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Version 0.4, 5 Februari 2005 Setting up your computerTmiWeb has been developed for Netscape 4-7 on Windows operating systems. This is the optimum configuration. TmiWeb is also regularly tested for Internet Explorer 5-6. As a web application, TmiWeb can be consulted from many platforms, though with some loss of functionality. We keep trying to make TmiWeb truly platform-independent. What you need to do before using TmiWeb:
Browsers preferencesDynaWeb, TmiWeb's software environment, expects your browser to be able Javascript-enabled and to support cookies. Almost all web browsers support these features, but they may have been switched off. For optimum functionality switch them on. Also, make sure document-specified fonts are enabled. When using Internet Explorer 5, the Greek font (see below) is displayed only in part for unknown reasons. FontsThe default font for TmiWeb is whatever your own web browser specifies. You don't have to change this font. I am now using two different fonts in alternation, "Times New Roman" and "Verdana", with a slight preference for the latter. TmiWeb employs two additional fonts, one for Classical Greek, and another for music symbols. If you have installed the TMI CD-ROM volume 1, these will already be available. If you haven't, and you can download these fonts from the Internet:
Note that these are both True Type fonts for Windows. There may be alternatives for other platforms: please inform me about these! Using TmiWebIn this section, only part of the DynaWeb interface is described. The DynaWeb Client Guide provides a complete overview of the DynaWeb interface and search language: read this if you want detailed information about using DynaWeb. CollectionsDocuments on the DynaWeb server are ordered in collections and subcollections. The collections are:
NavigationDynaWeb splits the browser window into three frames:
Generally, clicking an item in the left frame will bring up its contents in the right frame. Documents are thus not displayed in their entirety, but split up into fragments corresponding to items in the Table of Contents. Some of the icons in the bottom frame can be used for navigation:
I you do not want to use frames, you may switch to "Deactivate frames mode" by clicking , and back to frames by clicking . IconsThere are two sorts of icons in TmiWeb:
ColorsDocument text is shown using a number of colors to indicate special sorts of information:
HyperlinksTmiWeb is heavily hyperlinked. The most important hyperlink categories are:
Links in the documents have the usual layout (in any case, they are underlined if you didn't send your browser preferences differently) and can be followed as in any other web page. In addition, there are special search types which are in fact hyperlinks in reverse (see below). For documents outside the TMI corpus, a collection of link files is being produced. These files contain basic metadata and a table of contents of the outside document. If electronic versions of the document are known, these are listed and links are provided. Usually, the "granularity" of markup is rather coarse, and links appear only at the top of the table. Here are two examples of how link files are used.
StylesheetsStylesheets can be used to display documents in different manners. There are two sorts of style sheets:
To change the stylesheet, go to the Dynaweb Preferences: the icon displays these. The settings are personal, though you can always restore the default settings by clicking the "Apply Defaults" button an then "OK". Global Preferences seem to be preserved between sessions, Book Level Preferences are discarded. The following Content stylesheets are available for all treatises except Aaron's and Del Lago's:
The following TOC stylesheets are available for all documents except Aaron's Toscanello:
Note that the "default" and "Standard Dynaweb View" sheets are identical (why there are two names is a mystery). Stylesheets for specific sourcesThe following Content stylesheets are available for Del Lago and Aaron's treatises (except Toscanello):
The following stylesheets are available for Aaron's Toscanello:
Stylesheets corresponding to versions 2 and 3 of Aaron's other treatises will be supplied. Examples and illustrationsIn the default and basic views, illustrations and music examples may be shown at reduced size to fit the screen. Clicking an illustration opens a new window showing the full-size illustration. SearchingSimple searching is very easy. Just enter a word or phrase in the seach field in the bottom frame and press the "Search" button. Only complete words are found. You can search for strings by means of wildcards: for these and kinds of advanced searches see the DynaWeb Client Guide, chapter 4. The scope of the search depends on what is displayed in the left frame.
After the search, the number of hits in each item will be shown in the tables, and in the document itself each hit is shown in a red, big font. Some icons in the bottom frame are related to searching:
Searches can be "expanded", that is, word forms, synonyms, and related terms are included in the output. To use this option, click the check box "Expand Search". A good example is to search for musica, which also finds words like musico, musici and musiche. You can search markup, for example by entering a tag name in the search
field. Here is what happens when all <persname> tags are searched. Special searches
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