Franklin BOOKMAN DMQ-440 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

User’s Guide

DMQ-440

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Electronic Publishers

MAN

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Dictionary

& Thesaurus

QUEEN’SENGLISH

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable

electronic reference with a built-in

book and a slot in the back for more

books. With your new

Dictionary &

Thesaurus

you can find over 83,000

dictionary entries and 41,000 thesau-

rus entries with 496,000 synonyms,

correct misspellings, save words to

your User list, and play three fun and

educational word games. To learn

how, read this User’s Guide.

Installing Batteries and Cards ................................................. 4

Selecting a Book and Using the Colour Keys ......................... 5

Changing Settings and Viewing the Demonstration ............... 6

Finding Definitions .................................................................. 7

Finding Synonyms ................................................................... 7

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

Finding Words in Definitions ................................................... 9

Highlighting Words .................................................................. 9

Correcting Misspellings .......................................................... 10

Finding a Letter in a Word ....................................................... 10

Finding a Series of Letters ...................................................... 11

Reviewing Your Words ............................................................ 11

Using the User List .................................................................. 12

Sending Words Between Books .............................................. 13

Changing Game Settings ......................................................... 14

Playing the Games .................................................................. 14

Index ........................................................................................ 18

Function Keys

CLEAR Clears to

Enter your word

MENU Shows the main menus.

THES

(red) Shows synonym lists.

CONF

(green) Shows Confusables®.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games.

LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu.

CARD Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF Turns the BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

turns off a highlight in the text.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shifted, types an

✽

to stand

for a series of unknown letters.

Arrow Keys

At text, menus, and lists, move

up or down. At the Entry screen,

darken or lighten the contrast.

Move left or right.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sends a word between books.

✩

Shows the next match.

✩

Shows the previous match.

✩

+ Types a hyphen.

✽

Hold

✩

while pressing the other key

➤

Understanding the Colour Keys

The colour keys (red, green, yellow,

and blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the BOOKMAN book

described in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own colour

key functions, which are labelled on

their cards and listed in their User’s

Guides. For more information, read

“Using the Colour Keys.”

BOOKMAN 440 models use two

CR2032 3-volt batteries. Here is how

to install or replace the batteries.

Warning: When the batteries lose

power or are removed from your

BOOKMAN, information that you en-

tered in its built-in book, and in an in-

stalled book card, will be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries with

their plus signs facing you.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card when your BOOKMAN is

on. If you do, information that you en-

tered in its built-in book, and in an in-

stalled book card, will be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the book

card with the notches in the

slot.

4. Press the card down until it

snaps into place.

Installing CardsInstalling Batteries

➤

Removing Cards

Warning: When you remove a

card to install another, information

that you entered into the removed

card will be erased.

➤

Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN

at any screen. When you turn

your BOOKMAN on again, the

screen that you last viewed

appears.

Selecting a Book Using the Colour Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys

on your BOOKMAN change functions

according to which book you are us-

ing.

When the built-in book is selected, the

colour keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book

in a card is selected, the colour keys

function as labelled on that card.

Remember, when you have selected

and are using a book in a card, the

colour keys function as labeled on that

card, not as on the keyboard.

Once you have installed a card in your

BOOKMAN, you must select which

book you want to use.

1. Turn your 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 slightly

from what you see on screen.

This does not mean that your

BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

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Changing Settings

Before you start using your BOOKMAN,

you can see a demonstration of what it

can do.

When no card is installed in your BOOK-

MAN, the demonstration automatically

appears when you turn on your BOOK-

MAN. To stop the demonstration, press

CLEAR

. To disable it, press

, and

then select

Disable Demo

from the

menus. To re-enable it, select

Enable

Demo

When a card is installed in your BOOK-

MAN, select

View Demo

from the

menus to see the demonstration.

Viewing the Demonstration

You can adjust the font size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast.

The font size changes the number of

lines of text that appear on screen.

The shutoff time is how long BOOK-

MAN stays on if you forget to turn it

off.

1. Press

2. Press the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

3. Highlight Set Font, Set

Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

4. Press

ENTER

5. Highlight a setting.

Or press and if you selected

Set Contrast

6. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

. Then press to read it. To

exit help, press

BACK

HELP

➤

Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can use to move around

menus or view more text.

Finding Definitions

You can find definitions simply by typ-

ing a word at the Entry screen and

then pressing

ENTER

. Try this example.

1. Press

CLEAR

to clear the Entry

screen.

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

3. Press

ENTER

to see its

definition(s).

The main word appears in bold type

with hyphenation points, followed by

its part of speech.

4. Press or

SPACE

to see more.

5. To see the definition(s) of the

next or previous word listed

in this dictionary, hold

✩

and press

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Synonyms

It’s easy to find synonyms for words

by using the

THES

key.

1. Press

CLEAR

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

3. Press

THES

to see synonyms

of the word.

4. Press or

SPACE

to move

down.

Each thesaurus entry lists

synonyms with closely related

meanings. Many words have

more than one thesaurus entry.

5. Hold

✩

and press

to see

the next list of synonyms, if

any.

Confusables are homonyms and spell-

ing variants that are easy to confuse.

If a word has Confusables, will

flash once in the upper right of the

screen.

1. Type a word (e.g., rein).

2. Press

ENTER

3. Press

CONF

Each Confusable is paired with an

identifying word.

4. Press

ENTER

and then use the

arrow keys to highlight a

word.

5. Press

ENTER

to see its

definition(s).

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Confusables®

Finding Synonyms

➤

Another Way to Find

Synonyms

You can also find synonyms when

you see a flash at the upper

right of the screen.

Simply press

THES

to see

synonyms of the main or high-

lighted word. Then hold

✩

and

press

to see the next list of

synonyms, if any.

6. To return to the previous

synonym list, hold

✩

and

press

7. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Search for a Word

lets you find all of

the definitions in which a specific word

appears.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

3. Select Search for a word from

the Other menu.

4. Type a word (e.g., legal).

5. Press

ENTER

6. Hold

✩

and press

to see

the next definition that

includes your word.

To see the previous one, hold

✩

and press

7. Press or

SPACE

to move

down.

8. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Words in Definitions

Highlighting Words

Another way to look up words is by

highlighting them in definitions, syn-

onym lists, or correction lists. Then

you can find their definitions, syn-

onyms, Confusables, or add them to

your User list.

1. At any definition or list, press

ENTER

to start the highlight.

To turn the highlight off, press

BACK

2. Use the arrow keys to high-

light a word.

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

view definition(s)

ENTER

view synoyms

THES

view Confusables

CONF

add word to User list

LIST

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