Getting started: QPlot help

The library and importing a script

QPlot opens on the library. Every script in it is a show.
Tap Import and pick the script. PDF and Word files both work.
QPlot reads the text of every page on the iPad, scanned pages included, so search works. The script is usable while it reads.
Library, top left, goes back.
Press and hold a show to rename, duplicate, export or delete it.
A show reopens at the page it was left on.

The panel button, top left beside Library, opens and closes the side panel.
Scenes lists the acts and scenes in show order. Tap one to go to it.
The act, scene and song for the page on screen are marked.
Songs, Cues and Notes work the same way.
Tap Search, or the box at the top of the panel. It looks in tags first. Type a few words of a song title, or act 2.
Whole script searches the words. Each result has the line and its page.
Type a page number to go to that page.
Type a cue to go to it. SND5, or 5 for every cue numbered 5.
Tap the mic and say it. Voice search fills the same box and stops once you stop talking.

The tool bar sits under the page: Pen, Note, Cut, Tag, then a button for each department switched on.
Pen, Tag and the departments are groups. Tap one and its tools take over the bar. Back returns.
A group opens on the tool last used in it. The tool in use is lit.
Pen draws in black, red, blue or green.
Highlight comes in yellow, pink, green and blue. It sits behind the words.
Erase rubs out ink.
With Erase picked, tap a cue, tag or note to delete it. QPlot asks first.
Undo and Redo are at the top right. Undo goes back 200 steps.

Pick Note and tap the page with the Pencil. A sheet of lined paper opens over the script.
Write on it, as much as you need.
Tap Text to see how QPlot read it. If a word is wrong, fix it with the keyboard.
Read again reads the writing afresh. The eraser clears the text.
Tap Done. A yellow note sits where you tapped.

A cut greys out lines the show has dropped. Pick Cut and draw from the first word to the last.
Swipe along one line to cut that one line.
With Cut picked, drag a cut to move it. Drag its orange corner to resize it.
Tap a cut to delete it. QPlot asks first.

Tag each act and song. The side panel then lists them and search finds them.
Open Tag and pick Act, Scene or Song.
Circle the heading with the Pencil. QPlot reads the words and names the tag.
Songs are tagged the same way.
This script has no scene headings. A scene is tagged the same way, and belongs to the act tagged before it.
If QPlot finds no words, the name box opens. Type the name.
Tap a tag to rename it, change its kind or delete it.
In the side panel, swipe a tag to delete it.

Hide a page the show has cut. Go to it and tap Hide page.
Page turns skip it. Its tags and cues leave the lists and Show mode. Nothing is deleted and no cue is renumbered.
Pages shows hidden pages dimmed. Tap one to bring it back.
Press and hold any page in Pages to hide or unhide it.
More, Unhide all pages brings back every hidden page.

The count starts at the title page. To use the script's own numbers, go to the page printed as 1, open More, then Settings, and tap This is page 1.
Every page number in QPlot now matches the script. Pages before page 1 count i, ii, iii.
Reset, in the same place, puts the count back.

Settings is in the More menu.
Finger input is for an iPad with no Pencil. A finger then marks the page, and Browse joins the tool bar for turning pages.
Tags can be Names or Dots. A dot sits before the words and carries A, S or a music note. Tap a dot to read its name.
Cue size runs from Small to Largest.
Edge taps switches off the page-turn strips at the sides while plotting.
Light appearance switches the app from dark to light.
Half-page turns and Dark page are for Show mode.
Settings cover every show on this iPad, apart from This is page 1.