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AstroMart
Les principales innovations dans cette nouvelle version concernent l'adaptation à Windows XP, l'interface style internet, et la configuration des thèmes.
Les calculs sont exacts à une minute prés pour tout le vingtième siècle.
Il y a plusieurs autres systèmes de maisons, dont le système de Koch. Vous pouvez donner un orbe pour les maisons (l'orbe est la distance du point de la maison dans laquelle une planète est considérée d'être dans la maison) ou centrer les maisons, et ceci pour tous les systèmes de domification.
Le programme AstroMart vous permet d'entrer les données de la personne concernée, pour le calcul de son thème astral, de la position des planètes à l'heure de naissance, ainsi que la position des maisons astrologiques. AstroMart calcule également les aspects astrologiques. AstroMart fait apparaître sur l'écran le graphique de naissance mais également celui de n'importe quelle révolution solaire. Grâce à AstroMart vous n'aurez plus à calculer les transits des planètes, les révolutions solaires, les comparaisons de deux thèmes.
AstroMart met en mémoire un fichier des personnes dont vous avez le thème à étudier, le sauvegarde, efface les thèmes si vous le désirez, les modifie s'il y a erreur, et bien sur, vous permet d'imprimer une ou plusieurs des données.
AstroMart vous permet de choisir les paramètres de l'imprimante ainsi que le style d'impression.
Il est vivement conseillé d'envoyer vos coordonnées à l'auteur si vous avez acheté AstroMart auprès d'un revendeur. En effet, de nombreuses mises à jour et améliorations sont régulièrement apportées, et les personnes connues par l'auteur sont ainsi systématiquement informées.
Le logiciel AstroMart a été écrit par F. Burns.
Il est interdit d'utiliser, de copier, de modifier ou de transférer le logiciel et la documentation, ou toute reproduction de ceux-ci, en dehors des conditions expressément stipulées par la loi.
L'auteur ne fait aucune promesse ou garantie quant au contenu de ce manuel et dénie spécifiquement toute garantie implicite au sujet de sa qualité commerciale ou de son utilisation dans un but particulier.
Tous les risques en ce qui concerne les résultats et la performance de ce logiciel seront assumés par l'acheteur. Tous les frais de réparation et de remise en état résultant de l'utilisation de ce logiciel seront pris en charge par l'acheteur.
L'auteur se réserve le droit de faire des mises à jour et des modifications sans en informer les utilisateurs. Si elle l'estime nécessaire, l'auteur inclura une feuille de mise à jour avec le manuel.
F. Burns
82 rue Louis Antonin
30190 Saint Chaptes, France
Tél: (33) 04 66 59 02 19
Email: frank@ceze.com
Définitions
Curseur: un bloc de forme en "I" clignotant sur l'écran, indiquant l'endroit où la prochaine saisie ou modification va avoir lieu.
Thème principal : le thème principal est le thème calculé pour une personne ou une date. Presque toutes les opérations agissent sur le thème principal.
Fenêtre active : la fenêtre active est la fenêtre placée par-dessus. Le haut de la fenêtre est d'une couleur différente. Les menus ne concernent que la fenêtre active. Les menus sont différents pour différentes fenêtres.
Menu: un menu est un groupe d'options logiques entre lesquelles on peut se déplacer.
Option: on peut choisir une option du menu en utilisant la souris, ou les flèches vers le haut et le bas, et en appuyant la touche Entrée ou Enter.
Boite de dialogue : Une fenêtre qui est affichée pour la saisie d'informations. Elle contient des textes, boutons et champs.
Bouton: un bouton est un texte associé à un objet rond ou carré que l'on peut sélectionner avec la souris, ou avec les flèches et la barre d'espace. Il y a 2 sortes de bouton :
- Exclusif (rond) : Si l'on sélectionne un bouton, les autres boutons dans le même groupe sont désactivés ;
- Non exclusif (carré) : On peut sélectionner plusieurs boutons dans le même groupe.
Champ: une boîte sur l'écran où l'on peut entrer des données. Il y a 2 sortes de champs :
- champ numérique où l'on ne peut rentrer que des chiffres, par exemple : 5/05/1990, âge, etc. ;
- alphanumérique, par exemple un nom ou un commentaire ou le nom d'un fichier.
Usage du clavier
- F1
- affiche l'aide contextuelle.
- ENTER ou Entrée
- valide le choix d'une option d'un menu ou valide la saisie dans une boite de dialogue.
- ESC
- vous permet de sortir de l'endroit où vous êtes s'il y a une erreur, pour revenir en arrière et reprendre votre travail.
- CTRL + ESC
- fait apparaître une fenêtre pour basculer à un autre programme.
- ALT + ESC
- bascule à un autre programme.
- Ctrl+C
- copie le contenu de la fenêtre active dans le presse-papiers.
- Ctrl+P
- imprime le contenu de la fenêtre active.
Dans les menus
In the main menu, the down arrow takes you to a sub-menu, in the other menus, it takes you to the next option.
The up arrow takes you back to the previous option.
In the main menu, the right arrow takes you to the next option.
In the main menu, the left arrow takes you to the preceding option, in the other menus, it takes you ten options further back.
Dans une fenêtre
- Ctrl+N
- opens the dialog box for entering a new chart.
- Ctrl+S
- immediately saves the main chart, and thus has the same function as the SAVE option in the FILE menu.
- Ctrl+O
- has the same effect as the Load option in the File menu.
- Ctrl+C
- copies the selected text to the clipboard.
- Ctrl+X
- removes the selected text to the clipboard.
- Ctrl+V
- pastes the content of the clipboard at the current cursor position.
