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W O R D T R A N S L A T O R version 3.01 Copyright (c) 1990-92, Translation Experts Ltd. All rights reserved. Translation Experts Ltd. 2 Laverton Place London SW5 OHJ Great Britain PHONE: (+44) (0)71 373 6354 FAX: (+44) (0)71 244 8397 TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1. Introduction........................................1 2. System Requirements.................................1 3. Installation........................................1 a) First Make a Backup.............................1 b) Hard Disk Users.................................1 4. How to Call Word Translator.........................1 a) From Current Directory..........................1 b) From "autoexec.bat".............................1 5. Keys................................................2 a) ESC.............................................2 b) F1-Help.........................................2 c) F2-Grammar......................................2 d) F3-Add..........................................2 e) F4-Delete.......................................2 f) PgUp/PgDn.......................................2 g) <return>........................................2 6. Translation.........................................2 a) Translating a Word From the Screen.............2 b) Typing Your Own Word/Phrase....................3 7. Adding More Translations............................4 8. Deleting Translations...............................4 9. Setup Menu..........................................4 10. Spell Checking.....................................5 11. Document Translation...............................6 12. Uninstall Word Translator..........................6 13. Change Accent / Type in Russian....................6 14. Printing Russian characters........................7 15. Authorized Distributors............................7 16. Microsoft Windows Version..........................8 17. Macintosh Version..................................8 18. About The Authors..................................8 19. New Versions.......................................9 20. Found Any Problems? / Have New Ideas?..............9 21. Tutorial...........................................10 Sample Session 1: Translate a word ..................11 Sample Session 2: Translate another word ............11 Sample Session 3: Add a new translation to a word....11 Sample Session 4: Delete a translation from a word...12 Sample Session 5: Add a new word with translations...13 Sample Session 6: Using the help menu................13 Sample Session 7: Using the grammar help.............14 1. Introduction Word Translator Can: * look up foreign words on your computer * save time in writing letters, reports, memos and facsimile * help you study for quizzes and tests * speed up your homework * help you improve your language skills Word Translator is a pop-up electronic bilingual dictionary. It can translate words from one language to another with just a few key strokes. Word Translator will happily work inside your favorite word processor. It will translate words from one language much faster than you can flip the pages of your dictionary. Word Translator 3.01 - shareware version is fully functionally equivalent to the end user version. There are however two extra things that registered users receive: 1) language modules with significantly greater number of words in them and 2) for certain language modules there is a very useful grammar help file. To see the latest language modules that we offer please see the "invoice.doc" file. 2. System Requirements * IBM - PC/XT/AT, or compatible computer, DOS 2.0 or greater. * A hard drive with at least 2.5 MB of free space. * For users of the Russian dictionary a EGA, VGA or Hercules Graphics Plus with Ramfont monitor is required. 3. Installation a) First Make a Backup Insert the disk labeled "Word Translator" into drive a:. Insert a blank, formatted disk into drive b:. Type copy a:*.* b: <return>. Label the previously blank disk "Word Translator" and store the original disk in a safe place. b) Hard Disk Users Insert the disk labeled "Word Translator" into drive a:. Change your current drive to be the one you just inserted the disk labeled "Word Translator". Type install <return>. If you want to define an empty new dictionary (for some specialized list of words/phrases) then you should answer 'y' when asked: "Do you want to define a user dictionary?". 4. How to Call Word Translator a) From Current Directory Type destination_drive:\wordtran\wordtran <return>. b) From "autoexec.bat" Install Word Translator again and when the program ask you: "Do you want to call Word Translator from your 'autoexec.bat' file? (y/n)" answer with yes by pressing ____________________________________________________________ page 1 the 'y' key. For a description of what an "autoexec.bat" file is please refer to your DOS manual. 5. Keys ESC - press the escape key to exit from Word Translator without performing any further actions. F1 - press function key number one to get a help menu. F2 - press function key number two to grammar help. F3 - press function key number three to add new translations. F4 - press function key number four to delete translations. PgUp/PgDn - press the page up or page down keys to move up or down in the current pop-up window. <return> - press <return> in order to chose the current highlighted translation or highlighted field in the help or grammar menus. 