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1. 5 e From the Search menu choose e Press ALT S underlined letter the required search window to choose the required search window or With Standard Search already al active click the Search icon on VVith Standard Search already the Toolbar active press F2 to open the h wi 8 Alternatively click the Search Si SO Indices icon on the Toolbar to Alternatively press ALT F2 to open the Search Indices open the Search Indices window window The relevant search window will The relevant search window will open open e Click the relevant search box e Press TAB or press and type your search term ALT underlined letter to move Repeat this for all of the search to the relevant search box es boxes you require and type your search term s e Click Search e Press ENTER to execute the search e Acta Sanctorum will start the search and display the Searching and Generating Summary of Matches dialogue boxes indicating the progress of the search 3 6 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM Click Abandon to cancel the e Acta Sanctorum will start the search or Stop Generation to search and display the stop adding entries to the Searching and Generating Summary of Matches if required Summary of Matches dialogue boxes indicating the progress of the search Searching Database EE Total Hits Hits Processed Entries in Summary of Matches Sing Benet Generating Summary of Matches Es Total Hits 6399 Hits Proc
2. coaetaneo anonymo V E a You may select and view items of interest directly from the Summary of Hold down SHIFT and click to select a sequence Matches or move to the Context of Matches for more information SELECTING ITEMS FROM SUMMARY OR CONTEXT OF MATCHES 4 5 When you move from the Summary of Matches only selected entries are displayed in the Context of Matches If you wish to view entries you did not select in the Summary of Matches you can return to it and make a new selection r To select items in any summary window e Click the item you want to select e If you wish to select further items press and hold down CTRL while you click each further item required Each item will be highlighted or e Press and hold down SHIFT while you Click the first and last items in the sequence you require All the items in the sequence will be highlighted 4 6 SUMMARY OF MATCHES Press and release SHIFT F8 The selection cursor will begin to blink Use the DIRECTION KEYS to move to the required item s and press SPACEBAR to select each one Each item will be highlighted To cancel selected items in any summary window 5 ai e Press and hold down cTRL while e Press SHIFT F8 you Click the selected item The selection cursor will appear The highlight will be removed in the list box and begin to blink from the item e Use the DIRECTION KEYS to move
3. CONTENTS 6 Table of Contents The Table of Contents window Navigating the Table of Contents Expanding and collapsing branches Using the Table of Contents in conjunction with Full Text T Full Text The Full Text window Full Text display Navigating the Full Text Viewing notes Viewing figures Viewing tables Viewing cross references Copy and paste 8 Bibliographic Details 9 Printing and saving Print Setup Printing Saving Saving and loading search expressions 10 Command Line Search The Command Line Search window Executing a search The Acta Sanctorum data codes Constructing a Command Line Search expression Command Line Search examples Appendix A Elements and attributes List of primary data elements and their tags List of attributes and attribute values Discussion of the data elements Discussion of attributes and attribute values Appendix B Extract from the Licence Agreement Index ii CONTENTS 6 2 6 2 6 4 72 7 3 7 4 7 7 7 9 7 10 7 11 7 11 10 2 10 2 10 4 10 6 10 1 A 1 A 1 A 8 A 10 CHAPTER 1 Introduction Welcome to Acta Sanctorum Database on CD ROM When complete this database will contain the complete texts of the sixty eight printed volumes of the Acta Sanctorum from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940 The Acta Sanctorum comprises the works published over a period of three hundred years by the Soci t des Bollandist
4. You can click the Document Details icon on the toolbar press F8 to view the Document Details for the currently active work Alternatively you can double click the Document Details note icon at the beginning of each work in the Full Text Scroll through the window by clicking the scroll arrows or using the direction keys To close the Document Details click the Control menu press ESC Hiding marginal summaries Marginal summaries are included by default in the Full Text appearing as red text in angle brackets To hide the marginal summaries select Options Marginal summaries press ALT 0 M Repeat this to reverse the command FULL TEXT DISPLAY 7 3 O SS 111 5 Changing the font size It is possible to alter the font size of text displayed in the Full Text window or the Notes window To increase the font size press SHIFT UP arrow You can increase the font size a maximum of five times from the default size To decrease the font size press SHIFT DOWN arrow You can decrease the font size a maximum of tyvo times from the default size Each time you open the Full Text and Notes windows the text will appear at the default font size Navigating the Full Text Navigate the Full Text window a line at a time using the direction keys or by clicking the scroll arrows Move a screen at a time using pg up and pg dn Alternatively click the scroll bar using the mouse In addition to the standard mouse and keyboard functions
5. e Index Topographicus searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Topographicus e Index Onomasticus searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Onomasticus e Index Moralis searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Moralis The default setting is All Indices Note that your search option is only active for keyword searches To specify search options 5 i e From the relevant search e From the relevant search window click the down arrow window press TAB to move to the beside the Search in or Limit to Search in or Limit to box box e Press ALT DOWN arrow to open A drop down list will open the drop down list e Choose the required option from e Highlight the required option the drop down list using the DIRECTION KEYS and press ENTER Note that the Limit to search options only apply to the Standard Search window 3 12 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM O SS 00 ss POL l 0 00 Searching by Keyword You can search for any word in a work using the keyword search boxes To execute a keyword search type the word you wish to search for in the appropriate box For example to search for the word martyr in all texts type martyr in the Keyword box in Standard Search The browse facility allows you to select from a list of available keywords When you type more than one word in a keyword box you can connect them using Boolean operators adjacency or proximi
6. id see lt x gt n x where x is an Arabic number representing the value of the number associated with any numbered element in the source text r value is italic roman smcap smcapit to indicate highlighted text lt entry gt dagger value is y to indicate a dagger symbol t appearing before the text of the entry LIST OF ATTRIBUTES AND ATTRIBUTE VALUES A 7 iia 5 lt figure gt sys id filename of the image file to be opened at that point lt IMG gt SRC filename and location of the textual image file to be opened at that point lt l gt indent indicates the level of indentation for lines within a lt poem gt lt x gt RID value matches a corresponding id attribute on another element to create a hyperlink Discussion of the data elements The Acta Sanctorum Full Text Database is a collection of volumes containing documents and indices A document is any single text such as a Life of a Saint or an Introduction or Commentary The database includes not only the literary texts and indices themselves but also any associated material such as prefaces and contents lists and all editorial notes Each volume is tagged with the code lt div0 gt lt div0 gt is sub divided into four lt div1 gt s comprising the text proper of the volume divided into Volume front matter Main volume text and Volume back matter and a lt header gt containing bibliographic details of both the source text for the docum
7. iE o A ON Acta Sanctorum User Manual ProCuest Informetan ond Leoni User Manual copyright 1999 2003 ProQuest Information and Learning Company All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without written permission from ProQuest Information and Learning Company Data arrangement copyright 1999 2003 ProQuest Information and Learning Company All rights reserved Software copyright 1999 2003 Inso Corporation Inc and ProQuest Information and Learning Company Windows is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation Portions of the imaging technology in Acta Sanctorum are copyrighted by Accusoft Corporation The Acta Sanctorum database is published with the support and editorial advice of the Soci t des Bollandistes ISBN 0 85964 417 0 User Manual only ISBN 0 85964 416 2 User Manual with complete CD ROM package ProQuest Information and Learning ProQuest Information and Learning The Quorum 300 North Zeeb Road Barnwell Road Ann Arbor Cambridge CB5 8SW UK MI 48106 1346 USA Tel 44 0 1223 215512 Tel 1 734 761 4700 Tech Support 0800 220710 Tech Support 1 800 889 3358 Fax 44 0 1223 215513 Email tsupport il proquest com Email marketing proquest co uk ProQuest Information and Learning C Catello n 95 6 D 28006 Ma
8. martyrologia in an argument will be highlighted in the Full Text The number of hits will be the total number of times martyrologia appears in arguments Alternatively you might search for lt argument gt cont martyrologia to retrieve all arguments containing the word martyrologia In this case any arguments containing the word martyrologia will be highlighted The number of hits will be the total number of arguments containing martyrologia Widening or narrowing your search Boolean operators Command Line searching may incorporate the Boolean operators AND OR and AND NOT For example you could use the Boolean operator AND to search for textual subdivisions containing both ecclesia AND episcopus lt div4 gt cont ecclesia and episcopus Alternatively you can link elements with elements in this case lt argument gt and lt comhd4 gt lt summary gt or lt note gt cont Gallia 10 8 COMMAND LINE SEARCH Boolean operators can only link like with like For example you can link keywords with keywords ecclesia and episcopus or elements with elements lt summary gt or lt note gt Constructing complex search expressions In order to construct a complex search expression consisting of search terms linked by context and Boolean operators you need to understand the order in which the search software processes a search expression The operators WITH and NOT are processed wi
9. press ENTER to exit click Cancel press ESC to stay in Acta Sanctorum EXITING ACTA SANCTORUM 2 3 O SS 700 ss POL l 0 00 Features of the Acta Sanctorum vindovv Main control Window Tooltip Menu Toolbar Minimize Maximize Restore Close menu title bar button button button button Acta Sanctorum Database on File Edit Options Search FullText Window Help LU Sle SME Table of Contents M Full Text Be E Jan I I IANVARIL DE 5 MAXIMO ABBATE MARTYRE IN GALLIA PASSIO MAXIMI PRESBYTERI ET MARTYRIS CAPVT IV Fit Abbas percussoribus vltro occurrit diuinitus punitis subuenit lethaliter vulneratur Page 93 CAPVT IV fer Fit Abbas percussoribus vitro occurrit diuinitus punitis subuenit lethaliter vulneratur Mortuo Samsone priest monasterio Non post multo vero tempore defuncto Abbate ipsius remansit S Maximus in vicem Abbatis loci monasterij curam exercens Interea surrexit vmis de consernis Eldebodi y EN sjojxjj s ajoj xjj si ajoj xj View the Table of Contents NUM Pr Status Minimized Window Window Scroll Scroll Scroll bar windows corner border arrow box bar 2 4 GETTING STARTED O Lc kKXKM ST TI 5 Toolbar The Toolbar appears immediately below the Menu bar in the main Acta Sanctorum window The Toolbar contains four groups of icons Windo
10. vidua Vita Auctore Arnaldo Ordinis S Francisci impossibile voluit apparere amp viuere in isto mundo sicut impotens sicut amp debilis homo Ipse enim pr ter miserias humanas puerilem infantiam amp alias Jan I Dies 4 B Angela de Fulginio vidua Vita Auctore Arnaldo Ordinis Francisci afflictiones amp aduersitates ad animam purgandam erudiendam amp perficiendam requiruntur quam ipse i r insipiens homo Tales enim afflictiones amp poenitentie pro libito voluhtatis qu sit amp Jan I Dies 6 5 Melanius Episcopus Rhedonensis in Gallia Vita Ex veteribus MSS Click to view Highlighted search Click to move back Full Text expression hit to the Summary o for selected item Matches The Context of Matches gives you further details of selected items containing the search term If you have executed a Standard Search each item is listed in the Context of Matches window by volume day saint feast day and title of the work If you have executed an indices search the Context of Matches Indices window lists each item by volume and index name The line containing each hit is listed in the window THE CONTEXT OF MATCHES WINDOWS 4 3 O Tas a M I III From the Context of Matches you may e view the selected instance of the search term in the Full Text e return to the Summary of Matches to make a further selection To access the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches e Cl
11. Summary of Matches window Click the Bibliographic Details icon on the Toolbar A window will open displaying bibliographic details for the relevant volume Scroll through the window by clicking the scroll arrows to view all the bibliographic details Double click the Control menu to close the Bibliographic Details window Ensure that the work for which bibliographic details are required is in the active line in the Full Text or is highlighted in the Table of Contents or Summary of Matches window Press F7 A window will open displaying bibliographic details of the relevant volume Scroll through the window using the DIRECTION KEYS PG UP and PG DN to view all the bibliographic details Press CTRL F4 to close the Bibliographic Details window Note that in addition to the Bibliographic Details icon on the Toolbar you can use a separate icon in the Full Text to call up bibliographic information For more details about the Bibliographic Details note icon see Chapter 7 8 2 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS O T 5 CHAPTER 9 Printing and saving This Chapter describes how to print the results of your searches from Acta Sanctorum and how to save them for use with other software packages In addition it describes how to save the current search expression in a Search window In accordance with the Acta Sanctorum Licence Agreement copyright notices will be incorporated automatically into any data printed or saved fr
12. all works which contain the first search term but not the second All occurrences of the first search term in those works will be highlighted For example episcopus and not abbas Word Order The search software processes AND and AND NOT before OR However you can use parentheses to specify the processing order For example virgo and martyr or abbas is processed as virgo and martyr or abbas If you wanted to retrieve works containing virgo and either martyr or abbas type virgo and martyr or abbas Searching for two or more adjacent keywords You can search for two or more adjacent words in the same keyword field Type the two words in the relevant search box separated by a space For example type Sanctus spiritus in the Keyword box Searching for two keywords near each other proximity operators You can search for words within a given distance of each other Proximity operators enable you to specify whether the words should appear in a specific order i e before or after each other or to specify simply that they occur within a given distance of each other in either order There are three proximity operators OF AFTER and BEFORE To construct a proximity search separate your two keywords by the phrase within n word s OF AFTER BEFORE 3 14 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM where n is the maximum number of words you want to allow between your keywords For example miles within 1 word of christi miles within 3 word