- F3
- repeats the search for a text in the active window.
- Ctrl+F4
- closes the active window.
- ALT+F4
- quits AstroMart.
- Ctrl+F
- searches for a text.
- Ctrl+P
- prints the active window.
- F6
- has the same effect as the Graph option in the Chart menu.
- Ctrl+F6
- activates the next window.
- F7
- has the same effect as the Analysis option in the Chart menu.
- F10
- activates the menu, and you can then use the keyboard to select an option.
In the input fields
In all the menus and input fields the arrows have the following functions:
- TAB
- and the down arrow take you to the next field.
- SHIFT+TAB
- and the up arrow take you to the previous field.
- The right arrow
- takes you to the next character in a field.
- The left arrow
- takes you to the previous character in a field.
- HOME
- takes you to the first character in a field.
- END
- takes you to the last character in a field.
- DEL
- The delete keys delete. The DEL key with the left arrow deletes towards the left, and the DEL key without an arrow deletes where the cursor is currently positioned.
Use of the Mouse
The mouse in graphic windows
When you click on an object (graphic, wheel, house, planet) with the left mouse button, the program display a window containing information about the object.
For a graphic that has aspects, the program displays a list box containing the list of aspects when you click in the middle of the graphic.
The tab for selecting a text such as the name at the top of a graphic is in its upper left corner, so you can also move text objects.
For a planet, for example, the window contains the subject's name, the name of the planet in full, the sign, how many degrees in the sign, if the planet is retrograde, the absolute longitude and latitude, and which house it is in.
Click on Ok to close the window.
The Info + button displays a window contain other information such as the meaning of a planet or of the aspects.
If you click on an object, and then hold the mouse button down, you can drag the object to a different position. In this way, you can spread out the planets and houses in a group. The graphic thus modified can be printed or copied into the clipboard; it keeps the layout.
When you click on the graphic with the right mouse, a pop-up menu is displayed. This is a local menu, and its modifications act only upon the active window. When you open a new window, it uses the options specified in the Options menu.
You can thus change the colors, the planets and houses displayed, the orbs, etc. This is especially useful for graphics that represent two charts (comparisons, returns, etc.).
Tool bars
AstroMart has three types of tool bars:
- The bar at the top of the main window carries out common actions such as Save, Open, Copy, etc.
- The bar in most graphic windows lets you display or remove a planet. When you click on the left button, the action is on the first (main or lower) chart; if you click on the right button, the action is on the other chart if there is one.
- The bar for text formatting lets you select the font, the font type and attributes such as bold, italics and underlined.
File
This menu offers the following actions :
- Enter a New chart,
- Open a chart in the chart file,
- Save a chart in the chart file,
- Save the text in a text window along with the chart,
- Modify an existing chart,
- Close the selected chart window,
- Choose the table of charts to be used
- Export copies of your data to a file,
- Using Page setup, specify the margins and the footer,
- Print the Chart and aspects, the Analysis, the Graphic or All,
- Configure your Printer,
- Quit AstroMart.
New ^N
The NEW option in the CHART menu is used to input a new chart.
A dialog box is displayed.
You type the family name and first names of your subject and possibly a comment. The Reference field is used to class and sort your charts. You can enter any text or numbers.
You select the sex of your subject.
The birthplace written in the Tools/Options menu is displayed automatically. If it is the desired town, you will have the coordinates. If you want another town, type in the first two or three letters of the desired town, which should be enough to find it.
When checked, the Lookup locality check box makes the program search for the city in the database automatically. If disabled, the program will accept your data without verification. Disable lookup if you want to enter arbitrary data (no longitude and latitude, for instance).
If lookup is enabled and if the city is not found, a dialog box opens for the City database. Type in the first letters in the active field to search. Select a town with the arrows and press ENTER, or select Add if the required town is not in the town file. "Modify" and "Delete" enable you to modify or delete a town.
To enter a new town: see Database/Localities.
Complete the date and time for your chart.
Click the "Unknown" button if you do not know the time of birth. It calculates the chart for 12:00 local time and does not use the house cusps for other calculation or display.
If you leave "Auto" in the time adjustment field, the software will try to look up the difference between GMT and the local legal time. If not successful, a message and a suggested adjustment are displayed. This adjustment is probably correct. If this is not correct, you must enter the time adjustment.
ATTENTION: If you enter a time adjustment, the program will accept it whatever its value. If you want AstroMart to calculate the time adjustment, leave "Auto" in this field.
Open ^O
The OPEN option in the FILE menu allows you to select the desired chart in the chart file.
The first field lets you enter the first letters for looking up your chart. The Name and Reference radio buttons indicate whether the charts are sorted by name or by the reference field. The third box lets you choose the type of charts you are looking for.
You can do more complex operations (such as Delete, Zap, Filters, etc.) in Database/Edit chart file.
It is possible to select another chart file in Chart files.
Save ^S
The SAVE option in the FILE menu saves the chart that is displayed on screen in the chart file.
It is possible to select another chart file in the SAVE option in the FILE menu saves the chart that is displayed on screen in the chafile:///mnt/disk/documents/sources/astro82/help/help-en.htmlrt file.
It is possible to select another chart file in the Chart files
Save text
Modify chart
This function modifies the displayed chart.
Close chart
This function closes the displayed chart.
Chart tables
This function changes the file of charts, so that other chart files can be used. The program displays all the existing files in the current directory.
You can create a file by writing the name of a file which does not exist in the list.
Export
This function exports the data contained in an active window active to a file.
The program displays all the existing files in the current directory.
You can create a file by writing the name of a file that does not exist in the list.
