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Steps in preparing a text for the reader: 1. Preparing the gloss:3. Inserting the gloss and text into the reader. 4. Inserting the Shockwave document into a HTML document. Back to the main Reader pageDirector automatically gives each word in the text a separate number, in numerical order. Each word is separated from each other word by a space. (That creates a problem with enclitics. Oh well.) On the other hand, if there are two spaces next to each other, as is the case when some people put two spaces after a period, Director will not recognize the (lack of) content between the two spaces as a word. E.g., "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle" contains eleven words even though there are five spaces between "with" and "the." The goal here is to create a gloss that will allow Director to connect, say, word 16 in the text with its glossing information, which Director will find on line 16 of the gloss list you are going to make. Here are the instructions: 1. Start out with a text, e.g.,
2. When I started out with this project, I used Word exclusively to build my gloss lists. I have since switched over to mostly using Excel, although I still use Word for the first and last steps. Here are the instructions if you are going to be building your glosses entirely in a word processing program, e.g., Word (use this link to go to the Excel instructions): Each word must be on a separate line. A fast and easy way to do that is to use Find/Replace in Word. Under your Edit menu, select Replace. Tell it to Find each space (i.e., " "), and Replace it with a paragraph mark and two @ marks. The symbol for the paragraph mark is "^p", so you will be replacing each space with "^p@@". (I will explain the need for the @ below.) You should end up with something like this:
I removed the punctuation, but you don't have to do that. Back to the topNB: As I said above, Director does not recognize the (lack of) content between two spaces as a word. On the other hand, Word is going to add too many lines if you have more than one space between words, e.g., two spaces after a period:
Get rid of those extra lines if that happens! The @ marks serve as delimiters. The delimiters here are telling Director that on each line of the gloss list there are three items: the word itself, the dictionary entry, and the definition. (If you choose to put some other item in place of the dictionary entry or definition, Director cares not. If you just want to put the definition, and leave the dictionary entry blank, Director cares not. All it sees is that there are three items, and in the latter case, one of the items is empty.)
Put your dictionary entry between the two @ marks, and the definition after the last one. You should end up with something like this:
NB: If you do not want to gloss every single word, but only the ones you do not expect them to already know, then don't supply any vocab information for those words, e.g., instead of et@et@and, leave it like this: et@@. That way, if someone clicks on it, nothing will appear in the information window. Go to the next step. Back to the topHere are the instructions if you are going to be building your glosses in Excel: Using Find/Replace in Word, find each space (i.e., " "), and replace it with a paragraph mark (the symbol for that is "^p"), e.g.,
Paste this into column A. Use column B for the dictionary entries, and column C for the definitions. The advantage of using Excel is that you can sort by different columns. If you are doing a lot of poems, you might want to put the poem number into column D and the word number (within each poem) in column E, e.g.,
Once the information in columns A, D, and E is in place, you can sort the rows to put all of column A in alphabetical order. That way, once you have written out the dictionary entry and definition for, say, facio, you can copy that information for all the other rows that facio is used.
Then, once you have filled in all of the information, you can re-sort the rows, first by word number (column E), and then by poem number (column E), to get all the words in each individual poem back into the same order. Back to the topNow that you have completed the gloss list, copy the first three columns for the (one) poem, and paste it into Word. It should appear in the form of a table. Select the entire table, and then under the Table menu, select Convert... > Table to Text. The "Convert Table to Text" dialog box appears. It says Separate Text with... Select Other, and put @ in the little field to the right of "Other." Click OK. (What is the reason for the @?) Your gloss should now look like this:
NB: If you do not want to gloss every single word, but only the ones you do not expect them to already know, then don't supply any vocab information for those words, e.g., instead of et@et@and, leave it like this: et@@. That way, if someone clicks on it, nothing will appear in the information window. Go to the next step.
3. Save your work. Go to Step 2. Preparing the text. Ahead to 2. Preparing the text: Ahead to 3. Inserting the gloss and text into the reader. Ahead to 4. Inserting the Shockwave document into a HTML document. Back to the main Reader pageBack to the top |
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