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## The ribbon carries the verbs; the panel carries what they are told

The commands are a ribbon of eleven tabs — **Home**, **Pages**, **Sheet**,
**Marks**, **File**, **Contents**, **Redraw**, **Protect**, **Read**, **Mark
The commands are a ribbon of twelve tabs — **Home**, **Pages**, **Sheet**,
**Marks**, **Stamp**, **File**, **Contents**, **Redraw**, **Protect**, **Read**, **Mark
up**, **Hand over**. Home holds the document itself: Open, Save, Rotate,
Previous, Next, Delete, and Fill in for a document that carries a form.

**Marks** and **Stamp** are two halves of one subject, split because the Marks
panel ran out of room: Marks writes the same thing across every page by a rule —
a watermark, a page number, a Bates serial — and Stamp puts something where you
*choose*. That is the question the *Where it goes* chooser asks, and a picture
asks it too, so the picture is there with them. `{page}`, `{pages}` and `{n}`
are filled in for **any** stamp, not only for *Number them*, which is what makes
a stamp at *top centre* a header with a page number in it; *Head and foot them*
writes both at once, each from its own box, with an empty box writing nothing
there.

**Pages** holds **Arrange the pages**: every page as a grid of tiles where the
page was. Press one to pick it up, press the page it should go **in front of**,
and it goes there. The tile that is lit is the one being held, not the one being
read. Two presses rather than a drag, because a drag over a grid inside a scroll
view has to hit-test tiles against a moving viewport and decide what a press
that moved four pixels meant — and because what is held has to be visible
between the two, which a tile and a status line can say and a drag cannot.

**Contents** is the table of contents a reader navigates by, which the rail down
the left has always shown and the ribbon could only ever drop. *Bookmark this
page* adds one entry to the tree already there — titled with the passage you
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one picture per page. The difference is the name: a comic reader opens the
`.cbz` and not the `.zip`.

**Split and hand them over** gives the pieces in one zip as well, and for the
same reason: a browser asks about each download separately, so a 200-page
document split into twenties was ten prompts, each refusable on its own —
leaving somebody with four pieces and no way of knowing which four. One piece
**Split and hand them over** is on this tab too, and gives the pieces in one zip
for the same reason: a browser asks about each download separately, so a
200-page document split into twenties was ten prompts, each refusable on its own
— leaving somebody with four pieces and no way of knowing which four. One piece
is handed over as the PDF itself, since a zip holding a single file is a
wrapper to open for nothing. Nothing is changed by it: the pieces are copies of
what stays open.
what stays open, which is the sentence every verb on this tab answers to.

A **stamp** may say what it is being drawn on. `{page}`, `{pages}` and `{n}` are
filled in for every stamp, not only for *Number them* — so a stamp at *top
centre* reading `Report — {page} of {pages}` is a header with a page number in
it, and one at *bottom centre* is a footer.
it, and one at *bottom centre* is a footer. *Head and foot them* writes both at
once from two boxes of their own.

## Every change is applied, written, and read back

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