For a text window, the file format is RTF (Rich Text Format). Graphics are stored as Windows Meta Files (*.wmf). These formats are read by all the Windows software.
Page setup
This function displays a dialogue box. You can specify :
- Header : Press the button to print the name and number of the page on the top of each page.
- Footer : Specify the text line to be printed at the bottom of each page.
- Margins : Specify the margins to be left on each side of the page. The unit (cm, inch, pica) can be changed by using National. The margins will be in keeping with the data of your printer (paper format, direction), see Printer setup.
Print
This items leads to a sub-menu:
- Print Window
- Print Chart and aspects
- Print Analysis
- Print Graphics
- Print all
Print/Window ^P
This function prints the contents of an active window, as well as the text and the graphics. It uses the margins specified in the Page setup, but does not print the header and the footer.
Print/Chart and aspects
For the relevant windows, this function prints the data of the corresponding chart.
It uses the margins specified in the Page setup, and prints the header and footer on each page.
Print/Analysis
For the relevant windows, this function prints the analysis of the corresponding chart, without displaying it on screen.
It uses the margins specified in the Page setup, and prints the header and footer on each page.
Print/Graphics
This function prints the corresponding graphic of a chart contained in a window.
It uses the margins specified in the Page setup, and prints the header and footer on each page.
Print/All
For a window that contains a chart, this function prints the chart, the aspects, the graphic and the analysis.
Printer setup
This function loads your printer or individually modifies its parameters.
Quit Alt+F4
This function closes your session on AstroMart.
This option must always be used to quit the program or its equivalent hot-key must be used, in this case Alt+F4.
This option saves all the options you have selected and indexes them, before quitting the program.
Edit
This menu contains the copy-paste and the text search functions:
- In a text window, Undo undoes the last action.
- Cut, Copy, Copy all the selection or entire window to the clipboard (text and graphs),
- Paste the clipboard.
- Search for a word or phrase in a text window or find the Next occurrence,
- Select all the text.
Undo
Cut and Copy ^C
This function copies the contents of the active window in the clipboard. It works for text and graphics. Afterwards, you can paste the contents of the clipboard in another software package (word processor, spreadsheet, ...).
Paste ^V
This function copies the contents of the clipboard into a text window at the position of the cursor.
Search ^F
This function finds a word or phrase in a text. It can only work in text windows. The word line which contains the requested word is displayed at the top of the window.
Next F3
This searches for the next occurrence of the text that was searched for in the Search function.
Replace
Select all Ctrl + A
This function selects all the text in a text window.
Display
This menu lets you modify on-screen display:
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- Enable the Tool bar, the Format bar, the Graphic bar and the Status bar,
- Zoom in or Zoom out.
Browser
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See Template files
Display as page web
Templates
Tool bars
Zoom in, zoom out
Format
This menu lets you modify the text format:
- Format in Bold, Underlined, Italic.
- Font changes the font of the selected text.
- Font +, Font - increase and decrease the size of the font of the selected text.
Chart
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This menu creates a window with the data of the chart in the active window :
- List creates a window with the positions of the planets and houses as a list,
- You can also create a window containing the Aspects,
- or a text for Analysis of the chart,
- Values inserts a table of values,
- Chart creates a window similar to the positions of the planets and houses, and the planets in the houses.
Configure display
Chart data window
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Values
These values are the totals of the influence values for each item in the chart, i.e. the value of the Love in an aspect, of Work for a planet in a sign, etc. You can modify the values for each item in the Edit analysis dialog box.
These values are also shown in the Values pie and bar graphs.
List
This displays the data as a list. It contains the internal reference of the planet, its name, sign, degrees in sign, retrograde, absolute longitude and latitude, which house a planet is in, and the number of the house.
Aspects
This function creates a new window containing the aspects of the chart, their orbs and the indicative values of these aspects. The values give summary indications of the aspects. They take into account the orb, the type of aspect and the planets.
Specification of the planets to be used for the aspects takes place in the Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in the Options/Chart/Orbs. A change in the orbs has an effect on the values displayed.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All Aspects takes place in the Options/Chart/Preferences.
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This function inserts the aspects of the chart, their orbs and the indicative values of these aspects. The values give summary indications of the aspects. They take into account the orb, the type of aspect and the planets.
Specification of the planets to be used for the aspects takes place in the Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in the Options/Chart/Orbs. A change in the orbs has an effect on the values displayed.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All Aspects takes place in the Options/Chart/Preferences.
Analysis
This function creates a window containing the complete analysis of the chart with the Planets in the Signs, the Planets in the Houses and the Aspects of the Planets.
Specification of the planets to be used for the aspects of the values takes place in the Planets setup sub-menu.
Specification of the orbs takes place in the Options/Chart/Orbs sub-menu. A change in the orbs has an effect on the values displayed.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All Aspects takes place in the Options/Chart/Preferences sub-menu.
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This function inserts the complete analysis of the chart with the Planets in the Signs, the Planets in the Houses and the Aspects of the Planets.
Specification of the planets to be used for the aspects of the values takes place in the Planets setup sub-menu.
Specification of the orbs takes place in the Options/Chart/Orbs sub-menu. A change in the orbs has an effect on the values displayed.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All Aspects takes place in the Options/Chart/Preferences sub-menu.
Chart 2
The Chart 2 menu offers the following actions :
- Calculates the Transits for the chart in the active window,
- Compares to day the active chart ,
- Makes a series of comparisons in order to make Previsions,
- Synastry compares the charts of two different people,
- Compares to file the active chart,
- Calculates the Moon return for the chart,
- Calculates the Sun return for the chart,
- Calculates the Chart 2/Progression,
- For the windows relating to the calculation of two charts, displays the :
- Mid-points between two charts
- The Second chart.