6. Translation a) Translating a Word From the Screen First follow the instructions under the heading: "3. How to Call Word Translator". After making Word Translator memory resident load your word processor. Now you can either type something on the screen or you can load an existing file into your word processor. Position the cursor on top of a word or one space to the right of a word on the screen. Press the "Ctrl" and "Left Shift" keys simultaneously. The word that was under the cursor or one space to the left of the cursor will now appear in the top box of Word Translator under the heading: "Word/Phrase to Translate". The second box will have the heading: "CHOOSE Word/Phrase". If the word under the cursor exists in the dictionary then you can now press <return> to translate this word. If the word under the cursor does not exist under the cursor you can either add it to the dictionary by pressing F3 now or your can choose another word from the dictionary. In order to choose another word to be translated from the dictionary you can use the "PgUp" or "PgDn" keys to scroll up or down through words and you can use the up arrow and down arrow keys to highlight different words. To translate a word either press a number from one to five or use the up arrow and down arrow keys to highlight the word to translate and then press <return>. Press the "ESC" to exit out of Word Translator ____________________________________________________________ page 2 without choosing any of the words given. The pop-up window will now change displaying the heading: "CHOOSE Translation" in the second box from the top of the pop-up window. Choose a translation in the same way that you chose a word in the "CHOOSE Word/Phrase" box. Simply use the arrow up or arrow down to highlight different translations and then press <return> on the translation that you prefer. The same choice can be made by pressing a number between one and five. If all the translations cannot fit on the screen then you will be able to use the "PgDn" and/or "PgUp" keys to scroll through all the translations for the given word. Press the "ESC" key if you do not want to choose any translations. IMPORTANT: If at any point you whish to exit out of Word Translation without performing any further actions simply press the "ESC" key. If after pressing "ESC" you return to the previous Word Translation window then press "ESC" again to exit out of Word Translator without performing any actions. b) Typing Your Own Word/Phrase First follow the instructions under the heading: "3. How to Call Word Translator". After making Word Translator memory resident load your word processor. Now you can either type something on the screen or you can load an existing file into your word processor. Position the cursor on part of the screen where there are no words under the cursor not any words just to the left of the cursor. Press the "Ctrl" and "Left Shift" keys simultaneously. The Word Translator window will pop-up on the screen with the heading: "Word/Phrase to Translate" in the top box. The cursor will be in this box. Now type a word or phrase that you would like to translate. A maximum of thirty four characters are allowed. You may use the backspace key to delete any characters in the word or phrase that you are typing. When you are done press <return>. The second box will have the heading: "CHOOSE Word/Phrase". If the word under the cursor exists in the dictionary then you can now press <return> to translate this word. If the word under the cursor does not exist under the cursor you can either add it to the dictionary by pressing F3 now or your can choose another word from the dictionary. In order to choose another word to be translated from the dictionary you can use the "PgUp" or "PgDn" keys to scroll up or down through words and you can use the up arrow and down arrow keys to highlight different words. To translate a word either press a number from one to five or use the up arrow and down arrow keys to highlight the word to translate and then press <return>. Press the "ESC" to exit out of Word Translator ____________________________________________________________ page 3 without choosing any of the words given. The pop-up window will now change displaying the heading: "CHOOSE Translation" in the second box from the top of the pop-up window. Choose a translation in the same way that you chose a word in the "CHOOSE Word/Phrase" box. Simply use the arrow up or arrow down to highlight different translations and then press <return> on the translation that you prefer. The same choice can be made by pressing a number between one and five. If all the translations cannot fit on the screen then you will be able to use the "PgDn" and/or "PgUp" keys to scroll through all the translations for the given word. Press the "ESC" key if you do not want to choose any translations. IMPORTANT: If at any point you whish to exit out of Word Translation without performing any further actions simply press the "ESC" key. If after pressing "ESC" you return to the previous Word Translation window then press "ESC" again to exit out of Word Translator without performing any actions. 7. Adding More Translations If the word you have either entered or Word Translator has picked up from the screen is not found in the bilingual dictionary then you will be able to add this word/phrase to the dictionary together with its translations by pressing "F3". The "F3" function key is also used to add single translations to an existing set of translations when the second box from the top has the heading: "CHOOSE Translations". 