Franklin BOOKMAN ATH-2011 User manual

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User’sGuide

ATH-2011

ADVANCED THESAURUS

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Contents

With your new Franklin

Advanced

Thesaurus

(ATH-2011), you can find

a total of more than 500,000 syn-

onyms, antonyms, Classmates™, and

Confusables™.

You can also correct misspellings

and play three exciting and educa-

tional word games at different skill

levels. Simply install this cartridge

into your BOOKMAN to get started.

Key Guide ...................................................................... 3

Installing Cartridges ...................................................... 4

Selecting Books............................................................. 4

Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5

Changing Settings ......................................................... 5

Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6

Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 6

Correcting Misspellings................................................. 7

Finding Confusables ...................................................... 8

Highlighting Words ........................................................ 8

Sending Words .............................................................. 9

Playing the Games ......................................................... 9

Cartridge Care............................................................... 11

Resetting BOOKMAN .................................................... 11

Index.............................................................................. 14

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears the word you entered.

Shows the menu.

SKILL

(red)

Shows the game skill levels.

CONF

(green)

Shows Confusables (words

that you mayconfuse with others).

GAMES

(yellow)Showsgamesyoucanplay.

HINT

(blue)

Provides hints during games.

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Erases a letter, shows a previous

screen, or unhighlights a word.

CAP

Shifts keys to type capitals.

ENTER

Looks up a word, selects a

menu item, or highlights a word.

HELP

Shows a help message.

Types a

to stand for a letter in

a word (shifted, types an

✻

stand for a series of letters).

Direction Keys

Scroll text, or move the cursor or

the highlight.

Page down or up.

SPACE

Types a space, or pages down

in thesaurus entries and help.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sendsawordbetweenbooks.

✩

Shows the next or previous

or thesaurus entry.

* Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow,

and blue) perform the functions

listed above only for the book de-

scribed in this User’s Guide.

Other BOOKMAN books have

their own color key functions,

which are labelled on their key-

boards or cartridges. To learn

more, see “Using the Color Keys.”

Warning: Never install or remove a

BOOKMAN cartridge when your

BOOKMAN is on. If you do, informa-

tion you have entered in the built-in

book as well as in the cartridge will be

erased

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs of the cartridge

with the notches in the slot.

4. Press the cartridge down

until it snaps into place.

Installing Cartridges

➤ Removing Cartridges

Warning: When you remove a

BOOKMAN cartridge to install an-

other, information that you entered

in the removed cartridge is erased.

Selecting Books

Once you have installed a cartridge

in your BOOKMAN, you can select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARD

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on screen. This does not

mean that your BOOKMAN is mal-

functioning.

Using the Color Keys

he red, green, yellow, and blue keys

change functions according to which

book you are using.

When you have selected and are us-

ing the built-in book, the color keys

function as labelled on the keyboard.

When you are using a BOOKMAN

cartridge, the color keys function as

labelled on that cartridge.

Remember, when you have selected

and are using a BOOKMAN car-

tridge, the color keys function as la-

belled on that cartridge, not as on

the keyboard.

Changing Settings

➤ Changing the Contrast

When you’re using the ATH-2011, you

can change the BOOKMAN’s screen

contrast by pressing

CLEAR

and then

repeatedly pressing or .

You can adjust the font size and

shutoff time of this book. The font

size sets how large the letters ap-

pear on screen. The shutoff time

sets how long your BOOKMAN

stays on if you forget to turn it off.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

3. Press to highlight Set Font

or Set Shutoff.

4. Press

ENTER

5. Press to highlight a setting.

To leave the settings as they are,

press

BACK

6. Press

ENTER

to select it.

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When no book cartridge is installed in

your BOOKMAN, a demonstration

automatically appears after you select

this book. To stop the demo, press

CLEAR

. To disable it, press

and then select

Disable Demo

. To re-

enable it, select

Enable Demo

When a book cartridge is installed,

select

View Demo

from the menu to

view the demo.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

. Press or

to read it.

To exit help, press

BACK

To read about what the keys do

when you’re using this book, press

and then select

Tutorial

➤Just Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to view more text.

