This help file is intended for viewing within a Web Concordance. If you reached this page by another route, you can go to the Web Concordance start page.
What the Frames do:
At the bottom right of the browser window is the Text Frame, which displays the original text of the work you have chosen to explore. 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.To the left of the Text Frame 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.
You are (probably!) reading this in the Concordance Frame. When not displaying this help, it displays the Concordance. 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 frame at the top of the browser's window is the Alphabetic Navigator.Click on a letter to go quickly to the words beginning with that letter. If a letter of the alphabet is missing, that is because the original text contains no words beginning with that letter.
There are several ways to improve things:
You can also use your browser's Find button to carry out any search. The search will happen in the frame you last clicked in. To let the system find a word for you in a single operation, first load the entire Wordlist (see More Wordlist controls), then press the Find button. The Find button will also work for searches in the Text Frame and the Concordance Frame, but bear in mind that only one section of the Text or the Concordance will be loaded at any one time, so searches with the Find button will be confined to that section.