8. Deleting Translations When the second box from the top has the heading: "CHOOSE Translations" then you will be able to use the "F4" function key in order to delete single translations at a time from the existing set of translations. This done first highlighting the translation to be deleted by using the up and down arrow keys and then pressing "F4". You will then be asked whether you are sure that you want to delete the highlighted translation. Be sure to answer this question correctly because if you do not then nothing can help bring back the deleted translation. 9. Setup Menu The setup menu is called by pressing the Alt and Right Shift keys simultaneously. Once these keys are pressed you will ____________________________________________________________ page 4 see the following options: 1. Word Translation ON 2. Spell Checking OFF 3. Spell Checking Beep OFF 4. Document Translation OFF 5. Current Language engspa You cannot have Word Translation ON at the same time as Spell Checking or Document Translation. You can have only one of these on at any time. If now you press 2 you will see that both Spell Checking and Spell Checking Beep are now ON. If you now press ESC to exit the setup menu spell checking will have been activated. The Spell Checking Beep option shows that Word Translator will beep every time a word is misspelled or it cannot find it in its bilingual dictionary. You may turn the beep off once Spell Checking has been chosen by pressing the number 3. The fourth option is Document Translation. Before activating this option you should first load a document that you whish to translate into your word processor and then position the cursor in your word processor on top of the first word in the document. Now press Alt + Right Shift in order to call the setup menu. Press the number 4 in order to turn Document Translation ON. By pressing number 5 repeatedly you will be able to access different language modules. 10. Spell Checking Word Translator 3.01 has the ability to spell check in two languages as you type. Every time a space is pressed Word Translator will see if it needs to spell check and if it does it will spell check the word just before the last space pressed. If a word is misstyped or it is not in the bilingual dictionary then Word Translator 3.01 will beep and display a window with suggested spellings. You may scroll up and down the window using the PgUp and PgDn keys and you may choose a word in order to replace the one just typed in your word processor. Move the highlight bar to the correct spelling and then press <return> or just press the number of the correct translation. This will replace the incorrectly spelled word with the correct spelling. If you type extremely fast then because it takes time to spell check each word some letters will appear of the screen with a slight delay, but no typing will be lost if the spelling was correct. To activate spell checking please follow the steps shown above under the heading "Setup Menu". You may deactivate the beep whenever you like by changing the setup menu ____________________________________________________________ page 5 which is called by pressing Alt+Right Shift. When ever you like you may deactivate the spell checking feature altogether by changing the setup menu also. 11. Document Translation Document Translation enables the user to translate a whole document from one language to another inside your favorite word processor. This will not be a perfect sentence translation because the word order might be different in the two languages but it is a good first approximation to a valid translation and can serve a good aid in translation. You might find that you can use this features to translate most parts of the sentence and that some parts you will have to edit yourself. Inspite its limitation Document Translation, as it is now, is a good tool that can assist in translating documents from one language to another. The Document Translation feature is activated as shown under the heading "Setup Menu". Once it is activated Word Translator 3.01 will first detect the positions of the margins of the screen and for this purpose you will see the cursor whizz to the right and then back to the left. Once this is done the first word to be translated and highlighted and the well known Word Translator translation window will come up. At this point you can choose to translate the word by picking a translation or you may choose not to translate the word by pressing ESC or you may stop the document translation process by pressing F4. 12. Uninstall Word Translator 3.01 There might be cases when your will want to free your memory from Word Translator 3.01 in order to use the memory for some other purpose. In this version of Word Translator it is easy to do this. Exit your word processor so that you are in DOS. Press Ctrl+Alt+E keys simultaneously. The message: Word Translator 3.01 has been removed from memory will appear on the screen. Now just press <return>. This effectively frees the memory of your computer that was previously taken up by Word Translator 3.01. 13. Change Accent / Type in Russian 1) To change an accent a) You must not be using the Russian language module. b) You should place the cursor after the character that you want to accent. c) You should press the accent hot key (Alt+C by default) repeatedly until the current accent is displayed on the screen. 2) To type in Russian a) You must be using the Russian language module. ____________________________________________________________ page 6 NOTE: to change language modules please refer to the Setup section in this manual b) If when typing you see Roman characters then by pressing the Russian language hotkey (Alt+C by default) once you will be able to type in Russian. To switch back to typing in Roman characters press the Russian language hot key (Alt+C by default) again. 