Franklin BOOKMAN BFS-840 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

™

User’s Guide/Mode d’emploi

BFS-840

Speaking/parlant

™

French Professor/

Professeur d’Anglais

Electronic Publishers

3615 Franklinfo

1,29 F / minute

MINITEL

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License Agreement

READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELEC-

TRONIC BOOK.

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TRONIC BOOK means the software product, hardware, and documentation found

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MAN.BFS-840 revB 7/27/99, 10:12 AM1

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-

tronic reference with a built-in book and a

slot in the back for more books. With this

French Professor

, you can now translate

anddefine morethan 250,000words,cor-

rect misspellings of both French and En-

glishwords,viewnoun,adjective,andverb

inflections, and save words to a Personal

wordlistforamoreenjoyablewaytolearn.

Tolearnhowtouseotherbooks,readtheir

User’s Guides.

Contents

Installing Batteries & Book Cards...................................4

Selecting Books & Using the Color Keys ........................5

Changing the Language ................................................. 6

Viewing a Demonstration...............................................7

Translating English Words..............................................7

Translating French Words ..............................................8

Highlighting a Word .......................................................9

Hearing an English Word................................................9

Learning Inflections ....................................................... 10

Finding a Letter ............................................................. 11

Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 11

Correcting Misspellings .................................................12

Using your Personal List................................................12

Sending a Word ............................................................. 14

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

Playing the Games ......................................................... 15

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Other Keys

ARR

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

MAJ

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTRER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

AIDE

Shows help messages.

ESPACE

Typesaspaceorpagesdownintext.

? ✽

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shifted, types an

✽

to stand

for a series of unknown letters.

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARTE

Sends a word between

books.

✩

+ BAS Shows the next word or

inflection group.

✩

+ HT Shows the previous word

or inflection group.

✩

+ L

Shows the personal word list

Function Keys

EFFAC

Clears to the Ready

screen.

Shows Additional Functions menu.

CONJ

(red) Show inflections of a word.

LANG

(green) Switches between English

and French entry languages.

JEUX

(yellow) Shows the games list.

PARLE

(blue) Says an English word.

CARTE

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color 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 color key

functions, which are labelled on their

book cards and listed in their User’s

Guides. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.” *Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

MAN.BFS-840 revB 7/27/99, 10:13 AM3

BOOKMAN model 840 uses four AAA

batteries. Here is how to install or re-

place them.

Warning: When the batteries lose

powerorareremovedfromBOOKMAN,

information that you entered in its built-

in book, and in an installed book card,

will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries with their

positive sides facing you.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Installing Batteries

➤Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at any

screen. When you turn BOOKMAN

on again, the screen that you last

viewed appears.

Installing Book Cards

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while your BOOKMAN is

on. Any information that was entered in

the built-in book or 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 book card down

until it snaps into place.

➤

Removing Book Cards

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Once you have installed a book card in

yourBOOKMAN,youmustselectwhich

book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARTE

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTRER

to select it.

Selecting Books Using the Color Keys

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➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on the actual screen. This

does not mean that your BOOK-

MAN is malfunctioning.

On the top row of your BOOKMAN the

red, green, yellow, and blue colour keys

change functions according to the book

card you select.

If you are using the built-in book, the

colour keys function as labeled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. If you select a

book card, the colour keys function as

labeled on that book card.

Remember, when you select a book

card,the colourkeys functionaslabeled

on that book card, not the keyboard.

MAN.BFS-840 revB 7/27/99, 10:13 AM5

Entry Language

The entry language is the language in

which you enter words at ready

screens. This determines which

dictionary you will use, French or

English.

1. If not at the Ready screen,

press

EFFAC

Press

LANG

to switch between

dictionaries.

Message Language

When you turn on this product for the

first time, you must choose the

message language. The message

language is the language of prompts,

help, and other messages. You can

change the message language after

your initial decision.

NOTE: The examples in the English half

of this manual use English as the

message language.

1. Press

if you are not at the

Message Language screen.

2. Press

to select the Message

Language screen.

3. Press

to select English as

the message language; press

to select French.

▼

Changing theMessage Language

➤ Changing the Contrast

If you want to change the screen

contrast, repeatedly press or at

the blank ready screen.

Changing the Message

Language

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Translating English Words

With the French Professor you are able

totranslateEnglishwordsto Frenchsim-

ply by typing English words.

1. Press

EFFAC

2. Press

LANG

to change the

entry language to English, if

needed.

3. Type a word (e.g., cat).

To erase a letter press

ARR

4. Press

ENTRER

5. Press

EFFAC

when finished.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

AIDE

. Press the direction keys to

read it. To exit help, press

ARR

To read a tutorial of how to use the

main functions and keys of this book,

select

Tutorial

from the Additional

Functions menu.

➤ Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move around

menus or view more text.

➤ Explanation of Genders

French nouns are different than

English nouns in that they must

either be masculine or feminine. The

<m> means that the word listed

(e.g.,

chat

) is masculine. Likewise

an <f> would show the word to be

feminine.

When no book cartridge is installed in

your BOOKMAN, a demonstration au-

tomatically appears after you select this

book. To stop the demo, press

EFFAC

To disable it, press

and then se-

lect

Disable Demo

. To re-enable it, se-

lect

Enable Demo

When a book cartridge is installed, se-

lect

View Demo

from the menu to view

the demo.

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Translating English Words Translating French Words

Your French Professor is fully bilingual.

Try translating a French word.

1. Press

LANG

to change the

Entry language from English

to French, if needed.

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

If you need to type an accent: type

the letter (e.g.,

) and press re-

peatedlyuntiltheaccentyouwantap-

pears.

3. Press

ENTRER

In addition to "poisson", the French

Professortranslateswordswithsimi-

larmeaningssuchas“lesPoissons”,

which means the astrological sign

Pisces. To view more press .

4. Press

EFFAC

when done.

➤ Understanding Definitions

Whenyoufinda definition, you may see

thatthereareseveraldifferent meanings

for your word. Here is an example.

1. Type

man

2. Press

ENTRER

This screen shows that “homme” is

the most common use of the word.

Thecapitalized wordsfound inbrack-

etsindicate there'sanothercategory

thatthiswordcouldbe usedwith.For

example, if you are talking about a

chess man, you would use the word

“pièce” instead of “homme”.

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Highlighting a Word

You can look up most words by highlight-

ing them within dictionary definitions. You

can then find their definitions, translations,

and synonyms. NOTE: By searching for a

highlighted word, the entry language

changes to the language of the word for

which you searched.

1. At any text, press

ENTRER

start the highlight.

Youcanturnthehighlightoffbypress-

ing

ARR

2. Use the arrow keys to high-

light a word.

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

define the word

ENTRER

view inflections

CONJ

hear an English word

PARLE

You can hear any English word pro-

nouncedat the Ready screen,intext, or

ina list. NOTE:Youcanonlyhearwords

ifyouhavea speaking BOOKMAN unit.

Hearing Words from the Ready

Type a word at the Ready screen.

2. Press

PARLE

Hearing Words in Text

1. Go to a definition.

2. Press

PARLE

The headword is pronounced.

3. Press

ENTRER

to start the highlight.

4. Use the arrow keys to highlight

a word.

5. Press

PARLE

The highlighted word is pronounced.

Hearing Words in a List

1. Go to your User’s or Path list.

2. Press or to highlight a

word on the list.

3. Press

PARLE

to hear the word.

▼

▼▼

Hearing an English Word

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