from the Category drop down. Based on this selection, the grid is pre-
populated with a number of legend suggestions. The user can select one of the suggestions from this grid. The
categories and the legend suggestions are supplied by the Pipe Marker configuration file. The structure and
maintenance of this file will be discussed in the next section.
The Search button allows the user to search for words in all suggested Pipe Marker legends. The results will be
displayed in the grid. The Copies entry field specifies the number of generated labels. The entry in the Copies text field
will default to 1. The Pipe Marker configuration file has suggested legends and headers for all languages. The legend
displayed in the grid will be in the selected language.
The Flow drop down has the following entries: Left, Right, and Both. Selecting a layout from the four available with a
flow arrow will insert an arrow in the selected direction.
Previews of the legend will be generated automatically after each user input. Pressing the Edit button will launch a
dialog allowing the user to edit the legend, an image file, and the style of the directional arrow. This dialog is shown in
the next figure: