Pàli Lookup System Pàli Lookup System Pàli Lookup Pàli Lookup version 2.0 Copyright © Aukana Trust, Bradford on Avon, United Kingdom User Manual This program is offered for free distribution. System Requirements Monitor: minumum 800x600 resolution Operating System: Windows 95 or later CPU: It runs fine on a slow Pentium. It is believed that it would work alright on a 486, but this hasn’t been checked. Pàli Lookup System - 1 Pàli Lookup System—Installation Using the Pàli Lookup System It’s as easy as this: 1. Place the CD-Rom in your CD-Rom drive. 2. Double click on the Windows 95 (or later) ‘My computer’ icon. Then double click on your CD-Rom drive. 3. Double click on the file ‘setup.exe’. This will run the setup program. It’s only a matter of following the dialogue boxes contained in it. 4. When it’s finished, there will be a ‘Pali Lookup’ option under your programs menu under the start menu. Click on it, and enjoy! The Main Dialogue Box typing ‘gacc’ in the figure above) When the user first enters the and press the Search button. In system, he or she is met with this a moment, the system will show dialogue box. The screen is all the words that match your divided into two parts. The top query. The system does, however, half of the dialogue box is the off a few options to make your area were searches are specified search more effective. and initiated. The bottom half of the dialogue box, below the black line, is where saved words can be viewed and manipulated. The Saved Words area will be dealt with later. For now we are going to look at conducting a search. Search Types (Wildcard options) Running a Search Using the system is as simple The system offers some as this: type the word you are different search types. looking for (such as the user • Look for exact match: The Pàli Lookup System - 2 Pàli Lookup System - 3 system tries to find an exact Usually, the word you are pañigacca, saïgacchati and so the ‘Search’ button. Up will match for the word you looking for will be in the on. pop aõõa, a¤¤a, and a¤¤à. entered in the dictionary. If search-results table. If not, you entered ‘gacc’, as above, then perhaps you chopped off you would get no result a bit too many. Then it’s time because there is no such word to try again. in Pàli. If you wanted to look You can change the default up a word like gacchati you’d setting in the wildcards box at Accents options have to know and type out the any time. Whatever you Include words options entire word. This is great if you choose will remain in effect This option was added simply know the exact word you are until you change it again, or because it is sometimes difficult The Include words option looking for. Know, though, that the session ends. to remember whether the word restricts your search to whatever the dictionary only contains • Entry is at end of Pali word: you are looking for started with grammatical group you specify. root forms of words, and the This is like the previous option, a long-a or a short-a; was it a Only words that both resemble words you will encounter in except that the wildcard plain ‘t’ or was it a ‘t’ with a dot the search word you entered and texts will be inflected. character is at the beginning underneath. If you think it could belong to the grammatical group • Entry is at front of Pàli word: of the string (*string). be either, then it is easiest to click you specified will be returned in This will pick up all words that Entering ‘gacc’ wouldn’t return the ‘Ignore accents’ radio button the search-results dialogue box. start with the string you have anything here, because there and let the system find what it • All words: This is the default, entered. It is equivalent to are no Pàli words that end this can. and when you submit your using a wildcard character at way. But if you entered some- • Use accents: This is the default search, every word in the the end of the string (string*). thing like jànàti, you’d pick up and assumes that you want dictionary will be considered. The user who entered ‘gacc’ words like jànàti itself, and words that resemble the word • Nouns & Adjectives: Press this above will get words like also anujànàti, abhijànàti, or string you entered. If you and when you submit your gacchati, gaccha, gacchi, and so àjànàti and so on. typed in ‘anna’ (and you are search, only nouns and adjec- on. This option, ‘Entry is at • Entry is anywhere in Pàli word: looking only for exact tives will be looked at. Note front of Pàli word’, is the With this option selected, the matches), no words would be that nouns includes pronouns default of the system. This is system looks up all words in returned, because there is no and adjectives includes so because most words one the system that contain your such word in the dictionary. If numerals. comes across in texts are string, whether it is at the you typed ‘a¤¤a’, you would • Verbs: Press this and only finite inflected, i.e., they have an beginning, end or middle of get this one word, and only verbs will be considered. This ending. Unless you know all the word. Entering ‘gacc’ here this word returned. includes all tenses (present, the endings and can accurately would produce a list that • Ignore accents: What if you past, optative, etc.) and were looking for a¤¤a, but tell what the root form would included all the words we saw excludes all participles. weren’t sure about the be, it is probably easier to chop earlier with ‘Entry is at front They’re in the next group. diacritics? Easy—just type in off the last few characters and of Pali word’, but it would also • Participles/Verbals: Press this ‘anna’ press the ‘Ignore and only participles will be run a query on what remains. return words like adhigacchi, accents’ radio button and press considered. There are five Pàli Lookup System - 4 Pàli Lookup System - 5 types of participles included in and let the program run. It only After you’ve saved a few words, the dictionary: past part- takes a second or two and up the main dialogue box might iciples, present participles, pops the search-results dialogue look something like the figure future passive participles, box, a dialogue box that shows above. Buttons for the saved-words list gerunds (also known as all the words in the dictionary This saved-words list is useful absolutes), and infinitives. that match the specifications you for at least two reasons. The saved-words area has three • Indeclinables: Press this and made. First, if you are anything like buttons, and their meanings are only indeclinable words will be There is a Help/About button, the creator of the system, you these: considered. This is a gram- but mostly what it does is direct might find yourself reading a • Export List: This permits you matical group in Pàli that does you to this User Manual. It also sutta. You look up a word and export the list so that you can not take inflections and gives the copyright notice and read it’s meaning. You under- work with it somewhere else. includes adverbs, interjections, some credit to data sources used stand the sentence and move on A windows ‘Save as’ dialogue conjunctions and assorted by the system. to the next one. The word box will pop up which will other particles. The search-results dialogue appears in that sentence as well, allow you to specify the file With all this information you box will be described shortly, but but by this point you’ve already name. The data you save will are fully set up to conduct a first we will have a look at the forgotten what it means and you be saved in comma-delimited search. Press the search button lower half of the main dialogue have to look it up again. The format. box, the saved-words area. saved-words list helps in that you • Delete Row: If you click on a can keep track of words you’ve row to select it (such as karã already looked up, because often on the figure on page 6), then a sutta will use a word over and press this button, the row will over again. be eliminated from the list. A second benefit is provided • Delete List: Press this and the through the Export button. You entire list will be deleted. Note can work your way through a that there is no way to get it sutta, saving all the words you back. don’t know and then export the list. You can print off the list One other note about the using spreadsheet or word- saved-words area: if the infor- processing software. Presto: you mation in the Meaning fields is have a vocabulary for that wider than the field width, it’s particular sutta and should you permitted to widen the column. want to read it again, that list will If you move the mouse cursor to make going through the sutta a the right edge of the field, the shape of the cursor will change The Saved-Words Area one, such as the search-results lot quicker (unless you memo- and permit you to widen the At the bottom of the main dialogue box, permit the user to rised every last word at the first column.