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        PC-Shakespeare Tutorial - v1.0


  This brief tutorial has two intentions: First to give some familiarity
  with the general interface conventions of PC-Shakespeare, and second,
  to demonstrate a few of its more important capabilities.

  In general, you use the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON to select on highlighted text,
  while the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON will always get you a SYSTEM MENU.

  PC-Shakespeare opens on a SUMMARY SCREEN, and that is where this tutorial
  begins: Move the mouse cursor (hereafter called 'the mouse') and select
  (The word 'select' in this tutorial will always mean: Click the left
  mouse button.) on the highlighted word 'PC-Shakespeare' at the upper left
  corner of the screen.

  You will be brought to the HOME SCREEN. This screen is a crossroads for
  most of PC-Shakespeare's functionality. However, a large subset of these
  functions are also available from the SYSTEM MENU: Move the mouse to the
  upper right of the screen and click the right mouse button. See how seven
  of the System Menu's selections match up with those on the Home Screen.
  Select from the System menu 'THE MAP'.

  The Map is the Table of Contents for the hypertext help system embedded
  in PC-Shakespeare. It is also a diagram of the program's conceptual
  organization. As you work with PC-Shakespeare, check into The Map now and
  then and see how what you have just done is represented in it. Soon you
  will see how and what the diagram signifies, and it will help you
  envision more of what you can do with PC-Shakespeare.

  Now get the System Menu again (hereafter this will always mean 'click the
  right mouse button'), and select from it BACKTRACK. Welcome HOME.

                            Tutorial 2


  PC-Shakespeare is mostly about looking for things in Shakespeare, moving
  around in his texts and organizing extracts from them.

  When you look for something, you may not wish to look everywhere. When
  you do not wish to look in all of Shakespeare, you can specify where you
  do want to look by means of the Path Group. Find the selection PATH GROUP
  on the central selection area of the Home screen and select it.

  Note that there is nothing there except more places to select; the Path
  Group is empty. It still needs names of places to look. Therefore from
  the Path Group select on the highlighted text 'PLAY LIST'. Now there are
  some names available, a lot if you've got the complete PC-Shakespeare.
  How do we get them into the Path Group from here? There are two ways.

  Bring the mouse down to the highlighted play name Henry VIII at the
  bottom center of the Play List screen and select on it. You will get a
  menu called 'Plays'. Before selecting on its top option, 'TO PATH',
  please note that the second option 'TO TEXT' would bring you to the play
  itself. Now select 'TO PATH'. You have by this added Henry the Eighth to
  the Path Group. When you are in a pop-up, like the Path Group, the right
  mouse button actually does NOT get you the System Menu. What it does
  instead is 'pop down' that pop-up; so also does the left mouse button if
  you do not use it to make a selection from that pop-up.
  Click the right mouse button.

  On the left edge of the Play List screen are date ranges highlighted in
  gray. Bring the mouse to the one that is second from the top; '1594+' and
  select there. You will get a small menu named 'Groups', on it select 'TO
  PATH'. What is added to the Path Group this time is not the name of a
  play but a name representing a group of plays.

                            Tutorial 3


  Having now specified in the Path Group where we wish to look, the next
  thing is to set what it is we wish to look for: Either from the Path
  group or the System Menu select 'WORD GROUP'. Even though this Word Group
  should be empty (if it is not, select on it either NEW or DISCARD and get
  it again), it will still look rather full. A broad complement of
  unavoidable options makes the Word Group probably the most complicated
  part of PC-Shakespeare to use. Before we enter into the Word Group things
  to search for, we will touch on some aspects of setting search options. A
  help screen is available from the Word Group which may have more detail
  than you want to see just now. For this search the options selections in
  the Word Groups' central box must read:  AND : STRINGS : NOCASE . You
  might wish to toggle these by selecting on them, but bring them to the
  setting described before proceeding.

  This tutorial will guide you through a compound AND / OR search, not the
  simplest type of search, but one which will be more instructive than the
  simpler searches which are also implied. The search will try to ask:
  Where in the plays listed in the Path Group does Shakespeare juxtapose
  imagery of relation between fire and water. We begin by entering the
  search elements: Below the central search options box is the sentence
  'Select field to add words:' Select on the 'input field' to its right.
  The left corner of the input field will begin to blink, signifying that
  it is waiting to receive typed input. Type
  'fire/fiery/flam/blaz/sun/melt' (without quotation marks). After you
  press <ENTER>, what you typed will appear at the bottom of the Word
  Group. The forward slashes between the words tell the program to treat
  the words as alternatives, any of which would be satisfactory. 'flam' and
  'blaz' mean to include words made from the roots 'flame' and 'blaze'.

                            Tutorial 4


  Again select the input field and type 'water/storm/tempest/shower/quench'
  then press <ENTER>. Note in the search options box that this is an AND
  search which will accept STRINGS embedded in words as well as words, and
  that NOCASE means case differences will be ignored. Had it been an OR
  search, finding any of the strings on any of the lines would count as a
  find, as if there were forward slashes between the lines as well as
  within them. Now look in the Word Group just above the input field where
  you have been typing. After the phrases 'Lines above:' and 'below:' are
  two much smaller input fields. In OR searches these are only used to
  specify how many lines of context you want to see with each find, but in
  this AND search, 'below:' determines the line range within which the
  AND will be operative. Select that 'below:' input field, backspace over
  its existing entry and type '8' (without quotes) then <ENTER>.

  To include a line of context above your find (AND searches will currently
  not give you more than one), be sure the number in 'Lines above:' is set
  to '1'.

  All that remains is to select, at the far right of the Word Group on the
  words 'SEARCH PATH'. Do it. PC-Shakespeare is not yet furnished with
  'Please Wait' type messages, but soon after your hard disk light goes off,
  the results will be posted to the 'New Finds' quotation list and it will
  be displayed. Check out the results with the PgDown and PgUp keys.
  Note that the finds are given in the order of the Path Group.

  One possibility now would be to appropriately rename your finds as a
  'Topic List': In the upper right hand corner of this and most of
  PC-Shakespeare's lists you will see the highlighted text 'List Functions'.
  Select there for that menu and then select 'Rename Quotation List'.

                            Tutorial 5


  On the pop-up is an input field, already set to accept typed input.
  Backspace over 'New Finds'. Now type 'fire and water', then <ENTER>.
  You will be brought to the 'Reference List', a list of all the current
  quotation lists, and the title 'fire and water' will be at the bottom.
  Select on it and you will get a 'List Menu' from which you should select
  'TO QUOTATIONS'. This will bring you again to your finds, but in the
  list you've named.


  In the next demonstration,  you will learn a little about sorting
  quotation lists in PC-Shakespeare. A list is sorted from the position
  in the list set by a 'Filter'.  In this example, the entire list is to
  be sorted, so the Filter will be set at the top of the list: Select on
  the top line of the top quotation in the list, then select from the
  'quotes' menu which results, 'CONTROL MENU'.

  Select, among the options on the Control Menu, SET FILTER. A row of
  asterisks will be inserted just above where you selected on the quotation
  list. This a Filter. Filters are multifunctional, and their role in sorts
  are only part of their story.

  Select on 'List Functions' in the upper right of the quotation list and
  from that menu this time select 'Filter and Sort'. Momentarily you will
  get a menu headed 'Reorganize from Filter:'.

  Several kinds of sorting are available, for the simplest and fastest,
  first select 'ALPHANUMERIC SORT', then take a look at how the quotation
  list has been reorganized, paging through it with the 'PgUp' and
  'PgDown' keys. Such sorting is useful for consolodating lists that have
  collected diverse finds or links or have been copied or appended to.

                            Tutorial 6


  'Path Sorts' are more complex to set up. Use the System Menu to get
  the 'Path Group, and select on it 'DISCARD' or 'NEW'.

  Now select on 'List Functions' at the top of the list, select 'Filter
  Sort', and when you get its menu, select 'PATH SORT'. The empty Path
  Group' will pop up. From it select on 'PLAY LIST'. You will be brought
  to the Play List.

  Among the History plays, find 'Richard II'. Immediately to its right,
  and extending down to include 'Henry V' is a vertical highlight.
  Select there for a 'Groups' menu and then select from it: 'TO PATH'.

  The Path Group will pop up and on it will have been added:
  'HISTORIES - SECOND TETRALOGY'. On the right side of the Path Group,
  where it usually reads 'DO SEARCH' it now reads instead 'DO SORT'.
  When you select there you may have to wait a bit before you get
  the newly sorted quotation list.

  You will see that below the Filter, all of the quotations from the
  plays of the second tetralogy have been collected. If you page down,
  you will find quotations from the other plays now below them and
  separated from them by an extra Partition.


  Now, you may have noticed that one of the quotations from Richard the
  Second concerns the character FITZWATER, not what we had in mind. Page
  to that quote and select anywhere within it. From the quotes menu
  select 'DELETE GROUP'.

                            Tutorial 7


  Just to see one of the other functions of the Filter, select from the
  unsorted plays at the bottom of the list a quotation of your choice.
  From that quote's 'List Menu' select 'CONTROL MENU' and from that
  pop-up select 'MOVE GROUP'.

  The changed list will redisplay at the same place, but the quote you
  selected will not be there. To find it, page up to the top of the list
  and you will see that it has been moved to just below the Filter.


  The last example in this tutorial will bring back a quotation of your
  choice from a Shakespeare text and add it to the 'New Links' quotation
  list. It presupposes that you have the TSRs SDUMP and AMENU installed
  and resident, which would have been done by the PC-Shakespeare
  installation program.

  Select on any line of Shakespeare's text in the current quotation list.
  When you get the 'quotations' menu, select 'TO TEXT'. You will be brought
  to the position of that line in its text.

  If you move the mouse up or down, the text will scroll accordingly.
  And if you click the RIGHT mouse button, the text will page down, while
  if you click the LEFT mouse button, the text will page up. Using these,
  locate a passage from the text to bring back as a quotation.

  Bring the top line of your passage to the top of the screen. It may be
  an entire speech (if so, it should be the character's name at the top
  of the screen) or only an excerpt, if it is an excerpt keep in mind how
  many lines below the one at the top you want to capture.

                            Tutorial 8


  Now hold down the LEFT 'Shift' key, and press the 'PrintScrn' key.
  You may repeat this procedure with other passages if you wish.

  To exit the text browser, either press the MIDDLE mouse button OR
  press the LEFT and RIGHT buttons at the same time. You will get a
  horizontal menu near the top of the screen. Move the mouse sideways
  and select 'QUIT'.


  As you leave the browser, you will get a pop-up called 'Link line-range?'
  with an input field for the number of lines you want to bring back below
  any selected lines. Change this value if you wish in the same way as for
  other input fields, concluding with <ENTER>. If you do not change it,
  select 'ACCEPT EXISTING RANGE'. You will then be brought to the beginning
  of your new links in the 'New Links' quotation list.

  PC-Shakespeare has many more capabilities than described in this tutorial.
  The embedded hypertext documentation can assist you in finding and using
  them. I certainly hope they at least begin to serve your interests and
  imagination. Enjoy PC-Shakespeare!