Finding Synonyms

To look up synonyms, simply type a word

and then press

ENTER

. Try this example.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word (e.g., happy).

To type capitals, hold

CAP

To erase a letter, press

BACK

To move the cursor, press or .

3. Press

ENTER

to view its first

thesaurus entry.

4. Press or

to read.

5. Hold

✩

and press

repeatedly

to view its next entries, if any.

To view a previous thesaurus

entry, hold

✩

and press .

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Synonyms

➤

Understanding Thesaurus Entries

When you see

THES

flash in the up-

per right of the screen, the entered or

highlighted word has a thesaurus en-

try. Each thesaurus entry begins with

the word’s part of speech (noun, verb,

adjective, etc.) and a brief definition.

Then synonyms, Classmates, and

antonyms, if any, are listed. Class-

mates are words related by subject

or class. Special uses, such as

slang, Briticisms, and technical

words, are noted in brackets.

➤ Selecting Multiple Forms

When you enter a word that has

more than one form, a word list ap-

pears. Highlight the form you want

and then press

ENTER

to select it.

➤ Viewing Next Entries

When a word has more than one

thesaurus entry, you can view a next

entry by scrolling or paging down at

the end of an entry.

➤ Finding Spellings and Words

If you’re not sure how to spell a

word, or want to find a list of similarly

spelled words, type a question mark

in place of each unknown or variable

letter (e.g.,

conc??ve

). Then press

ENTER

. You can also type an aster-

isk in place of a series of letters

(e.g.,

conc✻ve

.) To type an asterisk,

hold

CAP

and press

Correcting Misspellings

Don’t worry if you misspell a word.

Corrections automatically appear.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a misspelled word

(e.g., ecskwizzit).

3. Press

ENTER

4. Highlight a correction.

5. Press

ENTER

to view its

thesaurus entry, if any.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Confusables™

Confusables are words that sound

alike or are spelled similarly. When

you see

CONF

flash in the upper

right of the screen, the entered or

highlighted word has Confusables.

Try this example.

1. Type rein.

2. Press

ENTER

Notice that

CONF

flashes.

3. Press

CONF

Each Confusable is followed by a

word identifying its meaning.

4. Press

ENTER

to start the highlight.

5. Press the arrow keys to high-

light a word.

6. Press

ENTER

to view its

thesaurus entry.

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Highlighting Words

Another way to find synonyms and

Confusables is by highlighting words

in thesaurus entries. Try this ex-

ample.

1. Type demeanor.

2. Press

ENTER

3. Press

ENTER

again.

Notice the highlight. You can turn

it off by pressing

BACK

4. Press the arrow keys to

highlight a word (e.g., air).

5. Press one of these keys:

To View... Press...

its thesaurus entry

ENTER

confusables, if any

CONF

6. Press

BACK

to go back to the

highlighted word.

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

You can look up words from this

book in certain other BOOKMAN

books, and vice versa.

To send or receive a word to or from

another book, you must first install a

book cartridge in your BOOKMAN,

and that cartridge must be able to

send or receive words, too. To learn

if a cartridge can send or receive

words, read its User’s Guide.

1. Highlight a word in this book.

To highlight a word in a list, press

the arrow keys.

To highlight a word in text, press

ENTER

and then press the arrow

keys.

2. Hold

✩

and press

CARD

3. Highlight the other book.

4. Press

ENTER

The word that you highlighted ap-

pears in the other book.

5. Press

ENTER

to look up the

word.

Sending Words Playing the Games

Picking Levels and Games

You can pick a skill level before you

play or during a game. If you pick a

level during a game, the new level

does not take effect until the next

round begins.

• To pick a skill level, first press

SKILL

. Then highlight a level and

press

ENTER

to select it.

• To pick a game, first press

GAMES

Then highlight a game and press

ENTER

to start playing.

Playing Hangman

Hangman challenges you to guess a

mystery word, indicated by

’s, be-

fore the little man is hanged. Simply

type your letter guesses. The num-

ber of wrong guesses you can make

appears to right of the #’s.

To end a round, press

. To view

the thesaurus entry of the word,

press

ENTER

. Then press

BACK

go back to the game.

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