13. amore powerful computer e g a Pentium instead of a 486 e more RAM e g 12Mb instead of 8Mb e higher speed CD ROM drive 1 2 INTRODUCTION O SS 700 ss PS II 0 00 Installing Acta Sanctorum Before you can start using Acta Sanctorum you must first install the program supplied r To install Acta Sanctorum Windows 3 1x users e Turn on your computer and CD ROM drive if it is separate from your computer e Type win at the MS DOS prompt Windows starts automatically on some systems e Insert the Acta Sanctorum CD ROM disc into your CD ROM drive e Open Program Manager Program Manager opens automatically on some systems e From the File menu choose Run ALT F R e Type d setup exe in the Command Line box e Click OK press ENTER LO e Follow the instructions that appear on your screen e During the installation you will be asked to name the directory in which you wish to install Acta Sanctorum e The suggested directory is c acta but you can choose an existing directory or name a new one e When the installation is complete you will be returned to the Windows Program Manager To install Acta Sanctorum Windows 95 users e Turn on your computer and CD ROM drive if it is separate from your computer e Click the Start button on the Taskbar select Settings and then click Control Panel e Double click the Add Remove Programs icon INSTALLING ACTA SANCTORUM 1 3 iE iia 5 e Click
14. and transfer it to the search box The Boolean operator OR represented by a vertical bar will automatically be inserted between the words Note The PLDGreek font has been remapped from LaserGreek for Windows which is available to users of Chadwyck Healey products at a 20 discount if purchased directly from Linguist s Software Inc P O Box 580 Edmonds WA 98020 0580 U S A URL http www linguistsoftware com fax 425 771 5911 tel 425 775 1130 e mail sales linguistsoftware com 3 10 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM O Lc kKXKM ST TI 5 Specifying search options You may specify search options to restrict your search in the Standard Search and Search Indices windows Standard search options From Standard Search you may choose to search in All Texts retrieves hits in all areas of the database All Latin hagiographical texts searches for occurrences of your search term s in all Latin hagiographical texts excluding introductions dissertations and commentaries Latin hagiographical texts pre 1500 searches for occurrences of your search term s in texts listed in Biblioteca hagiographica latina BHL Latin hagiographical texts post 1500 searches for occurrences of your search term s in texts not listed in Biblioteca hagiographica latina BHL Introductions dissertations commentaries searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the introductions dissertations and commentaries Note that your se
15. can use the browse index Alternatively you can type the word in the search box using ALT code The code must be typed on the numeric keypad The codes are FE 0198 ee 0230 B 0223 For a full list of codes refer to the Windows Character Map usually found in the Accessories group of either Program Manager or via the Start Menu Note that spelling variants may include special characters for example assidua may appear as aBidua aethiopia as eethiopia using the ae ligature In order to search for all possible spellings of these words you should combine the variants using the Boolean OR e g aBidua or assidua Abbreviations Abbreviations appearing in the early printed volumes of Acta Sanctorum are reproduced in the Acta Sanctorum database indicated by a circumflex accent over a vowel e g sactum for Sanctum seculord for seculorum These abbreviated forms are included in the Keyword and Title Keyword browse indexes If you intend to search for all instances of a word you may have to include the abbreviated form as well as the full form in your search expression SEARCHING BY KEYWORD 3 17 Upper and lower case letters Acta Sanctorum does not generally distinguish between upper and lower case letters This means that you can use upper or lower case letters or a combination of the two to type in your search words or expressions Saving and loading search expressions When
16. is associated with The current month within lt doc gt The search category of the current lt doc gt The unique reference number of the lt saint gt for the current lt doc gt A unique reference number for the current lt doc gt The current volume title within lt index gt The BHL reference number within lt doc gt The specific name by which an individual saint is searched If a lt doc gt relates to multiple saints there will be one lt stname gt for each The datasize in bytes of a lt figure gt or lt anote gt A heading occurring anywhere in the data but not marking the beginning of a structural element A citation usually biblical Bibliographic A grouping of bibliographic information Occurs in lt source gt and lt file gt enclosing relevant bibliographic details Bibliographic Place of publication A 2 ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES lt col gt lt comhd0 gt lt comhd1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gt lt copyrite gt lt date gt lt day gt lt dayhead gt lt desc gt lt div0 gt lt div1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gt lt doc gt lt dochead gt lt dt gt lt edit gt lt editor gt A column number in the source text lt col gt is an empty tag The heading to a volume The heading to any structural element within a volume the numbering reflects the nesting of elements Bibliographic A copyright statement giving details of any third party copyright applying t
17. marked with a code known as a tag For example each individual document in the database is coded as a lt doc gt If a lt doc gt contains more than one section each subdivision is coded as a numbered lt div gt the number depending on the nesting of the lt doc gt within the database as a whole For example a lt doc gt nested at lt div4 gt will be subdivided into lt div5 gt s Book and chapter divisions are coded as lt div gt s lt div gt s can nest inside one another or directly within lt front gt lt body gt or lt back gt lt div gt s contain prose paragraphs coded as lt p gt s and verse lines coded as lt l gt s within lt poemss Note that the tags are always enclosed in angle brackets lt gt In addition certain tags have descriptive qualifiers associated with them known as attributes These may be used to refine searches further by adding qualifying parameters to tags Appendix A contains a full list of tags and their attributes in alphabetical order and a discussion of the use of tags and attributes in Acta Sanctorum Main structural element tags The main hierarchical structure consists of the following tags lt vigroup gt is a grouping of data covering a complete volume which is coded as lt div0 gt 10 4 COMMAND LINE SEARCH lt divO gt incorporates a single volume subdivided into four lt div1 gt s comprising Volume front matter Main volume text and Volume back matter a
18. must be returned to the User when no longer required for the production of the publication and that the User must provide for such return in any agreement to publish such data reproduce adapt or convert complete or substantial portions of Acta Sanctorum into onto any other medium other than as permitted in clause 4 1 rent lease barter assign lend sell transfer convey or give all or any part of Acta Sanctorum to any person firm company or institution EXTRACT FROM THE LICENCE AGREEMENT on SLUR O T 5 9 attempt to reverse engineer decompile or disassemble all or any part of any software program incorporated or used in Acta Sanctorum download for use with any application other than Acta Sanctorum the PLDGreek font which is copyright 1986 1999 The Payne Loving Trust all rights reserved 925 Hindley Lane Edmonds WA 98020 0580 USA THIRD PARTY RIGHTS 51 a b Parts of Acta Sanctorum are copyright material of third parties from whom ProQuest Information and Learning has obtained an appropriate licence for inclusion of such parts Such parts in which third party intellectual property rights exist are clearly identified if selected for downloading or printing and are hereinafter referred to as THIRD PARTY MATERIAL Before any publication or inclusion of THIRD PARTY MATERIAL in any essays internally circulated papers or materials for class course work the LICENSEE must obtain the prior consent in wri
19. name Bibliographic An inverted form of the editor s name for sorting purposes Prevents the insertion of unwanted line breaks within words in Greek text Surrounds the text of a note An editorial note identifying a lt note gt A paragraph Can occur within any element in which text can occur A page break in the source text lt pb gt is an empty tag A poem or extract from a poem consisting of metrical lines lt I gt Part paragraph A subdivision of lt p gt The call out letter or symbol to a note Bibliographic Date of publication of lt file gt LIST OF PRIMARY DATA ELEMENTS AND THEIR TAGS A 5 lt publ gt lt pubtitle gt lt saint gt lt series gt lt signed gt lt snthead gt lt somhead gt lt source gt lt srce gt lt stanza gt lt sub gt lt subhead gt lt sup gt lt target gt lt texthead gt lt title gt lt trailer gt Bibliographic Name of publisher Bibliographic The full title of a volume An individual saint group of saints or feast day Bibliographic Series title A statement giving the author s name and or the date and place of composition of an element Can occur anywhere within the data Saint heading Surrounds the lt comhd gt to a lt saint gt A form of the heading to a lt doc gt or lt index gt giving additional contextual information Part of lt comhd gt Bibliographic Bibliographic details of the source
20. text of a volume A statement of a text s source or authorship A stanza in a lt poem gt Surrounds subscript characters Heading subsidiary to a lt comhd gt Surrounds superscript characters The destination for a hypertext link The specific wording of the heading from the printed volume for a lt doc gt or lt index gt Part of lt comhd gt Title details on the title page of a volume A closing statement terminating a main structural element A 6 ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES O T 5 lt vigroup gt A grouping of data covering a complete volume lt voltitle gt The title of a volume lt x gt A hypertext link between one part of the text and another List of attributes and attribute values The following table lists all element tags used in the Acta Sanctorum database which may have attributes associated with them The attributes are listed in alphabetical order by tag with general attributes listed first Note Attribute values are case sensitive This means that you must use the appropriate combination of upper and lower case characters to type in an attribute value For an explanation of how to use attributes in a Command Line Search and for examples of Command Line Search expressions which incorporate attributes see Chapter 10 Tag Attribute Attribute value General align value is I left c centre or r right indicating the position of the element as it appears on the printed page
21. 7 Full Text Volume Saint Title of work B Full Text Jan I I LANVARIL DE MAXIMO ABBATE MARTYRE IN GALLIA PASSIO MAXIMI PRESBYTERI ET MARTYRIS CAPVT IV Fit Abbas percussoribus vitro occurrit diuinitus punitis subuenit lethaliter vulneratur Page 94 u CAPVTIV ni Fit Abbas percussoribus vitro occurrit diuinitus punitis subuenit lethaliter vulneratur IMortuo Samsone preest monasterio Non post multo vero tempore defuncto Abbate ipsius remansit S in vicem Abbatis loci monasterij curam exercens Interea surrexit vnus de conseruis 7 Eldebodi Highlighted Note hyperlink Page number search term This Chapter describes how to view the Full Text of works in the database and outlines how to use the Full Text window FULL TEXT From the Full Text window you can e view the keyword s or search expression s retrieved by your search e view any of the works in Acta Sanctorum e view bibliographic details for each volume e view items embedded in works such as notes tables or figures e view the text of works in conjunction with the Table of Contents e print or save The Full Text window The Full Text window reproduces the text of the original Acta Sanctorum volumes including all prefatory material textual apparatus and appendices The order of the Full Text is the same as the order of the Table of Contents works are arranged in the same order as the printed volumes i e by v
22. Printing figures Print Figure xi m Vertical alignment _ Resolution C Top 300 dpi C Bottom C 600 dpi t Centre Horizontal alignment Page size Left t Full page C Right C 3 4 page t Centre 172 page Cancel You can print any figure Select from the Print Figure dialogue box alignment resolution and page size options PRINTING 9 5 iia 5 Saving You can save either search expressions or text from the Acta Sanctorum database to a file on your hard disk or on a diskette If you save a search expression you can save from either the Standard or Command Line Search windows Before you begin saving text from the Acta Sanctorum database you should check the copyright details in Appendix B You can save from the following windows e Summary of Matches e Context of Matches e Full Text e Table of Contents e Hyperlink displaying notes or cross referenced text e Bibliographic and Document Details Data is saved in standard ASCII text format Any out of range ASCII characters will not be saved The parts of the Acta Sanctorum database which you can save will depend on the window from which you are saving You should specify the name of the file to which you wish to save the data parts of the database you wish to save and any secondary elements you wish to include Secondary elements are optional and include bibliographic details marginal summaries and SGML tags If you choose t
23. T underlined letter to execute your search The Searching and Generating Summary of Matches dialogue boxes will appear during the search process When the search is complete you will be taken to the Brief Summary of Matches listing the works retrieved by your search Each time you construct and execute a Command Line Search the search expression is added to the List of previous searches box You can access any of the previous expressions to either repeat the search or to modify the expression before executing the search mi or Select the required search expression from the List of previous searches box Double click the required search expression EXECUTING A SEARCH To access a previous search statement Press ALT underlined letter or TAB to move to the List of previous searches box 10 3 O Tas a M I III Your search expression will be added to the Search command box e If you want to edit the expression make the required alterations e Click Search to execute the search Highlight the required search expression using the DIRECTION KEYS and press ALT underlined letter to choose Edit Your search expression will be added to the Search command box If you want to edit the expression make the required alterations Press ALT underlined letter to execute the search The Acta Sanctorum data codes The Acta Sanctorum database is divided into a hierarchy of elements each
24. a full list of attributes see Appendix A Constructing a Command Line Search expression The flexibility of Command Line searching means that there is no single formula for the construction of a search expression In general however Command Line Search expressions may include some or all of the following e keywords i e the word s in the Acta Sanctorum database you wish to find e element tags which define the part of the database you wish to search e attributes which further qualify the element tags e context operators which define the relationship between keyword s and element tags e proximity operators which define the position of keywords relative to each other e Boolean operators which allow you to widen or narrow a search It is recommended that you specify a structural tag in which to retrieve hits when searching with Boolean operators in Command Line Search For example corpus or spiritus in lt index gt where the structural tag is lt index gt 10 6 COMMAND LINE SEARCH iE Using context operators To search for a specific word or string of words within a data element you must specify the exact context or position of your keyword s relative to your chosen element tag The keyword s and element tag will therefore need to be linked by a context operator The context operators are as follows Operator Alternative Function Example form containing cont finds the data lt epita