Transits
This function calculates the transits of certain planets in relation to the chart in the active window.
Select the required planets from the list.
The program will ask what town must be used for the longitude in order to calculate the transits. Enter the first letters of the town. For the management of the localities file, see Database/Localities.
Enter the date of the start of the calculation.
Indicate for how many months the transits must be calculated.
This option calculates the exact transits for the chosen planets. It gives the date and time of the transit. The last-but-one column gives the exact angle between the two planets at that moment. A positive value is said to be Dexter and a negative one Sinister.
Specification for the planets used for the transits takes place in the Options/Chart/Preferences submenu.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate for the transits.
Choose transit dialog
This lets you select the transit to be used for your graphic or comparison.
Compare to day
This function calculates a comparison between the active chart and the chart of the day. The aspects of this comparison correspond to the transits with the orbs selected in the Options menu.
The program will ask what town must be used for the longitude in order to calculate the transits. Enter the first letters of the town. For the management of the localities file, see Database/Localities.
Enter the date and time for the calculation.
The inter-aspects between the main chart and the chart of the day are displayed with their orbs and indicative values.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate for the comparisons.
Previsions
This function calculates a series of comparisons between the active chart and a regular progression of moments in time.
Enter the date and time for the calculation.
Each step corresponds to the difference in time between each comparison.
The number of steps determines the number of comparisons in the series.
The totals of negative and positive points, and their sum, are displayed for each date.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Compare 2 charts
This function compares the active chart to a file chart.
The program asks you to load a chart from among those in your chart files.
The inter-aspects between the active chart and the chosen chart are displayed with their orbs and their indicative values.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Compare to file
This function searches in the file, for the charts corresponding to the selection criteria in relation to the main chart.
Select the desired sex, the minimum and maximum age and the maximums and minimums for the number of points.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Moon return
This function studies the Sun return of the active chart.
Enter the date for the return. The program will calculate the closest return (plus or minus 14 days).
The program will ask what town must be used for the longitude in order to calculate the solar revolution. Enter the first letters of the town. For the management of the localities file, see Database/Localities.
Sun return
This function studies the Solar revolution of the active chart.
Input the age on the required birthday.
The program will ask what town must be used for the longitude in order to calculate the solar revolution. Enter the first letters of the town. For the management of the localities file, see Database/Localities.
Progression
This function studies the progressive chart of the subject.
Input the date and time for the progression.
The program will ask what town must be used for the longitude in order to calculate the solar revolution. Enter the first letters of the town. For the management of the localities file, see Database/Localities.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Mid-points
For the windows that deal with two charts, this function creates a window which contains the chart calculated with the physical mid-points between the two charts.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Second chart
For the windows that deal with two charts, this function creates a window which contains the second chart, which is most often the result of a calculation.
The usual menu is displayed on top of the screen. This menu corresponds to the Main Menu , but certain options act in a way that is different, but appropriate.
Graphics
This menu displays graphics :
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- Aspect wheel displays the graphic representation of a chart with the aspects in the middle of the circle or, for the windows that deal with two charts, the two charts superimposed on each other,
- Daisy wheel displays the graphic representation of a chart with the planets inside the circle or, for the windows that deal with two charts, the two charts superimposed on each other,
- Aspect Grid shows the aspects in tabular format,
- Values pie and bar graphs show the influence values of a chart,
- Previsions is a particular graphic for the Previsions function,
- Side by side displays two charts side by side for the windows that deal with two charts,
- Clock displays a chart that advances with time,
- Line graph displays the movement of the planets with time,
- Transits line graph is a particular graphic for the Transits function.
Graphic only
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Graphic landscape
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Graphic portrait
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Aspect wheel
For a window which corresponds to a single chart, this function displays a graphic representation of the chart (Chart of the Heavens).
For the windows that deal with two charts, this function displays a graphic representation of the secondary chart on the main chart. The main chart is in a single color.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in Options/Orbs.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All the Aspects takes place in the Options/Preferences.
See also:
The mouse in graphics and Tool bars.
Daisy wheel
For a window which corresponds to a single chart, this function displays a graphic representation of the chart (Chart of the Heavens).
For the windows that deal with two charts, this function displays a graphic representation of the secondary chart on the main chart . The main chart is in a single color.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in Options/Orbs.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All the Aspects takes place in the Options/Preferences.
See also:
The mouse in graphics and Tool bars.
Aspect grid
This window shows the aspects as table. You can click on a planet or an aspect to get more information, or click on the background to have a list of the aspects and their analysis texts.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in Options/Orbs.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All the Aspects takes place in the Options/Preferences.
Previsions
This option displays a graphic particular to the Previsions function.
It represents a series of comparisons between the main chart and a series of dates.
The red line represents the negative points, the green line the positive points, and the blue line the total of the points for each date.
Values
This function displays two different graphics to illustrate the data from the Values function.
Values - pie shows the (positive - negative) totals for each influence, classed from the most negative to the most positive.
Values - bars shows the positive (green), negative (red) and total values (blue or purple).
You can modify the values in the Edit analysis dialog box.
Side by side
This function displays the main chart and the second chart side by side. The two charts are in the classical circular format (chart of the Heavens).
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in Options/Orbs.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All the Aspects takes place in the Options/Preferences.
See also:
The mouse in graphics and Tool bars.
Clock
This function displays a graphic of an Astral Clock which displays the chart using the date and time of the data, then advances the chart in time, like a clock, in time intervals that were set at the beginning in the input field "Time step".
