This page contains the following
informations:
- Word search with double click
- Change target language
- Word search in Alexandria's window
- Search for compounds with a double
click
- Search words included in an
hypertext link
- Search compound-words with manual
mouse selection
Informations about how to install
Alexandria can be found here
Informations about the acquisition of
a programme that will make Alexandria work on any MS office suite
compatible application, from any Windows workstation and to search
words on any kind of document (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.) can be found here
Search with double-click
You will only need to double click on
the word to start Alexandria
(Source of the
sample: Financial Times, 23/02/2005)
In the example above, the user has made
a double-click on the word sights.
Following this query, Alex has
displayed a suite of synonyms and associated expressions in which this
word can be found
Now let's double click on the word sights.
If your browser's default language is
English, you will also obtain synonyms, definitions and associated
expressions.
However if your browser's default language
is Spanish, you will get as default action, a translation of the word
in Spanish, followed by a list of expressions containing the word sights.
It is very
easy to change this default feature.
Changing the target language
Whatever the place where you are or the website on
which you use Alexandria, it will always be possible to change the
target language.
You will only have to make use of the Alexandria
toolbar.
To display this toolbar, click on the double arrow on
the top right of the Alexandria window blue title bar.
Choose the desired target language, German, for example.
- Then close the Alexandria window to load the new
parameters
Double click on the word again. Below is an example of
what you will get:
(Source of the
sample: Financial Times, 23/02/2005)
In the previous example, you had chosen Spanish as a
target language.
Word search in Alexandria window
- It is always possible to carry on word search inside
the Alexandria window just as you had previously done on a website that
has installed Alexandria.
Search for compounds with a double-click
Most of the words that are part of a compound word are
indexed in Alexandria. A very simple way of processing a search on a
compound word is then to double click on one of its components.
Ex.: love at first sight.
After double-clicking on
sights following the list of
definitions and synonyms, you will find an alphabetical list of
expressions using the word sight.
In the list, you will quickly find mother-in-law.
at
first sight, battle sight,
come into sight,
gun-sight, in
sight, line of sight,
love at first sight,
night-sight,
not be able to bear the sight of,
not be able to stand the sight of,
not by a blame sight, not by a long
sight, open sight,
organ of sight,
out of sight, panoramic sight,
peep sight,
rifle with telescopic sight, second
sight, sense of sight,
sight bill,
sight draft, sight gag,
sight-read,
sight-seeing tour, sight-sing,
telescope sight,
telescopic sight
Searching compounds with manual mouse selection
You will be able to highlight the compound you want to
search with a mouse selection. Once you have selected the desired
expression simply press the RETURN key to launch the query.
For example, now, select the word
love at first sight and press the RETURN
key
Searching words included in an hypertext link
Make a mouse selection of the words included in the
link and press the RETURN key
Following this action Alexandria will display a window
saying : no results for: followed by the list of selected
word.
To carry on with your search now, simply click on the
word you want to search in the Alexandria window.
Using Alexandria on a Macintosh
At the present time Alexandria still does not work on
some Macintosh work stations. We are working on solving this problem.
Using Alexandria on the classics SVG library of our
website
Here the double click will not work.
You will need to make a mouse selection of the word you want to query
and launch Alexandria with a right click.
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With Alexandria the
most useful functionalities of understanding and translating web pages
are immediately available for free on the internet.
Think of reminding your
colleages and webmasters to install Alexandria free version on their
website. They will be able to increase their visitors' satisfation and
fidelity by offering them a valuable service. Moreover, they will also
increase the number of visitors on their website by putting a high
added value and original computer assisted language learning
application - that is to say, fluency of language and thought, at a
mouse click...
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