25. a particular point in the full text of Acta Sanctorum and you have a specific reference to that point in the database The Go Back feature allows you to return to the previous point to which you had moved Using Go Back you can step back through every reference you accessed previously using Go To The Go To dialog box allows you to choose between two types of Go To When the Volume Page option is selected you may browse through a list of volumes and select the one you wish to move to You can further refine your reference by choosing a page from the drop down list When the BHL number option is selected you may browse through a list of BHL numbers assigned to pre 1500 Latin hagiographical texts in Acta Sanctorum and select the number of the work you wish to move to GO TO 5 1 i u To Go To a volume reference Click the Go To icon on the Toolbar The Go To dialogue box will open Select the Volume Page option Click on the down arrow of the Volume box and select a volume Click on the down arrow of the Page box and select a page If you do not wish to specify a page you can move directly to the next step In the Go To dialogue box click Go To The Full Text window will move to the appropriate point 5 2 GOTO Press F3 The Go To dialogue box will open Press ALT underlined letter to select the Volume Page option Press ALT underlined letter to access the Volume field Use the DIRECTION KEYS t
26. abbots cls SAVING AND LOADING SEARCH EXPRESSIONS 9 9 O SN 700 ss POL CI 0 00 Loading a previously saved search expression If you have previously saved a search expression to a file on your hard disk or on a diskette you can load the saved file Remember that if you saved the file to a diskette you must put the same diskette in the appropriate diskette drive in order to be able to load the search expression You can only load a search into the Search window from which it was saved For example you can only load a Standard Search into the Standard Search window i u 9 10 Ensure that the relevant Search window is active From the File menu choose Load Search The Load Search dialogue box will open Type the required filename in the File name box or select an existing file from the list If the file you require is not listed you may need to change the drive and directory Click OK to load the file into the Search window PRINTING AND SAVING To load a previously saved search expression Ensure that the relevant Search window is active Press ALT F underlined letter to choose Load Search The Load Search dialogue box will open Type the required filename in the File name box or TAB to the list of filenames and highlight the required file using the DIRECTION KEYS If the file you require is not listed you may need to change the drive and directory Press ENTER to load the f
27. ailable keywords see Using the browse indexes When you type more than one word in the keyword search box you can connect them using Boolean operators adjacency or proximity operators see Searching by Keyword for further details Saint You can limit a search to works written about a particular saint by typing the first few letters of the saint name in the Saint search box in Standard Search and selecting the required saint name s from the automatic browse index If you do not specify anything in the keyword box you will retrieve all works about the specified saint s Wildcards cannot be used in the Saint search box If you wish to search for works about more than one saint you should select the saint names from the browse index The Boolean operator OR will be used to connect the names Feast Day You can limit a search to works relating to a particular feast day or to feasts in a particular month THE STANDARD SEARCH WINDOW 3 3 To search on a particular Feast Day or Month 5 e Click on the down arrow beside e Press TAB to move to the Month the Month box This will access box Use the ALT DOWN arrow to the drop down list access the drop down list e Choose the required month from e Highlight the required month the drop down list from the drop down list using the DIRECTION KEYS and press e Click on the down arrow beside ENTER the Day box This will access the drop down list e Press TAB to move to the Day b
28. ample an illustration Note that although the tag is empty a scanned image of each figure can be viewed in situ from the Full Text Discussion of attributes and attribute values Attributes are descriptive qualifiers associated with an element tag and consist of an attribute name and a value Note Attribute values are case sensitive Attributes can be associated with most tags Some tags have several attributes associated with them others only a few Attributes used generally The attribute n gives details of any numbering relating to an element Note that in general numbers are only included where a particular element was numbered in the source text e g a chapter number or a volume number The attribute align indicates that an element appears centred left or right aligned in the source text Attributes with line tags lt I gt The attribute indent 1 2 3 4 5 is used to indicate the level of indentation of lt l gt s within a particular poem A 10 ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES on SLUR O T 5 APPENDIX B on SLUR Extract from the Licence Agreement The copyright of the data in machine readable form belongs to ProQuest Information and Learning Before taking delivery of this product your library has signed an agreement binding it to certain actions to protect these copyrights Those actions which are most likely to affect the end user relate to printing and exporting saving text and are a
29. anctorum database you should check the copyright details in Appendix B You can print from the following windows e Summary of Matches e Context of Matches e Full Text e Table of Contents e Hyperlink displaying notes or cross referenced text 9 2 PRINTING AND SAVING e Bibliographic and Document Details e Figures The parts of Acta Sanctorum which you can print will depend on the window from which you are printing The relevant print dialogue box pertaining to each window will appear when you choose the Print command The dialogue box allows you to make further choices about what you will be printing and whether to include any secondary elements if appropriate Secondary elements include bibliographic details marginal summaries or SGML tags used to code the text s to be printed If you choose to include SGML tags this will automatically include bibliographic details and or any marginal summaries r To print e Ensure that the window you vvant to print from is active e Click the Print icon on the Toolbar The relevant print dialogue box will open e Where applicable select the option you wish to print e Click Print to start printing Ensure that the window you want to print from is active Press F9 The relevant print dialogue box will open Where applicable use the DIRECTION KEYS to select the option you wish to print Press ENTER to start printing PRINTING 9 3 Pr
30. arch option is only active for Keyword searches The default setting is All Texts In addition you may choose to limit your search to Text including Notes Titles and Marginal Summaries retrieves all hits in all areas of the database Text excluding Notes Titles and Marginal Summaries searches for occurrences of your search term s in all areas of the database excluding notes titles and marginal summaries Text excluding Notes searches for occurrences of your search term s in all areas of the database excluding notes Titles and Marginal Summaries only searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the titles and marginal summaries Notes only searches for occurrences of your search term s only in notes Citations only searches for occurrences of your search term s only in citations The default setting is Text including Note Titles and Marginal Summaries Note that your limit search option is only active for keyword searches SPECIFYING SEARCH OPTIONS 3 11 O Tas a M I III Search Indices options From Search Indices you may choose to search in e All indices retrieves hits in all indices of the database e Index Sanctorum searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Sanctorum e Index Chronologicus searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Chronologicus e Index Historicus searches for occurrences of your search term s only in the Index Historicus
31. aries pertaining to the highlighted text 9 8 PRINTING AND SAVING O T 5 Saving from the Table of Contents You can save any subdivision of a volume which is currently marked with a highlight in the Table of Contents You also have the option to include any or none of the secondary elements including SGML tags Saving notes or cross referenced text from a Hyperlink Window From a Hyperlink window you can highlight a section of text and save it You also have the option to include marginal summaries pertaining to the highlighted text Saving Bibliographic and Document Details You can save the contents of an open Bibliographic Details or Document Details window Saving and loading search expressions When you are searching in Standard Search Indices or Command Line Search you may wish to save the current search expression This allows you to use the same search again later In Standard Search and Search Indices all words and selections in the window will be saved In Command Line Search the search expression in the Search command box will be saved Saving a search expression When you save a search expression you must specify a filename The filename can be up to eight characters long with a three character file extension The suggested extension is sts for Standard searches ins for Indices searches and cls for Command Line searches For example you might save a search window to a file called martyr sts or
32. aste press CTRL V The text will be pasted into the search window 7 12 FULL TEXT iE O T 5 CHAPTER 8 Bibliographic Details Ioannes Bollandus Bollandus Ioannes J Ed Godefridus Henschenius Henschenius Godefridus Ed Acta Sanctorum Quotquot toto orbe coluntur vel a Catholicis Scriptoribus celebrantur Qu ex Latinis amp Gr cis aliarumque gentium antiquis monumentis collegit digessit Notis illustrauit Ioannes Bollandus Societatis Iesu Theologus Seruata primigenia ae RE EE E A E S I E HETE El You can vievv bibliographic details for any volume from the Full Text Table of Contents or Summary of Matches windows When you open the Bibliographic Details window details are displayed for the volume which is in the active line in the Full Text or which is highlighted in the Table of Contents or the Summary of Matches The bibliographic details relate to each whole volume and include the following information e editor s name s e full title as given on the title page e publication details i e date and place of publication and publisher e physical description i e number of pages Bibliographic information for the electronic file is also included BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS 8 1 To view bibliographic details 5 Ensure that the volume for which bibliographic details are required is in the active line in the Full Text or is highlighted in the Table of Contents or
33. d the data structure fully so that queries can be expressed as precisely and economically as possible In addition some search expressions may be perfectly legal but not return the expected result Once you have chosen Command Line Search from the Search menu you do not need to use the Search menu again to open the Command Line Search window Instead click the Search icon on the Toolbar press F2 Executing a search To execute a Command Line Search 5 e From the Search menu choose e Press ALT s underlined letter Command Line Search to open the Command Line bi Search window e With Command Line Search or already active click the Search e With Command Line Search icon on the Toolbar The Command Line Search window will open 10 2 COMMAND LINE SEARCH already active press F2 The Command Line Search window will open O SN 700 ss PO KTI 0 0 Accessing a previous search statement Type your search expression in the Search command box Click Search to execute your search The Searching and Generating Summary of Matches dialogue boxes vvill appear during the search process Click Abandon if you wish to cancel the search or Stop Generation if you wish to stop adding entries to the Summary of Matches When the search is complete you will be taken to the Brief Summary of Matches listing all the works retrieved by your search Type your search expression in the Search command box Press AL
34. described above you can also move through the Full Text window using the Full Text icons on the Toolbar Previous hit Next hit Previous match Next match Previous division pl Next division Alternatively you can navigate to a specific place in the Full Text by selecting an item in the Table of Contents 7 4 FULL TEXT O T T T 5 Viewing the search terms and expressions retrieved by your search If you have executed a Standard or Command Line Search the program brings you to the Full Text via the Summary of Matches and takes you initially to the top of whichever item was selected in the Summary of Matches window You can move to the previous or next occurrence of your search term or expression by using the Previous Next hit icons To move to the previous occurrence of your search term e Click the Previous hit icon on the Toolbar press LEFT arrow The Full Text window will scroll to the previous occurrence of your search term which will be highlighted To move to the next occurrence of your search term e Click the Next hit icon on the Toolbar press RIGHT arrow The Full Text window will scroll to the next occurrence of your search term which will be highlighted Viewing items from the Summary of Matches windows You can move to the next or previous match in the Summary of Matches by using the Previous Next match icons on the Toolbar pressing lt gt or lt gt r To move to the previous item
35. drid Spain Tel 34 91 575 5597 Email editor spain proquest com URL ProQuest Information and Learning http Awww proquest co uk The arrangement of the Acta Sanctorum database is owned by ProQuest Information and Learning and is protected by copyright and other laws that recognise the rights of the copyright holder Before taking delivery of this product your library has signed an agreement binding it to certain actions to protect these copyrights Those actions which are most likely to affect the end user relate mainly to printing and exporting text and are listed in Appendix B of this manual Cover picture courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library O ES ss PS l Contents 1 Introduction A few words on editorial policy The Acta Sanctorum package Hardware and software requirements Installing Acta Sanctorum This manual 2 Getting started Starting Acta Sanctorum Start up Options Exiting Acta Sanctorum Features of the Acta Sanctorum vvindovv Getting Help 3 Searching Acta Sanctorum The Standard Search vvindovv The Search Indices vvindovv Reset Search Using the browse indexes Specifying search options Searching by Keyword Saving and loading search expressions 4 Summary of Matches Introduction The Summary of Matches windows The Context of Matches windows Navigating the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches Selecting items from the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches Viewing the Full Text 5 Go To
36. e Control menu 7 10 FULL TEXT O Lc KXKM TT 5 Viewing cross references Acta Sanctorum contains cross references from one location in the text to another e g page references in the indices These are indicated by a hyperlink which appears in blue To consult a cross reference click the cross reference hyperlink A hyperlink window will appear containing the relevant information Hyperlink windows can be minimized or closed once you have finished viewing them To view a cross reference Note You can only view a cross reference using a mouse e Click the hyperlink in the Full Text for the cross reference you wish to view A Hyperlink window will open e f required scroll through the window using the DIRECTION KEYS or the scroll arrows e To close the window double click the Control menu Copy and paste You can copy and paste text using the standard Windows Clipboard This allows you to copy text from Acta Sanctorum and paste it into one of the search windows or into any software package supported by Windows You can copy text from the Full Text window Text can be pasted with or without its SGML tags into any word processing program supported by Windows for example Microsoft Word or Write Alternatively you can incorporate copied text without its SGML tags into a search expression by pasting it into the Standard Search Indices or Command Line Search windows Hint You can copy up to 8192 characters of t
37. e Repeat this operation to cancel to the item you wish to cancel as many items as you wish e Press SPACEBAR a The highlight will be removed e To cancel a large number of from the item lections click any new item 8 i selections Sin nene e Repeat this operation to cancel This vvill cancel all existing as many items as you wish selections and highlight the new item Viewing the Full Text You can view the Full Text of retrieved works or indices from the Summary of Matches or the Context of Matches windows Once you have opened the Full Text window you can move between hits and entries in the current summary window using the Full Text icons To view the Full Text from the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches windows e From the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches window select the item s you wish to view e Click View text press ALT underlined letter to view the Full Text of the highlighted or first selected item VIEWING THE FULL TEXT 4 7 PT P iz Lr OO CHAPTER 5 Go To t VYolume Page C BHL number Yolume Page 93 M Cancel Got eT He Help Go To allows you to specify a particular volume and page and move directly to that point in the full text Alternatively for pre 1500 Latin hagiographical texts you can use the reference number assigned in Biblioteca hagiographica latina BHL number to move to a particular work You should use Go To if you wish to view
38. e figure in the Hits column was 4 this would indicate that the word martyr appeared four times in that work In addition the top right hand corner of the window shows you the total number of hits which were retrieved by your search You can move from the Summary of Matches to the Context of Matches or to the Full Text When you move from the Summary of Matches to the Context of Matches only selected entries are displayed Click an item Total number of hits Number of hits in to select it in database each work Summary of Matches Total number of hits 90 Volume Day SaintjFeast Day Title Hits Vita Auctore Arnaldo Ordinis S Francisci Vita Ex veteribus MSS Jan I Dies 7 5 Nicetas Episcopus ICommentarius 1 in Dacia Jan I Dies 7 S Raimundus de Miracula Post 7 E Click to view Click to move to the Full Tet of Context of Matches selected item 4 2 SUMMARY OF MATCHES iz Lr OO You can move through the windows in this order e Summary of Matches then e Context of Matches or e Full Text If you have executed a Command Line Search the Context of Matches will not be accessible from the Summary of Matches The Context of Matches windows Line of context H Context of Matches NGE Total number of hits 5 VolumefTitle Jan I Dies 4 B Angela de Fulginio vidua Vita Auctore Arnaldo Ordinis S rtet plus adit ei infirmit ji Jan I Dies 4 B Angela de Fulginio
39. earch box in Standard Search or Search Indices Click the Browse arrow to the right hand side of the box A browse index will open In the case of the Greek Keyword and Saint fields in Standard Search and the Volume field in Search Indices you must use the browse index to select your search terms As you begin typing in the Greek Keyword Saint or Volume fields the browse index will automatically open and the list will scroll to the entry which most closely resembles the characters you have typed This is known as an automatic browse As with manual browses you can select your required entries from the browse index and transfer them back to the search box In the browse indexes ligatures are sorted as equivalent to ae B as equivalent to ss u or With the cursor in the relevant search box click the corresponding Browse arrow The browse index will open for that search box Type the first few letters of the required word or scroll through the list Highlight the required term If you wish to select several items Press and hold down cTRL while you Click on each further item to select multiple entries To transfer search terms from a browse to a search box or With the cursor in the relevant search box press TAB to move to the Browse arrow Press ENTER to open the browse index for that search box Type the first few letters of the required word or TAB to the list and scroll through it us
40. elp 2 7 Hits Summary of Matches 4 2 Context of Matches 4 3 Table of Contents 6 3 Viewing in Full Text 7 4 Icons 2 6 Acta Sanctorum 2 6 Bibliographic Details 7 8 8 2 Document Details 7 3 Figure 7 9 Full Text icons 7 4 Menu bar 2 5 Toolbar 2 5 Table 7 10 Installation 1 3 Keyword Adjacency 3 14 Boolean operators 3 13 10 8 Proximity 3 14 10 8 Reserved words 3 15 Searching by 3 13 Variations on a word or word stem 3 15 Wildcards 3 16 Ligatures 3 17 Loading search expressions 9 10 Lower case 3 18 10 6 Minus Table of Contents 6 4 Next division 7 6 Next hit 7 5 Next match 7 5 Notes Printing 9 5 Saving 9 9 Viewing 7 7 Operators Boolean 3 13 10 8 Context 10 7 Order of processing 3 14 10 9 Proximity 3 14 10 8 Options Start up Options 2 2 Toolbar 2 5 Page numbers 7 2 Plus Table of Contents 6 4 Previous division 7 6 Previous hit 7 5 Previous match 7 5 Print 9 2 Bibliographic information 9 5 Context of Matches 9 4 Copyright 9 1 B 1 Cross reference 9 5 Document Details 9 5 Figure 9 5 Full Text 9 4 Notes 9 5 Print Setup 9 1 Summary of Matches 9 4 Table of Contents 9 4 Print options 9 2 Print Setup 9 1 Printer Configuring 9 2 Selecting 9 2 Proximity operators 3 10 10 8 Reset Search 3 8 Saint Searching by 3 3 Save 9 6 Bibliographic information 9 9 Context of Matches 9 8 Copyright 9 6 B 1 Cross reference 9 9 Document Details 9 9 Full Tex
41. ent and the machine readable transcription that appears in the database Structure of the bibliographic header lt header gt Each document contains a lt header gt The lt header gt is subdivided into two main parts lt file gt and lt source gt lt file gt contains the bibliographic details of the actual machine readable version of the text presented in the database lt source gt contains bibliographic details of the source text used to create the database transcript and provides necessary details for any user wishing to search the database for bibliographic information lt source gt gives details of the editors responsible for the textual content of the volume to which it relates It includes the full title of the volume together with publication details and a physical description It may also contain a copyright notice lt copyrite gt indicating any third party copyright that applies to the volume A 8 ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES on SLUR O T 5 Useful elements within lt source gt include lt editor gt lt pubtitle gt and those giving details of publisher place and date of publication lt publ gt lt city gt lt pubdate gt All these tags that are restricted to the bibliographic lt header gt have bibliographic at the beginning of their descriptions above Structure of the document text lt doc gt Main structural elements The lt doc gt tag marks the text proper of each document included
42. es The Acta Sanctorum database contains the complete Acta Sanctorum including all prefatory material original texts critical apparatus and indexes Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers essential references for scholars are also included The Acta Sanctorum are a principal source of research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe Our knowledge of this period relies heavily on hagiographical literature and specifically on this monumental collection of texts published over a period of three hundred years by the Soci t des Bollandistes The Acta Sanctorum bring together materials on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century in critical editions with commentaries on the source documents these include Vitae Passiones Miracula Translationes Gloria posthuma inscriptions etc The commentaries examine the problems which the biography of each saint can pose and employ the scholarly methods appropriate to the period of the document A few words on editorial policy The production of the Acta Sanctorum database has been undertaken with the advice and assistance of the Soci t des Bollandistes and of an Editorial Board It has been decided that the database should contain the whole Acta Sanctorum Every part of the text is to be included with the exception of the recapitulatory indices in later volumes as these simply repeat the informa
43. es during the creation of the database Some exist to enable the screen display and printed output to reflect the original text layout accurately For an explanation of how to use the element tags in a Command Line Search and for examples of Command Line Searches which incorporate element tags see Chapter 10 lt acc no gt Bibliographic A unique reference number assigned to each volume for internal purposes lt anote gt A note within a lt note gt lt appendix gt An appendix to a volume lt apphead gt Appendix heading Surrounds the lt comhd gt to an lt appendix gt lt argument gt A summary of a main structural element Occurs in lt div gt lt attbytes gt The datasize in bytes of the current element Part of lt comhd gt lt attribs gt Descriptive qualifiers associated with a searchable element lt day gt lt doc gt or lt index gt lt attribs gt may contain the following tags ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES A 1 lt bytes gt lt caption gt lt cit gt lt citn gt lt city gt lt attaccno gt lt attday gt lt attdno gt lt attgend gt lt attmonth gt lt attsrch gt lt attstno gt lt attvno gt lt attvol gt sbhiz lt stname gt The lt acc no gt for the current volume within lt index gt The current day within lt doc gt A unique reference number for the current day within lt doc gt The gender of the saint the current lt doc gt
44. es window either by choosing Search Indices from the Search menu or by clicking the Search Indices icon on the Toolbar press ALT F2 Keyword You can search for any word in the indices of the original printed volumes using the keyword search box Type the word you wish to search for or use the browse facility to select from a list of available keywords see Using the browse indexes When you type more than one word in the keyword search box you can connect them using Boolean operators adjacency or proximity operators see Searching by Keyword for further details Volume You can limit your search to indices within a particular volume by typing the first few letters of the volume title in the Volume search box in Search Indices and selecting the required volume from the automatic browse list If you do not specify anything in the keyword box you will retrieve the indices for the volume specified THE SEARCH INDICES WINDOW 3 5 Wildcards cannot be used in the Volume search box If you wish to search for more than one volume you can select the multiple volume titles from the browse index The Boolean operator OR will be used to connect the titles Search options To limit your search to a particular type of index within the database for example Index Topographicus names of places select the required option from the Search in drop down list see Specifying search options for further details r To execute a Search
45. esent each of the windows In addition to these an eleventh represents the main Acta Sanctorum window initially in the Windows Program Manager and when you minimize Acta Sanctorum Each icon includes the name of the particular window that is minimized Minimized icons will normally be beneath any open windows Getting Help Open search Jump back Print Browse facility and tolasttopic topic through select words used related from a detailed topics index d Acta Sanctorum Database on CD RO You can search for any Greek word in a work using the Greek keyword search box in Standard Search Use the browse facility to select from a list of available keywords Note that there is an implied Boolean OR between the Keyword and Greek Keyword fields this means that when you combine a search for a keyword with a Greek keyword the program will look for works which contain either the keyword or the Greek keyword or both See also Browsing within Standard Search and Search Indices Browsing Greek keywords within Standard Search How to select search terms from a browse index How to execute a search for step by step instructions Go to Click items in Contents green to access Page further information 2 6 GETTING STARTED To get help choose a command from the Help menu There are two commands Help Contents takes you to a Contents page that introduces Acta Sanctorum and leads you to
46. essed 3486 Entries in Summary of Matches 127 Abandon Once the search is complete e Once the search is complete you will be taken to the relevant you will be taken to the relevant Summary of Matches Summary of Matches THE SEARCH INDICES WINDOW 3 7 O ST i M III 00 Reset Search You can clear the terms and results of any search and return to a new currently active search window This is useful if you want to clear the hit highlights from the Full Text window and start a search afresh a To return to a new search window e From the File menu choose Reset Search press ALT F underlined letter Acta Sanctorum will clear all search statements close any open Summary of Matches windows and return you to the currently active search window Using the browse indexes Click an item to Type the first few letters of select it the required term to move to the nearest entry in the index rok Cancel Help Click to transfer Scroll through the selected entries to index to view the search window items 3 8 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM O SS 700 ss PS l A browse index arranged alphabetically and listing all available search terms and phrases can be consulted for each search field in the Standard Search and Search Indices windows You can view and select from a list of available keywords title keywords saints or volumes To access the browse index for any field move the cursor to the relevant s
47. ext If a larger selection is required it is suggested that you print or save from the Table of Contents VIEWING CROSS REFERENCES 7 11 O SN 700 ss POL CI 0 00 Copying Text To highlight the text to be copied click vvith the mouse at the beginning of the required text press and hold down the SHIFT key then click with the mouse at the end of the required text Alternatively highlight the required text dragging the mouse To copy text from the Full Text window Note You can only highlight text to be copied using a mouse e Highlight the text you wish to copy e From the Edit menu choose Copy press CTRL C if you wish to copy the text without SGML tags or Copy SGML press ALT E underlined letier if you wish to copy the text with SGML tags The highlighted text will be copied to the Windows clipboard Pasting text You can paste text into any of the search windows as outlined below To paste text into another Windows program load the program and paste the text into it in the normal way If you copy and paste text containing a question mark into one of the search windows you must delete the question mark before executing the search since a question mark represents a wildcard To paste text into the Standard or Command Line Search windows e Ensure that the relevant search window is open and that the cursor is positioned at the point at which you wish to paste the text e From the Edit menu choose P
48. g Acta Sanctorum turn to Chapter 2 THIS MANUAL 1 5 PT P O Lc kKXKMH TT 5 CHAPTER 2 Getting started You must first install Acta Sanctorum see Chapter 1 for instructions Once installed Acta Sanctorum can be started each time you want to use it G amp C winDows BIE File Edit View Help Acta Sanctorum Database K 2 objectis Starting Acta Sanctorum oe To start Acta Sanctorum Windows 3 1x users e Start Windows e Ensure that the program group containing the Acta Sanctorum icon is open and active e Double click the Acta Sanctorum icon highlight the icon using the DIRECTION KEYS and press ENTER The Search window will open automatically GETTING STARTED 2 1 To start Acta Sanctorum Windows 95 users 5 e Start Windows e e Click the Start button and select e Programs e Select the Acta Sanctorum program group on the Start e Menu then click the Acta Sanctorum icon The Search window will open automatically Start up Options Click the options to make or cancel selections Standard Search Search Indices C Command Line Search T Table of Contents l Full Text 2 2 GETTING STARTED Start up Options Eg Select options to display on start up Start Windows Press the start key and use the DIRECTION KEYS to highlight Programs Press ENTER to open the Start Menu then highlight the Acta Sanctorum group Press ENTER to open the program
49. group select the icon using the DIRECTION KEYS then press ENTER to start the application The Search window will open automatically Click to save your Start Up Options OK J Cancel Help O KS 70 ss PS l You can select the window s which will open whenever you start Acta Sanctorum These are knovvn as the Start up Options The available start up vvindovvs are Search Table of Contents Full Text You can select any all or none of the windows from the Start up Options If you select all three the Table of Contents and Full Text windows will be tiled in the background when you start Acta Sanctorum with the Search window overlaying them The Search window will be active If you select none of the windows only the menus Toolbar and Status bar will be drawn If you select Search the program will open whichever of the three search options i e Standard Search Search Indices or Command Line was selected when you last changed the Start up Options Select Options Start up Options press ALT 0 underlined letter to open the Start up Options dialog and select your default start up options Exiting Acta Sanctorum To quit Acta Sanctorum e Choose Exit from the File menu press ALT F underlined letter or e Choose Close from the Control menu press ALT F4 or e Double click the Control menu of the main Acta Sanctorum window You will be asked to confirm that you want to exit Click OK
50. h and view the next level of heading 8 Table of Contents olx 3 XVI IANVARII 79 XVII IANVARII SANCTI QVI XVI KAL FEBRY u COLVNTVR PRAETERMISSI ET IN ALIOS DIES REIECTI DE SANCTIS MARTYRIBVS SPEVSIPPO ELEVSIPPO MELEVSIPPO TERGEMINIS LEONILLA IONILLA NEONE TVRBONE ACTA ex veteri MS M Velseri CAPVT I Fergemini varie ad fidem Annotata CAPVT II Jdolis euersis plenius instruuntur ICAPYT III e eran eae f zi Click to collapse the branch and return to a higher level of heading When you first open the Table of Contents you will see a list of volumes A plus next to a volume name indicates that there is another level of heading which can be expanded When you expand a branch the plus will be replaced with a minus if you have previously executed a search the number of hits listed next to each heading will be recalculated to display the number of hits covered by each branch as it is opened When you collapse a branch in the Table of Contents all branches below that level will be collapsed the number of hits next to each branch will be recalculated where appropriate and the minus will change to a plus You can also collapse all branches to volume level by pressing DELETE EXPANDING AND COLLAPSING BRANCHES 6 3 To expand a branch in the Table of Conients e Click the plus next to the branch you wish to expand select the heading which you w
51. he printed edition of the Acta Sanctorum Each item is then broken down into subdivisions reflecting the structure of the printed edition The headings of all named or numbered subdivisions of texts are listed in the Table of Contents Where a heading is omitted in the copy text this information has been supplied editorially These supplementary details display in square brackets The various levels of heading are represented in the Table of Contents by branches which can be expanded and collapsed using the mouse The presence of commentaries and prefaces is also indicated in the Table of Contents If you display the Table of Contents and Full Text windows simultaneously as you scroll through the Full Text window the Table of Contents also scrolls In this way the location of any item displayed in the Full Text window can be seen in the Table of Contents re To open the Table of Contents window e Click the Table of Contents icon on the Toolbar press Fe The Table of Contents window will open Navigating the Table of Contents Navigate the Table of Contents an entry at a time using the DIRECTION KEYS or by clicking on the scroll arrows Move a screen at a time by clicking in the scroll bar using the mouse or by pressing PG UP and PG DN To scroll more than a screen drag the scroll box to the position you require using the mouse 6 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS O T 5 Expanding and collapsing branches Click to expand the branc
52. hic Full bibliographic details relating to a particular text Every volume has an accompanying lt header gt Used to highlight any section of text with a different rendition from the default A marker for a textual image present in the source text which has been scanned and stored in an external file An empty tag Publication details on the title page of a volume An index Index heading Surrounds the lt comhd gt to an lt index gt An element in a lt list gt The metrical line Nests within lt poem gt An element in the left hand column of a lt list1 2 3 gt A 4 ELEMENTS AND ATTRIBUTES O T 5 lt lacuna gt lt Ib gt lt list gt lt list1 2 3 gt lt mainhead gt lt mark gt lt name gt lt nameinv gt lt nobr gt lt note gt lt noteedit gt lt p gt lt pb gt lt poem gt lt pp gt lt ptr gt lt pubdate gt A lacuna in the original document A line break in the source text that must be preserved but does not correspond to an element boundary The lt lb gt tag is empty A list Divided into lt item gt s Double columned lists lt list1 gt lt list2 gt and lt list3 gt represent styles of a list as regards different proportional column widths A shortened and or standardised version of the heading to a lt doc gt or lt index gt Part of lt somhead gt The letter or symbol to identify a note Bibliographic The editor s
53. ick the Summary of Matches icon on the Toolbar or press F4 The Summary of Matches Context of Matches window will open To move to the Context of Matches from the Summary of e Matches e Inthe Summary of Matches choose View context or press ALT underlined letter To move through the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches 5 e Click an item to select it or make e Select your required item s several selections e Press ALT underlined letter to e Click the View context button move to the Context of Matches The context of Matches window wingow will appear displaying the The window will appear selected item s displaying the selected item s 4 4 SUMMARY OF MATCHES SELEC iE O RR 700 ss M III 0 0 Navigating the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches Navigate the Summary of Matches windows using PG UP PG DN and the HOME and END keys Alternatively drag the scroll box or click the scroll bar using the mouse To move the highlight one entry at a time use the DIRECTION KEYS or click the scroll arrows Alternatively click a line to highlight it Selecting items from the Summary of Matches or Context of Matches Hold down CTRL and click to select further temis E Summary of Matches Volume Day Saint Feast Day Jan I Dies 15 Bonitus Episcopus Arvernorum in Gallia S Furseu Title Vita Auctore Click to select item BEES Total number of hits 90 Hits
54. ile into the Search window O T 5 CHAPTER 10 Command Line Search Enter search Select item expression to edit A Command Line Search lt figure gt or lt IMG gt List of previous searches lt cit gt cont Psal or Matth Click to transfer Click to Click to clear selected item to execute contents of Search Command box search Search window While the search needs of the majority of users are served by Standard Search and Search Indices some specialist users may want to execute more complex searches Command Line Search allows you to create entire search queries using the Command Line query language together with the data codes in the Acta Sanctorum database In this chapter it is assumed that you have understood the search methods described in Chapter 3 Searching Acta Sanctorum including Boolean searches COMMAND LINE SEARCH 10 1 tia 111 5 The Command Line Search window Using Command Line Search you can search for e any text within any data element e any data element for example argument e specific attributes for example Preface To execute a Command Line Search you will therefore need to understand the Acta Sanctorum data codes and how to construct Command Line Search expressions A note of caution about complex searches the more complex your search expression the longer it will take the program to execute it For this reason we recommend you take time to understan
55. in the Acta Sanctorum database The lt doc gt is divided into numbered lt div gt s as necessary the numbers reflecting the level at which the lt doc gt is nested A lt div gt itself can be further subdivided into other lt div gt s e g if a Liber l lt div4 gt is divided into Caput Caput II etc then Liber will be a lt div4 gt itself divided into lt div5 gt s If there are no distinct subdivisions within the text of the document the contents will typically be enclosed by lt p gt A prose paragraph lt p gt can contain one of two main structural subdivisions part paragraph s lt pp gt s or line groups containing verse lines lt poem gt s containing lt I gt s or any combination of these two Heading elements All lt div gt s have headings Such headings always occur at the beginning of the lt div gt and are marked by the same tag in each case lt comhd gt the number in a lt comhd gt matches that in the lt div gt containing it i e a lt div3 gt will have a lt comhd3 gt lt comhd gt contains the title of the element For lt doc gt and lt index gt the lt comhd gt s are enclosed in lt dochead gt and lt indhead gt respectively and are further divided into lt texthead gt lt somhead gt and lt mainhead gt Occasionally a heading occurs in the text that does not mark the beginning of a new element Such headings are marked with the tag lt caption gt Pre
56. in the Summary of Matches e Click the Previous match icon on the Toolbar press lt gt The Full Text window will scroll to the top of the previous item selected in the Summary of Matches NAVIGATING THE FULL TEXT 7 5 To move to the next item in the Summary of Matches e Click the Next match icon on the Toolbar press lt gt The Full Text window will scroll to the top of the next item selected in the Summary of Matches Moving through textual divisions in the Acta Sanctorum database In the Full Text window you can move directly to the previous or next textual division in the Acta Sanctorum database by using the Previous Next division icon from the Toolbar pressing F11 or F12 Note that the Previous Next division icons take you to the top of the next or previous textual division This means that if you are half way through a work clicking the Previous division icon will take you to the top of the previous rather than the current division To move to the previous division in the database e Click the Previous division icon on the Toolbar press F11 The Full Text window will scroll to the top of the previous division in the database I To move to the next division in the database e Click the Next division icon on the Toolbar press F12 The Full Text window will scroll to the top of the next division in the database 7 6 FULL TEXT Viewing notes Some works in Acta Sanctorum contain n
57. ing none e g orat searches for orator oratione orationem orationis etc You can use any of these methods in any keyword search or in a Command Line Search SEARCHING BY KEYWORD 3 15 Searching for variant spellings takes considerably longer than a search for a specific word For this reason it is recommended that you specify as many known characters as possible preferably a minimum of three particularly where the specified characters are common letters such as a e or s Using square brackets The quickest and most accurate way of searching for variant characters is to specify the known alternatives in square brackets For example if you were searching for alii or alij specifying the alternatives i and j would restrict the search to those alternatives only whereas a wildcard search using would also retrieve unwanted words such as alia alio and aliz To search for known variations on a specific character type each alternative in square brackets in the appropriate position in the word For example Selvulerus retrieves Severus or Seuerus The same results would be retrieved using a Boolean search e g Severus or Seuerus Using the wildcard The wildcard represents any single character excluding punctuation marks and spaces This method of searching for variant spellings is most useful when you do not know all the variant characters or when there are too many to list quickl
58. ing the DIRECTION KEYS Highlight the required search term If you wish to select several terms press and release SHIFT F8 to activate the selection cursor Use the DIRECTION KEYS USING THE BROWSE INDEXES 3 9 Press and hold down SHIFT while to move to the items you require you click on the first and last and press the SPACEBAR to items you require to select a select each one sequence e With the required term s e With the required terms highlighted press ENTER highlighted lick OK e The browse index will be closed e The browse index will be closed and the search term s and the search term s transferred back to the relevant transferred back to the relevant search box search box Browsing Greek keywords within Standard Search The browse index for Greek keywords can be accessed in the standard manner described above You can type Greek letters into the browse box to scroll to the entry which most closely resembles the characters you have typed You should type Greek letters according to the following standard transliteration Q A N H V N T T B B 6 Q x V U Y G tel 0 0 Q F d D K K K P X C E N L p R YV Y C Z uU M o S W For example if you type M in the browse box the browse index will scroll to all the Greek words in Acta Sanctorum which begin with the letter m In order to retrieve all occurrences of a single word with varying accentuation you should select each variant in the browse index
59. inting from the Summary of Matches Print from Summary of Matches xi Please check the User Manual for copyright conditions before printing Print C Selected Match es Cancel Print Setup Help From the Summary of Matches windows you can print the whole list or selected matches in summary form You may not print Full Text directly from the Summary of Matches Printing from the Context of Matches From the Context of Matches you can print all or selected items in the list Hint To print the Full Text of these items you can print directly from the Table of Contents Printing from Full Text From the Full Text window you can highlight a section of text and print it You also have the option to include marginal summaries pertaining to the highlighted text Printing from the Table of Contents You can print any subdivision of a volume which is currently marked with a highlight in the Table of Contents You also have the option to include any or none of the secondary elements including SGML tags 9 4 PRINTING AND SAVING O T 5 Printing notes or cross referenced text from a Hyperlink Window From a Hyperlink window you can highlight a section of text and print it You also have the option to include marginal summaries pertaining to the highlighted text Printing Bibliographic and Document Details You can print the contents of an open Bibliographic Details or Document Details window
60. ish to expand using the DIRECTION KEYS and press lt gt The branch will open out to display the next level of information To collapse a branch in the Table of Contents e Click the minus next to the branch to which you wish to return select the level of heading to which you wish to return and press lt gt The branch es below that level will collapse to display only the level of information which you selected Using the Table of Contents in conjunction with Full Text You can use the Table of Contents window in conjunction with the Full Text window by opening the two windows at the same time This allows you to navigate to a new place in the Full Text by selecting a heading from the Table of Contents and to view the context of the Full Text in relation to other works A highlight in the Table of Contents window indicates your position in the Full Text As you scroll the Full Text the highlight in the Table of Contents will move to reflect the active line in the Full Text Alternatively you can click on a heading in the Table of Contents to move the Full Text to that point again the highlight will move to reflect the new active line in the Full Text The branches in the Table of Contents window do not collapse or expand automatically when you scroll through the Full Text This means that the highlight will only move if the relevant level of heading is already open 6 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS O KS 70 ss PS l CHAPTER
61. iting from ProQuest Information and Learning which shall not be unreasonably withheld All third party copyright restrictions must be observed as set out in Clause 5 1 It is hereby confirmed that Fair Dealing as defined in sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 of any copyright material in Acta Sanctorum shall not constitute infringement of the copyright of ProQuest Information and Learning or any other Third Party see clause 5 1 and is permitted hereunder The LICENSEE and its Users shall not a b c d e manipulate and use the data to create publications or services in print or in electronic form which in any way compete with or interfere with publications and services already provided by or publicly announced to be provided in the future by ProQuest Information and Learning or its parent or affiliated or subsidiary companies use all or any part of Acta Sanctorum for or as part of the operation of a service bureau or other business based on the redirection or resale of the licensed software database or system components transmit on a network or make any portion of Acta Sanctorum available in machine readable form in any format to any person group or organisation that is not itself a User including non commercial uses except electronic delivery to a publisher or printed for publication in printed form as specified in clause 4 1 f provided however that such distributed data
62. liminary matter and end matter A number of distinct elements can occur at the beginning and end of main structural divisions These are separately tagged to allow them to be independently searched lt argument gt s can occur at the beginning of lt div gt s lt dedicat gt s and lt epigraph gt s can occur at any point in the database These elements can be repeated and can occur in any combination in any order lt argument gt and lt dedicat gt generally contain prose text only DISCUSSION OF THE DATA ELEMENTS A 9 on SLUR iia 5 Miscellaneous elements Certain tags can occur anywhere within a volume Some of these tags occur only in special contexts such as lt srce gt after the lt comhd gt and lt attribs gt to a lt doc gt Other tags are found in virtually all lt div gt s lt hi gt is used to denote highlighted sections of text that are displayed in a typestyle different to the default typestyle of the element containing them lt greek gt is used to mark sections of the text that are in Greek No other languages are specified by tags The page break tag lt pb gt is an empty tag i e it is simply a marker with no content that indicates the beginning of a new page in the source text The n attribute associated with the tag gives the number of the page see below for details of attributes The lt figure gt tag is another empty tag acting as a marker for the positioning of a figure for ex
63. ng is described in Chapter 10 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM 3 1 tia 111 5 The Standard Search window Type your search terms Selecta Selectfemale Clickto open a into the search boxes feast day ormale saints browse index for or use the browse the corresponding index search field amp Standard Search oj x Keyword infirmus or medicus 4 Greek Keyword ee a a Title Keyword E E E Pg de Fare nen GSH Saint Angela de Fulginio vidua B Feast Day An months vi An days B Gender Female or Male Saints H Search in Limit to Text including Notes Titles and Marginal Summaries Y Click to start Click to clear Specify search the search the contents options of the window Standard Search allows you to search on words or phrases occurring in all the texts and critical apparatus which the database contains You can execute a search using more than one search field There is an implied Boolean OR between the Keyword and Greek Keyword boxes and an AND between these and all other search boxes this means that when you search on either the Keyword or Greek Keyword field and any other field the program will automatically restrict your search to those works which fulfil all search criteria in all search boxes For example you can search for all occurrences of the word martyr in works by typing martyr into the Keyword box on the Standard Search window Acta Sanctor
64. nt quem sub Alexandro vixisse amp hostem fuisse Christianorum constat a Tudices inductos d moniaca i Hyperlink vvindovvs can be minimized or closed once you have finished vievving them VIEVVING NOTES 7 7 To view a Note Note You can only view a note using a mouse e Click the Note hyperlink in the Full Text e Scroll through the Hyperlink window by clicking the scroll arrows to view the full extent of the note e To close the window double click the Control Menu To view a Bibliographic Note Note You can only view a Bibliographic Note using a mouse u e Double click the relevant Bibliographic Note icon in the Full Text A window will open displaying the relevant Bibliographic Note e Scroll through the window by clicking the scroll arrows to view the full extent of the information e To close the window double click the Control Menu In addition to the Bibliographic Note icon in the Full Text you can use a separate icon on the Toolbar to call up bibliographic information on the printed volumes For more details about the Bibliographic Details icon on the Toolbar and the content of Bibliographic Notes see Chapter 8 7 8 FULL TEXT O Lc kKXKM ST TI 5 Viewing figures Some works contain graphics or illustrations known as figures These are indicated in the Full Text by the following icon E The figure icon appears in situ in the Full Text To view a figure Note You can
65. o Back The Full Text window will return to the item which you accessed previously Continue pressing ALT underlined letter until you are at the item you require O T 5 CHAPTER 6 Table of Contents Number of hits Saint Title of contained in the branch l Table of Contents 30 DE B ANGELA DE FVLGINIO a Praefatio 30 VITA AVCTORE ARNALDO ORDINIS FRANCISCI PROLOGVS AVCTORIS SECVNDVS PROLOGVS CAPVT I XVIII Passus spirituaies per quos ad sui cognitionem Angela peruenit CAPYTII Vari eius tentationes CAPYTIII Quingue consolationes Angela in quibus sensit Deum intra se vt ome bonum viditque eius puichritudinem potentiam sapientiam CAPVT IV Ali consolationes Angele amp visiones CAPVT V Certo intelligit se in his non decipi Annotata Click to Highlight indicates collapse a level your position in the of information Full Text window The Table of Contents page allows you to browse through the contents of all the works contained in Acta Sanctorum and look at their structure For example you may wish to browse the contents of a particular volume or look at the original context of the text you are currently viewing You can also use the Table of Contents to access the Full Text of any work in the database TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 1 tia 111 5 The Table of Contents window The order of the Table of Contents is the same as the Full Text works are arranged according to t
66. o a volume Bibliographic Date of volume s publication A day Day heading Surrounds the lt comhd gt to a lt day gt Bibliographic Pagination details A single volume and its associated bibliographic details lt header gt Any subdivision of a lt divO gt and all further subdivisions the numbering reflects the nesting of subdivisions The text of a document typically a saint s life or an introduction commentary lt doc gt is the primary search tag for ACTA Document heading Surrounds the lt comhd gt to a lt doc gt A statement of the date when a saint lived An editorial note identifying a lt figure gt or lt anote gt Bibliographic The full details of a volume s editor LIST OF PRIMARY DATA ELEMENTS AND THEIR TAGS A 3 lt entry gt lt epigraph gt lt epitaph gt lt figure gt lt file gt lt gap gt lt greek gt lt header gt lt hi gt lt IMG gt lt imprint gt lt index gt lt indhead gt lt item gt lt I gt lt label gt An item in an lt index gt An epigraph An epitaph A marker for a figure present in the source text which has been scanned and stored in an external file An empty tag Bibliographic details for the machine readable text of a document cf lt source gt Represents the equivalent of three character spaces in the text For display purposes An empty tag Surrounds Greek text Bibliograp
67. o include none of the secondary elements only the text of the relevant work will be saved If you choose to include SGML tags in your file this will automatically include bibliographic details and or any marginal summaries The filename you use can be up to eight characters long with a three character file extension The suggested extension for saved text is txt For example you might save the life of Edward the Confessor to a file called edward txt If you save a new file using the name of an existing file the old file will be overwritten Note that if you save text which includes Greek characters you will need to convert them to PLDGreek when you open your saved file in another application open your saved file in Write or any other word processing package whilst Acta Sanctorum is still running highlight the Greek text and change the font to PLDGreek PLDGreek is only available as a font choice whilst Acta Sanctorum is still running For further information about changing fonts refer to your Windows documentation 9 6 PRINTING AND SAVING O SS 700 ss PS II 0 00 When you save text you can save to a file on your hard disk or on a diskette If you do not specify a drive and directory the file will be saved to the current drive and directory usually c acta saved SS To save u e Ensure that the vvindovv you vvant to save from is active e Click the Save icon on the Toolbar The relevant save dialogue box will o
68. o select a volume Press ALT underlined letter to access the Page field Use the DIRECTION KEYS to select a page If you do not wish to specify a page you can move directly to the next step In the Go To dialogue box press ALT underlined letter or ENTER to Go To the required work The Full Text window will move to the appropriate point To Go To a BHL number reference e Click the Go To icon on the Toolbar The Go To dialogue box will open e Select the BHL number option e Click on the down arrow of the BHL number box and select a work by its BHL number e Inthe Go To dialogue box click Go To The Full Text of the selected work will be displayed e Press F3 The Go To dialogue box will open e Press ALT underlined letter to select the BHL number option e Press ALT underlined letter to access the BHL number field Use the DIRECTION KEYS to select a work by its BHL number e Inthe Go To dialogue box press ALT underlined letter or ENTER to Go To the required work The Full Text of the selected work will be displayed GO TO 5 3 To Go Back to previous selections Before you can use Go Back you must already have used Go To at least once u Click Go Back The Full Text window will return to the item which you accessed previously using Go To Continue to click Go Back until you are at the item you require 5 4 GOTO Press ALT underlined letter to choose G
69. of Contents window 6 2 Using with Full Text 6 4 Tags 10 4 A 1 Printing 9 3 Saving 9 6 Title Keyword Searching by 3 3 Toolbar 2 5 Variations on a word or word stem 3 15 Viewing Bibliographic Details 7 8 8 2 Cross references 7 11 Document Details 7 3 Figure 7 9 Full Text 7 1 Hits 7 4 Marginal summaries 7 3 Notes 7 7 Summary of Matches 4 4 Tables 7 10 Volume Go To option 5 2 Searching by 3 5 Wildcards 3 16 Windows 2 4 Acta Sanctorum 2 4 Bibliographic Details 8 1 Command Line Search 10 1 Context of Matches 4 3 Cross reference 7 11 O iT y Document Details 7 3 Figure 7 9 Full Text 7 2 Note 7 8 Search 3 2 3 5 10 2 Search Indices 3 5 Standard Search 3 2 Summary of Matches 4 1 Table 7 10 Table of Contents 6 1 Zoom 7 9 INDEX 1 5 PT P
70. olume day and saint feast day The contents of the volumes themselves follow their copy texts in structure and order so that headings and divisions within the copy text are preserved in the database The Full Text window usually contains everything found in the corresponding copy text refer to Chapter 1 for a brief statement of editorial policy Bibliographic information on each volume can be displayed in the Bibliographic Details window The top line of text in the Full Text window is known as the active line In the illustration on page 7 1 the active line is CAPVT IV The active line acts as the cursor and determines your position in the Full Text window If you execute an action from the Full Text window for example if you print or display bibliographic details the action will be executed using the work which is occupying the active line A bar immediately above the top line of text displays the volume day saint feast day and title of the work currently in the active line Page numbers are retained from the copy text In the illustration on page 7 1 the active line is on page 94 the volume is Jan the day is Il IANVARII the saint is DE S MAXIMO ABBATE MARTYRE IN GALLIA and the title is PASSIO S MAXIMI PRESBYTERI ET MARTYRIS If the text contained part numbers these are also shown Any search words or terms will be highlighted 7 2 FULL TEXT O Lc kKXKM ST TI 5 Full Text display The Ac
71. om Acta Sanctorum Extracts from the Agreement relating to copyright appear in Appendix B Print Setup You can change your print setup for the printer you are using from the File menu in the main window and from Print dialogue boxes You can also define print options in the Print Setup dialogue The print options will vary depending on the type of printer you are using but usually include page size colour and extra fonts PRINTING AND SAVING 9 1 To select a printer 5 e From the File menu choose e Press ALT F underlined letter Print Setup to choose Print Setup or or Click Print Setup from a Print Press ALT underlined letter dialogue box from a Print dialogue box e Change the Print Setup for the e Press ALT underlined letter to current printer as required change the Print Setup for the e If you want to change the printer ouirent printeras fegquired options click Options The e If you want to change the printer Options dialogue box will vary options press ALT underlined depending on the printer you are letter The Options dialogue box using Select the options you will vary depending on the require and click OK printer you are using Select the options you require and press e When you are satisfied with your Print Setup selections click OK to confirm them e When you are satisfied with your Print Setup selections press ENTER to confirm them ENTER Printing Before you begin printing from the Acta S
72. one way may be more efficient and therefore quicker than another Command Line Search examples The following examples demonstrate some of the searches which can be executed using Command Line Search You may also find it helpful to refer to the list of tags in Appendix A Keyword searches e lo find Anglia in any work anglia in lt doc gt e To find miracula in all headings and titles miracula in lt comhd gt e To find arbor anywhere other than in a lt note gt arbor not in lt note gt e To find volumes first published in 1658 1658 in lt pubdate gt e To find natiuitas in works that do not contain celebrare natiuitas and not celebrare in lt doc gt 10 10 COMMAND LINE SEARCH O SN 700 ss PO KTI 0 0 Data element searches e To find all works in the database lt doc gt e To find all figures in the database lt figure gt or lt IMG gt e To find headings containing benedictione lt comhd gt cont benedictione COMMAND LINE SEARCH EXAMPLES 10 11 PT P O T 5 APPENDIX A Elements and attributes List of primary data elements and their tags The following table lists the element tags used in the Acta Sanctorum database The tags are listed in alphabetical order Those tags that appear in square brackets are unlikely to be useful when searching the database Some indicate elements that were intended solely for checking or cross referencing purpos
73. only view a figure using a mouse e Double click the Figure icon in the Full Text A window will open displaying the relevant figure and the Figure menu will appear on the menu bar e To close the window double click the Control menu To zoom in or out on a figure e From the Figure menu choose Zoom in press to increase the size of the figure displayed or Zoom out to decrease the size of the figure press a To fit a figure to the size of the window e From the Figure menu choose Fit to window Fit to width or Fit to height press ALT 1 underlined letter VIEWING FIGURES 7 9 EE To resize a figure e From the Figure menu choose Resize figure press ALT underlined letter e Position the mouse pointer on the border of the corner of the window The mouse pointer will change to a double sided arrow e Drag the edges of the window The figure will re draw to fit the new window e To centre a figure e From the Figure menu choose Centre figure press ALT 1 underlined letter e The figure will centre or de centre in the Figure window Viewing tables Tables are indicated in the Full Text by the following icon To view a table Note You can only view a table using a mouse e Double click the Table icon in the Full Text A Table window will open e f required scroll through the window using the DIRECTION KEYS or the scroll arrows e To close the window double click th
74. onstructing a complex search expression 10 9 Constructing a search expression 10 6 Datacodes 10 4 Executing asearch 10 2 Parentheses 10 9 Retrieving elements 10 8 Retrieving keywords 10 8 Search examples 10 10 Context of Matches 4 3 Context operators 10 7 Copyright B 1 Data codes 10 4 A 1 Data elements 10 4 A 1 Editorial policy 1 1 Element tags 10 4 A 1 Exit Acta Sanctorum 2 3 Expanding branches Table of Contents 6 3 Feast Day Searching by 3 3 Features of the Acta Sanctorum window 2 4 Figure Centre 7 10 Icon 7 9 Printing 9 5 Viewing 7 9 INDEX l 1 O SN 700 ss POL CI 0 00 Zoom 7 9 File Exit 2 3 Load Search 9 10 Print 9 3 Print Setup 9 1 Save 9 6 Save Search 9 9 Filename 9 6 9 9 Full Text 7 1 Active line 7 2 Changing font size 7 3 Cross references 7 11 Document details 7 3 Display 7 3 Figures 7 9 Marginal summaries 7 3 Navigating 7 4 Next division 7 4 Next hit 7 4 Next match 7 4 Notes 7 7 Page numbers 7 2 Previous division 7 4 Previous hit 7 4 Previous match 7 4 Printing 9 4 Saving 9 8 Tables 7 10 Using with the Table of Contents 6 4 Viewing hits 7 5 Viewing works 7 6 Window 7 2 Full Text icons 7 4 Gender Searching by 3 4 Getting Help 2 6 Getting started 2 1 Go Back To a previous item 5 4 l 2 INDEX GoTo 5 1 BHL number 5 3 Go Back 5 4 Volume and page number 5 2 Greek Keyword Searching by 3 3 Browsing 3 10 Hardware requirements 1 2 Help 2 6 Contents 2 7 Using H
75. otes such as side notes end notes or footnotes These are indicated in the Full Text by a hyperlink from the reference mark which appears in the original volumes Hyperlinks in the text appear in blue Scroll through the Hyperlink window using the DIRECTION KEYS to view the full extent of the note Alternatively click on the scroll arrows or drag the scroll box using the mouse Click the note hyperlink to read the note Full Text Jan I I LANVARIL DE MARTINA VIRGINE ROMANA MARTYRE VITA EX MSS CAPVTI Martin genus Apollinis statua euersa Pag BEE nostro Iegu Christo militaturus aduersarius diabolus pernicit r aduersus Seruos Domini nostri Iesu Christi preualdit sub regno Alexandri Cesaris in quarto anno imperij eius Alexander Imp gt Christianos persequitur Proponens autem ander preceptum nouum amp pessi toto orbe vt aut sacrificent Gakilei aut si non sacrificauerint morti tradantur Direxit vero Presides amp um in Lloj E Hyperlink Loli Jan I I IANVARIL DE MARTINA VIRGINE ROMANA MARTYRE VITA EX MSS CAPVTI S Martine genus Apollinis statua euersa Annotata Page 12 O Lc KXKM TT 5 End Note Imperauit Alexander a 6 Martij 222 vsque ad 18 Martij 235 Quare si secuta Martine ceedem est mors Imperatoris hic in decimoquarto legendum aut decimotertio Alij queecumque ab Alexandro facta hic memorantur Domitio Vipiano tribuu
76. ox Use the ALT DOWN arrow to e Choose the required date from access the drop down list the drop down list e Highlight the required day from the drop down list using the DIRECTION KEYS and press ENTER Gender You can limit a search to works about saints of a particular gender in Standard Search Select the required option Female Saints or Male Saints from the drop down list If you wish to search for works written about both genders select Female or Male Saints If you do not specify a gender by default Acta Sanctorum will retrieve works written about both female and male saints Search options To limit your search to a particular category of text within the database for example Latin hagiographical texts excluding notes titles and marginal summaries select the required options from the Search in and Limit to drop down lists see Specifying search options for further details 3 4 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM O Lc kKXKM ST TI 5 The Search Indices window Type your search terms Click to open a into the search boxes browse index for or use the browse the corresponding index search field iki Search Indices Keyword Volume Search in All indices Click to start Click to clear Specify search the search the contents options of the window Search Indices allows you to search the indices of the original printed volumes which comprise Acta Sanctorum You can open the Search Indic
77. pen e Where applicable select the option you wish to save e Click in the File Name box and type your filename and extension or double click an existing filename e Change the drive or directory if required e Click OK to save Ensure that the window you want to save from is active Press F10 The relevant save dialogue box will open Where applicable use the DIRECTION KEYS to select the option you wish to save Press ALT underlined letter to move to the File Name box and type your filename and extension or TAB to the list box and highlight an existing filename using the DIRECTION KEYS Change the drive or directory if required Press ENTER to save SAVING 9 7 Saving from the Summary of Matches Save from Summary of Matches xi Please check the User Manual for copyright conditions before saving Cancel Save Help C Selected Matches Network File Name Directories E txt c acta saved a List Files of Type Drives Text files txt 7 sc From the Summary of Matches windows you can save the whole list or selected entries in the list Saving from the Context of Matches From the Context of Matches you can save the whole list or selected entries You may not save Full Text directly from the Context of Matches Saving from Full Text From the Full Text window you can highlight a section of text and save it You also have the option to include marginal summ
78. ph gt element s containing containing the pace specified keyword s inside in finds the Roma inside keyword s inside lt poem gt the specified data element s with associates a lt p gt with specific attribute r italic name and value with a data element see discussion of attributes on p 10 5 not makes another lt div5 gt not context operator containing amor perform the opposite of its usual function For example to search for martyr in a document heading you might type martyr inside lt dochead gt The operator INSIDE specifies that the keyword martyr must be found inside the type of data element defined by the tag lt dochead gt CONSTRUCTING A COMMAND LINE SEARCH EXPRESSION 10 7 O Tas a M I III Defining the relative position of search terms proximity operators A Command Line Search may incorporate any of the proximity operators OF AFTER and BEFORE For example sancta within 6 words of virgo The first keyword specified in the search statement will be highlighted in the Full Text Deciding whether to retrieve elements or keywords You may wish to search the Acta Sanctorum database for a particular keyword within a specified data element or for a particular data element containing a specified keyword For example you might search for martyrologia in lt argument gt to retrieve all instances of the word martyrologia within arguments Every occurrence of the word
79. s after christi miles within 3 words before christi The first keyword in your search statement will be highlighted in the Full Text window Searching for reserved words The word in forms part of the search query language and cannot be searched in the normal way If you want to search for the word in as a keyword you must enclose it in double quotes For example to search for the phrase in nomine Patris type in nomine Patris Searching for variations on a word or word stem Latin is a highly infllected language that is most words have more than one form depending on their case number etc Acta Sanctorum allows you to search for variations on a word or word stem Most of these variants can be found using the browse indexes in the relevant search window Alternatively square brackets wildcard characters or Boolean operators can be used There are a number of ways of searching for variations on a word or word stem e f both all alternative characters are known type them enclosed in square brackets e g orat ei searches for orate and orati e Ifa single character is uncertain type a wildcard in place of the character e g orat produces matches for orate orati orato etc e f more than a single character is uncertain or if you wish to retrieve all words with the same stem or combination of letters type a wildcard which represents any number of characters includ
80. s follows RESTRICTIONS ON USE DATA 4 1 The LICENSEE and its Users may subject to the limitations on THIRD PARTY MATERIAL set out in clause 5 1 a display data from Acta Sanctorum b print out small extracts from Acta Sanctorum for i private study and research ii inclusion in internally circulated essays and papers or iii inclusion in materials for class course work c make xerographic copies of the above printouts for class course work d download small extracts of Acta Sanctorum only to merge with other text and or graphics for documents relating to private study and internally circulated essays and papers and to print out the said extracts for that purpose e copy portions of Acta Sanctorum onto a temporary non commercial electronic database for temporary use or storage during research f include portions of Acta Sanctorum and concordances of single words and phrases i in any article in a printed journal or ii in a single essay or contribution which forms part of a printed collection or iii in any printed monograph or critical edition EXTRACT FROM THE LICENCE AGREEMENT B 1 iia 5 4 2 4 3 B 2 If such portions of Acta Sanctorum comprise more than twenty percent 20 of any article in a printed journal or of any single essay or contribution which forms part of a printed collection or of any printed monograph or criticaledition the User must obtain permission in wr
81. s well as full bibliographic details within a lt header gt Subsequent levels within the data are coded as lt div2 gt lt div3 gt lt div4 gt lt div5 gt lt div6 gt lt div7 gt and lt div8 gt The numbering reflects a tag s relative position within the hierarchy i e lt div3 gt nests within lt div2 gt lt div4 gt within lt div3 gt etc The main texts or documents within Acta Sanctorum are coded as lt doc gt which may be subdivided into lt div2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gt s depending on the level at which the lt doc gt is nested In addition to containing other lt div gt s a lt div gt can contain paragraphs lt p gt or poems lt poem gt The higher up the hierarchy the wider will be the spread of the search For example at the lt divO gt level the search will include the bibliographic lt header gt as well as the lt doc gt texts themselves at the lt div2 gt level the search will exclude any bibliographic material Other structural element tags In addition to the main structural elements there are a number of other structural elements which are specifically tagged for example lt list gt list lt comhd gt heading etc Most of these tags can occur within more than one of the main structural elements defined above If you want to search for one of these non basic elements at a specific level rather than for every instance of the element you must specify the level in your search expres
82. sion For example memoria in lt p gt finds the word memoria in any paragraph anywhere in the database memoria in lt p gt in lt argument gt finds the word memoria in paragraphs in arguments only Miscellaneous tags Certain tags can occur at almost any point in the database such as lt caption gt and lt hi gt the tag for highlighted text There are also some empty tags which do not contain data but mark certain features of the copy text For example lt pb gt marks a page break lt figure gt marks the position of a figure i e a graphic or an illustration THE ACTA SANCTORUM DATA CODES 10 5 O ST i M III 00 Attributes Attributes are descriptive qualifiers associated with an element tag and consist of an attribute name and a value For example associated with each lt hi gt is the attribute name r rendition with the value italic bold smcap etc Attributes always follow the text of the tag preceded by a space and are enclosed inside the closing angle bracket of the tag The attribute name and value are separated by an equals sign with no spaces round it Attribute values are case sensitive this means that you must use lower and upper case letters as applicable to type in an attribute value Attributes can be used to restrict searches to elements whose tags have specific values For example anno in lt p align c gt finds the word anno in centre aligned paragraphs For
83. t 9 8 Notes 9 9 Search expressions 9 9 SGML tags 9 6 Summary of Matches 9 8 Table of Contents 9 9 Search 3 1 10 1 Abandoning 3 7 Accented characters 3 17 Adjacency 3 14 Alternative characters 3 15 Boolean 3 13 10 8 Command Line Search 10 1 Feast Day 3 3 Gender 3 4 Greek Keyword 3 3 Keyword 3 13 10 8 Proximity 3 14 10 8 Reserved words 3 15 Saint 3 3 Search Indices 3 5 Special characters 3 17 Standard Search 3 2 Table of Contents 6 1 Title Keyword 3 3 Variations on a word or word stem 3 15 Volume 3 5 Wildcards 3 16 INDEX 1 3 iia 5 Word order 3 14 Search expressions Command Line 10 6 Loading 9 10 Saving 9 9 Search fields 3 2 Search Indices 3 5 Browsing 3 8 Window 3 5 Search options 3 11 Search term Transferring from Browse to Search 3 9 Secondary elements 9 6 9 9 Bibliographic Details 9 3 9 6 Marginal summaries 9 3 9 6 Printing 9 3 Saving 9 6 SGML tags 9 3 9 6 SGML tags 10 4 A 1 Printing 9 3 Saving 9 6 Software requirements 1 2 Special characters 3 17 Square brackets 3 16 Standard Search 3 2 Browsing 3 8 Window 3 2 Starting Acta Sanctorum 2 1 Start up Options 2 2 Summary of Matches 4 1 Deselecting items 4 7 Hits 4 2 Navigating 4 5 Printing 9 4 Saving 9 8 Selecting items 4 5 Viewing 4 4 Viewing works 4 7 Windows 4 1 1 4 INDEX Table of Contents 6 1 Collapsing branches 6 3 Expanding branches 6 3 Hits 6 1 Minus 6 3 Navigating 6 2 Plus 6 3 Printing 9 4 Saving 9 9 Table
84. ta Sanctorum Full Text display generally follows the source works in its rendition and alignment of text Main headings and captions are centred and in bold All unhighlighted text is displayed in Times New Roman font Italic highlights appear as italic as do roman highlights in text which was italic in the copy text Small capitals are displayed in bold Page numbers are displayed in black in square brackets The position of figures and tables are indicated by icons Notes including authorial notes and notes supplied by the database editors are accessed by hyperlink from the full text The only non roman script that is displayed is Greek However the Greek is accented and has breathings Note The early printed volumes contain a number of typographical features that have been reproduced in the Acta Sanctorum database Abbreviations are typically represented by a circumflex accent over a vowel e g sactum for sanctum seculoru for seculorum Other typographical features you should be aware of are the use of alternative spellings such as alij or alii seuerus or severus and the B symbol for ss as in aBidua for assidua Vievving document details From the Full Text you can open the Document Details window to view textual metadata relating to the currently active work This includes a list of saints mentioned in the work and the BHL number of the work where applicable
85. th their associated element or operator The search software processes the remaining operators in the following order e AND e OR e CONT e IN For example since CONT is processed before IN lt comhd4 gt in lt div4 gt cont historia first finds all lt div4 gt s containing historia and then retrieves and displays all the lt comhd4ss in those lt div gt s Similarly since OR is processed before CONT lt cit gt cont Psal or Matth retrieves all citations containing either Psal or Matth If you wish to change or clarify the order in which the operators are processed you will need to use parentheses Using parentheses in complex search expressions Parentheses can be used to change the order in which the search software processes a complex search expression To avoid ambiguity you should use parentheses to specify the processing order For example AND is normally processed before OR which is normally processed before CONT so that lt note gt cont scriptura and testimonia or epistola CONSTRUCTING A COMMAND LINE SEARCH EXPRESSION 10 9 is processed as lt note gt cont scriptura and testimonia or epistola If you wanted to find notes which contain scriptura occurring with either testimonia or epistola you would need to type lt note gt cont scriptura and testimonia or epistola Note There is usually more than one way to express a complex search expression although
86. the Install button on the Add Remove Programs Properties dialogue box Follow the instructions on your screen e Click Finish to run the installation program Note The correct command line for the installation program is d setup exe e Follow the instructions that appear on your screen e During the installation you will be asked to name the directory in which you wish to install Acta Sanctorum The suggested directory is c acta but you can choose an existing directory or name a new one Hint install as many as possible of the browse files to increase the performance of Acta Sanctorum The installation program will show you how much disk space will be occupied by the files you wish to install The Acta Sanctorum installation program creates the Acta Sanctorum program group Within it you will see an icon for Acta Sanctorum For details on starting to use Acta Sanctorum see the following chapter This manual This manual is intended to guide you through Acta Sanctorum You should read it when first using Acta Sanctorum and keep it beside your PC for future reference The following typographic conventions have been used throughout this manual Italic Anything that should be typed exactly as it appears For example if you are asked to type d setup exe you should type exactly that Bold In a step by step list of commands a word in bold indicates that you need to type specific information For example if the word in bold
87. the main topics You can find out more information about any of the words highlighted in green Help Using Help guides you through the Help files Alternatively you can click the Help icon from the Toolbar press F1 at any time while you are in Acta Sanctorum You will then be taken to a context sensitive help window i e the page in Help which relates to the active window or function GETTING HELP 2 7 PT P O cL kKXWKMh TT 5 CHAPTER 3 Searching Acta Sanctorum This Chapter describes the Standard Search and Search Indices windows it also gives general information about searching such as how to search for variations on a word special characters and how to use the Boolean and proximity operators Note that in addition to the search facilities described in this Chapter the following search facilities are also available Go To If you want to move directly to a particular volume and page number or find a work by its BHL number you should use Go To Go To is described in Chapter 5 Table of Contents The Table of Contents allows you to browse through the contents of Acta Sanctorum listing all the works contained in the database in volume order The Table of Contents is described in Chapter 6 Command Line Search Command Line Search allows very complex searching of the database and therefore requires considerable knowledge of both the structure of the data and of the search query language Command Line searchi
88. ting from the relevant Third Party and ProQuest Information and Learning Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld Both the Third Party and ProQuest Information and Learning reserve the right to require a reasonable reproduction fee COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 1 Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement relating to any extract or text all extracts from Acta Sanctorum which are included in any publications essays internally circulated papers or materials for class course work must contain the following copyright statement Reproduced from the Acta Sanctorum Full Text Database published by ProQuest Information and Learning Copyright 1999 2003 EXTRACT FROM THE LICENCE AGREEMENT B 3 PT P O SS a hL l l Index Abandon search 3 7 Abbreviations 3 17 Accented characters 3 17 Acta Sanctorum Arrangement of the database 7 2 Display conventions 7 3 Editorial policy 1 1 Exiting 2 3 Installing 1 3 Searching 3 1 Starting 2 1 Active line 7 2 Adjacent keywords 3 14 Attributes 10 6 A 1 BHL number Go To option 5 3 Bibliographic Details 8 1 Printing 9 5 Saving 9 9 Viewing 8 2 Window 8 1 Boolean operators Command Line Search 10 8 Standard Search 3 13 Search Indices 3 13 Browse 3 8 Greek keywords 3 10 Centre figure 7 10 Character codes 3 17 Collapsing branches Table of Contents 6 3 Command Line Search 10 1 Accessing a previous search statement 10 3 C
89. tion already contained in the full indices and would be superfluous in an electronic version of Acta Sanctorum where the indices are much easier to access INTRODUCTION 1 1 iia 5 The Acta Sanctorum package Your Acta Sanctorum package contains the following 1 One CD ROM containing the Acta Sanctorum database and the software which must be installed before Acta Sanctorum will work 2 This User Manual describing how to install and operate the software 3 A Quick Reference Guide Hardware and software requirements To run Acta Sanctorum you will need the following configuration as a minimum e IBM or compatible 486 Personal Computer e 8Mb of RAM e hard disk with at least 10Mb free more space will improve performance e SVGA card and monitor e Microsoft or compatible mouse e DOS version 6 0 or higher e Microsoft Windows version 3 1 running in enhanced mode e Quad speed CD ROM drive with Microsoft CD ROM extensions version 2 10 or higher Optional extras e any printer that is supported by Windows in order to be able to print the results of your searches Although the minimum specification for running Acta Sanctorum is as stated above a better computer will give better software performance To take full advantage of the search and retrieval possibilities presented by Acta Sanctorum we recommend that the database be installed on a computer with a specification higher than the required minimum for example e
90. ty operators Note that certain words and characters require special treatment when searching such as certain special characters and the operators which form part of the search query language Note that the Keyword box in Search Indices will search for any word in the indices of the original printed volumes The Title Keyword box in Standard Search will search for any word in the title of a work Searching for two or more keywords Boolean operators You can search for two or more words occurring in the same work or index For example to search for works which contain virgo and martyr type the two words in the relevant search box separated by a Boolean operator There are three Boolean operators AND OR and AND NOT e AND retrieves all works which contain both search terms This retrieves fewer hits than using one of the terms on its own All occurrences of the search terms in those works will be highlighted For example virgo and martyr e OR retrieves all works which contain either or both of the search terms This retrieves more hits than using one of the terms on its own All occurrences of the search terms in those works will be highlighted For example virgo or martyr You can also use the Boolean operator OR in the Saint and Volume search boxes The Boolean OR represented by a vertical bar is always inserted between words in the Greek Keyword search box SEARCHING BY KEYWORD 3 13 e AND NOT retrieves
91. um will only retrieve works which contain the word martyr Once you have chosen Standard Search from the Search menu Standard Search becomes the active search option This means that the next time you want to open the Standard Search window you simply click the Search icon on the Toolbar press F2 rather than use the Search menu again 3 2 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM Keyword You can search for any word in a work using the Keyword search box Type the word you wish to search for or use the browse facility to select from a list of available keywords see Using the browse indexes When you type more than one word in the keyword search box you can connect them using Boolean operators adjacency or proximity operators see Searching by Keyword for further details Greek Keyword You can search for any Greek word in a work using the Greek Keyword search box Use the browse facility to select from a list of available keywords see Browsing Greek keywords within Standard Search Note that there is an implied Boolean OR between the Keyword and Greek Keyword fields this means that when you combine a search for a keyword with a Greek keyword the program will look for works which contain either the keyword or the Greek keyword or both Title Keyword You can search for any word in the title of a work using the Title Keyword search box Type the word you wish to search for or use the browse facility to select from a list of av
92. was filename you would type the name of your file SMALL CAPITALS The names of keyboard keys for example CTRL or ESC Initial Capitals and Bold The names of menu items and commands Initial Capitals Dialogue boxes windows and other proper names 1 4 INTRODUCTION Indicates the start of step by step instructions Signals the beginning of step by step instructions using a mouse Signals the beginning of step by step instructions BH using the keyboard Commands In general mouse commands are given first followed by keyboard commands in parentheses For example from the Window menu choose Cascade press ALT W C instructs the user to choose Window then Cascade using the mouse or to press ALT W then c using the keyboard Where instructions are given step by step those for mouse and those for keyboard are listed separately where appropriate Where keyboard commands are given they have the following format KEY1 KEY2 Hold down KEY1 and press KEY2 For example ALT TAB means hold down the ALT key press TAB then release both keys KEY1 KEY2 Press KEY1 then release it and press KEY2 For example ALT TAB means press and release ALT then press and release TAB DIRECTION KEYS The four arrow keys on the keyboard T gt lt ALT underlined letter Hold down the ALT key and press the relevant underlined letter of the command you wish to execute If the software has been installed and you are ready to start usin
93. ws Window icons open a particular window or if it is already open make it active Export icons print or save data Full Text icons move through the Full Text of the database Help icon opens a context sensitive help window When you pause the mouse pointer over a Toolbar icon a Tooltip appears displaying an on screen description of that icon Menu bar The Menu bar lists all available menus File Edit Window and Help are standard Windows menus Search Options and Full Text are specific to Acta Sanctorum To initiate an action relating to a menu item choose the required menu press ALT underlined letter then the required menu item press underlined letter Some menu items can also be accessed from the Toolbar or by using a short cut key called an accelerator key These are listed in a column on the right hand side of the relevant pull down menu When you point the mouse at an item in a menu and hold down the left mouse button a message will appear in the Status bar indicating the function of that menu item If you do not wish to choose the item drag the mouse away before releasing the mouse button FEATURES OF THE ACTA SANCTORUM WINDOW 2 5 OO do Acta Sanctorum icons Each window can be minimized to an icon This is useful when you want to keep a window open but do not need to see it You can move an icon anywhere within the Acta Sanctorum workspace Ten different icons are used within Acta Sanctorum to repr
94. y To search using the wildcard type in the appropriate position in the word You can use more than one in a word but it is recommended that you are as specific as possible For example poter retrieves poterat poteris poterit poteram You should not search for a word which comprises only the wildcard and all occurrences of five letter words Using the wildcard The wildcard represents any number of characters including none but excluding punctuation marks and spaces This method of searching for variant spellings is most useful if you are searching for all occurrences of words with a particular stem or combination of characters 3 16 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM Since searches using are likely to retrieve a large number of different words resulting in a slow retrieval and a large number of possibly irrelevant hits it is recommended that you are as specific as possible a minimum of at least 3 characters and that you only use one in each search For example or te retrieves orate orante ordinate etc orat retrieves orate oratione orationem orationis etc Accented and special characters The Acta Sanctorum database reproduces special characters appearing in the original printed volumes Accents which sometimes appear on Latin characters in the printed version have not been retained and Bare special characters which are indexed specifically To search for words containing or B you
95. you are searching in Standard Search or Search Indices you may wish to save the current search expression in order to be able to use it again later See Chapter 9 for full instructions 3 18 SEARCHING ACTA SANCTORUM O RR 700 ss M III 0 0 CHAPTER 4 Summary of Matches Introduction The Summary of Matches windows summarise the results of a Search From the Summary of Matches windows you can e view brief contextual details for each keyword retrieved by the search e view the Full Text of the item s retrieved by your search e print or save the results of your search You can print save or view all of the summaries retrieved by your search alternatively you can first make selections from the summary windows The Summary of Matches windows The Summary of Matches lists the items retrieved by your search If you have executed a Standard Search the Summary of Matches lists the works retrieved by your search in the same order as the printed volumes i e by volume day and saint feast day If you have executed an indices search the Summary of Matches Indices window opens listing the indices retrieved by your search in the order in which they appear in the printed volumes SUMMARY OF MATCHES 4 1 iE iz o Lr OO The figure in the Hits column represents the number of times your search word s or expression s appears in that entry in the list For example if you searched on the keyword martyr and th

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