Changeset 1931

Timestamp:

2001-02-08T15:40:23+13:00 (23 years ago)

Author:

sjboddie

Message:

Small changes to English version of help page.

File:

• trunk/gsdl/macros/english.dm (modified) (7 diffs)

trunk/gsdl/macros/english.dm

@@ -813 +813 @@
 <ul>
   <li><a href="\#col-prefs">Collection preferences</a>
+  <li><a href="\#lang-prefs">Language preferences</a>
   <li><a href="\#pres-prefs">Presentation preferences</a>
   <li><a href="\#search-prefs">Search preferences</a>
@@ -940 +941 @@
   From the search page, you make a query in these simple steps:<p>
   
-  <ol><li>Specify what documents you want to search
+  <ol><li>Specify what items you want to search
       <li>Say whether you want to search for all or just some of the words
       <li>Type in the words you want to search for
@@ -979 +980 @@
 
 <ul>
-  <li>Queries for <b>all</b> of the words.  These look for documents that 
-      contain all the words you have specified.  Documents that satisfy the
-      query are displayed, in alphabetical order.<p>
+  <li>Queries for <b>all</b> of the words.  These look for documents (or
+      chapters, or titles) that contain all the words you have specified.
+      Documents that satisfy the query are displayed, in alphabetical
+      order.<p>
 
   <li>Queries for <b>some</b> of the words.  Just list some terms that are
@@ -1059 +1061 @@
 
 <p>_iconblankbar_
+<a name=lang-prefs>
+<h3 align=left>Language preferences</h3>
+
+Each collection has a default presentation language, but you can switch to
+a different language if you like.  You can also alter the encoding scheme
+used by Greenstone for output to the browser -- the software chooses
+sensible defaults, but with some browsers better visual results can be used
+by switching to a different encoding scheme. All collections allow you to
+switch from the standard graphical interface format to a textual one. This
+is particularly useful for visually impaired users who use large screen
+fonts or speech synthesizers for output.
+
+<p>_iconblankbar_
 <a name=pres-prefs>
 <h3 align=left>Presentation preferences</h3>
@@ -1065 +1080 @@
 set that control the presentation.
 
-Collections of Web pages allow you to suppress the Greenstone navigation bar at
+<p>Collections of Web pages allow you to suppress the Greenstone navigation bar at
 the top of each document page, so that once you have done a search you land at
 the exact Web page that matches without any Greenstone header.  To do another
@@ -1075 +1090 @@
 the digital library's copy of the page.
 
-Collections that are capable of being presented in different languages allow
-you to specify the interface language.  If the language is Chinese, you can
-also specify which of the standard Chinese encodings your browser uses.
-
-Finally, all collections allow you to switch to a textual interface format
-rather than the standard graphical one.  This is particularly useful for
-visually impaired users who use large screen fonts or speech synthesizers for
-output.
-
 <p>_iconblankbar_
 <a name=search-prefs>
 <h3 align=left>Search preferences</h3>
-Two pairs of buttons control the case sensitivity and stemming of the searches
-that you make. The first set of buttons controls whether upper and lower case
-must match (case sensitivity).  The second set controls whether to ignore word
-endings or not (stemming).
+<p>Two pairs of buttons control the kind of text matching in the searches that
+you make. The first set (labeled "case differences") controls whether upper and
+lower case must match.  The second ("word endings") controls whether to ignore
+word endings or not.  It is possible to get a large query box, so that you can
+easily do paragraph-sized searching. It is surprisingly quick to search for
+large amounts of text.
 
 <p>For example, if the buttons <i>ignore case differences</i> and
@@ -1102 +1110 @@
       "builds").
 
-<p>You can also switch to an "advanced" query mode which allows you to
-combine terms using AND (&), OR (|), and NOT (!). This allows you to
-specify more precise queries.
-
-<p>Finally, you can control the number of hits returned, and the number
-presented on each screenful.
-
+<p>You can switch to an "advanced" query mode which allows you to combine terms
+using AND (&amp;), OR (|), and NOT (!). This allows you to specify more precise
+queries. You can turn the search history feature, which shows you your last few
+queries.  This makes it easy to repeat slightly modified versions of previous
+queries. Finally, you can control the number of hits returned, and the
+number presented on each screenful.
 }