14. Printing Russian Characters To print Russian characters you need to use additional software that can be obtained from: Xenotechnix Inc. 3412 Progress Drive Bensalem, PA 19020, U.S.A. tel: 1-215-639-2996 fax: 1-215-639-2932 No. To Print On You Need Disk(s) # 1 Epson FX and JX 105 compatible printers 2 Epson LQ compatible 106 printers 3 Laser printers 119-124,202-204 (laser fonts) 15. Authorized Distributors 1. North America Mr. Halldor Gislason P.O. Box 1933 Fairfield, Iowa 52556, U.S.A. tel: (+1) 515-472-1521 fax: (+1) 515-472-4434 2. Denmark Mr. Jens Rex Benloese Skel 4G DK-4100 Ringsted, Denmark tel: (+45) 53-619-042 fax: (+45) 53-619-391 3. United Kingdom Testware U.K., Ltd. 46 The Avenue Harrogate, N. Yorks. United Kingdom, HG1 4QD tel: 0423 886415 (24 hour line) tel: 0423 880471 (office hours) ____________________________________________________________ page 7 16. Microsoft Windows Version We are happy to say that Microsoft Windows users can now have Word Translator working for them. The Windows version is very similar in operation to the DOS version (speed and file access) but it has the characteristic Windows look and feel. It will work with all Windows word processor, editors, and other Windows application programs. Please look in the "invoice.doc" file for ordering and pricing information. 17. Macintosh version We are very happy to announce that a fully operational Macintosh version of Word Translator is also now available to interested customers. The Macintosh version has been engineered and designed by Mr. Halldor Gislason and is an outstanding peace of software engineering. Please contact us if you would like to have the Macintosh version of Word Translator. 18. About The Authors Nenad Koncar - Principal software engineer and designer of Word Translator software for DOS. Holds M.S. degree in Computer Science at MIU, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. Now doing a Ph.D. on using neural networks in natural language translation. President of Translation Experts Ltd. Koert Zeilstra - Software engineer and co-designed of Word Translator for DOS. Holds M.S. degree in Computer Science at MIU, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. Now working as software engineer in Virginia, USA. Halldor Gislason - Author of the Macintosh version of Word Translator. Most experienced software engineer in the whole team with several years of experience of working in a software company. Currently student at MIU, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. Distributor of Word Translator software for North America. Robert Devcic - Microsoft Windows expert, responsible for the Windows version of Word Translator. Holds B.S. degree in Computer Science, Zagreb, Croatia. Now does computer consulting work as well as software development for interested clients. Jens Rex - Main idea engine. This man has given us the best ideas about what our software should do and how. He is the biggest shareware distributor in Denmark and a leading figure in the proliferation of shareware programs in Denmark. He has seen the usefulness of Word Translator ____________________________________________________________ page 8 from the very start and has given us both moral and financial support. Distributor of Word Translator software for Denmark. Dictionary authors and copyright holders: Language Author and copyright holder Spanish Patricio Burbano Portuguese Americo de Almeida Danish Jens Rex Russian Vadim Nisichenko 19. New Software/Hardware Versions a) New software versions will have: 1) More languages 2) More words in each dictionary 3) Several languages in one dictionary 4) Thesaurus in both languages 5) More sophisticated document translation that will consider phrases and whole sentences using grammar rules, parts of speech and will do automatic verb conjugation. 6) Prediction utility that will predict ahead of time what you want to type in your word processor. b) New Hardware Versions New hardware versions will have: 1) The ability to have the computer speak out the word it had just translated so that you can learn how to pronounce the translated word. 2) The ability to type a whole sentence in one language and have the compute automatically say this whole sentence in another language. This would be very useful for an international businessman with a notebook computer when talking to another businessman form a country other than his own. 3) Custom made hardware, like a pocket calculator, that will have an LCD screen key pad, and Word Translator inside its ROM. 20. Found any problems? / Have new ideas? First of all please register with us so that we can continue to keep upgrading Word Translator software. Secondly if you find any problems in the operation of our software please report this immediately to us and we will see that the problem ____________________________________________________________ page 9 is removed as fast as possible. We love to hear all your ideas for our software. What new features would you like to see? Which new language modules would you like to see? Those users that have significantly modified a language module by adding new words/phrases and their translations or have created entirely new custom dictionaries are entitled to receive at a significant discount any new releases of our software as well as other language modules. If you are such a user please contact us because we would like you to send us the dictionary files that you have enhanced in return for the above mentioned discount. Please note that we will not accept any dictionaries that have been simply copied from other sources. The dictionaries should be the intellectual property of the user that created them. If the dictionary is both the intellectual property of the user and he/she can prove this to us and the dictionary is of a sufficient size then we also offer contracts for using such dictionaries in our software. Dictionaries do not have to be typed into Word Translator they may also be typed in any ASCII word processor in any consistent and systematic manner. We suggest the following format for ASCII files: word_or_phrase_1\translation_1\translation_2\...