Changeset 1931 for trunk/gsdl/macros/english.dm
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r1921 r1931 813 813 <ul> 814 814 <li><a href="\#col-prefs">Collection preferences</a> 815 <li><a href="\#lang-prefs">Language preferences</a> 815 816 <li><a href="\#pres-prefs">Presentation preferences</a> 816 817 <li><a href="\#search-prefs">Search preferences</a> … … 940 941 From the search page, you make a query in these simple steps:<p> 941 942 942 <ol><li>Specify what documents you want to search943 <ol><li>Specify what items you want to search 943 944 <li>Say whether you want to search for all or just some of the words 944 945 <li>Type in the words you want to search for … … 979 980 980 981 <ul> 981 <li>Queries for <b>all</b> of the words. These look for documents that 982 contain all the words you have specified. Documents that satisfy the 983 query are displayed, in alphabetical order.<p> 982 <li>Queries for <b>all</b> of the words. These look for documents (or 983 chapters, or titles) that contain all the words you have specified. 984 Documents that satisfy the query are displayed, in alphabetical 985 order.<p> 984 986 985 987 <li>Queries for <b>some</b> of the words. Just list some terms that are … … 1059 1061 1060 1062 <p>_iconblankbar_ 1063 <a name=lang-prefs> 1064 <h3 align=left>Language preferences</h3> 1065 1066 Each collection has a default presentation language, but you can switch to 1067 a different language if you like. You can also alter the encoding scheme 1068 used by Greenstone for output to the browser -- the software chooses 1069 sensible defaults, but with some browsers better visual results can be used 1070 by switching to a different encoding scheme. All collections allow you to 1071 switch from the standard graphical interface format to a textual one. This 1072 is particularly useful for visually impaired users who use large screen 1073 fonts or speech synthesizers for output. 1074 1075 <p>_iconblankbar_ 1061 1076 <a name=pres-prefs> 1062 1077 <h3 align=left>Presentation preferences</h3> … … 1065 1080 set that control the presentation. 1066 1081 1067 Collections of Web pages allow you to suppress the Greenstone navigation bar at1082 <p>Collections of Web pages allow you to suppress the Greenstone navigation bar at 1068 1083 the top of each document page, so that once you have done a search you land at 1069 1084 the exact Web page that matches without any Greenstone header. To do another … … 1075 1090 the digital library's copy of the page. 1076 1091 1077 Collections that are capable of being presented in different languages allow1078 you to specify the interface language. If the language is Chinese, you can1079 also specify which of the standard Chinese encodings your browser uses.1080 1081 Finally, all collections allow you to switch to a textual interface format1082 rather than the standard graphical one. This is particularly useful for1083 visually impaired users who use large screen fonts or speech synthesizers for1084 output.1085 1086 1092 <p>_iconblankbar_ 1087 1093 <a name=search-prefs> 1088 1094 <h3 align=left>Search preferences</h3> 1089 Two pairs of buttons control the case sensitivity and stemming of the searches 1090 that you make. The first set of buttons controls whether upper and lower case 1091 must match (case sensitivity). The second set controls whether to ignore word 1092 endings or not (stemming). 1095 <p>Two pairs of buttons control the kind of text matching in the searches that 1096 you make. The first set (labeled "case differences") controls whether upper and 1097 lower case must match. The second ("word endings") controls whether to ignore 1098 word endings or not. It is possible to get a large query box, so that you can 1099 easily do paragraph-sized searching. It is surprisingly quick to search for 1100 large amounts of text. 1093 1101 1094 1102 <p>For example, if the buttons <i>ignore case differences</i> and … … 1102 1110 "builds"). 1103 1111 1104 <p>You can also switch to an "advanced" query mode which allows you to 1105 combine terms using AND (&), OR (|), and NOT (!). This allows you to 1106 specify more precise queries. 1107 1108 <p>Finally, you can control the number of hits returned, and the number 1109 presented on each screenful. 1110 1112 <p>You can switch to an "advanced" query mode which allows you to combine terms 1113 using AND (&), OR (|), and NOT (!). This allows you to specify more precise 1114 queries. You can turn the search history feature, which shows you your last few 1115 queries. This makes it easy to repeat slightly modified versions of previous 1116 queries. Finally, you can control the number of hits returned, and the 1117 number presented on each screenful. 1111 1118 } 1112 1119
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