WordCruncher

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • WCIndex
  • WCView
  • Output of Searches

    • Introduction

    WordCruncher is a powerful and sophisticated PC program, designed for creating and analyzing electronic textbases. It includes two separate and distinct programs, WCView and WCIndex. WCIndex indexes texts to be studied with WCView; WCView analyzes and retrieves texts prepared with WCIndex.

    With WCIndex, users may catalogue and alphabetically sort each word in a text, written in English or foreign languages, into a WordCruncher Index, which serves as an electronic roadmap of the text and makes sophisticated searches possible.

    With WCView, users can analyze and manipulate data from a textbase in any number of ways, including launching word, phrase, substring, proximity, Boolean, and combination searches; examining selected references in contexts; conducting user-defined freque ncy distribution analysis; creating user-selected word lists and reference lists; and generating concordances according to a set of user-defined parameters.

    The electronic texts acquired by LETRS that have been prepared, and can be analyzed, with the WordCruncher program include: the Riverside Shakespeare, the King James and New International Bibles, the Goethe Works, Kant's Gesammelte Schriften, ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora, and American historical, literary, legal, and political texts.

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    WCIndex

    Basic commands

    F1 Begin index
    F5 Define reference code
    SHIFT/F10 Exit
    F10 Main Menu
    F3 View error/abort messages

    Three level reference codes

    (1) |b [title of the book], |w [title of the work], or |A [act number];
    (2) |P [page number], |C [chapter number], or |S [section number];
    (3) |p [paragraph number], |V [verse number], or |l [line number].

    Prepare a text file for indexing

  • Start your word processor.
  • Retrieve text file; remove line-end hyphens.
  • Insert title page information in first 10 lines.
  • Insert the three level reference codes.
  • Save file as DOS text with .BYB or .BYN extension.

    • Index a generic, English language text file

  • At the WCIndex Main Menu, press F1.
  • Select the file to be indexed.
  • Press F1 to select English.
  • Press any key to continue.
  • Press F5.
  • Define reference codes and press Enter.
  • Press F1 to start indexing process.
  • Check display for abort and error messages.
  • Press SHIFT/F10 to exit WCIndex

    • Create large files

  • Index each small file separately.
  • Go into a word processor.
  • Type filename and path first line.
  • Type filename(s) and path(s) of small file(s) on line 2.
  • Save file as DOS text with .BYL extension.
  • Start WCIndex.
  • Press F1.
  • Enter the name of the file you just created.
  • After indexing is completed, exit WCIndex.

    • Insert an indexed text file into BookShelf

  • At any WCView display, press F5.
  • At BookShelf display, press INS.
  • Type the drive, path and file name.
  • Press Enter.
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    WCView

    Basic commands

    F9 Help
    SHIFT/F9 Function Key Template
    SHIFT/F10 Return to Main Menu
    ALT/F10 Return to WCView Main Menu
    ENTER Next Display
    ESC Previous Display
    F5 BookShelf
    SHIFT/F5 List Files
    F2 Combine Word Lists
    F6 Print & Textout
    CTRL/F3 Restore Selected Reference List
    ALT/F6 Retrieve Saved Reference List
    ALT/= Set Bookmarks
    CTRL/HOME Search Bounds (on/off)
    SHIFT/INS View Selected Reference List

    BookShelf, Word/Reference List commands

    ARROW keys Up/Down one line
    PGUP Up one page
    PGDN Down one page
    HOME Beginning of List
    END End of list

    Expanded window commands

    ARROW keys Up/Down one line
    ALT/HOME Beginning of Textbase
    ALT/END End of the Selected Textbase
    CTRL/HOME Previous Work/Book
    STRL/END Next Work/Book
    SHIFT/HOME Prior Chapter/Section/Scene
    SHIFT/END Next Chapter/Section/Scene
    HOME Prior Verse/Paragraph/Line
    END Next Verse/Paragraph/Line

    Selecting text from BookShelf

  • At any WCView display, press F5.
  • Highlight the desired text and press Enter.

    • Word search

  • At WCView's Main Menu, press [1] to select WORDS.
  • To find a single word: type or highlight the word;

    • An exact phrase: type the exact phrase and then press SPACEBAR;
    Related words: INS;
    Words in the same paragraph: SHIFT/SPACEBAR;
    Words in the same window: CTRL/SPACEBAR;
    Words with same prefix: [prefix ][*] (the [*] near the keypad);
    Words with same substring: [*][substring][*];
    Words with same suffix: [*][suffix].
  • To view references of selected words: Enter;

    • Selected words in contexts: Enter, Enter;
    Frequency distribution: [1].

    Reference search

  • At the WCView Main Menu, press [2] to select REFERENCE.
  • At each of the three Selected Reference displays, select desired reference and press Enter, press Enter again to view the reference in the Expanded Window display.

    • Create word or reference list

  • At the Word List/Reference List display, highlight the word/reference and press [Ins].
  • Repeat as desired.
  • To view the selected list: press SHIFT/INS.
  • To retrieve a selected reference list:
  • At the Select Word display, press ALT/F6.
  • At the Retrieve List display, specify drive path and press Enter.
  • High light file name and press Enter.
  • After returning to the Selected World word display, press Enter.

    • Create concordance

  • At the WCView Main Menu, press [3] to select CONCORDANCE.
  • At the Concord display, press [1] to select style, [2] to select
  • rd options, and [3] to select Destination display.
  • At the Concord display, press Enter to start the concordance process.
  • When the concordance process is complete, press Enter again.
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    Output of Searches

    Word lists, reference lists, specific blocks of text, concordances, frequency distribution reports, and other output generated with WCView program can be sent to a printer or saved as DOS text files with simple commands:
  • Press SHIFT/F6.
  • At the Print & Textout Display, press [1] to select Printer, type comments (optional) and press Enter; or press [2] to select Textout, type drive path and file name, and then press Enter.
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