Use your PC to Master Japanese and Chinese
After a vocabulary lesson is successfully opened or created, Smart Characters
places a new window on top of the currently active document window, hiding it
from view. You can resize the window and move it to any other location,
including outside of the Smart Characters main window. See
Beginning the Drill(6-
2).
Expand Modifiers
The Expand Modifiers command uses the modifier level information
in a fully-annotated document to convert a document into a graphical structure
to display the hierarchy of modifying clauses in a sentence.
Words that form a distinct phrase or clause are shown on separate lines beginning in a column which indicates the modifying depth or level. Higher level clauses (toward the right) modify the phrase in the next lower level (to the left). Periods and paragraph marks are always on Level 0.
This function is particularly helpful in analyzing Japanese text which uses many levels of modifying clauses, and is particularly hard for speakers of languages that use fewer levels to otherwise understand.
Phrases are encoded by a hard line break. Levels are encoded as a variable number of initial tabs on a line. To change a level, add or delete initial tabs. To split one phrase into two, position the insertion point, press Enter, then press Tab or BackSpace as necessary. To join two phrases into one, press End then Delete as required to delete the line break and initial tabs.
To condense the text back into paragraph format, select the Learn
Contract Modifiers(3-
36)
command.
Contract Modifiers
The Contract Modifiers command reverses the
Expand Modifiers(3-
36)
command, formatting a graphical levels diagram into a normal paragraph.
Replace Glosses
The Replace Glosses command invokes the
Replace(3-
14)
dialog to replace all instances of one
gloss(D-
-
4)
with another. Useful to substitute for glosses added by the
ScAnnotate Automatic Annotator(11-
2),
or another machine translation tool.
Extract Glosses
The Extract Glosses command extracts
glosses(D-
-
4)
(notes) from selected text, and places them in the internal (not Windows)
clipboard, ready for pasting.
Speak Selected
Speak Selected invokes the optional accessory Text to Speech
Interface which synthesizes speech from a selection, then plays the speech.
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