The Clock function of the Chart menu displays a dialogue box which can be used to input the date and time you require. The date and time of the active chart are displayed by default. Clock displays the graphic representations, for the chosen date and time, by advancing each time by the number of minutes that have been entered in the field "Time step". If you want to pause during the display, click on the left mouse button.
The clock stops when you activate another window, and starts up again when its window is reactivated.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Specification of the orbs takes place in Options/Orbs.
The choice between the Major Aspects and All the Aspects takes place in the Options/Preferences.
See also:
The mouse in graphics and Tool bars.
Line graph
This function displays a graphic in lines, showing the movement of the planets from a certain date and with a certain step in time.
The program displays a dialogue box which can be used to input the date, the time and the "Step" of time that you require. The date and the time of the main chart are displayed by default.
After validation, Line graph displays a graphic representation from the chosen date time, increasing each time by the number of days entered into the "Step" field.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed takes place in Planets setup.
See also:
The mouse in graphics
Transits line graph
This graphic is particular to the Transits function. It displays the movement of the planets in transit in relation to the main chart.
The option displays a window which loads either all the planets or just one. If you select ALL, the software draws horizontal lines, representing the positions of the planets of the main chart, and curves representing the movement of the planets in transit.
If you select one planet, AstroMart draws horizontal lines representing the positions of the aspects. A curve shows the movement of the planets in transit.
See also:
The mouse in graphics
Transit line graph dialog
Transit linear graph displays the graphs, showing the progression of the planets in transit in relation either to all the planets or a single planet.
The option displays a window in which you choose between all the planets or a single planet.
If you choose ALL, the program plots horizontal lines representing the positions of the planets in the main chart, and curves representing the movement of the planets in transit.
If you select a single planet, the program plots horizontal lines representing the position of the planet chosen in the main chart, and horizontal lines representing the position of the aspects. Curves show the movement of the planets in transit.
Moon phases
The option displays a window showing the moon phases centered on the date you enter.
See also:
The mouse in graphics
Database
This menu lets you handle the various databases:
- Select chart table, Edit chart table, and Convert chart file manipulate chart files.
- Localities, Country, State, Time, Planets and Stars deal with the other types of data.
- Choose and edit the Analysis files used for each analysis module.
Chart table
Edit chart table
This function handles various operations on chart files. You can open, modify, add, sort, filter charts.
Attention: Unless you click on Recalc, the modified or added charts are calculated only when you open them.
There are two specific menus on the top of this window:
The Filters menu contains the following items (Windows 95):
- By field lets you put a condition for display of charts.
- By planet displays only charts having a planet or house in a certain sign.
The Database menu contains the following items:
- Add imports charts from another chart file, of type dBase or Paradox.
- Copy exports charts to a file, of type dBase, Paradox or ASCII.
- Zap removes all displayed charts from the file. You can use this function to delete the charts selected with a filter. ATTENTION: Deleted charts cannot be recovered.
- Rename gives a different name to the current chart file.
- Delete removes the currently selected chart.
Filter by field
By field lets you put a condition for display of charts. This condition is the name of a database field (Name for example), an operator (=, , ) and a condition. The filter "Country=1" displays only charts of people born in the USA.
Filter by planet
By planet displays only charts having a planet or house in a certain sign.
Localities
This option lets you to work directly on the localities file. This file is in the Paradox 4 format, and can be modified by almost all database managers and even by a lot of spreadsheets.
Country filters the file on a given country (for example, USA=1), and All countries removes the filter.
Add opens the dialog box for entering a new city.
ATTENTION: The Greenwich meridian (0.00) is the reference point.
For the internal workings of AstroMart, the latitude North and the longitude West are POSITIVE and the latitude South and the longitude East are NEGATIVE. Because the buttons for North or South, West or East must be selected, you simply enter the values for longitude and latitude without a sign.
See Enter new city
New locality dialog
ATTENTION: The Greenwich meridian (0.00) is the reference point. For the internal workings of AstroMart, the latitude North and the longitude West are POSITIVE and the latitude South and the longitude East are NEGATIVE. Because the buttons for North or South, West or East must be selected, you simply enter the values for longitude and latitude without a sign.
To enter a new town:
- Complete the name of the town.
- Click on the arrow to the right of the country field to select the country from the list.
- Enter the number of the state for the United States or Canada, or look it up in the list.
- You must type the latitude first, then indicate North by "N" and South by "S".
- Do the same for the longitude, first entering the longitude then "W" for West and "E" for East. The exact coordinates can be found in an atlas.
History
In 1883, a Pan-American railway company requested the adoption of unified time system for the region which would not continuously vary from one place to the next. The following year, the Washington Congress, the system of time zones, was adopted by 36 nations.
The original meridian is that of Greenwich, near London, and it divides the globe into 24 sections of 15° angle in longitude (measured to the Equator).
Each section corresponds to the angle of rotation of the Earth in one hour.
Every new town is registered in the CITY.DB file. It can be modified at the request of AstroMart during the calculation of a chart where the town is not in the memory, or by means of a dBase IV or Paradox file manager which enables a new town to be added directly to this file.
AstroMart works in the following manner with respect to the 0 (zero) of the Greenwich meridian.:
NORTH and WEST are POSITIVE
SOUTH and EAST are NEGATIVE
To register a new town during the calculation of a chart where the town is not memorized in the CITY.DB file, it is possible to use a recent Atlas and record the latitude and then the longitude when AstroMart requests them.
