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In the "Dignity/Almuten Editor"...

>> To select an Arabic parts file

•Click on the Arabic Parts File button.

This will display a standard file open dialog listing all available Arabic Part files. You must select a file from this list. You must not attempt to select a file from any other folder than the one which is first displayed (the Solar Fire \USERDATA folder), or else the Arabic Parts will not become available for selection.

Notes:

1.You can select Arabic Parts from a single Arabic Parts file only. Once you have added Arabic Parts as selected points, and you then select a different Arabic Parts file, any Arabic Parts selected from a previous file will be removed from the list.

2.If you wish to use an Arabic part that has a separate day/night formula (for example the Part of Spirit), then you should ensure that you add both the day and the night formula versions of that Arabic Part to the list of selected points (Part of Spirit (Day) and Part of Spirit (Night)). When Solar Fire calculates the almuten, it will ignore that version of the Arabic Part which is not applicable to the sect of the chart for which the almuten is being calculated.

3.Warning: If you later use the Arabic Parts Editor to remove entries from or reorder the Arabic Parts file which you select here, then the almuten calculation will no longer work correctly. You will need to use the Dignity/Almuten Editor to reselect all the required Arabic Parts before you can be sure that the calculation will use the correct Arabic Parts.

When you have selected the required points, click on the Save button to return to the previous screen.

>> To select Minimum Honors

•Click inside the Minimum Honors edit box, and type in the minimum number of honors that a planet must have in order to be deemed the almuten.

An honor is a dignity by rulership, exaltation, triplicity, term of face. This option is intended to be used to prevent a planet from being deemed the almuten if it does not have sufficient dignity. If a planet does not have minimum honors when this option is set, then it is given a zero dignity score. It is currently used only in the hyleg.alm system file for the calculation of chart Hylegs.

>> To edit text for the Brief Name, Full Name and Description

Place the cursor in the required edit box, and type in the changes.

•Brief Name is what this definition is called on the list, and does not affect anything else in Solar Fire.

•Full Name is used in Solar Fire’s dignity/almuten page object as a title for the definition, so should be brief but descriptive.

•Description is not used in Solar Fire, but may be used to add a few notes about the definition, its origin, and how it should be used, for example.