Menu:
click on the - button to bring down the columns menu.
Click outside the buttons and it pulls back up.
Columns menu:
Clicking on a white menu-entry makes it active. Clicking on a red one
switches it off.
From left to right:
Click/tap on a linenumber in the Greek or translation text, both textcolumns (and, if tap-hold or if the ctrl key is pressed, also the collapsible list) will scroll to that linenr. Click/tap a linenumber in the text of one of the "pages" and the greek and/or translation texts will scroll there. Click on a lighter-blue, encircled linenumber in the map and the explanation page (if visible) will scroll to that item.
Click/tap on the "Thematic Structure" header to switch to a page with a proportional view of the structure (block size proportional to number of textlines). Click again on the header to go back.
Column resize:
On the right side of the displayed columns, except the rightmost one,
a whitish line shows up on mouse hover. You can drag this line left or
right and the column widths will be resized accordingly.
On tablets you cannot change the size of the columns.
If you change the number of columns, width is reset to default.
The Collapsible list
Expand/collapse all at once with the large + and - at the bottom. Click/tap-hold
these to expand or collapse completely. Exp/col one item by
clicking to the right of the text part (it shows '+' if it can expand,
'-' if it can collapse). Here also, hold > 1 sec. to expand or collapse the section completely.
Click the text part part to scroll both Greek and English texts to the
start linenumber of the theme. The color of the linenumbers belonging to the
part you clicked, will toggle to its corresponding color.
If a linenumber (in the list) is lighter-blue and encircled, clicking it
scrolls the explanation-column (if this column is visible on screen) to that item.
Holding down the mousebutton > 1 sec. on a linenumber scrolls it to the
top, and lets that item be the top in subsequent expansions of the list.
Hold down again on the same or on the root item ("The Iliad"), and the
root item becomes the top. This feature does not work on tablets.
Tools menu:
search box and
Lookup menu:
On PC's:
Mouse-select a word or a linenumber in the Greek or English text then
if necessary click the selection (or doubleclick a word), it appears in the search
box.
On tablets:
Select a word by tap-holding it. Then you can adjust the selection. Tap
it again to make it appear in the search box. Sometimes you have to do the
selecting twice.
It can also be typed in. For Greek use betacode (see below) or a Greek
keyboard. Depending on its language and content, 'Lookup' will then give
you the option of :
Clicking on the grey beta-sign in the search box
switches the text from Latin alphabet to Greek and v.v. See the 'alphabet' menu item for the
correspondences.
The Greek texts here are in Unicode 'Extended Greek', which is polytonic
Greek, while for instance Perseus works with 'betacode', an ascii-only lowercase-only
transcription of the Greek alphabet. To perform lookups (here or in Perseus), the unicode
is translated into betacode with or without diacritics.
For searching with accents, f.i. 'ἄλλα' or 'ἀλλὰ', enter 'a)/lla' resp.
'a)lla\' and click the beta-button. If you are searching with diacritics,
all the marks and capitals must be correct or the word will not be found.
Searching without diacritical marks ignores all of these and, for instance, finds
both forms of αλλα.
If you doubleclick (or doubletap) on the β-button,
the diacritical marks and uppercase are discarded in
the transformation.
Doubleclicking the search box itself will clear it.
NB the betacode uses lowercase-letters only (we use the Perseus-dialect of
betacode).
In this order:
* precedes a letter to
be capitalized. If it is used, all the accents except '|' precede the
letter, otherwise they follow it.
) smooth
breathing, ( rough
breathing
/ acute accent, \ grave accent, = circumflex
+ diaeresis
| iota subscriptum
(always follows the letter)
The choice between 'σ' and 'ς' is made automatically.
Untranslatable characters are kept as they are, illegal
combinations rarely produce errors, they give undefined results (garbage
in, garbage out). Not all possible legal betacode-combinations have been
implemented or tested, but enough to do the Perseus Hesiod and Homer
texts without errors.
Bookmark menu:
If you click on a line (the text part) without selecting anything, that linenumber will be bookmarked (click again to unmark it): its linenumber becomes red and it shows up in the bookmark selector. Bookmarks are saved in the 'page state' so they show up again on the next visit. (actually, the linenr. of the theme turns red and is bookmarked. Only when you do a word search, the resulting bookmarks are the real linenumbers.
< > : goto previous/next bookmark in current text
∅ : clear bookmarks for this text only
⇓ : Save the list of bookmarks into the notepad (so it can be locally saved).
⇑ : Load a list of linenumbers from the notepad into the bookmarks. It has to have the same format as the saved list.
Notepad:
Enter any text into the notepad, it will be saved to browser storage
and reloaded on startup automatically. There are 5 buttons:
clear will clear the notepad, without saving it.
beta will convert to and from Greek alphabet, just as in the
searchbox. Either the selected text or, if there is no selection, the
whole contents of the notepad.
goto will try to interpret selected text as a bookmark and load/scroll
the text columns accordingly.
send will let you send the text as e-mail.
load/save produces a menu with save: enter a name
into the filename box, clicking 'save' will send it to your default
download directory, and load: click to select a text-only file on your
computer and upload it. It will replace any text present in the pad.
If the notepad is visible, selecting in the textcolumns (and then clicking the
selection, in some browsers) enters it in the notepad as well as in the searchbox.
Resize the pad on the bottom-right corner (not tablets).
CTRL-C,X,V work as usual.
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