


        IBID. List Maker 2.0 for Windows c1994 by Peter Neuendorffer    1
              "Define words and the software asks you for more"

               Introduction
               Main Window (White)
               Define Window (Blue)
               Auto Window (Light Blue)
               New Features

        This is a Windows 3.0, or 3.1 program. In IBID, you define words
        and type in scraps of information or thoughts on any subject. As
        you enter the definitions, the software has a Window where you
        are asked to define other words, ones the software gets from your
        own words. This goes on like a game of cards, until your list
        gets quite large. New features include clickable definitions,
        printing, multiple lists, special small "floating windows," photo
        backdrops. Soon, you have a closely knit database of facts,
        thoughts, or ideas. I borrow the phrase "smart linking" for this.
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                         To Install
               Copy all files in this package to an empty
               subdirectory on your hard disk. RUN FILE/NEW FROM
               THE WINDOWS PROGRAM MANAGER, AND SPECIFY IBID.EXE
               AND IT'S DIRECTORY. You find it with "Browse."
               To upgrade from Ibid 1.0 (ibid10.zip) simply copy
               the files in this package to your previous Ibid
               hard drive directory. Previous bugs are fixed for Delete
               and minimizing the program. THE FILE VBRUN300.DLL MUST BE
               IN THE WINDOWS SYSTEM DIRECTORY -IN YOUR PATH.  It is
               available on most Bulletin boards. Screen resolutions of
               of 640 X 480 and 800 X 600 are supported.
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                       To Register (this version is complete)
               send $20.00 to Peter Neuendorffer
               1399 Commonwealth Ave Suite 11 Allston MA 02134
               tel 617-254-2213  Internet petern@channel1.com
               Consultant and photographer: Gary Chase
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        With Ibid. you create your own lists, smart dictionaries. Now,
        why would anyone want to create a dictionary when they already
        have one? Well many people have special words, scientific or
        otherwise not found in a standard dictionary. Also, the
        "Definitions" can actually be notes on subjects, such as
        "anniversaries Mom's wedding anniversary is July 1." You can have
        up to 4000 definitions in each of 5 lists. The Main Window is for
        displaying definitions. The Define Window is for entering and
        maintaining definitions. The Auto Window is for defining those
        words the software asks you. Starting on page 2. is a general
        description of each of the three windows and of the many new
        features in version 2. The Small menu choice provides two
        "floating" programs suitable for multi-tasking.







        The Main Window          -Displaying your definitions.          2

        DISPLAYING WORDS IN THE SCROLLABLE COMBO BOXES:
        Once you have made some entries in the Define Window, you can
        bring them up from the main window. Scroll through the current
        list of words with the right hand Combo box (List.) Click to
        select a word, or type in a word you wish to look up. To look up
        the word, click on Display. Once a definition is displayed, if
        you click the Also See button, another Combo box appears. This is
        a list of related words mentioned in the definition that the
        software also "knows". You can select a word, and click on
        Display to see one of those words defined as well. Find text in
        the definitions using the menu choice Find.

        You can double click on any of the words in the combo boxes,
        to display that word. List= all the words in the list. Also See=
        related words taken from the currently displayed definition.
        Depth is like Also See, only the words are one level deep again,
        and are less related to the currently displayed definition. When
        you use the Display button, the word that will be displayed is at
        the top of the combo box (only one box is visible at a time.)
        You can type in a word to display if you wish. Since you haven't
        entered in any definitions, this main window will be curiously
        empty at first. (See Define Window section below.)

        Clicking the Back button will return you to the last definition
        displayed. Clicking Parent To Word will find a word whose
        definition contains the currently displayed word. You may copy
        the current definition to the Windows clipboard with Copy.

        DOUBLE CLICKING CAPITAL WORDS IN THE DISPLAYED DEFINITION BOX:
        When words appear capitalized in the displayed definition, they
        can be double clicked. Double click on a capital word, and that
        word itself is displayed with it's definition. The capitalizing
        of the words is done automatically by the software, so you do
        not have to capitalize words when entering in definitions (see
        New Features below for an important explanation.)

