Purpose and organisation of manual

This user’s guide provides a thorough introduction to MetaEdit+ Workbench as well as an exhaustive reference manual. It covers the complete set of commands, features and concepts needed for building modeling tools with MetaEdit+ Workbench.

This manual has the following structure:

	Chapter 1, Metamodeling with MetaEdit+ Workbench, discusses the basic principles of metamodeling with GOPPRR and provides a short introduction to the MetaEdit+ metamodeling tools.
	Chapter 2, Conceptual metamodeling tools, describes the core metamodeling tools of MetaEdit+ Workbench.
	Chapter 3, Symbol Editor, gives a detailed description of the editor used for creating graphical representations for concepts.
	Chapter 4, Dialog Editor, covers the tool for customizing property dialogs.
	Chapter 5, Generators, explains the usage of MetaEdit+ generator creation and debugging environment and provides an introduction to writing generators.
	Chapter 6, MERL Reference, provides the reference for the MERL generator definition language.
	Chapter 7, Metamodel management tools, describes the tool set for searching, editing and organizing the elements created by other metamodeling tools.
	Chapter 8, XML import and export, describes the MetaEdit+ data exchange processes and formats available with the API add-on.
	Chapter 9, API, discusses the application program interface for MetaEdit+, including the reference for the public API commands.
	Chapter 10, Command line operations, covers the MetaEdit+ command line parameters added by the API add-on.
	Appendix A: Regular expressions syntax
	Appendix B: Glossary of basic terms applied in MetaEdit+ Workbench.
	Index, containing an alphabetical reference to all MetaEdit+ functions and commands, as well as to some concepts discussed throughout the manual.

Together with this ‘MetaEdit+ Workbench User’s Guide’, two additional manuals from MetaCase may be needed:

	‘MetaEdit+ User’s Guide’ introduces you to the modeling features of MetaEdit+, and describes how to use them effectively in every-day modeling tasks.
	‘MetaEdit+ System Administrator’s Guide’ describes tasks related to administration, such as access to the repository, deletion of modeling languages, and creation of new users. It also explains the management of the server and clients in the multi-user version of MetaEdit+.