The ideal thing is to have a small pocket Atlas. A simple calculation to convert the Hours-Minutes-Seconds into degrees must be carried out in order to give the precise position of the town in degrees.
= WHAT YOU MUST KNOW:
The LONGITUDE is always converted into DEGREES and MINUTES. 60 minutes corresponds to 15°. The object of the exercise is to know how many degrees are given in "x" minutes.
For example, to record the town of Fort-de-France (Martinique), whose LATITUDE is at 14.40 and whose LONGITUDE is at 4.4.25 (Hours-Minutes-Seconds).
The CONVERSION is as follows:
4 hours =4*60 = 240 minutes
4 minutes = 4 minutes
25 seconds = 25 seconds
This is added up in minutes and seconds. In other words, 240+4 = 244 minutes plus 25 seconds, which gives a longitude for Fort-de-France of 244.25 minutes.
This must then be multiplied by 15 (to convert it to degrees, because 60 minutes = 15°) and divided by 60 minutes.
From which you get 244.25*15 = 3663.75/60 = 61.0625, in other words 61.06° of longitude.
Result: a LATITUDE of 14.40 and a LONGITUDE of 61.06 must be entered at the request of AstroMart during the calculation of a relevant chart or enter these figures into the AstroMart's CITY.DB file by means of a file manager.
Countries
This function lets you work directly on the Country file. In general, you needn't change this data, except to enter a country that lacks. The country number (and sometimes the state) is used by the time files to calculate the time shift.
States
This function lets you work directly on the State file. For certain countries (USA, Canada, Australia) the state number is used by the time files to calculate the time shift.
Time
This function lets you work directly on the Time files. The left window (Time1.db) uses the country, state and date to determine which table index should be used to look up the time shift in the right window (Time2.db). For France (Country=33, state is not used), from Date=27/03/1983 you use the same table as Greece (Table=30) but with a difference of minus one hour (Time1.Adjust=-1).
When you select a record in the left window and then go to the right window, only the records in the corresponding table are displayed. In the example for France, the records for Greece are displayed (Table=30), with the date and time of change. The adjust field gives the difference from that moment on. This adjust is added to the adjust on the left (Time shift=Time1.adjust + Time2.adjust).
If you put (Ask=true) for a record, AstroMart will calculate the shift, and then display a message asking the user to confirm before continuing. This is useful for countries and periods for which the determination is uncertain (France in 1941, for example).
For Adjust, if you enter 254, the local sun time is calculated. If you enter 255, the logical time zone is computed (shift = Round(longitude/15).
Planets and stars
This items lets you work on the Star file containing information for Arabic parts, fixed stars, mid-points and other points. This file gives the mathematical definition for these elements, but not the translated name. The translations are in the language text files. See Tools/Chart setup for the integration of the elements into chart calculation.
- Num is used by AstroMart to identify the planet. In this file, Num must be greater than 100, as AstroMart reserves the numbers 1 to 100 for its own use.
- Type must be greater than 0; 1 for Arabic parts, 2 for fixed stars, and an arbitrary number for other elements.
- Offset and Icon are not used in this version.
- Plus1, Plus1 and Minus1 refer to planet numbers (1 for Sun, 2 for Moon, etc.). These may be user-defined numbers in the Num field. The Chart/List window displays the planets with their numbers. You can use the fields on the left to select planets by name.
- Value, Lat and Long are absolute values in degrees and decimal degrees (156.7500 = 156° 45').
The following formula is used for longitude:
Lat = (Plus1+Plus2-Minus1)/Divider + Value + Long
Lat gives the latitude.
Analysis file
This function lets you choose the section of the analysis file that is to be used for each interpretation module: birth chart, transits, comparisons, etc.
The list of analysis module is on the left. Select one of these modules, then click on the section to be used in the right box.
is an empty place for adding a new section.
The small File menu on the top of this dialog box contains the functions Import, Export and Edit which act on the selected section. The Edit has the same effect as the Edit menu function, see Edit analysis texts
How to import "*.a*" files into the version 5.2 or greater.
1) Open your file using Word or another word processor.
2) Replace all the { with [ and all the } with ], then save the file in "Text only" format.
3) In AstroMart, go to "Database/Analysis files".
4) In the right list box, select "" for a new file, or select the section you want to replace.
5) Select "Import" in the local "File", then select your file
Raw
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Edit analysis texts
This function is used to modify the texts used for analyses.
At the top of the window, there is a standard format tool bar, but containing an additional pull-down list box for inserting macro-commands. When you select a command in the list, it is automatically inserted at the cursor position.
Commands:
[|] : man/woman, for a man, the text in front of the bar | is inserted, if not, the text following the bar is inserted.
[$N] [$F] [$B] [$C] [$S] [$D] [$T] : respectively, name, first name, birthplace, country, state, date and time of birth.
[$PS1] .. [$PSn] : the sign and degrees in the sign for planet 1..x, for example, "Sun in [$PS1]" gives "Sun in Aries 7°"
[?PS1,1 text] .. [?PSn,n text] : The text is inserted only if the planet is in a certain sign, for example, [?PS1,1 Hello], "Hello" is displayed only if the sun is in Aries.
The list boxes in the next bar let you select the rubric you want to edit. The first list is used to choose the type (aspect, ?) the next two the planets or houses (planet1, planet2), and then the type of aspect (aspect).
The table on the lower left lets you access these values directly. You can edit them in the list, but attention, the combination of values must be unique, if no you will see a "Key violation" error. In this case, specify other values or deleted the record.
The Navigator is a strip of commands that may be used to move about in the database, or to add or delete records (+, -).
After editing text, you need to click on Accept in order to save the modification in the database. The next rubric is displayed automatically.
