Web Concordance - Help
How to use the system
Using Frames - the parts of the window
Hints: how to get more text on screen at a time
Searching for a word or phrase:
Using the Tables of Contents to look up a reference:
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 in IE) 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 903 instances of “world” and 594 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 window 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). Type the precise phrase, press Return, and the cursor will go to that spot in the text. If the phrase is correctly typed this will usually work as desired. If there happens to be a footnote (very rare) in this version in the phrase you typed, this search will fail. Hopefully we can find a way to fix that soon. If the search fails and you are sure you have typed the phrase correctly, go to the “Simple Word Search” above, beginning with any word, then use the multiple word search technique to locate lines with additional words before or after it. If there is a footnote in your phrase, eventually you will find it this way. Of course if you know a phrase or line before or after the failed search, try that one!
Using the Footnotes:
In future releases we hope to make the footnotes all “hot links.” At the moment, with a bit of practice, there is a very easy way to follow them and make use of them however.
1) From Text Frame: If, when reading the text frame, you wish to check a footnote that shows up, (as a square bracketed number [90]) here’s a fast technique:
a. Highlight the reference, for example T[200]
b. Right click and copy, or type Ctrl+C
c. Type Ctrl+F to bring up the “Find” dialogue, or click Edit->Find
d. Type Ctrl+V or right click then “paste” in the “Find” dialogue box
e. Press return
This sequence will set the search to both instances of the footnote. The first is embedded in the text and the second is in a list at the end of the volume. With the “Find Button” and switching between searching down and searching up, you can almost instantly move between the text occurrence of the reference, and the footnote itself. With a little practice you will find that the above instruction can be simplified to highlight, Ctrl+C; Ctrl+F; Ctrl+V; Retrun
2) From Wordlist Frame: You can also
a. Click “Start New Search”,
b. left click in the headwords frame (the leftmost frame on the screen),
c. then call up the Find dialogue with Ctrl+F, then
d. enter the footnote number you want, either with “Ctrl+V” (paste) if you’ve already “copied” it to the clipboard from the Text Frame, or just type the footnote reference, with the Volume letter (T,W,M,P or S), the opening square bracket, and the numeral. For instance: [W221] for footnote 221 in Volume II, the Workbook.
e. Press Return
This way you can display the text where the footnote occurs, and with a single click in the Concordance Frame scroll to the footnote itself, and with another click scroll back to the text where the footnote occurs.
Either of these methods allows the student to quickly check a footnote and then return to that place in the text. Eventually we hope to have hotlinks for the footnotes such that a single click will toggle the view between the instance of the footnote in the text and the footnote itself.
Using the Tables of Contents:
In the top Navigator Frame you will see this line naming each volume:
CONTENTS: TEXT Workbook Teacher's Manual Use of Terms Psychotherapy SongofPrayer
Clicking on any of the underlined volume names will present a Table of Contents for that Volume in the Concordance Frame. Clicking on the annotation reference on the right
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I. SONG OF PRAYER |
(S I 0 0 (1) in this example which is page one of Song of Prayer) of any entry will cause the Text Frame to scroll immediately to that spot in the whole 6-Volume text. This is useful for looking up a specific reference. ACIM references are generally made in Volume, Chapter, Section, Paragraph annotation.
Using the Tables of Contents to look up a reference:
You can zero in on the Volume and Chapter references from the Tables of Contents for any volume. The first character is the Volume (T, W, U, M, P, or S). The second is a chapter number, in the Text 1-31, in the Workbook it’s actually a Lesson number, 1-360, in the Manual it’s a chapter number again. These are shown in the Tables of Contents and may be Roman numerals or Arabic numbers. First, click on the Volume you want, then scroll to the Chapter you want, and then click on the annotation field to the right. This will scroll the text to that point. You’ve got to the beginning of the chapter (or lesson) in the right volume.
Usually people find they can just scroll from the chapter beginning located from the Table of Contents to the particular section and paragraph they’re looking for.
To get to the specific Section , such as Section A, B, C etc., with the “Find Button” put the cursor in the Text frame (bottom of the screen), use the “Find” button (Ctrl+F) and enter the Section letter you wish to find. To avoid your search stumbling on sentences that end with that letter, enter it as a Capital, follow it with a period and a space, and then click the “match case” box in the Find dialog box. When you hit [Return] the text should scroll to the beginning of that Section. To locate the exact paragraph number, repeat the previous procedure entering the number plus a period and a space.
Determining the annotation:
To determine the “Chapter and Verse” numbers for any line in the Course you might be viewing in the Text Frame, there is a simple technique. At the beginning of the paragraph you’re reading you will see a number. Note it. That is your paragraph number. Scroll up until you find the manuscript page number, it will be in the form of “T(72)” for example. If you see a Section heading before the immediately preceding page number, you’ve got your Section Letter to add before your Paragraph Number. If not, at the page number you’ve got the Volume (from the letter before the bracket) and the original manuscript page number. To translate that to chapter and section click on “Start New Search” in the top Navigator Frame, click any empty spot in the Wordlist Frame (to the left of the screen), activate the browser Find Button (usually “Ctrl+F”) and search for that page number. Enter the Letter, (T in the above example), the brackets, and the number, just as they show up on the Text page … T(72). {You can also copy and paste the search value from the Text Frame to the Find Button dialog box if you wish.} Press return and then click on that entry, T(72) again in this example, in the Wordlist Frame. This will bring up the reference in the Concordance Frame and you will see something like this:
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stand on two foundations. NOTHING can T(72) reach the Soul from the ego |
That is the first three fields of your full annotation: T IV B (Text, chapter IV, section B) and you already know the paragraph and page numbers. The reason that the page number shows as (71) in the example is because the page number counter doesn’t increment until AFTER it sees the next marker, in this case (72). Since we searched and found that marker (72), we found the spot immediately before the page number increments … in effect the space between the end of one page and the start of the next. At the beginning of the page break, it’s page 71, at the end it’s page 72, and we’re in between. (we did discover a remedy for this and it is cured in the Song of Prayer, stay tuned for cures in other volumes)
In any event, you can extract the Chapter and Section values from the Volume page number very quickly with this technique, and the volume page numbers are never more than half a page away from any point in the text. That immediately shows which volume you are in and by searching in the Concordance will show which chapter and section you are in. Each paragraph is of course numbered separately. We could have put the chapter and section numbers in at every paragraph break but that gets exceedingly ugly.
Cross-referencing to the manuscript image files:
Each page of the original manuscript is indicated in the Text and the Concordance annotation (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 five, its still on the bottom but over to the left instead. 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.
Using Frames - the parts of the window
Hints: how to get more text on screen at a time
Searching for a word or phrase:
Using the Tables of Contents to look up a reference:
Cross-referencing to the manuscript image files: