SEEDMASTER V2.2 DEMO QUICK TOUR GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS -------------------- This SeedMaster/DOS (SM) demo is a fully functional SM program running on some special "reduced" databases to save the disk space and the number of floppies it would otherwise take to try out SM. The two Bible texts, the KJV (also called KJS) and Young's Literal Trans- lation (YLT) are limited to the Gospel of John, as is the Strong's number database (STR). If you move to other Bible books, you'll only get verse references--with no text. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross- references have been similarly limited to the book of John. Finally, the Strong's Lexicon is limited to New Testament numbers only and the definitions have been truncated to four lines of text to save space. Hopefully, these restrictions strike a proper balance of function and disk space that lets you best evaluate SM. Note you can order full data- bases from directly us at very reasonable costs, if you prefer. We STRONGLY suggest you follow along with this Quick Tour. It is NOT exhaustive of SM's features, but it does give you an idea of the power and utility of the SM program. Armed with a basic frame-work, you can then explore SM's features as you wish. We assume you have just installed the SM Demo. If not, we suggest you exit SM and delete the OPTIONS.DAT file (a fresh one with basic defaults will be re-created) so your screens will match our demo instructions. STARTING SM ----------- To start SM, make sure your default directory is set to where you installed the SM Demo files. For most people that will be "C:\SMDEMO". To change to this directory at the C> prompt, type: CD\SMDEMO . Then type: SM Press any key at the copyright screen. [Page 1] VIEWING VERSES -------------- SM opens to John 1:1 in the KJS (King James with Strong's Support) Bible text. You can scroll the verses with the cursor keys. Press , and the text advances to John 1:2. To advance a "screen-full" of verses, press . The last verse on the Screen becomes the first. To re- view cursor key choices, press for context sensitive Help. Note that you have numerous cursor control options (Next Chapter, Previous Book, etc.). When you are finished with Help, Press . Let's go back to John 1:1. We could cursor there easily, but suppose we are in Genesis 1:1? That might take a while! Instead, Press to bring up the Bible verse selection menu. Note that you can select any Bible book via a menu--you don't have to remember any abbreviation schemes. Select John, then enter <1> for the chapter. Note that SM displays the available range of chapters in John. Then press and press <1>, to jump back to John 1:1. Note that the text is formatted in paragraphs. You can turn paragraphs off and display the verses on separate lines. Also note the text foot- notes that are enclosed in {curly braces}. You can eliminate them. Let's change both. We use the Screen Format dialog found on the View menu. Press to access the View menu. Type to open the Screen Format dialog. Cursor or to the Paragraph Form checkbox. Press to remove the "X". Then down and press in Suppress {Footnotes} to add an "X". You could cursor all the way down and press on the OK button, but we'll take the quick way out and press to save and exit the dialog window. Note that the text now lacks paragraphs and footnotes. Now lets turn them back on and try something else. Press for View menu, then for the Screen Format dialog. Cursor to Paragraph Form and Suppress {Footnotes} and use the toggle the options back to where they were. Now, move to Show Numbers in KJS. Press to add an "X". Press to save and exit. Now see what you have done! The Strong's numbers show up in the Bible text! Now you can tell which Strong's number (and thereby which Greek word) is underlying the English text at any point. If you want, you could pop-up the Lexicon and type in a Strong's number to get it's definition. But, if the Strong's number is already displayed in View mode, you can use SM's Hypertext "point and shoot". [Page 2] Press . See the available Hypertext jumps highlighted? Suppose we wanted to know more about the word "Word" in John 1:1. over to <3056> and press . Up pop's the Strong's Lexicon, pre-set to 3056! Remember, we've truncated the definitions to four lines to save space on this demo. Otherwise, you'd have even more information! Press to pop out of the Lexicon. The Hypertext "point and shoot" is still active. Press to return to View mode. We'll search on "Word" and 3056 later. For now, let's look at how Young's Literal (YLT) renders John 1:1. First, we switch to YLT by pressing for the View menu. Before you select Switch Version, note that there is a short cut (pressing ) to avoid using the menu to switch versions. Press to enter the Switch Version dialog. Cursor to YLT and press . The round dot appears for YLT. Press to move to OK, then press on OK to exit the dialog and switch versions. But maybe we'd prefer to compare YLT and KJS side by side... That's easy! Press for the Window menu, and press to select Add Window. (Note you can also just press .) Now we have two YLT windows side by side. We need to switch one of them to the KJS version. This time we'll take the shortcut--press . Press on KJV (KJS is the same as KJV on this and most dialog choices) to get the round dot on KJV, and press . Now you you can really compare the texts. And, if needed, you could add even one more side by side window! Each window can be the same version (for parallel passages) or different versions for comparisons. Press . Note that the active KJS window (it has a double line bor- der) moved by itself. With side by side windows, you also scroll windows together. Press , then press for the View menu, and press to activate Synchronize Scrolling. Now press and watch both translations move together. Press to return to John 1:1. SM also offers a "interlinear view" of up to five translations in a single View window. Lets remove our current View window by pressing . Next, press , choose Screen Format again (press ), and this time press in Use Interlinear Form. Next, in the Interlinear Order field, we will define the order of the versions to be YLY followed by KJS. Enter "YK" in that field. Then press to save and exit the dialog. Now, for each verse, you have both translations in the same window. Interlinear form can be useful for if you often compare one or more texts. You can use up to five in any order! [Page 3] Now lets turn Interlinear Form off on the Screen Format dialog (, on Use Interlinear Form, ). And, lets switch back to the KJS from YLT (, in KJV, ). TREASURY CROSS-REFERENCES ------------------------- Before we search, let's see if there are any important cross-references for "Word" to be found in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Press for the File menu, press for Study Resources and finally for Treasury SK Xrefs. The Treasury appears at the bottom of our screen for our current View verse (John 1:1). Note that in addition to an outline of chapter 1, it does have references for "the Word". Only one of them is really available in our demo, so let's take a look at it. Press to activate the Hypertext "point and shoot" and to "# 14" (verse 14 of the current chapter 1). Press . A special window pops up so you can see the text of the cross-reference verse! It defaults to the Bible version and text options of your View window. Press to exit this window, and once more to exit Hypertext mode. You can keep the TSK around as you scroll verses in View. Press . The TSK window remains, but the View window becomes active. Press twice. The TSK is updated to the current verse in View!. Press twice to return to John 1:1. Press the shortcut to re-enter the TSK. Now press to remove the TSK window. (Advanced uses of the TSK and similar resources include editing and adding to the references, converting cross-references to a Search file, importing a Search file to create references, searching the resource text, and more!) SIMPLE SEARCHING ---------------- Ok, let's do a simple search! First let's search on the word "Word". Press for the Search menu and then to select "Word/Phrase" search for the Word/Phrase Dialog. Enter "Word" (without the quote marks), then press . Since we only have one word, "Word Order" is ignored, but note that you can restrict Search results to 3 types of word order. Let's enforce Case Sensitivity, so press in the Sensitive checkbox. Press to begin the Search. Since we enforced Case Sensitivity, SM screens each verse containing "word" to make sure the case matches exactly as we typed it. The result is 2 verses (in our limited database). [Page 4] Now, let's back up and see what eliminating Case sensitivity will do to the number of "hits" in our Search. Press , then press (the shortcut for the Word/Phrase dialog). The last word/phrase is automatically retained, so just or down to Sensitive and press , followed by to accept and start the new Search. Now we found 20 verses! But the word "word" doesn't appear in the fragments to the right of the references. Let's fix that! Press for the View menu, and for Screen Format. Now cursor down to Verse Fragments: and press on Word Context. Press to save and exit. Now we can screen word usage! Another option to view Search results is to View a verse in context. Press on John 1:1. Now you can see and scroll the verse in context--with search word(s) highlighted. Press to return to the Search. Note that in every instance, "word" has the Strong's number 3056 associated with it. What if we just searched on 3056? Let's try! Press , , and just enter "3056" as your word/phrase. Press . Aha! 36 verses! So by searching Strong's we can sometimes find related verses that an English translation may hide from us! (Advanced uses of Search includes saving and retrieving search files, merging searches using AND, OR, NOT and XOR logic, converting to and from cross-references, adding and deleting verses to a search, printing all or part of a search, restricting searches to specific verse ranges, and more!) WORD LIST SEARCHES ------------------ Let's look at word searches from another angle. Press , and then press . Enter "Word" to start SM's Word List and Press . SM offers an exhaustive Word List for each Bible text. The list is alpha- betical, and to the right of each word, the number of verses it occurs in is displayed. To search for our word "Word", press . This gives the same search results that the word/phrase search did. Press . Not that the Word List also shows us that the variation "words" is found in 19 verses. [Page 5] What if we wanted to search on either "Word" or "words"? Press on "Word" (the little "|" symbol means OR logic--which you can change on the Words menu). Now press to move to "words" and then press to toggle it ON too. Now press (or use Combine Toggled on the Edit menu). The total is 38 verses. You can scroll these hits and View them in context by pressing . When you are finished, press to return to the Word List. SM even makes the Strong's numbers available to you in the Word List. Press to "restart" the list to a new "word". Key in "3056" and press . The Strong's numbers Word List is special. It gives you the Strong's number, the transliterated Greek (or Hebrew) word, AND the most common KJV rendering of that number. The Lexicon is a quick away! Try it! While we're here in the Lexicon, note that the definition says 3056 is derived from 3004. What if we want to look up 3004? Well, you could press again and SM would ask for a new number--but there is an easier way. Press to start Hypertext jumps. Press on 3004. Now we can get that definition! Want to go back to 3056? Press . Wasn't that fun? Press again to exit Hypertext, and once again press to return to the Word List. Finally, press to return to the View mode. FINAL COMMENTS -------------- Of course, we could've been using SM's Notepad all this time to take notes on our findings, and even using SM's Grabber to "grab" screen text and import it into the Notepad or other SM text resources. Again, this is just a quick tour--there is so much more to tell. But, this should provide a quick idea of some of SM's basic features--and you can explore further with this demo package. Before we turn you loose, a quick overview of some key SM menus and dialog windows is in order. We will cover only the basics. If you press in the menus or use the Help Index on the Help menu, you can get more detailed information. Press and release it to enter the File menu. The first 6 options let you manipulate Notepad and Search files. Directories lets you con- trol where SM databases are stored (CD-ROM drives, etc.). Printer Setup is important, so press for a peek. [Page 6] You can define up to 4 "printing devices". Most people use 2. The first is their traditional printer, and the default of "PRN" works for most. BUT, the second option is a disk file. You can put in a Description like "Disk File" for Device #2, and then a Device Name like: "C:\WP51\BIBLE.TXT". When you print to Device #2, if the file does not exist, it is created. If it DOES exist, SM APPENDS the new text to the end of the file. This lets you print multiple Bible passages to the same file, then import it all at once into a word processor like WordPerfect. Press to pop back out of this dialog. Then, press and release for the File menu again. The Rabbit Trail is an advanced SM function. When you are ready, read about it in the General Help on the Help menu. Study Resources (press ) lets you select various SM resources and tools. By default, you will always have a Notepad, Commentary (for user- created verse by verse notes) and User Xrefs (for user-created verse by verse cross references). Press to return to the main File menu. Press to move to the Search menu. The Search Statistics gives you book by book and chapter by chapter summaries of a Search. Ranges lets you restrict search hits to up to 26 continuous or non-continuous verse ranges. Press for the Help menu. General Help is suggested reading for SM beginners. The Index is an alphabetical compilation of Help topics that you can choose directly. Context Sensitive help is the default "Help" you get by pressing in a SM function. Finally, everyone who wants to use SM should use Registration Info to find out how to register SM and to learn about the available Bible translations. Registration Form will print a form that you can use to register or order Bible translations and databases. We hope you enjoy exploring and using SeedMaster. 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