The boxes "Intellect, Action, etc" specifies the values used for calculating the Values function. The following scales are used:
For Planet in sign, Planet in house, House in Sign:
Sun 0-100
Moon 0-90
Mercury - Saturn 0-80
Uranus - Pluto 0-50
Aspects should be percentages 0 - 100 %, since the values are multiplied by the existing coefficient:
Sun Conjunction Venus 6.36 232
Value = value * 232/200
Pluto Sextile Ascendant 0.02 20
Value = value * 20/200
Tools
This menu offers the following items:
- Options displays a sub-menu for the options to calculate and display a chart: Birth chart, Lower chart, Upper chart.
- Chart setup specifies which planets and points are used to calculated a chart.
- Planets setup specifies the colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects.
- Language and national parameters specify text display and local settings.
- Font changes the type and size of the font,
- You can Open a file of options,
- You can Save options in an options file.
- You can Save as your options in another file,
- You can Save and Load default options your options in another file,
- You can Reset all the options.
Options
**This item sets the options for Birth chart, Upper chart and Lower chart.
The following option pages are presented:
- Preferences
- Orbs
- Houses
- Transits
- Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
Preferences
This function specifies the parameters for the calculation of the charts:
- The beginning of the charts of the Heavens can start on the right with the Aries sign, with the Ascendant or the Asc node.
- You have the choice between displaying with Symbols or with Letters for the signs and planets.
- The charts of the Heavens can be displayed With or Without degrees.
- The choice between the Major aspects and All aspects,
- The choice between the Tropical and the Sidereal zodiac,
- The default Locality.
- The Help file used (presently only English or French).
- Zoom changes the size of the graphic. There is also a zoom button in the Graphic tool bar.
- The number of pixels to add to line widths when printing (Print +).
Orbs
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This function specifies the orbs for each planet and for each type of aspect.
Houses
This pages sets:
- The system of houses
- You can give an orb to houses. This orb is the distance before the house cusp in which a planet is considered to be in the house.
- You can center houses on the cusps, and this for all house systems.
Transits
This pages selects the types of aspects used to search for transits.
Chart setup
This item lets you add planets other than those defined by AstroMart.
For AstroMart, a planet is a point calculated for a certain time relative to another point or value; a number is used to identify a planet. The definitions are copied from Star.db on the left (See Database/Planets and stars) to Planet.db on the right, this latter is used by the program each time a chart is created. You can add or remove planets, and you can modify information such as name and short name.
Specification of colors, font characters, size, the planets to be displayed and the planets used for the aspects takes place in Planets setup.
The Setup button leads to Planets setup.
Planet setup
This dialog box is used to set the parameters for graphics and text: color, line width, font and display. It applies to all graphical elements including aspects, text, background, planets, houses, points, etc.
For the background colors for text depends directly on Windows and the font and color of text is set in Font.
The actual appearance is shown to the left of each field.
Visible and Aspects
These check boxes specify if the planet, house or point should be shown on graphics and if it should be used for aspects.
Planet name and Short name
These two fields specify the name of the planet for text display and its abbreviated name which is sometimes used in tables and graphics.
Graphic character
This is the character used to display a glyph. Its actual presentation depends on the font character set. You can use the Windows "Character table" utility to find which one to use for the desired font.
Font
This function displays a Windows dialogue box for the choice of font, as well as its size and color. The color is the same as Color 1.
Line width
This lets you set the line width in pixels for display and printout of graphics.
Some printers do not print colors, or not the same colors if the Line width is 1 pixel.
Use Options/Print + to add a specified number of pixels when printing. This lets you print with a greater line width than the screen display.
Colors
These buttons set the color for each element of the graphic display. For Background and Planets they set the colors for normal windows, two-chart windows and other graphics.
Some printers often do not print out the colors exactly as they are on the screen. In this case try different colors.
Text font
This function displays a Windows dialogue box for the choice of font, as well as its size and color. This font is used in text windows.
National parameters - language
The item lets you to enter information concerning the user's country:
- Translate all the text displayed by the program:
- Set the name of the town, by default, as well as its coordinates. This data will appear in all new charts. Most of your subjects will probably be born in this town or its surroundings; this will avoid having to write it each time.
- Select a measurement unit for the margins,
- For the date, selects either the European format (dd/mm/yyyy = 31/12/1992) or the American (mm/dd/yyyy = 12/31/1992).
All this information is stored in the registry.
To translate the text, start by selecting your language. If it is not in the list, then contact the author. There are two language windows: English one the left, and the current translation on the right. Choose a line of text in one of the windows, and the current translation is shown in the field below. You can enter or modify it as you like.
Reset
This function resets all the options back to their original state.
Time and date dialog
This dialog lets you enter the time and date of an event.
Often, you can also enter a locality, see Database/Localities.
For time and date formats, see National parameters - language.
Read me window
Information about AstroMart
Print read me
Print the information.
Registration
Pay for your program.
Print registration
Print a registration form.
Setup
Installation
AstroMart must be installed on hard disk in order to run. If automatic execution is enable, just put the CD into your drive. If not, select "Run" in the "Start" menu then type "d:setup" if your CD drive is d:.
The program files are installed in "[Program Files]\Astromart" and the data files in "[My Documents]\astromart", notice that the actual location of [Program Files] and [My Documents] depend on your version of Windows and how it is set up.
If you have a version 5, 6 or 7 of AstroMart, you should run the program "convert7to8.exe" directly from the CD.
Start up
Run Windows, select AstroMart in the Startup menu. AstroMart uses the Windows display and print options. If Windows is correctly installed, in principle, you should have no need to change anything.
