0.9 Web Concordance - Help
(Additional
help is available from the Quick Start and Tools buttons in the Navigator frame)
The use of Mozilla Firefox is highly recommended. Internet
Explorer 7 does not work! Click
on the Tools button in the Navigator frame to install Firefox.
How to use the system with Mozilla Firefox 2 browser
Using Frames - the parts of the window
Hints: how to get more text on screen at a time
Searching for a word or phrase:
Cross-referencing to the manuscript image files:
Using Frames - the parts of the window
Your browser's window is divided into regions called frames. All the frames can be re-sized: if you let the cursor hover exactly on the border between two frames, it will change to a re-sizing cursor which you can drag to reposition the border.
What the Frames do:
At the top of the browser's window is the Wordlist Navigator frame. Click on a letter to go quickly to the words beginning with that letter. If a letter of the alphabet is missing from the Navigator frame, that is because the original text contained no words beginning with that letter.
At the left of the browser window is the Wordlist frame, containing an alphabetic list of all words which are used in the source text. Clicking on a Headword in the Wordlist frame will make the Concordance frame scroll automatically to display all the instances of that Headword, together with a line of context for each.
The Concordance appears in the upper of the two large frames to the right of the Wordlist. If you have clicked on a Headword in the Wordlist frame, the Concordance frame will have scrolled automatically to that Headword. Beside each Headword is a count of the number of times it occurs, and below it are all the actual occurrences, each in a line of context. To the right of each context line are References. Clicking on a Reference will make the Text frame scroll automatically to display the relevant part of the source text.
The text from which the concordance was made appears in the Text frame, the lower of the two large frames to the right of the Wordlist. You can use the scroll bars to move around in the text. Clicking on a Reference in the Concordance frame will make the Text frame scroll automatically to display the relevant part of the source text.
Hints: how to get more text on screen at a time
A Web Concordance puts a lot of text onto the screen. You may find yourself wishing you could see more text at once and had to scroll around less.
There are several ways to improve things:
- Turn off the bits of your browser which you don't need. Unnecessary toolbars and buttons use screen space.
- Pressing F11 will minimize toolbars and maximize the proportion of your screen devoted to the data.
- Choose a smaller font.
- Re-size the frames so that the one you want to see more of is larger. All the frames can be re-sized: if you let the cursor hover exactly on the border between two frames, it will change to a re-sizing cursor which you can drag to reposition the border.
Searching for a word or phrase:
The browser’s “Find” button is the principle tool for searching for any character, word or phrase in the Concordance. While the Wordlist navigator in the top frame is a quick way of scrolling the Wordlist frame and the Concordance frame to words beginning with the letter you want, anything more complicated than casual browsing requires the “Find” button
Simple word search:
You can use your browser's “Find” button to carry out a search in any frame. The “Find” button (CTRL+F) will usually search in the frame you last clicked in. Different browsers sometimes handle this differently and it can sometimes be difficult to get the search to occur in the right frame To let the system find a word for you in a single operation, first load the entire Wordlist by clicking on “Show Undivided List” (top of Wordlist frame) or by clicking beside “Start New Search” in the top (Navigator) frame. Either of these “buttons” will always put the cursor, and subsequent search into the Wordlist frame which is where most searches begin.
This is the most common and basic means of using any Concordance. You begin with a word you wish to find. After getting the cursor into the “Wordlist”, type “CTRL + F” to bring up the search window, then type the word you want to find. If the word is present, the wordlist will scroll to that word. Click on that word and in the Concordance frame (top right), you will see all instances of that word with a line of context. You can then scroll through all instances of that word, clicking on the reference code at the extreme right. This causes the lower right hand window to scroll to the exact spot in the text where the line you’ve clicked on appears. This allows you to see the full context.
Should there be any doubt as to the accuracy of the text, you can view the original manuscripts for each volume from the top "Navigator" frame. This will load the Adobe pdf file for the particular volume. Note, the Text and Workbook files are huge, 50-60 Mb and take minutes on a high speed and hours on a dial-up to load. Once loaded into Adobe, you can save the file on your local disk for future reference. This will load a picture of the original manuscript so that you can check the accuracy for yourself.
All the frames are “cut and pastable” so you can copy anything you see into a word-processor or text editor. If you wish to compare the text side by side with the manuscript pictures, it’s easy if you copy the section in question into Wordpad, then display the wordpad window next to the frame showing the manuscript photocopy.
Searching for multiple words:
Sometimes we need to search for two words that occur in the same context unit (a context unit in this version is the search word plus the five words before and after it) We may wish to look up “real world” along with “world that is real” or any instance when both words show up in the same context unit. The term “real world” is a good example. We find that there are 2157 instances of “world” and 857 instances of “real” in the Urtext if we search for either word. That’s a long list to search through manually. In either list we will, however, find all instances of “real world.” So we can choose either word, and start our search in the Wordlist. Let’s start with “real” since it will generate fewer hits and see all instances pf that word in the Concordance frame (upper right). We can then click in that frame and search just within the hits on “real” to search for “world”.
So do the simple word search in the Wordlist (as above) for “real.” Move the cursor to the Concordance frame and left click. Type Ctrl+F to bring up the “Find” button and type “world” and then press Return. The cursor will jump to the first instance of “real world” and sequentially clicking “Find Next” in the Find dialogue box will show you them all, one by one. When you find one you want to check in the full text, just click to the right on the reference in the reference box.
In addition to the phrase “real world” of course, this method will locate any instance in which both the words “real” and “world” occur in the same sense unit.
Searching for phrases:
In the event you have an exact
phrase, locate the cursor in the Text frame by clicking there, and activate your browser’s
“Find Button” (usually Ctrl+f).
Begin typing the precise phrase. In
Firefox as
you type, the next exact match of what you have typed will be highlighted. Continue typing the search string until
you have found what you are looking for.
Note: the punctuation must be exact and if the
phrase spans a page break, you will not get a match across that break.
Cross-referencing to the manuscript image files:
Each page of the original manuscript is indicated in the Text and the Concordance references (those little numbers on the right in the middle upper screen). The number consists of a letter representing the Volume, T, for Text, M for Manual, and so on, and an integer in brackets, for example S(11) means Song of Prayer page 11, while U(4) means Use of terms, page 4.. You can check against the original manuscript copy very easily using that number. First load the relevant volume issuing the “View Manuscript” buttons in the Navigator frame on the top of your screen, and then use the PDF Viewer “GoTo” function to “go to” that page number. You can then readily compare the source with the copy, page by page. In Adobe Acrobat 7 the easiest “GoTo” is in the middle of the Acrobat window, at the very bottom. In Acrobat 5, its still on the bottom but over to the left instead. In Acrobat 8, it’s moved to the top. You will see a number, and on either side arrows. Clicking the arrows goes ahead or back one page, clicking on the number highlights it. You may then type another number and when you press Return, that page number will be displayed.