        From the menu bar, you may select File. From there you can set
        your own title for the software (List Title). You can Remove the
        entire List (this obviously should be used with care).
        About brings up the opening screen telling you how to pay
        (AHEM!!!) for this software. $20.00 to Peter Neuendorffer, 1399
        Commonwealth Ave., Suite 11, Allston MA 02134.

        To bring up the other two Windows (TO ENTER DEFINITIONS), click
        on Define or Auto from the top menu bar. I describe  many more
        features in the New Features section further on in the manual.








        The Define Window:         -making your definitions.            3

        Click DEFINE on the main menu bar.
        Enter in new definitions here. Type the word to define in the
        first text box. Tab to the second text box, and type the
        definition. When you are ready, select OK to enter the
        definition. As you enter in definitions, the software is
        automatically building a list of questions in the third Auto
        Window. Remember any time you wish to enter in a definition with
        "OK", both white text boxes in the define window must have text
        in them, and you must click on OK.

        EDITING PREVIOUS DEFINITIONS:
        If the word is already defined, you will be notified. To find a
        previous definition- maybe to change it, type the word to look up
        in the first text box, and then select Search. Once the
        definition is found, you can change it, or type in a new word
        that will also have this definition, and select OK. To delete the
        definition, select Delete. Paste allows you to paste a sentence
        from the Windows clipboard into the Definition box (lower text
        box) if you wish.

        It is a good idea to only use hyphens when you mean a hyphenated
        word, and put the hyphen directly between two alphabet
        characters, as in "pre-show."

        To bring up a previous definition from the database, type in the
        word in the small white box, then click on Search. Or you can
        use "List" in the Define Window to see the current list.

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        USING A PHRASE AS THE WORD TO DEFINE: Smart linking is not
        supported. Obscure side note:
        When having more than one word in the "word" you wish to define,
        you can hyphenate two words together to ensure they will be
        treated as one word in Ibid's smart linking. This is not
        necessary though -you can have multiple words without hyphens in
        the small item at once. But, these words may not be picked up
        individually by the "Also See" and "Depth" linkers, and will NOT
        be picked up the linkers as a phrase. The definitions can be
        displayed however.














        The Auto Window              -defining words that match up.     4

        Click AUTO on the main menubar

        WHAT IS IT?
        First, an illustration: Imagine you go to the Land of Gnomes,
        where everyone speaks English, but doesn't know any of the same
        words. You say "A dog is an animal" The gnome says "What is an
        animal" You say an animal is alive. The gnome says "What is
        alive" and so on. This might seem awfully frustrating, but
        eventually a lot of things would be defined.

        When you enter in Definitions in the Define Window (or this Auto
        window for that matter), the software creates a list. When you
        select the Auto Window, you are asked to define these words. You
        don't have to do them all at once.

        If you don't ever wish to define a supplied word (like "a") then
        click Skip Always. You won't be asked again to define it. But if
        you select Skip, you will be asked after the next time the word
        comes up in the course of your entries. At first, you will be
        repeatedly selecting Skip Always to get rid of many common words,
        but as the software is trained the situation improves.

        When you enter definitions, remember that alphabetic (a through z
        or A through Z)letters are counted only when creating the auto
        lists. However you are free to use numbers and other characters
        in your definitions. The exception is the hyphen which is
        described at the end of the Define Window section above.

        You may clear the entire queue of words waiting (without
        affecting your definitions) by clicking on Clear Queue. Also, the
        program will let you know if a word's plural or singular form is
        already defined.























        New Features            -multiple lists, printing, pictures,    5
                                 small windows, find, edit



        Double Clicking on Definitions:
        Words in definitions are sometimes automatically capitalized in
        in the main window displays. When presented with such a
        definition in the main window, you can double click on the
        capital word itself, and that word will be displayed with it's
        definition. Don't capitalize whole words in your definitions. as
        the software takes care of this.
        When you copy and paste, you do so to and from the Windows
        clipboard. Definitions are formatted to have short lines.
        If an item on the clipboard has a ":" colon in the first 15
        characters, the word before it will be pasted as the item,
        and the text after as the definition. Words being defined can
        be up to 15 characters long, and definitions up to 200.
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        The new additional Features are described in the rest of this
        manual. They are accessed from the menubar of the main program
        screen.


