2.4.1  Colors and Nesting of Levels

You will have noticed that the colors of the four levels are different, but did you see how each larger color embraces and encloses its child color?

• Manuscript = pale yellow
• Part = light blue
• Text = brownish purple
• Image = lime green

This is a visual reminder of the nested nature of the levels.  Even if a manuscript had seven parts, they would all lie inside the pale yellow arms of the manuscript; and even if each part had seven texts, all seven would be encircled by the light blue of the part, and the seven images would belong to the light purple of their parent, the text.  Only one part and one text (and four images), however, remain on the surface in the Synopsis view at any one moment; existence of the others would be duly noted on the lower bars that count the records.

The levels are distinguished by color codes also as a reminder for when you reassign material in the Browse View (since Browse View employs the same colors for these levels).

Here we see the record count in a database that has 1459 descriptions in it, and this record was entered 1371 records ago (the outermost / highest level:  Manuscript); the numbers on the bar for the light blue level (Part) inform us that we are looking at the second of the two parts that make up this manuscript; there is one text in this part, and we are looking at the it; this particular text has seven images, although only four show up at a time in the Synopsis View's green Image space.