The page margin options and all the options for the astrology, strictly speaking, have default values which are adapted for normal use. See the chapter Tools/Options if you want to change them
Back up
As your data is stored in "[My Documents]\astromart", it is saved if you make a general backup of your documents, if not copy at least the files charts.adb (your charts) and analysis.adb if you have modified the texts for the interpretations.
Template files
Setting up the html pages
These files are stored in the directory "[My Documents]\astromart\html\cgi-text", they are used by default and must be supplied as the programs uses them in case of error.
compd.html is for the horoscope
compdf.html is for the fast horoscope
comp2.html is for love charts
comp2f.html is for love charts
default.html is displayed in case of error such as bad or missing function or a user trying to tweak the program
moonret.html is for moon return
natal.html is for the birth chart
now.html is for the "now" function
page.html
planetinfo.html
prev.html is for previsions
progress.html is for progression
sunret.html is for sun return
trans.html is for transits
You can add your own sets of template files such as natal01.html,natal02.html, etc. These files are used when you choose a the cooresponding template in the "Display" menu.
The following tags are used in output pages. Any additional parameters in the tags are passed through.
<#link href="url" value="Text">
This inserts an anchor with all available parameters appended, additional parameters can be added directly to the url.
Example: <#link href="http://astro-software.com/cgi-bin/graphic/daisy01?x=800" value="Click to enlarge graphic">
<#text value=xxx>
This inserts the line number xxx from the current language, see "Utilities/National and Language.
<#header>
This inserts the normal header information. It takes no parameters.
<#image>
<#image type="daisy14" showsymbol="true" showdegree="false" transparent="false" startgraphic="1">
This inserts the graphic specified in the type parameter, possible values are
daisy01, daisy02, daisy03, daisy04
daisy11, daisy12, daisy13, daisy14
daisy21, daisy22, daisy23, daisy24
prev
two1, two2, two3, two4
The width parameter specifies the actual width in pixels of the graphic. You can add all the other parameters for a normal![]()
tag, but if the height parameter is different from the corresponding width, the graphic will be distorted.
showsymbol set to false, the graphic displays abbreviation in the current language instead of glyphs.
showdegree set to true, displays the position of the point in degrees next to the glyph or text.
transparent changes how the background is displayed, when true the background is transparent, thus the same as the underlying page.
startgraphic can be 0 (Aries) or 1 (Ascendant)
Example : <#image type="daisy14" width="750">
<#table>
This tag inserts a table. You can use all the parameters for a normal <TABLE> tag. If the type is absent, then the first three types are inserted, otherwise it can be one of the following;
<#table type=planets> inserts the positions of the planets and houses.
<#table type=planetsext> inserts the position of the additional asteroids and points.
<#table type=planethouse> inserts the position of the planets in the houses.
<#table type=signtypes> inserts the table of sign types (earth, fire, etc.).
<#table type=list> inserts a full list of planets with positions, etc.
<#table type=aspects> inserts a table of aspects.
<#table type=values> inserts a table of values.
<#table href=path> provides the base url for tables that produce links, currently only "prev".
Example: <#table type="planets" border="3" cellpadding="5" width="500">
<#analysis>
This inserts the interpretation.
<#analysis sort=planet> displays the texts sorted by planet.
<#analysis threshold=100> or <#analysis sort=planet threshold=100> display only the aspects having a worth of more than threshold. For the normal sorting order, the first aspect less than threshold is displayed. This elimates lesser aspects that might confuse the visitor.
<#analysis planet=x> displays only the texts concerning planet=x (houses are numbered 13 to 24).
<#planet number=1> This displays information about a planet in the format "Sun in Aries 24.03". Number can range from 1 to 24 where 13..24 represent houses 1 to 12.
The full format is :
<#planet number=1 lable=true degree=true decimals=2 label=false > removes "Sun in"; degree=false removes "24.03"; decimals=0 displays "24" instead of "24.03"
<#transits>
<#compareday>
<#include virtual="file location">
This tag includes the contents of the given file in the document. The file location is relative to the document root and should be absolute, i.e. starting with "/".
Example: <#include virtual="/banner/_en_small_1.html"> to include a banner.
<#options housetype=2 houseorb=0 housecentered=true zodiac=1>
housecentered : houses are centered on cusps
housetype : 1=Placidus, 2=Campanus, 3=Montroyal, 4=Equal, 5=Koch, 6=Meridian, 7=Morinus, 8=Porphyry, 9=Topocentric, 255= no houses
houseorb : point is in the house when the in the orb before the house cusp
aspecttypes : 1=major, 2=minor, 3=both
zodiac 0=tropical, >0 = sideral
dformat : 0=mm/dd/yyyy, 1=dd/mm/yyyy, 2=yyyy/mm/dd
timezone : +5 for New York, -2 for Paris
database : default database
dbanatable : database for analysis
dbcharts : database for charts
dbuser : login user for database
dbhost : host for database (localhost)
dbpassword : login password
birthplace, country, long, lat : default values for charts and graphics
FAQs
Les glyphes sont remplacés par des caractères ou par des lettres
AstroMart emploie des polices de type "true type" pour l'affichage des signes et des planètes. Ces polices sont "Wingdings" (fourni avec Windows) et "AstroMart" (pour les versions 5.4 et plus). Si une des ces polices est mal installée, Windows la remplace par une autre police qui en toute probabilité ne représente pas les planètes et les signes. Pour résoudre le problème, allez à "Panneau de configuration/Police", puis "Fichier/Installer une nouvelle police" pour installer la police.