           File
                 (A) Open
                 (B) Title
                 (C) Picture
                 (D) Print

        (E) Small Window
        (F) Find
        (G) Edit
        (H) The Tool Bar
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           File:

           (A) Open               - File/Open on the main menu
               Each time you load the software, the first list is
               brought up. You can have up to five separate lists (each
               with up to 4000 definitions.) Select File/Open, and
               Select a list. Open slots are originally named "The List
               1", "The List 2" etc. Right after you open a new list,
               you should give it a name with Title, although you don't
               have to. Each list is totally separate, including skip
               word lists. The only thing they share is the print setup,
               and photograph information.
           (B) Title               -File/Title on the main menu
               You can give any list a name by choosing File/Title




           (new features cont.)                                          6

           (C) Picture
               You can choose a photo backdrop for this program.
               Outside the program, use a file manager such as the
               Windows file manager to copy one or more full screen
               .bmp picture or photograph files to the IBID disk
               directory. You cannot just rename a .gif file, -the .bmp
               format must be valid. This is the format that is used in
               Windows wallpaper files. Run Ibid, and choose File/Picture
               from the main menu.

               Choose a picture from the pop-up menu, and click
               OK. If you choose Full Picture, the program will
               disappear and the photo or picture will display full
               screen. If you choose "none," there will be no picture.
               From the File menu choice, click on Stretch Picture to
               stretch the picture. Most of the time you can leave this
               off.


               All of your current picture settings will remain for
               the next time you run the program. Please to not shell out
               of Ibid and copy the pictures around the directories while
               Ibid is still running. Of course you can change pictures
               from the menu, and switch pictures in and out of the
               directory while IBID is not running. Now this seems like a
               big production for a dictionary program!



           (D) Printing:

               All printing prints the items and their definitions.
               You may choose the number of lines to print on a page
               with Print Setup.

               You may choose to print the following groups of
               definitions:

                     current item:  the definition currently displayed
                                    in the main window
                     also see:      all items currently in the Also See
                                    List Box and their definitions
                     depth:         all items currently in the Depth List
                                    Box and their definitions.
                     entire list:   All items in the current list and
                                    their definitions.
                     selected items:  Click on those items in the
                                      pop up list box you wish to print
                                      and click on OK.





              (new features cont.)                                       7

              (E) Small Window: You can reduce the program to a
                  small stand alone Window. Click on Small on the main
                  menu bar. You get a choice of
                  Show: A small gray window that simply displays
                  definitions with a Copy button.
                  Define Alone: A small blue window that is just like
                  the Define Window, except that the rest of the
                  program is invisible.
                  Choose exit to exit these windows. To go back to the
                  main program, answer "No" to the question "Quit Ibid?".
                  To exit the program entirely, answer "Yes" to this
                  question. Note that the ibid program is not minimized
                  when these small windows are active, just hidden. To
                  minimize the program with an icon, choose the Control
                  Box at the top left of the main (white) window.


              (F) Find: You can find any text in the database by choosing
                  Find from the main menu. This applies to the current
                  list. In the pop up (light green) window, type the word

                  or text you wish to find, and click on Find. To find
                  more occurrences, click on Next. The found text will be

                  highlighted in dark blue. This is a regular display, so
                  you can use any feature from there on, including double
                  clicking on a capital word in the definition. When an
                  item displays in green, the text has been found in the
                  item itself.


             (G) Edit: Click on Edit in the Main menu. This simply
                   transfers the current word that is displayed in
                   the Main Window into the Define Window with it's
                   definition. Then you can edit the definition if
                   you wish, or assign the definition to another word
                   as well.


             (H) The Tool Bar (the small pictures from left to right
                               below the main menu)


        The Icon     What it Does                   Like the menu

        Sunset: Brings up the Picture menu  (File/Picture)
        Ink Bottle: Print selected items. (File/Print/Selected)
        Grey Box: Reduces to the "Show Window" (Small/Show)
        Blue with lines: Brings up the Define Window  (Define)
        Balloons: Brings up the Auto Window (Auto)
