SPRING FEVER
I hope it is as beautiful wherever you are reading this as it is here. Spring has definitely arrived; the meadows are bright green with yellow buttercups and orange poppies. Last week was a lovely one at KHA we had fun moving everyone, rearranging furniture and putting new hangings on the wall. And we are finishing up our latest updates and our first DVD video training ever.
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This month we will make available updates to ReferenceWorks and MacRepertory. Besides a number of good bug fixes there are quite a few new features.
ReferenceWorks 3.1 There are four new family graphs.
Rajan's Plant Miasms crosses each plant family with each miasm; each petal is represents the remedies for each miasm for the family. At a click see what sunflowers are sycotic (Erig, Gnaph, Mill, Sanic and Senec)!
Rajan's Plants displays the plant families with the main characteristics, at a glance, that Rajan feels are central.
Bob & Judyth's Kids suggest the most common remedies for kids who are overachievers, have attention problems, etc.
Pitcairn's Groups gives major groups of acute, antipsoric and miasmatic remedies.
You'll find these graphs by opening the Family Graph (the Spiral Graph icon) and selecting Design Graphs from the Graph menu and clicking on the icon with the question mark.
We have expanded Rajan's Miasms to separate remedies that Rajan is confident of and those suggested by colleagues for each miasm.
There are 425 new pdf's for remedies and families bringing the total of pdfs to 1297! The pdfs give primary information about a specific remedy or family (botanical info, suggestions from homeopaths, mythology, who made the first proving, etc.). Often they include pictures. To see the pdfs you control/ click (Macintosh) or right click (Windows) on the remedy or family's name almost anywhere in ReferenceWorks; you'll be shown a popdown menu, select "Get Info". Or you can open them directly by opening the ReferenceWorks Folder, then ReferenceWorks Files folder and finally the ReferenceWorks Info folder. There are a few I'd suggest you look at as samples of what you have: Coniferophyta.pdf (a slide show I did on conifers), Row F.pdf (Divya's cycles of the sixth row of the periodic table), Phenols.pdf (a sample of Roger Morrison's info about the organic compounds) and squil.pdf (a fairly typical example of remedy info).
You can now set the size and font for an entire keynote file with one step. Open a keynote, select some text in any remedy, while holding the option (mac) or alt (PC) key down, select the Edit menu and either "Font All" or "Size All". All remedies will be changed to this size.
Have you ever wanted to paste a rubric that you exported from ReferenceWorks directly into the repertory? In this version you can! To export a rubric: after you search in ReferenceWorks press command-e (mac) or control-e (pc), switch to MacRepertory select the rubric you want to paste after and select "Paste" from the Edit menu - voila! Because it is necessary to re-index after making changes we suggest that you paste into a copy of your favorite repertory and after some weeks switch to the enhanced repertory, re-index, duplicate the repertory and make your changes to the copy and so on.
Often when searching for the central themes of a family or displaying the Concept graph for a family you want to only see the most common members of the family. We have altered the families so that when you select one and all of its members are put in the window they are inserted in the order of their frequency in the repertory (the most common first); just delete the remedies from the end.
Getting your copy of the updates
The updates are free if you download them from our site or $35 each if mailed on CD. As soon as they are ready, we'll announce the website address via email along with the necessary password. So make sure that we have your current email address!