\translation_n . . . word_or_phrase_n\translation_1\translation_2\...\translation_n Where word_or_phrase is any word or phrase in the source language and translation_1, translation_2, translation_n are either words or phrases in the target language. Any comments regarding words or phrases should be in open brackets like (noun) following the word or phrase. The same is true for translations. If you are a bilingual speaker with a large bilingual vocabulary then you just might be the right person to be an author of one our dictionaries that will be used by millions of people from all over the world. 21. Tutorial NOTE: Some of the sample sessions might be invalid for certain language modules because they lack the required word/phrase and its corresponding translation(s). We will lead you step by step through a few sample sessions of using Word Translator 3.01. Before any session make sure these two steps have been done: I) Follow the instructions on how to make Word Translator memory resident II) Load your word processor ____________________________________________________________ page 10 Sample Session 1: Task: Translate word a from your word processor screen. Perform and/or observe the following steps: 1) Type a word in English. For example: "car". Press the "Ctrl" and "Left Shift" keys simultaneously. 2) The Word Translator Screen will come up. 3) Press <return>. 4) Another Word Translator screen will come up. 5) Press the "Down Arrow" key. 6) Press <return>. 7) Now the translation for "car" will replace the word "car" in your word processor. Sample Session 2: Task: Translate another word by typing it into Word Translator. Perform and/or observe the following steps: 1) Position the cursor on a position in your word processor screen where there are no words under or just to the left of the cursor. 2) Press the "Ctrl" and "Left Shift" keys simultaneously. 3) The Word Translator Screen will come up with an empty line under the heading: "Word/Phrase to Translate". 4) Type the word "beautiful" or some other word and then press <return>. 5) Another Word Translator screen will come up. 6) Press the number "1". 7) Now the translated word will be put into your word processor at the place where your cursor was positioned in your word processor before calling Word Translator. Sample Session 3: Task: Add a new translation to an existing word. Perform and/or observe the following steps: ____________________________________________________________ page 11 1) Type the word "car" in your word processor. Press Ctrl and Left Shift simultaneously. 2) Press <return> to choose "car". 3) Press F3 to add a new translation. 4) Press 'y' to say "yes" for the question: "Are you sure?". 5) Type '1' and then press <return> for the question: "Number of translations :". 6) Now type any word that you like for fun and press <return>. 7) Press any key. 8) Press Ctrl and Left Shift keys again. 9) Press <return>. 10) Now the new translation will be visible on the screen. Sample Session 4: Task: Delete a translation from an existing word. Perform and/or observe the following steps: 1) Type the word "car" in your word processor. Press Ctrl and Left Shift simultaneously. 2) Press <return> to choose "car". 3) position highlight bar on the translation you want to delete. (Maybe the one you had just added in Sample Session 3.) 4) Press F4 to delete the translation under the highlight bar. 5) Press 'y' to answer "yes" to the question: "Are you sure?" 6) Press any key. 7) Press Ctrl and Left Shift keys again. 8) Press <return>. 9) Now the translation you just deleted will no longer be present on the screen. ____________________________________________________________ page 12 Sample Session 5: Task: Add a new word with a whole set of translations for that word. Perform and/or observe the following steps: 1) Type a word that is not in the bilingual dictionary in your word processor. 2) Press Ctrl + Left Shift keys. 3) Press F3 to add a new base word and its translations. 4) Press 'y' to acknowledge action. 5) Type '3' for "How many translations : " and then press <return>. 6) Type three words of your choice for the translation of the word typed in Step number 1. After each word has been typed press <return>. 7) Press any key. 8) Press Ctrl + Left Shift keys. 9) Press <return>. 10) Now you will see the translations for the word under or just to the right of the cursor in your word processor. Sample Session 6: Task : Using the help menu. 1) Press F1. 2) Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keys to select a highlighted word. If you press <return> when a word is highlighted then that word will be explained in more detail. 3) Press PgDn or PgUp for further help topics. 4) Press ESC (Escape) to exit the help menu. ____________________________________________________________ page 13 Sample Session 7: Task : Using the grammar help. 1) Press F2. 2) Press PgDn or PgUp for further other pages. 4) Press ESC (Escape) to exit the grammar help menu. ____________________________________________________________ page 14